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Anybody know if the transparency one is actually a desirable optimization? Iirc, you might want to assign a color to your transparency so it's not shifting hue as you fade it in through CSS transitions, animations, or JS.

Seriously, somebody saw he's looking for a job, and was actually looking for his CV as somebody in charge of hiring might do

I mean right now 538 has the odds at one in four which is fairly sizable

Go five levels up from your comment and you might find a joke you're missing—unless you're in on it too and it's sailing right over my head

I think they were display headstones, outside the workshop that makes them.

Your link appears to be missing a hyphen--the post is available at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/11/21/licensing...

What are you referring to you when you talk about politically-based censorship? I was increasingly turned off by the growing racism, misogyny, and hate that I saw daily on Reddit, and am quite happy to see many of the most disgusting subreddits finally done away with. I suspect that for every free-speech absolutist worried about Reddit refusing to sanction such vitriol there are many more that will be happy to find a more inclusive, welcoming Reddit. I know I'm one of the latter.

I'd like to echo drjesusphd and ask if you could point us to any good information you've found on increasing per-student expenditures. My university likes to justify increasing tuition by pointing to a decrease in the proportion of a student's education that is funded by the state. The implication, is that per-student state funding has gone down and that's why tuition is going up, but state funding per student has remained relatively steady in inflation-adjusted terms for decades. It leads one to wonder what exactly they're spending all the extra money on.

I have yet to look into the numbers in greater detail but if you could point me toward some good sources it would be much appreciated.

Are you looking at all for software dev interns this summer? I have a strong interest in design but no professional experience or education with it--I'm pursuing my BS in computer science right now.

Would you be interested in hiring any software dev interns? I have a little bit of data science understanding but not a ton, so the data science position doesn't quite fit the bill.

Sounds like a cool company; do you anticipate any engineering internships opening up?

Vox seems like a cool company--any summer internship positions available?

Your objection to the notion of positive and negative properties is the first that stood out to me after reading the Wikipedia summary. If I'm understanding things correctly, Godel's proof seems committed to some objective notion of goodness--I'm not sure how such a thing could exist without some higher power, which makes the proof somewhat circular in my mind.

I could be missing something here as I only took my first philosophy class this semester and I'm not taking ethics until next, but is that basically what you're getting at?

It is incredibly disappointing to me that this seemingly brand-new library is Python-2-only. Why are new libraries being written for a legacy version of the language?

I imagine a list of tuples is used to preserve the order of the street address--I agree it would probably make much more sense to use an OrderedDict instead.

I usually recommend Learn Python the Hard Way to people who want to learn Python, but I'm very wary of recommending it to people who have never written code before. There's a lot that LPTHW glosses over or assumes you know that can be very very frustrating and discouraging for beginners.

That said, I'm not really sure what to suggest as an alternative. I know Codecademy has a Python course; perhaps somebody here could comment on its quality?

Be careful when trying this out at work--I just got sent to my company's scary "your attempt has been logged" screen for being redirected to r/gonewild.

I think this policy makes a lot of sense--it's best to ban editorialization of headlines altogether as there's no good objective way for mods to differentiate bad editorialization (sensationalism, inaccuracy) from good editorialization (adding pertinent information, clarifying, and de-sensationalizing).

However, there is also a strong argument to be made that there are good articles with lame titles (such as this one) which would otherwise be glossed over without a title change. Maybe the best solution would be to add a summary field to submissions, restricted to an 80-character, purely factual synopsis of the article's contents. It could show up smaller, beneath the submission headline, like a subtitle.

This way, you gain the benefits of editorialization (providing pertinent info highlighting the article's appeal to HN readers) while minimizing most of the downsides (loss of info provided in the title, misconstruction of the author's intent).

Does anybody here know of any resources where I might read up on best practices in CS pedagogy? I'm very interested in helping to reform my university's intro-level CS program.

That is very true and a mistake I do make pretty often but am working to be more cognizant of. Framing the discussion around women and men does nothing to further those who are identify as both or neither, nor those who are in transition from one binary gender to the other.

The "you guys" instance seems a bit silly at first but is a good example of the way our language promotes the idea of male as the default. Note that there are no feminine words which we gender-neutralize in a similar way--we refer to a collective as "guys" or humanity as "mankind," but never use "gals" or "womankind" to refer to a mixed-gender group. In this way we construct women as an other, in opposition to men: the expected members of the workplace are guys, we expect history-makers to be men, and women are the odd exception to that rule.

It is important to note that very few of the people who use these linguistic constructs are being intentionally sexist in doing so, and as such nobody is taking hurt or offense away from the use of "guys" to refer to a mixed-gender group or anything like that. This is not an exercise in respecting others' sensitivities so much as an effort to recognize the way our actions subtly reinforce the problematic and undoubtedly biased power structures that exist in our current culture. As others have pointed out in this thread, the participants in Hacker School share a common interest refusing to reinforce said power structures, and as such put rules in place to codify that commitment to helping one another change the way they interact with the world.

As others have noted, these are not accusations--which would certainly not be appropriate or productive to whip out in the middle of a meeting--but gentle reminders amongst like-minded people to watch the way their words impact the world around them.

It is true that the use of male pronouns in gender-neutral context has historically been considered correct and is still considered correct by many. It is, however, generally discouraged because it only serves to reinforce the very real and problematic implication of male as the "default" sex.

I was trying to figure out what about DDG's results page made it so much harder for me to scan than Google, and this is definitely it. Just a bit more hierarchy makes the page so much easier to process.

It would probably make sense to disable that effect on mobile--the constant address bar disappearing and reappearing mobile browsers do triggers a lot of refreshing. Maybe just listen for orientation-change events instead?

Very cool site otherwise, keep it up!

I'm curious to know why the AP don't allow red-eye removal--if the only manipulations allowed are those that help restore the clarity and accuracy to reality of the photographs, I'm not quite sure why red-eye removal wouldn't be permitted--most people's eyes, after all, are not red.

Shouldn't the title of this submission be that on the page, "Avow-CI Is No More?" The submission title was previously highly editorialized, now changed to "Open-source bullying or just the company's right?" but I think that's still pretty slanted and limits the discussion to only two viewpoints.

Alternately, perhaps the media don't report this because it's simply too complicated or nuanced for a sound bite, or irrelevant to their audience. Who wants to hear some of the most highly-compensated people in America complain about their employers conspiring to suppress their already unimaginable-for-many salaries?

Exactly; any car UI that requires you to look at anything but the road is really bad UI. This, to me, is a much more legitimate and concrete argument than "it might be distracting."

They actually seem to be using Georgia for body, and the headlines are in the same setting of Cheltenham they use in the physical paper.

Hey, did this happen? If so, I'd love a link to the discussion .