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Ask HN: Mobile landing page video format and software
I want to add a mobile optimized video to my landing page to showcase the product, but I am not sure how to best approach this. If you have used video or animation on your landing page, what software and file format have you used?
Simpson's Paradox and Sex Discrimination
It's ok to admit you don't care enough to make the switch.

I've been on Fastmail for quite a while, don't use a Dropbox alternative, Smugmug for photos, and whatsapp mostly because my friends switched once long before Textsecure and don't see the benefit of switching again

It's really not that big of a hassle
UnicodeTiles.js
There are limits to that of course. Aside from that, I don't think it changes the bigger pix that "everything" involved in making a non-productive capital investment is unavailable for productive investments. Can't build a rail line thru there, can't that wood and stone into an office building. All that energy and labor invested, you're never going to get a return on that.

I'm not saying a world devoid of art and fun is a good goal, but am saying that going way overboard to one extreme is going to result in blowback.
The corollary is that you know you are not a barbarian when you can explain why someone else is a barbarian if they have to ask someone else what style of alcohol is socially correct ;)

FWIW, because I've just explained that you aren't a barbarian because you explained to someone they are a barbarian because they had to ask if their choice of alcohol is socially correct I exist in an indeterminate state of barbarism until I'm observed.
Ember.js – Another Ember 2.x Status Update
Actually I worded that wrong London is more expensive than SF and housing in the UK as a LOT more expensive than the USA property taxes are lower though
Thank you for this.

I need help balancing my RTS for this weeks indiecade submission if anyone is interested in helping ?
I have been doing remote work for 10 years now. Github and Gitlab (if you want to host privately) are the answers for me. Concerning communication and sitting together, my question remains: What exactly is it that you are able to say but incapable of writing? Over the years, I have become suspicious of someone who cannot write something but insists that he wants to say it, because when he is finally sitting there, guess what, he can still not say it. The more complex the project, the less you want to collaborate with that person, if only because his claims that he can say the things that he is incapable of writing, are not true.
I expect it's going to be taken down soon (someone uploaded it to github with some config for OS X, and that got DMCA'd)
Amazon is now paying full UK tax, rather than booking sales in Luxembourg
Correspondingly, some objects don't need names at all.

sorted(pairs, key=lambda p: p[1])

Though in that case you might prefer using the operator module.

sorted(pairs, key=operator.itemgetter(1))

The aspect of Ruby that frustrates me the most is over-use of anonymous blocks when a good name would help me enormously.
Collectively the EU bloc represents the larges global economy (18tr GDP). It should be the US forced to accept EU regulations to participate in the EU economy, not the other way around.
Unhappy Birthday
It's not the user's fault. Unless mainstream services make privacy strong, simple, and pervasive all they are doing is marking the people who seek privacy for greater surveillance.

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft need to step up and make it so my mom can have secure email. They have all the tools, especially the ability to use social graphs as the basis for web-of-trust.
Full stack and generalist devs: Get paid to earn a MSC or MSE from CMU
This is a legitimate work-study program...emphasis on the work. Degree is considered impugned income, you only pay taxes. Working on applications of real-time scaleable analytics. Contact thread owner for details.
Java Interview Questions on Main() Method
Yeah. The ticks just determine when the system increments its time to the next fraction of a second.

There absolutely exist bugs that will hop the clock backwards in time. This does wonders for certain daemon's health and will invoke colorful language from anyone reading system logs.

I encountered a bug like this at $work; it was due to one kernel thread reading the RTC while another thread wrote to it. But most OS's have had them.
http://www.linuxmisc.com/3-solaris/2351bb216cda257d.htm
While I'm against the TTIP, the "the health costs of EDCs to Europe are between £113 billion and £195 billion" mentioned in the Ars article seems to be from the Guaridan article "(£113bn-£195bn)" http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/06/health-co...

that says "Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with the human hormone system, and can be found in food containers, plastics, furniture, toys, carpeting and cosmetics."

no mention of pesticides in their opening bit. I'm guessing the percentage exposure coming from pesticides is very small so the financial figures in the Ars article are misleading.
Anecdotally: I'm a week away from turning 39 and I don't feel I've lost any "raw" mental ability, but actual performance has gotten more challenging because I'm pulled in many more directions at once.

Very few people face the same level of obligations at 20 as they will at 30 or 40.

There's also the Dunning-Kruger effect: the better you get at something, the worse you feel you are at it... presumably, all of us have made strides towards mastering our craft in the last 10 or 20 years....
That's a good point. I've never written a client that is "multi-interface re-entrant" like that (I have used and enjoyed emacs-client). The nice thing about character cell terminals is that all the terminal handling falls out for free: I don't need to accommodate for anything (like tmux, or remote access (like ssh)), it Just Happens.

Worth considering (or modeling) how I'd write an emacs-client type of application though.
This doesn't make any difference. The Japanese are even more frugal than the Chinese, that is why they have been able to support a deflationary economy for more than 20 years.
It's probably not the infection itself, but the fluoroquinolones or other bacteriocidal antibiotics that they give people, that are causing mitochondrial dysfunction in the brain. -_-
What do you mean? What kind of API? (RESTful HTTP?)

Integrating a third party API in a rails application?
Exposing a rails application through an API?
Ask HN: Which marketing agency is behind Taylor Swifts private life?
They have been doing really impressive work over the years
Learning to Code: Fuck Talent – Work Hard and Dream Big
Vitesse X – A PostgreSQL extension module for faster queries
Your reasoning that phamilton's post is an appeal to authority is made on an ad hominem basis? I personally find this a little ironic.
Could you please elaborate on the corruption point, because I don't see anything about that in the article and have actually not heard about corruption in the European Union for a long time.
The US economy is about $1.8 trillion larger than the EU economy presently.

The EU economy is roughly $15.7 trillion (€14.3 trillion), and hasn't grown in seven years. During that time, the US retook the lead in size and added around ~$2.5 trillion to its GDP. The dollar run in the prior year has also lifted the value of the US economy at the expense of the EU economy, by about ~13%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union
Wow - I work in Berlin, and your figures sound unbelievable (Also your post seems to be before Euro lost some value, so in current Euro-CHF exchange rate - you are way higher.)

I heard few companies like Zalando can pay in that range for good developers. Most of the IT companies in Berlin seem to be startups with no/limited funding, thus low salary.

Around 50-55k Euro gross is enough to live comfortably. Even for someone who came here from Asia, I find grocery stuffs, beers etc very cheap. Rents are going up, but still cheap. I live in 42 meter square studio flat for around 500 at the centre of the city (current rate should be between 600-800).
You could have just searched for it. The last paragraph of https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x135.html says:

gpg --verify doc.sig doc

(the difference between .sig and .asc in this case is only that the latter is plaintext)
i refused to read it on the basis the font sucks and its light color!!
Or maybe let's have a debate on the efficiency of outright banning stuff without regard for other potential applications of said stuff.
Turn your lights off at dusk to enjoy the deep, mystical sleep of our ancestors
If you find this interesting, the story of Luther Burbank would be a good choice too:

http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Invention-Burbank-Business-Bree...
These homes have been built in areas with large population and there are severe slum locations nearby. The corruption is huge on these lands.

In some areas even national park and bird sanctuaries have been illegally constructed upon and then the government was bribed.
I'm not chasing him away. I didn't down vote him on that comment. I can understand why others did though.
Passing the LPIC-1 certification exam
Do people want TTIP? Nope.

That's (sadly) (possibly) not true. I thought it would be scandalous if Europeans didn't want TTIP and they just ignored the people and continued negotiating. But then I found this chart [1] and in almost every country the majority is for a trade agreement. I don't know if the numbers are wrong, if people are uninformed or if they just don't care, but if the numbers are correct then it all is just democratic, the majority wins, whether I or you like it or not.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/01/29/is-europe-on...
Steve Jobs wasn't the TIME magazine 2006 person of the year.
I like DSLs. Good work. Of course, there will be a lot of things to improve, but kudos on the idea and the execution.
How do you manage to live for 1.3k in Zurich? I can't get close to that in Basel and I'm not even living alone.
You should read George Orwell's piece "What is Fascism?" [1]. It's a short essay worth the read before you're tempted to point the finger and call someone or something fascist.

[1] http://orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
From what I can see online rental prices in SF are definitely more expensive than London. I know a lot of/most consumer goods are cheaper in the US but then you have to factor in health insurance and transport (which is much better in London).

Overall I guess the salary difference isn't completely justified by cost of living differences however in London working hours seem to be kept in most places (9am-6pm) and we get more holidays (typically 20 days + bank holidays - about 8 per year -) whereas people in the valley seem to get fewer holidays and work longer hours. Maybe that perception is wrong but if correct maybe that is what justifies the higher salary.
Ah! Thanks, I'm following now.
Is it OK to say the emperor has no clothes?

I think this is an ugly, clumsy typeface, designed primarily for legibility in a particular small application (the watch). Now it's now rumored to be destined as the system font in 10.11.

Going from graceful, readable Lucida to ok-only-in-Retina-but-even-then-hard-to-read-and-overused Helvetica to this new San Francisco is just plain frustrating. Maybe readability trumps taste, but in that case, just go back to Lucida.
In general, if it's a long term gig, you will still need to come into the office now and then. Once a week, one week every month or two months, whatever. So my assumption is that it must be somewhere accessible.
...just like the executive in the US, which has only one (indirectly) elected member: the president.
http://www.readability.com
Not even Chomsky's interview can avoid being juxtaposed with the utter nonsense "sponsored by Taboola" links below it.
> ethical when done randomly

I would argue it may not be, but this would depend on the exact situation. Did the user ask for random posts? Or is the selection of posts being imposed on them by a service? Do they even know that they are being show a certain subset of posts and how that subset is chosen?

Any time there is misrepresentation or dishonesty about what is really going on - including lies of omission - then could easily be ethical issues.

> Why is experimentation unethical.

Yes, experimenting on people - even things like Facebook's experiment - is shockingly unethical in all cases if it is done without an external watchdog such as an IRB[1]. Usually, it will also require the explicit informed consent of tho people involved, among other requirements (e.g. an opportunty to remove themselves from the experiment at any time, even after the experiment is over). In some cases, if the experiment is not risky, some or all of those additional requirements could be adjusted or waived.

We require this (by law under the Common Rule if federal money is involved), because human experimentation has a long, disturbing history of unethical behavior. You probably believe that an experiment involving blog posts is nothing like the problems we've had in the past... and I would agree. Facebook's experiment seems incredibly low risks when compared to the experiments performed by a pharmaceutical company or research hospital.

So why the outrage at Facebook? While there is some concern over their failure to properly debrief those involved (and other problems relating toi informed consent), most of the outrage is about their lack of proper IRB approval. Running an experiment may be ethical. The point is that YOU, THE EXPERIMENTER are NOT do not get to make that decision on your own! The point isn't that these experiments were unethical in some way.

The entire point of an IRB is to review the experimental methodology to verify that it meets all ethical requirements. This should be easy for most experiments conducted by a social media business or other software/internet business. All silicon valley has to do is setup their own IRB (they could probably partner for a while with a university IRB to gain legitimacy faster).
"temporal association" is the point that shortly after infections, there is a stronger effect on intelligence. So you're saying "maybe people who get hit in the head with 2x4s are just dumber" and they're saying "that doesn't explain why they do so bad on cognitive tests right after they got hit". It's much stronger evidence that way.
Google Cardboard, Version 2: How VR and AR Could Take Off at Google I/O
For the record, the video summarizes what we were told happened, through the media.

I shouldn't need to connect the dots for you, and you shouldn't dismiss me as some crackpot lunatic (even though you've been programmed to). Try independent thinking some time. It's pretty cool.
This is something we considered as the project evolved. Initially Zorium was very different from React, but over time took more ideas from React (some of their work is quite excellent).

1. The biggest difference is definitely the RxJS observable support, which solves a lot of model problems in an elegant way.

2. I wish I had some examples published (we have a few internally), but having RxJS observables actually do a phenomenal job of dealing with the animation problem (think .delay() state and bi-directional communication). I hope to be able to update the docs soon with more details.

3. Aside from those you mentioned, performance was another big problem. React is slow (not as bad as Angular), but more importantly because the code was so complex I was unsure if we could modify it to meet our needs. At Clay.io we push the boundaries of what Mobile-web can do, and performance is absolutely critical. I realize this answer is still sub-par, and I agree, Zorium was mostly build off of Mithril and just happened to look like React in the end.

Edit: It's also worth mentioning that API design (in z.router) and application structure are what took the most time. Because Zorium is built on virtual-dom there isn't really much custom code.
Further down the article there's an indirect reference:

“I would recommend that pregnant women and children eat organic fruits and vegetables and avoid using plastic containers and canned food, especially in the microwave, because containers are usually treated on the inside with substances and compounds that can leak into the tomato soup and may act as endocrine disruptors,” he said.
I didn't understand the comment on Ruby. Aren't those examples equivalent to?:

pairs.sort_by(&:last)

No need for defining a block and naming its parameter either.
Ask HN: What can I learn right now that'll benefit me forever
Share a lesson you learnt. I understand you may have a story to share, but keep it simple, down to the lesson you learnt or the experience in a nutshell
I'm older (54), live in San Diego, CA. San Diego is also high cost with a 440K median house price.

I was employed as an electrical hardware engineer for a computer peripherals company until November 2014. The job market for electrical engineers in San Diego is currently
in an awful state.

While I was employed, I managed to buy a vacation home which I converted to a rental property after I became unemployed. I also was able to build a large nest egg of investments and cash. I am using these to live off of at the moment.

I am Financially Independent to the point where I can pay for basic living costs, but not for fancy stuff like eating out or vacations.

When I became unemployed, I updated my home engineering lab with a new test equipment by selling items on Ebay which I no longer needed. I currently spend a lot of my time developing open source hardware,firmware, and software and upload my projects to Github.

If the job market in San Diego improves, I would consider going back to work, but it would have to be on my terms. I have enjoyed not having to commute to work every weekday. Any new job would have allow 80 to 100% telecommuting.

Financial independence can be achieved, but it requires sacrifice and dedication. For details on how to do this
I recommend visiting the Mr. Money Mustache blog: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com for ideas and support.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but could someone explain why a handful of letters (G, J, K, M, etc.) have emphasis?
Offer HN: I'll develop your mobile app at a bargain basement price
Hi,

Since the start of the year, I've been doing consultancy work to help fund my start up (https://www.dropbox.com/s/7irkl4riu82a2su/fp_pitch_deck.pdf?dl=0). Mostly it has been developing web applications from scratch.

My offer is quite simple:

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I'm offering severely discounted rates on iOS / Android app development.

My problem:

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I'm tired of doing web application development, my clients typically fit into the profile of companies wanting minimum viable products and usually it takes several months/years before that develops into anything bigger. In the meantime if I have to suffer a death by a thousands cuts (splitting my time 50:50 between consultancy and hacking on my start up) - I'd at least like to take the chance to improve my skill-set and work on projects that are actually interesting.

Why discounted rates?

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I'm an accomplished programmer and an effective communicator. I'm easy to work with, I have a very simple process which begins by either interpreting or helping you build your initial specifications.

I have a track record of finishing the job on time and on budget once I have a clear idea of what you want to build. I'm a fast learner and meticulous to detail - if we're building an MVP, there's no reason for me to deliver a code base that resembles a spaghetti ball of mess; I take pride in my work.

My previous clients would say they love working with me because I'm straight forward and simply get the job done with minimal fuss. In fact, I've worked with many of them for a number of years - clearly my work provides them a lot of satisfaction.

However I have no iOS/Android applications in my portfolio at present and I want to rectify that as soon as possible. I don't have the luxury of knocking up sample applications due to issues I mentioned earlier.
> How many times do I need to point out references to the "agreement" in the text that is constantly talked about ?

You haven't pointed out any references so far.

> Do you like to tell yourself that that justifies...

You should hear what today's scholars say about this issue. Marriage is not to be forced upon the girl, and if a person (male or female) is not able to tolerate it (physically and mentally), then the marriage contract cannot go through.

Back in the day, marriage at a young age was a norm, and the Prophet Peace be upon him did not commit anything foreign to the culture in this regards. Other people at that time, Muslims and non-Muslims, married young. Even in Western cultures up to a few hundred years ago, we see similar behavior.

I take it it is clear now that Islamically, the ruler is to be elected, and not passed down as you were trying to imply before.

> Note that not even Aisha believed the revelations[1]

The link you pasted was about Fatimah and Ali, Peace be upon them. Please link to the appropriate Hadith.

> verses that make it crystal clear none of the muslims with the prophet believed in his revelations

Claim needs citation. It is quite an absurd claim, as if that were indeed the case, then Islam would never have caught on.

> penalty for consistently refusing to comply with sharia, when you know the law and how it applies to you, is death.

Again, citation needed. This is beyond a doubt not the case. Please cite your reference. A Muslim person can, for example, drink alcohol, knowing that it is not permissible, and knowing that there is a punishment if he is caught (lashing). The death penalty will never come into action here, regardless of how many times he repeats this sin.

> I can't say I recall the full set of requirements, but do you seriously argue otherwise ?

I do. Citation needed.

> Knowingly not following sharia is considered apostasy

There are different degrees of apostasy (Kufr), and only one or two of them have the death penalty (e.g. Treason). Furthermore, not any action that constitutes apostasy will result in the person automatically becoming a non-Muslim (much less get the death penalty).

For instance: http://quran.com/5/44

The last part of the verse is: "And whosoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, such are the Kafirun" (i.e. disbelievers - of a lesser degree as they do not act on Allah's Laws).
(continued from above...)

What's the caveats?

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I'm learning on the job unfortunately so whilst I'm a quick learner and an established polygot programmer, it might take me slightly longer to get certain things done until I'm more familiar with the workflow / processes involved in the app development cycle. We might also run into unexpected difficulties.

To alleviate the risk for anyone choosing to hire me, I'm willing to offered a fixed price quote - I'll swallow any delays due to my unfamiliarity with ObjC/Java/Android/iOS app stores.

How do I get in touch?

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If you have an idea that you've been sitting on / or you think this sounds like the perfect opportunity to get your MVP built...

Firstly please check out my site here: http://themvplab.com
and if you're interested, my profile contains contact information.
I've enjoyed reading murder mysteries while travelling. Anything by Agatha Christie is good. Generally speaking short stories,essays or something with a strong narrative flow makes for a good travel book.

Another good idea is to make yourself read a book that you would never have read at home. While travelling, if you don't have other distractions(internet,music etc) and only a book to keep you occupied (when you are not busy sightseeing) you might actually finish it. I read The Republic in two days on a train-- a book which I wouldn’t have touched otherwise. And I am glad I did :) It made me discover a completely new class of books.