_chrismccreadie

Thank you for the explanation.

Outstanding.I felt as if I was warping through space in Eve Online! In all seriousness, amazing demo. Well done.

Off-topic but interested: It doesn't display correctly in Firefox (only renders a small segment of the space warp). Why is this?

Agreed, every child is different. What is the definition of properly and at what point does a child reach that state? The poster has minimised a complex parent -> child relationship to a a binary state of being raised properly or not.

I love the look and feel of the site, well done. I understand some of the frustration in the discussion about required registration but the site is still definitely worth a look. The half alive/half dead cat icon for quantum mechanics made me laugh, kudos to whoever designed it.

Thanks for this, not being an iOS user I was unaware of this. This seems a much more sensible approach to take. Hopefully others will follow suit.

All good points and I'm sure many of the app developers on HN will be able to give reasons as to why they are unable to provide this information on the apps they develop and I suspect it is all closely controlled by the platform as opposed to the developers themselves.

If the app I downloaded said "Our free version requires your location due to our arrangement with our Ad providers" I would have at least known why they were wanting my location.

I know this doesn't solve the problem, people will still have the choice to either accept it (albeit grudgingly) or uninstall the app. What it does do however is acknowledge they are asking for permissions to a users data. If someone asks for my permission to use my car is it unreasonable for me to know why they want it?

I would like to see Apple, Android and Microsoft provide a mechanism where the developers can explain, in their own terms, why they need access to certain permissions. I own an HTC HD7 which is WindowsPhone 7. I remember installing some generic music player app (for the life of me I cannot remember the name of it). It required access to, among other things, my location information. At this point the installation was cancelled and the app deleted from my phone. All I could think was "Why on Earth do you need to know where I am to let me listen to my music?".

If developers were at least given an opportunity to explain to their users why they are requiring certain information, consumers may be more willing to allow access. It seems to me many apps take a "lets grab all the info we can" approach which is extremely off putting.

Thanks for the clarification :)

I was under the impression that this would be covered under copyright and not a particular licence. As soon as the artwork was created by the artist it belongs to the artist, they don't even need to put a copyright symbol next to it. My advice would be get in touch with Disney, it seems the artist has support on tumblr already. I suspect a public spectacle of Disney's mistake (assuming it was a mistake) is probably the artist's best bet. DKNY were caught up in something similar and ended up paying and apologising for their mistake [1].

[1]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732388430457832...

Edit: Sorry, silly formatting

I cannot disagree more. The fact she made it to the top of a male dominated fields cannot and should not in any way be tied to a notion of respect.

Take a trip to North Lanarkshire and you can still see the impact that the closing of Ravenscraig has had on the area. No-one says the name Thatcher in Scotland, it has to be whispered. After having a successful independence referendum scrapped by a labour government she went back on the promise she made to the Scottish people about increased devolution for Scotland, instead turning her into a testing ground for some of the most unpopular Tory policies of all time.

This is in no way a personal attack on a woman who is now no longer with us. She was someone's mother and sister and my heart goes out to her family at what most people would agree is a terrible time for a family. However the words "respect" and "inspiration" when describing Margaret Thatcher is not a position that will be shared by many people in Scotland.

This is the first I had heard of this particular story although I am aware similar stories like this exist. This follows on from another story on HN (can't find the HN link) about a UK armed forces member being denied boarding on a Virgin flight because she was wearing her uniform [1]. It seems to me that any form on questioning is now being taken as non-compliance, leaving customers with little choice, - comply or prepare to be inconvenienced when you are denied permission to fly.

Of all the flights I have personally been on the only time there has been a real issue of passenger safety is when the drunk who wont sit down or or demands to get off the plane mid-flight and yet they continue to make alcohol available on flights.

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290462/What-way-tre...

The thing that stuck out the most for me was your state of mind. You mentioned how you have struggled emotionally and felt the hit of three rejections. You then go on to say you like being emotionally attached to things that you do.

It seems to me you are an emotional person. I consider myself the same, when my state of mind is gone, I'm worse than useless.

My advice: Get to the core of what is making you unhappy and fix it.

Please don't think that I am passing you're struggles off as a "shit happens, get on with it", quite the opposite in fact. A healthy body and a healthy mind. Well, I find that I can deal with parts of my body failing (I am getting older after all) but please don't underestimate the power of your mind. If you are unhappy with aspects of your life no "dream job" will fix it. Sure, people do get down when they are looking for work, it's a stress and a hassle but I suspect most people's unhappiness runs deeper than that.

Good luck with the job hunting. It would have been nice to see which GitHub projects you are working on (the feedback from the HN community alone would have been valuable).

This is fantastic. One thought - once you have some data on the top 20 (say over 3 months) you could keep track of items that regularly come up in HN discussions. Show them as popular or regularly mentioned.

As a user of the excellent Protocol Buffers this is great news. I was especially interested in the Inter-Process communication and random access. Hopefully we'll see some ports to other languages soon.

I was looking for this post. Well, more specifically one that was ranting against the April Fools influx on HN. Yup, we get it, today is the day we can all have a laugh and post hoaxes and jokes everywhere. Thankfully, it is just for one day. Tomorrow I do not need to read every piece of information with dubiety.

That's their job though. Don't forget, the face of that new hype machine is also an employee at Yahoo now. I am sure if he stays at Yahoo long enough he will also be asked to integrate other acquisitions into software he is working on.

You make a valid point about Yahoo being able to produce similar results in house but the software alone doesn't get you a client base, publicity (certainly not the same level of publicity the Summify purchase has received) and the 3 guys they have hired.

So what if he's only 17? If he has good ideas about how to take Yahoo's mobile news presence forward then the problem should disappear. Of course if he's a poor developer then other employees have the right to be frustrated but it should only be based on his competency and not what he is worth.

I did find that sentence a little strange myself. I didn't think jealousy from the writer, my first thought was "why should the employees be jealous?" Is it the employees of Summify, didn't they all receive a nice payment ($1m each)? And I can't imagine any of the Yahoo employees being jealous, well, perhaps, but I doubt it is the first time Yahoo have made a millionaire teenager. Even if they are, let them use it as motivation to build a valuable product of their own.

I suppose Yahoo will have to answer to their shareholders, just not yet. It seems to me that they have invested in the talent and the current customer base. If Yahoo really do make an impact on the mobile news market I'm sure $30m will seem like buttons.

I do agree that many other development teams would have jumped at an acquisition offer of a lot less money but they were either unknown to Yahoo or deemed not suitable for Yahoo.

My feeling was the exact opposite. I have long been dreaming of rich media - especially video - playing within my terminal without having to awkwardly set screen splitting and resizing VLC to minimum.

This is excellent. Thanks for sharing.

I would suggest that a lawsuit will help clarify what the lawyers and judges expect from crowdsourcing while completely ignoring what is best for crowdsourcing.