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Awesome, thanks for sharing these!

Oh, this is very, very cool. Seems like a lot of people would be helped by a tool that makes it easier to search/find availability/lowers the friction to both providing and receiving mentorship. Thanks for sharing!

People have different lifestyle preferences and there’s no reason to put someone down because they’ve made different trade-offs than you would.

Thanks for the links!

I don’t yet know enough to evaluate the quality of the instruction here. Why do you think this is a terrible resource?

I love the idea of a search engine like SymbolHound, but I find the results lacking in practice.

For example, a search for Swift's nil coalescing operator turns up nothing of relevance: http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F

(Actual information about "??" in Swift for anyone interested: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...)

Hey! We filter out known alumni email addresses (e.g. alumni.princeton.edu) but there's no way for us to differentiate between non-students and students if they both have a "student" email address.

I should add that the story is especially appropriate for the HN crowd because the privacy-less world is realized by a Google-like tech company that decides that complete transparency via omnipresent recording devices would lead to a healthier society. The arguments made by Noah in the article are identical to those used by the tech company in the book.

For anyone who's curious what a world in which everyone is forced to throw away their privacy and embrace complete transparency might look like, Dave Eggers wrote a fantastic book called The Circle (http://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0385351399) that explores that very concept. Highly recommended.

I'm curious: Why was this post bumped off the front page so quickly?

At the time of this comment, this post has 105 points, 79 comments, and was submitted 2 hours ago. Despite having more points and being younger than many posts on the front page, this post is on the second page. Is it due to the fact that this post is political in nature?

I'm sure a lot of HNers who haven't been on the site in the past 2 hours would appreciate this submission, so it's unsettling to see that it's no longer on the front page.

PSA: You should wait to donate as your credit card information will be relayed unencrypted over HTTP on their donation page (http://mayone.us/fec_compliance/).

I'm hoping they'll fix this soon.

EDIT: They've added SSL, so go ahead and pledge!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but a lot of these tactics are used in "legitimate" businesses. For example, free lessons (e.g. 20 Ways to Speed Up Your Wordpress Site!) and mailing lists are often used to gain the customer's trust before pitching a service or a product. Becoming the customer's friend is simply a way of gaining the customer's trust.

This is a really good point. Guilt is definitely a huge driving force for in-person purchases.

He says that he was an intern back in '11. I'm guessing he's full-time now. Not very clear.

"Disclaimer: This app can and will post a large amount of hilarious content from your Facebook account."

This makes it seem like the app will post without my explicit permission.