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What is so wrong exactly with basic material?

Sure you might know CSS inside out, but I'd be willing to bet some people here could learn something useful out of it. The rest of us that already are familiar with it get a quick refresher in under 5 minutes.

Positioning and the box model are at the core of understanding CSS layouts. Sure it's not the next cool thing and it certainly isn't advanced, but I'd much rather browse a Web where people understand layouts properly, than one filled with a lot of the trendy, over-complicated crap that fails at the basics.

We have to be careful with that basic = not challenging = not geek-worthy attitude. A beginner reading HN comments will most likely emulate it and miss out on the important stuff.
I'm working on an open source Ruby implementation using the TokBox api.
And also the massive multi-billion-dollar incarceration industry. They lobby hard for "tough on crime" policies and attitudes.
I assume you've been downvoted because there's a somewhat reflexive faith here that new classes of jobs will always be created to fill those that have been taken over by increased automation/productivity. That may be true, but for anyone who believes that, I recommend at least taking a look at the arguments Marshall Brain presents in his"Robotic Nation." One of his conclusions is that -- unlike with previous revolutions where new classes of jobs appeared to replace the ones that were destroyed (industrial for agricultural, for example) -- no new class of jobs appears to be on the horizon that is also not automatable.
How hard would it be for me to live in, say, Tallinn as an Ugly American (joking, I hope) who speaks and reads only English?
Walk through the whole demo, the interface is actually pretty amazing. I'm rather impressed.
I am not talking about the default-set-of-apps. I am talking about seeing an app created using your tool in action. Would love to see what is the possibility.
The App Developer’s Guide to Choosing a Mobile Platform
Yes, they couldn't be more different in their product. My point was that many webapps have very slick designs.

Another one
http://highrisehq.com/why

Remember when writing your words - almost all of your potential customers know nothing about group buying. Those who already know what it is have probably got a solution already.
Is there a way to make this a sticky post? Like the forum posts.
We do, for now, but for every one job created for a software/hardware engineer, several (probably low skill jobs) may be destroyed. Compare the total number of, say, cashiers to software developers.
I'm over 3/4 of the way though the article and it just keeps getting more depressing. Somebody please hide all the sharp objects!

I've felt for a while that high unemployment (20-30%) is the normal state of affairs. 20% of folks should probably be engaged in some sort of sustenance living. It wouldn't really have to be that bad, like digging in dumpsters or anything, but just living in a commune, farming, and building their own debt-free shelter.
I'm no fan of Microsoft in general but it looks like they made some good choices here. It's refreshing to see a GUI that's not just an iPhone clone or yet another awkward facelift on a dated product. I think it will be successful. SmartPhones don't have the same level of legacy baggage that prevent users from jumping to another platform easily so I don't think Microsoft is out of the game at all. It'll be interesting to see where their market share comes from. I'm thinking RIM & Nokia more than Apple & Android.
The equivalent Java code is in the original post he's responding to.
The genius of that strategy is that many dysfunctional organizations already have people who work this way, so if you start imitating them, nobody will suspect that you have an ulterior motive.
Both your website and your widget must be able to answer these questions within 30 seconds for the most ignorant, distracted user with 3 children trying to climb into their lap.

This user might have never bought online before, and if they have - they have no idea what the backend order process looks like.

Answering these questions here is only a beginning. If _anyone here_ cannot get your site before getting frustrated, you haven't explained your system well enough yet.

Remember, the majority of users (by a huge percentage) are going to see your widget first. Your widget is going to advertise your solution to potential sellers who see it on someone else's website.

If _any customer_ gets frustrated at your widget, it is going to get pulled from sites.
"agricultural" is a bad moniker for sure. Still, a model that emphasizes growing ties to your location is a poor one. David Weinberger hit the nail on the head in his philosophical arguments in "Small pieces loosely joined" that our understanding of "place" has completely changed in the information age. Perhaps the author should have focused on an education system that focuses on ties to _community_ rather than on the place their from?
It is important to note that roles which are automated only require a shift in skill set. Cashiers may turn into Uscan machines, but Uscan machines require more administrators and support staff.

With the money saved with the automated, the retailer may choose to cut prices, or reinvest in their business. If they cut prices, consumers now have money to invest in other industries, the demand spawning new positions. If they reinvest in their business, these positions, not previously open, will also be available.

If they simply take their savings, and pay it out to share holders / keep it in the bank, this allows more capital for investment.

The more steps that are automated, the more abundantly we will all live. It is a great thing in terms of material desires.
It should have been stripped from the title, which usually shows (google.com) say
Apple's iBooks Dynamic Page Curl
Yes, but since all objections are to be made in public, in order to foster transparency and documentation of the process, I have a hard time understanding why making private objections to those same individuals that he had publicly objected to before would help.

If the process is truly broken, get it out in the public and document it. This reeks of the type of politics that is meant to kill something through subversion of the process and delaying tactics. If you can't kill HTML5 outright, kill the process of developing the standard and you've effectively done the same thing.
What I want is for buyers to make a real committment. The major difference between my system and yours is that buyers can say "I don't want to buy it for $1000, but if it reaches $600, I am in. Here are my credit card details if it does"

[Edit] Is this what all your competitors do too? I didn't mean to remove your point of difference, but perhaps this way works better.
The reason America is jobless is because everyone is in debt. People (talking majority) spend more then they make. They take out 3 year financing on toasters (exaggerated but sadly not much). To be in debt is a way of life. People buy things on credit long before they have the money to pay it off. Thats why America is in a recession and jobs are closing.

If people (again majority) had common sense as most on HN seem to have then America would be fine.

The second major reason IMO that America is going to be jobless is because the overhead cost of everything is far to high, especially in government. It takes so many people to sign off for anything that it will end up costing way more then it should. Take a look at large government states vs small government states and tell me which is doing better. (ie Cali vs Texas) Cali has to raise taxes to pay for all the overhead which causes business owners to pay more which causes them to not hire more people.. Pretty easy to see what needs to happen.
I didn't mean that mining is causing it, but facilitating it. The mining income feeds the rest of the economy - without it, the larger economy would shrink: when rents increase, people are willing to pay it because they are employed.
Celebdaq is closing (maybe an opportunity to startup in this space?)
A common problem I have with articles like this is they are often coming from folks who had a horrible experience going through the contemporary educational system. This results in them throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and oscillating in the extreme opposite direction, trying to move us as far away from the way things are today as they can.

At the risk of being called a South Park philosopher, I think for education the right solution lies somewhere in the middle. I think having people be transplanted away from their families and friends for a 4 year hiatus to focus on learning is a crucial part of becoming a well rounded person. That said, the current methodology of cramming knowledge into students' heads is highly flawed, simply because it doesn't try to leverage the way the brain actually learns new things.

I think a more flexible model for education that still fits within the current "go off to college" model can yield huge improvements while both being possible and practical. For example, students should be able to have more control over the direction of a class. If a topic comes up that a large number of students are interested into going into more depth, then they should be able to 'fork' the class and go thataway.

Additionally, assessment is totally broken. Assessment should be a means of re-enforcing knowledge not verifying that it has been absorbed. There's a whole host of thinking about this, but it really comes down to changing the timing, content, and impact of administered exams towards one that disincentivizes cramming and incentivizes true learning of the material.
Yeah, CNC 3 was a pretty decent game but since it was made by EA, all the units were like the same between the 3 civilizations. Anyway for Tiberian Sun, yeah the ini editor was the best!! I remember there was this thing, SunEdit2k or something like that, where you could create your own units or modify the stats of other units
That's the most awesome unfollow ever.
If your talking about the iPhone, then getting your code to run on yours is easy. Getting distribution of your code to other phones is the hard part.
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Adobe has been evil for a long time. Remember Dmitry Skylarov? Jailed for writing software that Adobe didn't like - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov?wasRedirected...
Well, sort of by definition it's going to be difficult to go from anecdotes to statistics when the latter are being cooked.

That's only going to be possible when there is a mirrored and honest crime survey system, where as you point out most victims will report a missing person and matching dead bodies that are not ruled a homicides might be teased out.
Bing must use this plan of attack. It's by far the smartest approach (of those I can think of, anyway). Hear me out:

Bing's presumed goal: overtake Google on a global scale, right? At first glance, it may look like they're ignoring the world outside the U.S., but that isn't the case. They're just biding their time. (Pulling an Onyx, if you will.)

Why not just take on Google all over the globe to begin with? I can think of a couple reasons:

1. They might not know how. Microsoft and Google are both American companies with mostly American employees, so they may seem like they're on equal footing to compete both within the U.S. and abroad, but Google has years and years more experience in trying to solve the international puzzle. Bing can't compete with that yet, and they know it.

2.a) If you know you can't compete, DON'T. If Bing were to launch a global attack on Google right off the bat, they'd essentially be diverting troops from a (perhaps) winnable battle in the U.S. in order to fight an extremely uphill battle everywhere else, a battle they know they'll lose initially.

Both of those would be very harsh realities for Bing to face. Too harsh.

2.b) Bing needs to give themselves the best possible chance to win in the U.S. because it's by far their best chance at both initial and longer-term success. You can't win a global war if you can't win a battle in your backyard.

2.c) But perhaps even more importantly, Bing knows how badly they'll lose in international markets at this stage in their development of their search technology, the vast majority of which has been developed by Americans, for Americans. If they make a truly concerted effort anywhere else and still get their asses kicked, it's far worse for their future international prospects than losing before they start trying. Were Bing to devote a ton of manpower and resources to say, Brazil, and still lose to Google there, it'd be an asskicking PLUS press coverage, the latter of which would risk turning potential Brazilian users off to a future, much-improved, "Brazilian" Bing.

Conclusion: Bing's optimal international strategy right now...

...is to lack one entirely. Bide time. Devote all your manpower and resources to fight over the American market for now. Improve your search technology until you can legitimately compete with Google at home. Then, once you can do that, optimize your search technology for a few key international markets. Thanks to your success in the U.S., you'll be better able to give Google a serious run for their money in whichever markets you choose to take a stab at. Rinse and repeat.
I'm not sure most of them are "crimes of passion", certainly most victims have a criminal past in the US. But, yes, it does seem to be not tightly linked to other violent crimes.

But we focus on it since it's the hardest to sweep under the rug, despite that happening a lot.
Sounds a little like the philosophy of BookCrossing: http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Remind me again why you think it is the safest way to travel?
Unfortunately a lot of those big companies are entrenched in old ways and filled with people manufactured by the education system, so it's really up to the startups :)

one things for sure: if I ever hire I won't contribute to the problem.
Maybe I'm an unusual case, but their picks were pretty good for me. Out of my few hundred contacts, it correctly chose a good top 10 that I would want to follow. Maybe my chat history helped out on that. That being said, they screwed up with the auto-subscribe instead of auto-suggest.
Hmm, should I really jump into this?

Mark Thornton at Mises.org has one thing right: "I believe in the unrestricted right to gamble."

But he goes on to say: "Despite this, I oppose the adoption of a state lottery." I would like to agree with him here but I think he's missing the point.

I don't oppose people setting up a lottery, even if those people call themselves a "state." I do oppose those people forcing out competition at the point of a gun.

So go ahead, "state," and set up your lottery with your ridiculously horrible odds. But when the competition arrives and provides far better odds with ease, and you send armed men to shut them down, that is where you cross the line.

I just like to focus on the truly important moral principle at stake, which is to avoid initiating force against other people.
This is not anonymous btw. Profile picture URL's have your user id in them

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v222/730/80/s197811041_5203.jpg

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=197811041 finds me :)

No biggie for me personally but it might be worth being aware of!
Yes, thats the problem. When I add an h1 tag, I expect some defaults such as display:block, margins and padding. When I add a p tag it should NOT work the same as just adding br tags. I should see the default spacing between paragraphs.
These frameworks are fine but they are few and far between.
As a thought experiment, isn't it possible that the pie (wealth) could grow larger but that the distribution of that wealth could be narrower due to technology and outsourcing of jobs? That may not be zero-sum, but it could certainly be problematic for wage earners.
Step 11 should be: If you don't have an element to clear out the bottom, you can get limited functionality by applying

overflow: hidden

to the containing element. In most cases this will cause it to extend and prevent the inner elements from bleeding out. In some edge cases it will cause them to be hidden, though.
You did a great job of nailing Scoble's M.O.: 'I thought X sucked, but then I got to use/be part of X and now I think X is awesome. Next year, I'll think X sucks again once Dave Winer reminds me that he thinks X sucks.'
Damn Version Numbers
This whole buzz thing has send me looking for a new email provider. If they so eagerly give out all my contacts what else are they doing or whats next? The last couple months have been enough for me to start my move away from google.
I don't see that claim anywhere. I only see the claim that not having an abortion in certain circumstances is not more virtuous than having one.
A Guide to Avoiding Viruses
Rework (Q&A with Jason Fried)
My understanding is that you did not opt out of Buzz. What you said "no" to was taking the tour of Buzz - but you were still auto-enrolled. Hence the fuss.
Thank you! Just the other week, I lost a personal archive that included interesting HN posts, particularly many from the early HN days having, in my perspective, a particularly high signal to noise ratio.

I've been debating whether to post/ask whether anyone has a means of re-finding / replacing some of these. It looks like your site may provide a start.
They are not theoretical. It's amusing how you think you are smarter than these billion dollar corporations in saving money.

Your conjectures on the other hand, are theoretical. If you actually knew what you were talking about, you would know that USG hasn't paid dividends since Feb 21, 2001. And interestingly this happened shortly after the first SEC filings that showed Buffet bought USG.
> Compare the total number of, say, cashiers to software developers.

So, ATMS... would you replace them with human bank tellers? Would that be a net benefit to the economy?
I would guess hoarding stuff is an instance of humans' general tendency to become more conservative (in this case in the most literal sense) when they feel resources are scarce. So someone who's poor by choice, like a grad student, would be less likely to. Whereas someone who grew up in an atmosphere of scarcity might be inclined to continue to hoard even if they later became rich.
Bookmarked! My usual approach of finding these was to google for topic + Hacker News + Ask.
Simon St. Laurent has an interesting analysis and commentary on the whole debacle: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/02/the-widening-html5-chas...

It seems that the whole HTML5 standards process was broken from the start and is likely to remain that way. The recent hoopla is just some public airing of the dirty laundry that has always been there.
I personally like Good Old Games (gog.com), a store for DRM-free and compatibility tested old games.

I bought quite some games which are running perfectly well on my notebook with integrated graphics. And since the prices are low enough and I want to encourage this behaviour (DRM-free, tested), I happily pay the publisher of these old games.
The most reasonable thing I've read so far about the absurdity of both the process and the recent claims from Hixie.
Kevin Hale of Wufoo (YC 06) talks UX, Funding, Startups and API integration
Towards the end of the article, he reaches a conclusion about the importance of regional self-sufficiency which I don't understand at all. Firstly, because it has seemingly no connection to anything he was writing about. Secondly, because it contradicts basic economics of comparative advantage.
Wow; many thanks to Gabriel Weinberg for making this.
How startups/small businesses can build international brands
I'm sure it is a licensing issue. If they had agreements for the models or the sound files they'd have to pay those people. I think doom was released without the original sound files. Perhaps that was quake.
Clean smells promote generosity and fair play
You seem to be using "uncertainty" so that it is indistinguishable from how most of us would use "fear".
I can't recommend the book "Economics in One Lesson" highly enough. It answers this question.

Full text here: http://jim.com/econ/

I think it should be required reading for everyone during high school. This chapter is relevant:

"The Curse of Machinery" - http://jim.com/econ/chap07p1.html

Long story very short? We'll be okay. It's been a worry for a long time, and it's always been false. But the chapter of the book says it much better than me, and it's a short read. Actually, I'm going to submit this now as a separate submission. Really, highly recommended, very insightful stuff.

Edit: Submitted here if you'd like to discuss: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127345
i saw the excellent documentary "collapse" and got me thinking about how a crisis in oil will make logistics unprofitable and would stop society as we know it
You could edit INI files for all of the 2D C&Cs and even the sorta-predecessor Dune 2 :-) For our multiplayer games we used to crank the buildings and units to produce almost instantly!
"Because of the reliance on the corporation, we set out to design an educational system in its mirror image. The linear journey from first to twelfth grade, then bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees systematized learning in a way that turned people into interchangeable parts and valued mobility."

This is false. This progression predated the corporation.

The present educational system has been influenced by the desire to produce employees, but that's not where its structure originated. The structure is medieval.
Economics in One Lesson: "The Curse of Machinery"
I think the biggest problem most college grads who are applying for jobs face is that they don't really think about what employers need. Getting a job is the first real step into the "real world" where there aren't rote and well-trod paths to success. Many new grads treat applying for jobs as a kind of application process -- fill out my apps (resumes and cover letters) and then see what sticks. Why? Because _I_ need a job. Bzzt, wrong answer.

In contrast, the ideal candidate is passionate about whatever job they're going for. Make lists of companies that you would love to work at, and pursue them directly, whether there's a job listing open or not. Recruiters use LinkedIn to find candidates all the time... it is just as valuable for new grads just entering the workforce.

When pitching for startup funds, there's a saying: When you ask for money, you get advice. When you get advice, you get money. This applies to jobs too. People love talking about themselves and what they do. Luckily, if you're new, you stand to gain from that, and massively.

Finally, it pays to be prepared for interviews. I was just having dinner with a friend who's a producer at the biggest name game studio out there -- he was just complaining about how he'll ask if the candidate has played _____ game, and it'll be to the level of 'I tried the demo.' Trying the demo isn't good enough. Becoming a Level 32 Dwarf or thereabouts is probably what it takes, at least for this example.

Hiring managers, no matter what field, want to know that the person in front of them is a) smart, b) gets things done, and c) would love more than anything to work for them.
I would love to disagree with you on this (my opinions on economics stray pretty far from normal). I believe precisely the reason America is so successful is because of debt.

A worker who does not work a day never gains that day of work back. Debt allows workers to perform their tasks fully allocated as there is always work available, whether or not work has already been done in return for them.

Ie if there was no debt, everyone would have to wait for a task to be finished before they could perform a service in return, causing lost work that can never be made up for.

The only time this system falls flat is if everyone decides they need services all at once, which historically is not common.
I never use frameworks. I just use Meyers reset and take it from there.