skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, this is a neat idea, but the way css is designed (i.e. half-leading model) makes generalized baseline alignments completely horrid because you end up doing all these positioning gimmicks based on the exact descender depth of the font you're using. At that point, you're really designing for the font which sort of defeats the generality/convenience of css.

I don't think at the time it was designed there was a sense that anybody would actually want features like actual baseline alignment (i mean, look at the extent of UILabel's typography options for a good example of this sort of present-day rationalization) I've nearly given up on having any semblance of generalized baseline alignment in css like i do in, say, indesign, which although horrid, at least got that part right.

That said, if you want a good argument against a strict baseline grid i'll supply one and a half: derek birdsall1's notes on book design[1] and mine:

When i started working through my mfa i had completely drunk the grid kool-aid from Samsara, Elam, Bringhurst and (natürlich) Müller-B. I was obsessed with vertical grids and i used them much to my detriment (because i was blindly plugging away). My shit looked mechanical which is not really me at all. Then i met another designer who said, in passing: "who really uses grids? You make shit look good. When you're done, you tidy it up with a grid if the spirit moves you.* It'll probably already be on some grid, everyone's brain does that, and your post-rationalized grid's practically ready-made. how cool is that?"*

Now, this sort of presumes you can make shit look good which is a tall order, but really it means following your gut and possibly using a grid to keep it in check. If you start with a fixed grid, you limit many of your options from the outset because you're trying to fit stuff into these little squares.

Of course, this takes lots of practice. Practically speaking, grids take much of the choice out of things. If you need to make something that looks cool fast, rip one out of Müller-B and plug away. It will look awesome. Otherwise, loosen up, have some brown liquor and design away until you're happy or trashed or both.

[1]: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001034...
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That would work great if America still had a train system.

I always worried about this when we lived in Puerto Rico. Due to the Jones Act, there are no passenger ships to the island - to leave, you have to fly.
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Well, not to be too pedantic, but the name is Mongrel2, not Mongrel 2. I agree that it can be a little odd though.

Namingwise, I personally find m2sh somewhat hard to parse, because I read it as "m to sh" and not as "mongrel2 shell".
fixed it for chrome 6 windows and other browsers. Do not have ubuntu but it should do it hopefully. Please check again. ;-)
Fuzzy Sets can be used in a pretty wide variety of fields. Here are three books by the same author that cover a pretty big area:

http://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Algorithms-Exploration-Kaufma...

http://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Logic-Business-Industry-Windows/...

http://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Systems-Handbook-Second-Practiti...
Mmmh, when I signed up two years ago prices where more competitive with PayPal. They must have changed the pricing in the meanwhile.

Sorry, I was not aware of this.
Just testing it out on Android, everything I tried seemed to work perfectly. Great design and CSS work :)

Perhaps some sorting & filtering options on the dashboard? An 'overdue, current and complete tabs?
I have some sympathy for Paypal here. They encounter a lot of fake charities, so the word "donation" is a red flag to them.
Please check again Rob ;-)
The article wasn't very useful compared to blog posts by google itself, but the discussions on what google can "understand" always reminds me of this:

http://www.fun-images.com/thumbs/25-my-fucking-keysbig.jpg
In a way, when a chess master thinks about a position, they can see many many moves ahead, in an innate feeling kind of way about what is a good and bad position. I think you could say that a human is better at aggressive pruning using better common sense whereas a computer can be just as good, it has to examine the billion or more positions though.
Fixed the ie/linux issues.
Have a look again: http://www.psykomatic.com
I regularly drive from Boston to Toronto these days. Cheaper, I get real food, I can leave/come back when I want, take more luggage, and door to door it is only about a half hour longer. Crossing the border by car is still sane.
clickable: http://hn-books.com
I'm not the OP but I think it is because the class names being used are not semantic in terms of the content. Instead they contain information about the layout of the page.

This makes certain types of change messier. For instance, if I have some CSS class called `quotation` that is used in various pages of my site, I can change the style of those divs or whatever in one edit of a single CSS file. However, if instead those elements all have the class name `sg-5` and I want to change them all to be `sg-7`, I must go and edit every page that contains instances of said element. And, speaking from personal experience, I will probably make a mistake or miss some cases when doing so.
The government isn't just doing full body scans for kicks - they're doing it for kickbacks.
This has to be one of the most frequently asked questions on HN.

It may help to consider carefully all the reasons you give equity:

* To repay effort (like, doing all the up-front coding)

* To compensate for risk (taking a job with an uncertain future)

* To compensate for financial investment in the company

* To incentivize future effort and risk-taking

* To delineate control of the company

* To access valuable tangible/intangible assets held by other people (such as a network of contacts in your problem domain, or a valuable endorsement)

Make sure you're not just thinking about equity in simple terms. You can sabotage your team by creating even superficial imbalances. You might think, "I'm doing all the coding up front, so I should get more equity because I'm valuable on day 1". Maybe that's true. But it might also be true that your partner took the same amount of risk as you, got less equity, and now also has a reason to blame you for every setback on the business side, because you delivered crappy code that prevented him from realizing his equity stake.

This is an absolutely utterly basic problem in comp package design, something that anyone who has ever hired a salesperson will tell you right off the bat. In the context of comp plans, if a conflict can happen, it will happen. Make sure your fiddley equity plan is worth the effort.

Remember, if your business is unsuccessful, 60% of 0 is 0. If your business is successful, you'll have other levers to pull besides day 1 equity grants to portion out upside.

(I personally wouldn't allocate a single share based on someone's supposed ability to land funding, though. Assume you won't get funded.)
What it comes down to is that there is no system in place for TSA to determine whether a pilot is actually a pilot. See this essay [1] for a clear argument.

[1] http://www.schneier.com/essay-130.html
Would it be beyond the scope of this to list temporary coworking spaces? For example there's a couple of places in my area that run an open office either weekly or monthly and it might be good to have a listing of those sorts of spaces.

It'd also be good to link in with the coworking visa that a number of coworking spaces are members of. And in fact it'd be good to work more closely with coworking spaces in general via the coworking wiki.
Why do they need to search the pilot in the first place? So that he doesn't hijack the plane? He already controls the plane.
I'm just thankful that HN doesn't allow sigs...
Is the link in the submission not clickable for you ?
There's nothing i can find on the Jones Act banning passenger ships - only making Puerto Ricans US citizens - can you elaborate?
> I will take your information to heart and get paypals access revoked and I'm going to close that account and open a new one just to be sure.

To be fair, PayPal transactions to/from your bank account happen via ACH. ACH (automated clearing house) has been around long before PayPal existed. It is also used by various other entities for periodic payments (like insurance, utilties, etc).

I was once told that a common savings account can have inbound ACH (money sent to you) but not outbound (money sent from you). Might want to talk to your bank about this.
This post is insightful: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/23/dividing-equity-between-founder....

At the early stage, people tend to overvalue past contributions, and undervalue future contributions. Equity grants should be for a person's expected value over the next four years.
I don't get targeting the iPhone yet featuring Flash on the home page. Your audience can play HTML5 or gracefully degrade to QT.

It's about iPhone, but I can't see it on iPhone or iPad.

Make pitch1.swf a .mp4 file, and use the embed stack here:

http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

Try the second one from the bottom, w/o the Ogg lines.
Yes, it was. Daniel's been busy :)
CSS Frameworks are especially useful when you have multi layout page. With few lines of CSS code you can have some complex layout. Other thing is reusability write once use it many times. Here is what you can do with one line of CSS http://www.vcarrer.com/2009/06/1-line-css-grid-framework.htm...
Hm. I'm flying to Philly at the end of the week; I'll give myself an extra 20 minutes or so. Thanks.
I'm an advocate of frameworks, but only for fast prototyping. Nothing beats designing in the browser using Haml (http://haml-lang.com/) and Compass/Sass (http://compass-style.org/) in conjunction with Static Matic (http://staticmatic.rubyforge.org/). Compass has blueprint integrated and using mixins you can avoid having an un-semantic mess in your Haml/Html.

Truth be told though, I use less and less the blueprint features in Compass each day. I find grids amazing for Photoshop (I generate a grid like the one in this thread for every comp) and Keynote/Wireframing/Initial Prototyping (I use a simple broad grid to do wireframes in Keynote), but really don't belong on my markup!
They finally published the data without onerous licensing? About time.
You don't get the choice of metal detector or scanner, you get to do both or metal + pad down. I fail to see how this could speed things up.
who says they're using POS tagging to perform the IR? I've only ever seen it used as a query refinement tool.

I agree, the bag of words / vector space model approach is (from what I've read) hard to beat, especially for a one-size-fits-all tool like google where you can assume nothing about the domain. (Unless they're switching approaches depending on the domain, which would be fascinating)
You mean this paper?

Berry, Donald A. “Bayesian Statistics and the Efficiency and Ethics of Clinical Trials,” Statistical Science, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Feb., 2004), pp. 175-187

I haven't heard of it. But if you're seriously motivated to do things right and you're "mathematically mature", I would advise you to read Jaynes' book linked above. For me it was a huge eye opener. The screed of the Bayesians is "You don't need a separate statistics field! You just need the laws of probabilities, and that's enough to answer any question you want."

Let me know if you need help, my email is in my profile.
I also confirm. My account is frozen for no good reason since 1 year. No reply to any mails. Germany.

I once used my Bank to get back my money from Paypal. Paypal took an amount from my credit card. So I called the bank and told them, Paypal did it without authorization. I had to fill a form and got my money back within a few days.
I gave Paypal only access to my credit card, not to my bank account. Although they claim in their terms and conditions that this is correct (account OR credit card), I assume this is the main reason why my account is frozen. I can't even close it or delete data.
There are quite a few ARM/Windows CE netbooks designed in China. Ubuntu clones are available for most of them.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.42015

http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.netbook
There certainly is. As of a couple of years ago IBM's 9.0.0.0/8 network was only used for their intranet and not routed outside. I believe several legacy /8's are in the same boat.
? Hollywood teaches us two ways: Go quickly around a corner in a city. Don't put on the brakes when getting to a end of a track.
Except that over years of flying I was never patted down, and since the naked scan has started, I've been through that more than the metal detector (6 times v. 2 times in the last two months). This thing was supposed to be used for additional screening, in place of more invasive searches, and now it's used in place of less invasive searches. I find it difficult to tolerate that I'm now expected to show somebody my bean bag in order to travel. In fact, if I were to drop my pants in the middle of the security line, I'd be arrested, but the TSA can drop my pants for me without recourse.

As you say though, fighting it just isn't worth it right now. The last thing I need is one if the geniuses that work security arresting me, even under false pretenses, because I won't consent to a strip search.
I would be taking plane A. No question about it. I simply don't believe that there are enough terrorists in the world to make flying with them more dangerous than walking across the street - on average. And I still think fellow passengers are more effective against terrorists than all the money the TSA can throw at their BFF vendors.

Anaphylaxis. This whole thing is anaphylaxis.
Not at all times and even then lots of disasters happened because the first officer didn't correct (even major) mistakes by the captain (or vice versa) - EgyptAir 990 comes to mind
I'd like to see a photo of the couch! Mainly to see where it is (noise wise), and whether you can close a door on a couch room and signal it as being occupied?
How do you get no monthly fees? We have an account with NatWest (RBS group), but the site says 20 euros/mo.
> statistical Markov Model type methods are outperforming rule based methods

I can't speak for the state-of-the-art, but that's certainly what I was taught last year. I studied both computational linguistics and IR -two very different approaches to the same problem. IR seemed to be getting much further in terms of real-world results than linguistic approaches. Although linguistic approaches may seem to offer greater potential.
> Real banks make mistakes all the time.

Indeed they do. Not only do banks make mistakes, but the Federal Reserve does as well. For those who don't know this, the Fed is responsible for national check clearing (other than bank-to-bank cash letters, what we in IT would call direct peering). The Fed is the operator, for check clearing, of what we would call the core routers.

A number of years back, the Fed made a mistake in my favor (a sizable mistake). I discussed it with the bank. The bank said they had to wait for the Fed to resend them the correct item. We're both still waiting. Sooner or later I'm going to give up waiting :)
Your point? I'm pretty sure he can crash the plane on his own.
Ah. The Jones Act also specifies that all ships traveling between American ports must be (1) made in America, (2) registered in America, (3) owned by Americans, and (4) crewed by Americans. The consequence is that the market can't actually bear passenger travel between American ports. So there isn't any. At all. Hasn't been for decades. Unless you own and sail your own boat, you can't get there from here except by air.

Weird - and definitely an unintended consequence. The Puerto Ricans are quite aware of it. But as long as shipyard labor on the East Coast continues to support protectionism no matter how meaningless, there will continue to be no passenger shipping to Puerto Rico.
more reading on the same topic:
Jacques Ellul -- Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
http://books.google.com/books?id=UpvZAAAAMAAJ

Edward L. Bernays, Mark Crispin Miller -- Propaganda
http://books.google.com/books?id=JlcPgPt17KcC
I absolutely agree that security measures have to achieve balance between security, comfort and civil liberties.

But I'm still not seeing him advocating not screening the crew. And how could he advocate something like that.

It would be like him saying "use strong encryption to protect your information, but make sure that passwords are written on post-its so it won't get lost".
I'm all down for that though. Targetting me on past actions have been a huge fail for the ad servers so far. One example, my wife was thinking about applying for a job at Tom's shoes. I checked out the site to read about their company. Ever since, their banner ads have been following me all over the place, with no interest on my part to ever wear or purchase them. Example two, I was watching a podcast interviewing the CEO of a wine making company. I checked out their site, and again I got followed absolutely everywhere with their banner ads. The problem with their targeting as far as I've experienced is that they have no ability whatsoever to understand the context of my actions, and context is the most valuable part of understanding what would be relevant to me. Without that, all they can do is see that i visited X site, so let's hammer X site's banner at me to perpetuity until I visit Y site, and the cycle continues.
That would necessitate some sort of minimum wage law for people doing legal work.

A solvable problem, I think. If I have to pay myself $50 an hour to represent my cause, it only hurts me if my cause isn't legitimate.

Or maybe set some threshold for legal expenses; the system could work as it does now up to a maximum, then a pay pool is implemented.
I'm on gApps and use the web interface a lot. I'll have to look through that stuff. Thanks.

{edit} Nothing there. Great. You know what, signature and signature processing in gMail sucks. Why can't the web interface know I'm mailing someone in the same organization and NOT include the signature? Why can't it skip the legal block that my company requires if it's already in the email thread?

Let's put the self-driving priuses on hold for a while and get some real functionality in there, Google!
Likewise. Sorry you're having troubles. I agree with the sentiments elsewhere in the thread, that you should take it up with the European banking authorities.
One day I became tired of pitching free stuff, so I decided to do the opposite thing. Quality of feedback has improved a
lot ever since.
I type "stackoverflow.com", and click "login" then "Google", done. This is the same number of clicks as having my browser save my username and password.

What am I missing?
Is there any reason the links to books use javascript instead of a regular anchor?
As I see a few Wire fans replying here, I'd like to recommend two related books that will give more insight and provoke some thought (if you haven't done so already):

Homicide (a year on the killing streets), David Simon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide:_A_Year_on_the_Killing...

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, David Simon and Ed Burns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corner:_A_Year_in_the_Life_...
The frameworks are great for mocking sites up: instead of modifying CSS for every layout you test the framework gives you a few classes with sane defaults that you can easily switch between to align and re-align your columns.

My typical workflow is to include a stylesheet that defines a basic grid and use that when working on the design. Towards deployment I write the grid to my main stylesheet using the elements' proper class-names and ids.
Well executed. There are a lot of books on the list I'd never heard of, but look interesting.

Also, nice monetisation idea, jacquesm!

Do you intend to use this site for profit (nothing wrong with that..) or have some ideas to promote "hacker culture" with the monies.
How to Communicate Badly with Developers
A Primer - Managed Service Delivery
I used to suffer from really bad headaches (which have since stopped since I've gone caffeine free), so having a bed at work was a job prerequisite. At big companies you had to check in with the nurse to use the bed. The startup I worked for put in a bed, so others used it for napping. It always seemed to make any general press article about the company, implying something about the dot-com mentaility...
Everyone would take plane A. The question is already being asked:

A Go through the scanner and be done in two minutes.
B Get a pat down and be done in 10-20 minutes.

People just want to get somewhere faster. Many will already take A because it is faster (I know I heard them say it). Plane A would probably be cheaper and faster.
prq.se has a fairly good reputation:

http://prq.se/?intl=1

I would ask you, however, to consider your threat model. What 'authorities' are you worried about? What are their capabilities? In reality, anonymity is largely dead.
The two examples he gives could be done easily in any programming language that supports higher order functions (ie. functions which take a function as an input argument). To a lesser extent he requires lambdas in the with-memcached example, but it isn't 100% necessary (could have just written the some-heavy-code part in a named function).

None of this is very novel or unique to clojure. Clojure (and other lisps) do have some nice syntax sugar to make writing this type of code easily, which is nice.
Thanks for pointing out that paper ('The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data'):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13863110/The-Unreasonable-Effectiv...
Not any more but it probably was when it started. Cruft accumulates over time. And yes, not only have I seen COBOL, I even have written COBOL. :-(
Our recent company-mandated sig includes 5 attachments.
OK, so to recap:

1. Embedding an 80 minute video you made, with considerable cost I might add, on your own website is now spam?

2. reddit is now the gold standard of internet etiquette

3. the new best practice for to courting angel investors is courting them with trollish comments

rock on
I work at Tencent in China and here more than half of the people take a nap in the midday. We have a lunchbreak from 12 to 14h and around 13h the lights get turned off and lots of people get their foldable beds out (others just use q cushion and sleep in their chair) and sleep for 30 minutes to 1 hour in their cubicle. Personally I still don't take a nap, probably still my western inhibitions :)
Yes, and the latest round of terrorists seem to be incapable of detonating anything. You think they're just incompetent, or they've figured out that the damage inflicted is greater with an unsuccessful attempt that generates a flurry of new TSA procedures than with a successful one that just gets attributed to mechanical failure?
Wonderful! I've been looking for a resource like this for a while. Many blog posts, but nothing like this.
Hey, why stop at passive predicting - if we set up a few boxes with a hundred thousand twitter bots pushing "calmness" updates, we can probably make the Dow keep on going up forever (or at least 87.5% of the time) . Think about all the happy 401(k)s.
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