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> It never worked well

Don't confused 'it never worked well' with 'i never understood how it worked'.

'Good'[1] front-end/CSS developers have a very good understanding of float quirks, the box model and how to properly vertically centre things.

Just because I don't understand how pointers in C work doesn't mean that C doesn't work well.

But yes - CSS isn't ideal.

[1] Where 'good' is similar to 'stockholm syndrom'
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They are in California.
As Frank notes, this is not really surprising if you have seen the recent-ish papers on sorting. It is indeed frustrating when a paper seems to have nice ideas but does not do a good enough job at the simple baselines; and in most cases, there is no way for you to easily check your intuitions :(
Ask HN: How does music licensing work?
I have an idea for a new project that would allow users to listen to radio-style broadcasts online. I am at a loss on how to go about paying for a license to make such a site legal. Does anyone know of a service that allows streaming of music legally to third-parties? It would be desirable to both pay for and source music through the same platform.
tl;dr: In this case, it is the people killing gays who are at fault for gays being killed.

I see three parts. Engaging in gay relationships, the hackers releasing data, and the people who do the stoning.

In the Manning/Snowden case, there are also three parts.

The US doing bad things, Manning/Snowden releasing it, and other governments reacting.

Now, in the Snowden/Manning case, media tries to place blame for 3 on 2 instead of 1, when blame should be placed on 1.

In this case, people seem to be placing blame for 3 on 2, when blame should be placed on 3 (unless you fully believe that gay relationships should end in death, in which case it should be placed on 1, but few people on HN believe that).

So there is a slight difference in that the blame should rest on the initial actor in the Snowden/Manning case while in this case the blame should be on the reacting actor (the ones killing people). But I think it is very similar in trying to blame the data release instead of the responsible party.
http://mpiannucci.com/hackwinds

Small live surf condition application specifically for Rhode Island. Made/work on both iOS and Android versions in my free time.
Freelance actuarial consulting - email me at the address in my profile if interested.
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Working on a camera app for iOS that allows you to easily switch between manual and automatic control of exposure, focus, shutter speed, and ISO:

http://kickstandapps.com/prime/

I'm looking for beta testers, so if you're interested, sign up on the website.
I am working on my espresso PID controller ( https://mecoffee.nl ), which is actually a Bluetooth Arduino-like for the 120V/240V, 1-2kW realm.

To pay the bills I play barista once in while ( http://caffe-mobile.nl )
I was pretty far into building a platform for investors to buy portfolio insurance, then I read about Vest this morning(http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/hardware-demo-day/). It sucks to see I'm not the first, but their website reveals the idea still has a long way to go before normal investors adopt it. Most investors don't feel qualified to pick stocks for their own portfolio, so how will they know what type of insurance they need? What happens when this idea scales and option prices become far more expensive as a result? Option liquidity(or lack thereof) is the reason portfolio insurance in the 80's turned to futures for protection. It's a good idea, but I suspect it will take a few iterations :)
I'm making virtual complications for smartwatches:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thewatcher.ch....
It's a valid question, but hardware has much more formal verification than software.
Sounds pretty cool actually!
Your "partner" may have three other sexual partners that you know about but that doesn't prevent them from having a forth that they keep hidden from you because they know you'll flip out.

You're not immune to this kind of scandal unless you're in a sexual relationship with somebody and you have no expectation to be made aware of their other sexual activities, in which case you're not in a healthy relationship.

I doubt Bertrand Russel would be very fascinated by polyamory - it's just another concept that works great in theory but becomes endlessly complicated in reality.
I never used AM, but I assume they authorized payments on a subscription (recurring) basis, like every other dating site. If that's the case, the kind of pre-auth is different, and one which prepaid cards would reject.
Honest question: why would you want to use this? Material design is intended for Android native apps isn't it?

It strikes me as a strange idea:

- Material design uses lots of UI idioms that work well for an OS (user will learn them), but not so well for a website (that needs to be instantly usable on first use, or user will leave for a competitor). The overflow icon (three vertical dots) is one example.

- Material design is the Google "branded" look and feel. No sane web business would want to give up their own look and feel. It even strikes me as a weird choice for @minimaxir's personal blog. If you're going to skin your site with another brand's look and feel, why not Uber? Amazon? etc?

- It's never going to feel quite right. Uncanny valley between native app and website.
Nope, just a specially-formed subject line at this stage. OCR is a neat idea, but I'm trying to do the "launch quickly, figure out the market, build features based on actual customer interest" thing. OCR would be fun to do, but very error-prone, very hard, and not necessarily proven to add as much value as a whole bunch of other ideas that are on the backburner as well.
Working on providing contextual information to whatever you do online: https://cueb.io/
GridLayout, a flexbox-alternative CSS grid with support for older browsers. Needs a small script for IE support.

https://github.com/ghinda/gridlayout
Also if you've got an Angular 1.x app already, moving to 2, while probably just as hard as moving to React or something else, let's you remain soley in the "Angular community" where people in similar positions of straddling both versions can share knowledge.
Similar idea on my own. My understand was that you started Free Code Camp.

When we actually did projects, they would accept the work, semi-cooperate, and then bury the finished product because the Board wouldn't approve it.

Even if we didn't have someone hovering over the project, trying to micromanage it, we always ended up with a committee-based feedback system. No matter what we did, someone would hate some part of it and demand it be changed.
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This is absolutely brilliant! I might sign up just for my own personal use. That said, when I was a contractor, I would've paid double that for a service like this--if this works as well as it claims, the amount of time saved during tax season would more than justify $100 a year.

Edit: Never mind, I thought this worked using OCR. It's still a cool service, but I wrote this comment under that assumption, so unfortunately I'm a little less excited about it.
Working on https://www.birdly.co -- Lets you create a poster from a twitter account and the avatar.
It makes more sense if you buy into the concept of hedonic adaptation [0], which I do. The gist is that your happiness is not influenced as much as you think by your standard of living, but rather by changes in that standard. Absent of changes, your happiness will return to around its baseline level, and this is true for both positive and negative changes. So if that is actually true, it's possible to have a significantly lower cost of living and the same level of happiness. Thinking long term, why wouldn't someone want that? In terms of life satisfaction, you lose almost nothing in exchange for a long period of increased freedom.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
Why is LinkedIn logo animating to an “m”?
But a -70C superconductor could theoretically be used in space environment where the temperatures are even colder, no?
Brilliant writing style! Also check out his work on Naiad, which is IMO by far the most interesting work in its area, and check out the Scalability! But at what COST? paper: http://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf which showed that a program running on a single thread often outperforms distributed systems running on 100+ cores.
Considering infidelity can lead to non-consensualy exposing people to STDs and possibly lead to rape (depending upon how you define consent).
PodcastParty – https://podcast.party/

It's a cloud-based podcast aggregator with a focus on discovery and social aspects (e.g. seeing what your friends are listening to, commenting on podcast episodes, sharing clips, etc.).
What they're doing is something like branching off a very old version of master, making changes to file A then trying to merge into the latest version of master, which already has a load of changes to file A. They then resolve the conflict by picking "ours", thus ignoring all changes on origin/master in favour of their own old version of master. This doesn't require a --force.
To be fair, a big chunk of the stars were part of Meteor's "We'll give $5 to organizations that teach kids to code, for every GitHub star we get". But still, pretty impressive growth!
shit flows down hill
Legally stealing includes the concept "taking with the intention to permanently deprive". The concept of stealing revolves around physical goods not intellectual property. What he did is not stealing (and if you attempted to charge him with theft you would lose in court). The crime is copyright violation not theft. Please be accurate when you are being patronising.
Wouldn't it be wise if the compiler (or preprocessor) issued at least a warning if you redefine language keywords ? :)

So I just pasted this into a C++ file I was working on and it compiled without a single warning:

#define struct union

#define if while

#define else

#define break

#define double float

#define volatile // this one is cool

I mean, redefining language keywords is not a thing I do every day and I guess most of you don't do it either and I can't see a valid reason why you'd want to do it in a normal project.
For people who really want to do it, they'd just disable the warning.

Am I missing something here ?
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Show HN: QuickKey, an iOS snippet keyboard that doesn't need full access
It's cool that you don't feel that way.

But is it fair to say that other people feel that way? And that's ok?
I never argued that it was any less wrong in those states. My point in including that line was to demonstrate that I am not the only one who believes that cheating is a moral offense against your partner, worthy of at least some repercussion. In the eyes of 21 states, it is literally a crime. So my moralisms remain absolute, regardless of the other states. The fact remains that if these hackers had not lifted these docs, not one of these incidents would have ever faced their day of reckoning from the spouses they betrayed. That to me, is justice served.
Google Fiber is one of the most wanted things in the tech world. You think having your traffic go through their router is bad? I don't even want to know how you'd feel about every internet thing you do being on their network.
The modern version:

1) Acquire millions of users
2) Get acquired for billions of dollars
3) Not my problem
Hipment: Streamlined shipping for Big Cartel (http://hipment.com)

SERP Scan: SEO Rank tracker. Trying to get Heroku alpha users. (https://serpscan.com)

Eddie Pendergrass: Record label. (http://eddiependergrass.com)
Working on a Chrome app for Asana, just so my tasks are accessible with a global keyboard shortcut, and I can see them all the time (and access them offline as well).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/asana-task-viewer/...
https://stashit.pw/

Stash It is a simple bookmarking tool. Find something interesting on the web? Stash It and come back to it later.
It is not only intended for mobile. Check out https://developers.google.com/ for what I think is a great use of material design. I agree that using it in your site may be somewhat Google branding of your site though.
A todo list with dependencies, using webcola (http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/webcola/).
At least by http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-run-Mac-OS-X-on-a-non-Apple-co... and http://www.quora.com/Is-it-illegal-to-install-OS-X-on-non-Ap... it is technically possible (though unstable) to run OS X on non-Apple hardware, but illegal. No mention that it is legal to run the server version of OS X on non-mac hardware.
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this feels so much faster than the angular material :/
>I was impressed how everything rendered without a glitch on Chrome

Well, to be fair, this is a modern website composed of artifacts from the Geocities archive. This page would be a beast if it were implemented with techniques of the era.

Looking at the source for the page, the author seems to be lazy loading the assets and then dynamically placing them in the page with CSS.

We've definitely come a long way.
The Apple Watch Points to the Future of the Mobile Phone
Thanks, but I was hoping to find out where in the ballpark I'd fit.
Or they talk about her like the neighbors of a mass murderer. "She was a quiet woman, always kept to herself."
Not insane at all. Those laws are rational, especially the Working Time Directive.
Actually no, material design is suppose to unify design for the web and native apps.

Many Google properties on the web are Material Design now (Play Music, Google Photos, Google Plus...
previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840682
> It really is that simple.

If you want to be pedantic - then no it is not that simple.

The student is in license infringement, copyright violation, contract with CERN violation, ... but has not stolen anything.

But yes, he need to pay for those "crimes". That's what the 30K fine is for ?

Nope the 30K is just an agreed payment between the CERN and the Company for the discovery of his infringement. That money will charged back to the University thanks to another agreement and only then is going to be charged to him. The "theft" will go unpunished in the eye of the law.

The student fucked up - that part is simple. Everything else that leads to him having to pay 30K is anything but simple. Considering the context described in the blog it involves a lot of bad faith from the company and the CERN.
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I've been working on a news aggregator since last year that pulls news articles and photos from major news sources, determines which stories are related, and sorts them in a timeline fashion. That allows you to go back and see what the top news stories were on any day in the past, or even month in the past.

http://tracket.com

http://tracket.com/2015/01 (Top stories in January 2015)
Mystery of exploding stars yields to astrophysicists
Why? Surely their commitment was public, if the person in question was married. If the state sanctions a contract, in this case marriage, and one party does something to offend that contract, then why not make it public?
A New CDI Scope in Java EE 8: RedirectScoped
Well it would be nicer if being a gay Saudi Arabian wouldn't get you killed.

As for why it's worrying: giving this information to a private company like AM means it's probably going to be leaked. It's worrying that they have to give this kind of information and will end up getting physically hurt for it. The hack is irrelevant as they would end up like this anyway. Is it not worrying for you?

Will each hack or private disclosure be worrying? Because obviously this will happen again. So for me, it's worrying that they're in a position where this will happen.
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And thus the Apple II is the only computer that was ever capable of shifting something half-a-pixel to the left.

Note: The Apple /// could probably do that too.
> The corollary is that .disabled should @include .normal and then define the overrides so you only have to define the base styles once in .normal... but that also requires discipline and code wrangling.

If I'm using .btn-disabled everywhere, then its hard to be to write a CSS rule that says 'whenever a button follows another button, apply this style to it'. That's why we have this competition with BEM and `.btn .disabled`.

> This example just replaces BEM naming and namespacing with file naming and directory structure.

...Yes. That's the point.

The problem is that CSS is a global 'language', and everything that you write has the chance to impact all your other CSS. When I'm writing a particular component, there's no way to write CSS that's local to just that component.

We have things like BEM that is about establishing a _convention_ to write Pseudo-Local-CSS, but nothing is enforced. Everything is still global. 'CSS Modules' enforces your CSS to be 'local only' as a file-level, just like regular (Node) JS.

It's like how there's a convention of not adding a string to an integer, but adding a type system to your programming language enforces that on a technical, contractual level.
I'm with you here - I also find OS X's Mail plenty "good enough," including for search. And it works great for connecting to Google Mail accounts via IMAP…
Automatic monitoring of Docker containers in AWS ECS clusters
You slip that word "time" in there like it's secondary to the expenses that apparently are required to "enjoy life", but being able to buy time to spend how you like is pretty damn valuable to a lot of people.
The problem is, your argument is equally silly. Those "beautiful tribal cultures" did not spontaneously emerge; they immigrated to the Americas from Asia. So, at what point did they become "native"? Why are they native while the European-emmigrated peoples who have lived in the Americas for 3+ generations not native?
Toolkit for high-productivity web-development in Go language [1].
Inspired by the concepts of Revel Framework but is implemented in a form of small independent utilities (and relies on `go generate`). Key aspects: No runtime reflection, type safety, compatibility with the standard library, 100% customizability.

[1]: https://github.com/anonx/sunplate
I don't think that's the trick.

I'm talking about greater goods than privacy and order, goods that make privacy and order good.

And I'm not just talking about things that one group or another really thinks should be illegal. I'm also talking about things that we've decided to tolerate as legal, but which we think are wrong -- maybe even grossly wrong -- and therefore (strongly) disapprove of and want to (strongly) discourage. I don't think things are so simple in those cases, either.
Should we stop interacting with computer and go build a motorcycle instead?
Zesty (YC W14) is hiring developers to help make people healthier
I'm sure startup money is a large part of it, but bottom line is that corporate culture at-large still hasn't adjusted to the reality that great technical people can make or break your company and that maybe they actually are worth the kind of money that used to be reserved for management types or sales.
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A lot of people seem to complain about this. Personally, as a user, I'm pretty okay with Facebook not showing every post from every page that I like in my news feed. If I really want to see every post from a page, I have options that are immediately available in the like dropdown of the page (either "add to interest lists", or "see first").

The thing is, in the current state of Facebook, wanting to hear everything that a page writes is an exception. As a user, I'm glad it isn't default anymore.

The problem is a combination of things. One problem is that there's pressure (from several potential sources, sometimes from Facebook's UI, sometimes social pressure from friends) to like too many pages. This has sort of diluted the meaning of a "Like" w/r/t a page.

Another big problem is that pages spam - some to the tune of several messages per day. I expect that most people who "Like" the pages that often get "Likes" (which appears to be largely big companies, bands, movies, etc.) don't actually want to see every one of these posts - they'd drown out the user's "Friends".

It is unfortunate for small business owners that things happened this way. Fortunately, really loyal fans should be more likely to listen to you when you ask them to subscribe to something outside of Facebook, or to do the extra couple clicks of adding to an interest list in Facebook. I expect, however, that some of the "loyal fan" base might be made up of (as mentioned before) people who liked the page out of social pressure.
Most complete human brain model to date is a ‘brain changer’
This is not, I repeat, this is not my old CamWorld (pioneering blog) site from the late 1990s. :-)
In which case, the remote desktop approach should not be allowed either.

If you're going to have arbitrary "You can't use the software except at this location" clauses, then they should be applied consistently
Board games really had a renaissance in my life once I discovered "German-style board games". Their rules always seem to be similar to what I find the most fun.
You are talking about something entirely different.

If everyone in the US stopped paying taxes the government would not have money to spend. They couldn't just print it to pay themselves and whatever else. They couldn't even take out loans because there would be no money from us to pay for them.

So it isn't in the end government money. They use taxes collected from us as well as loans that we, ultimately, pay for, to fund the operation of government and all other programs and activities.

Without taxes government and everything funded through taxation, directly or indirectly, would collapse.

Fiat money is, at the simplest, about a dollar no-longer being backed by an equivalent amount of gold. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the use of tax revenue to fund programs. Not one thing. Any program funded through taxation is being funded by you, me and every other tax-payer in the nation. It's our money they are spending.
You can raise VC without giving up majority control.

In two ways.

First, don't allow dilution to push you + any co-founders below majority. If you focus on building a profitable business, and you're not trying to be the next Uber, this is extremely doable. Ellison at Oracle, Gates + Allen at Microsoft, and Omidyar + Skoll at eBay were able to basically do this; Bezos & Family were also roughly able to accomplish this leading up to Amazon going public (his family still owns nearly 20%).

Second, use the Page-Brin voting shares control approach. Most investors will not like this, don't take their money. Find investors that sync with your vision for the company.

I took on a well known investor, and gave up a modest corner of my business. I retain majority, and will continue to indefinitely. The key is to be able to grow your business into the second or third inning with that first investment, then strictly control dilution thereafter. For example I could do two rounds of 15% dilution from here, and the investors would still not have majority control.

If your business needs to bleed large amounts of red ink, then you're going to put yourself into a corner accordingly. There probably is no good outcome unless you happen to be among the tiny number of companies that make it out of that start alive. For everyone else, you always have a choice.