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Not to steal zin's comment thunder, but here's the concise guide to click-able urls:

http://lifehacker.com/#!5581392/chrome-to-phone-sends-web-an...

http://lifehacker.com/#!5604248/android2cloud-opens-urls-fro...

http://pushbrowserapp.com

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/27/push-browser-brings-go...
The Kindle 3G works globally, so it is UMTS. AT&T and T-Mobile are the possible data providers in the US. I guess this move means AT&T is who Amazon went with (which isn't surprising given that their coverage is better than T-Mobile's).

Sprint provided the network for an earlier US-only Kindle.
Personalized flight on the whole was really the only big miss.

I think the main reason that isn't more mainstream is that even with small planes, we chose to emphasize safety far more than with road vehicles. I don't know why that is; I'd gladly trade some amount of safety if it meant I could afford to own and operate a plane.

A Cessna 172 is no more complicated than an economy car. It costs $275,000 due to regulation and low volume, not because it's inherently more expensive to produce than a car.
3. I agree with your point in some instances - but in others there is a huge risk of building a complicated model that everybody trusts that is just a pile of twaddle; in which case the expert judgement would better stay in the experts' heads, or on the odd bar-chart. I have not noted this point in many statistics courses, but it is all over the actuarial courses.

1. And so the journal reviewers shouldn't be. They are interested in the results, and act like the financial or insurance regulator in making sure those results have been calculated in an unbiased manner.

4. Yes, choice of model introduces subjectivity. That two beers a day are alright doesn't imply I should have ten.

p.s.
Does it not start life as an 'attempt at rebuttal'? 'Distinctly practical and unscientific'?, 'ridiculous'? I know it's the internet - but...
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I agree that CSS can be frustrating - but I think it's a bit harsh to state CSS has failed when so many people are able to successfully use it to create a huge range of layouts.

People assume CSS should be easy and straightforward - but like most things, it takes a while to get to grips with.

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I think there are maybe two main problems with CSS.

One, is that for a long time logic wasn't enough when it came to writing CSS markup. A large number of browser quirks meant that hacks and workarounds needed to be employed all the time. This is luckily changing .. modern browsers are thankfully much more coherent than their previous incarnations.

However, this perceived lack of logically coherence - and the need for arcane knowledge - is obviously infuriating to most people starting out ..

The solution has been to learn a handful of techniques - read a lot, and press on. While it's initially annoying, its not an insurmountable task.

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The second is that CSS requires a lot of diligence on the part of the developer. There are good ways of writing code. I've found the 'cascading' part of CSS is quite often forgotten about - but well written mark-up can use this to greatly simplify the complexity of spaghetti code.

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"Example: vertical centering in CSS is far harder than it should be [1]. Why doesn't "vertical-align: middle" just work for divs like it does for table cells? I'm sure there are reasons. They just aren't good reasons. What's more: why hasn't CSS3 fixed this? It's a longstanding problem."

I agree - this is annoying.

However, HTML was designed to allow content to be viewed at various sizes - and to scale width-wise (allowing the vertical height to adapt automatically) - I've a feeling this might be part of the reason why vertical align hasn't been included). Vertically centring fixed height elements is very straightforward .. vertically alignment for dynamic height elements is less straightforward, but it's usually possible.

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"My other big problem with CSS is the "inheritance" model. For one, it shouldn't be called inheritance. It should be called "cascading" because that's what it is."

The first C in CSS is there for a reason ;) I think the cascading feature is actually quite powerful.

One of the things I'd most like is a way to use variables in CSS - but this will thankfully be addressed in CSS3.

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"Inheritance at the class level would actually be useful (and is another glaring omission)".

Classes can be combined, and once applied, a class affects the descending elements contained in the DOM. I'm not sure what you'd ideally like?

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Lastly there are some good projects out there that address quite a few of the gaps in the CSS specifications in a very reasonable way. LESS[1] and SASS[2] are two that come to mind.

[1] http://lesscss.org/

[2] http://sass-lang.com/
I'm not sure whether or not it is a joke. The Tolkien estate is suing over the use of "Tolkien" (see http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/27/1940241/Tolkien-Estat... ), so I'm not sure how far they'd go.
Sure go ahead. Been wondering if a collaboration between indies is a way to go to get noticed.
Our healthcare market is arguably freer than that of other industrialized countries. Our quality of health care is much, much worse, although I'll grant you that the much larger standard deviation means that the outcome is sometimes better (which is why the very rich like to come here for their healthcare). Generally, when somebody argues that the reason a given approach has failed is that it hasn't been tried hard enough, they're laughed at.

More specifically, if you've never had a child with a serious illness (such as my son with kidney disease) and you haven't tried the healthcare systems of several countries (as I have), then your opinion is worthless as well as illogical. Try comparison shopping in situations where you really fucking need it, then get back to me.
Ha ha. Yes, it is a bit like that. If somebody could just replace that pesky mcmc convergence crap with something that worked, or give me a quantum computer, then I would convert my models Bayesian overnight.
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A Cessna 172 is no more complicated than an economy car.

Not trying to sound snarky here, but have you ever piloted an airplane? The pre-takeoff checks take a little while, require a good bit of technical expertise, and are absolutely required if you want to be pretty damn sure that your airplane won't fall out of the sky. Safety is, at times, overemphasized, but then again your car won't fall from the sky when it stalls.
That much I guessed. I just wondered if you realised that Chrome itself has a PDF viewer built-in these days, making Google Chrome the Google Chrome of PDF readers. :-)
Though I too enjoy boring people with the "Tables are bad for anything"-pedantry it would be easy to give a few reasons where a simple three-column layout can turn into a problem.

1) You colspan the header image. Since the table "encapsulates" the columns, for user-agents with a browser width smaller than the header image, content will be less accessible.

2) Screenreaders will have trouble reading the content inside the layout in its intended order. You are presenting the screenreader with a table, so its expects tabular data. You can't content stack your page elements (and place the most relevant important information at the top).

3) No progressive page loading. It will not always take longer to render tables, over divs, but the loading will be a lot clunkier. Internet Explorer might wait till it has the entire table contents, before it renders the table, giving the user a blank screen.

These are some actual user (agent) specific problems, on top of many other problems with using tables for layout, maintenance being a particular excruciating one.
What does this mean: "the photons must simultaneously excite several multipoles within the particle, which scatter the beam" ?
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TFA seems to be down right now, so I can't read it, but I have a sense of its gist from this thread.

I have an extremely low opinion of CSS. It has poorly thought-out abstractions, and the designers sold that as a feature ("it's not a programming language!") as if that's a good thing for a computer technology primarily used by coders.

However, I've been able to make CSS work. I learned a bit about its general nastiness, and struggled with browser compatibilities (insert some choice phrases about IE here). Then, I managed to make nearly all problems go away by using column layout systems. http://960.gs/ with 24 columns works well for me.

Using these systems requires some extra markup and introduces some additional div noise. This problem tends to come up for any non-trivial layout anyway, but my .css files stay free of weird float and positioning rules (you know, the ones you can't understand six hours after you finally got the layout to render properly). On the flip side, I save days of effort, and I've been able to eliminate special stylesheets for IE. Anything "semantically important" still goes in separate "semantically important" divs, so accessibility devices should still be able to cope with the layout. Win-win, as far as I'm concerned.

PS: The next step is to turn CSS into a kind of object code. Someone who actually understands the way layouts should work can probably come up with a good language or syntax which can be processed into CSS.
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>> even while it obviously wasn't anything wrong from ourselves

Don't take this as belittling your efforts or your results, because I'm not trying to, I'm simply stating what is probably a fact of life. When you have 0 sales for 9 months straight, eventually somebody has to take responsibility. Preferably, that should be everyone pitching in to make one last charge up the hill, but it doesn't change the fact that someone needs to and eventually will take responsibility and blame for what happened (or did not happen, rather). This is the founder's blessing and curse, huh?
"There's a lot you can not do with table-cells."

Could you give a few examples?

"it's semantically incorrect"

So is "float".
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What about LOLCODE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE

I suppose, the corpus of the lolcat meme could be harvested as an alternative to Lorem Ipsum.

Actually, such sites would have entertainment value of themselves.
The next sentence in the journal article reads "However, if more than just the finger pads contact the BPA-containing paper or a hand cream enhances permeability of the skin, this margin might be smaller." The paper earlier mentions that moisture can increase uptake by a factor of 10.

The TDI as it currently stands was presumably established before this research and other related research was done. You are assuming that its current level is correct, which in my opinion, isn't a very good assumption.

Your analogy to water intoxication remains puzzling to me. The typical cashier or accounting clerk might reasonably touch thermal paper receipts 10 hours per day, and use hand lotion. The typical cashier would not typically drink 20 liters or more of water per day to the point of experiencing water toxicity.

The point is that it is not unreasonable to voice concern over this issue.
I read on reddit that they are working on it. They will actually do a code rush to release a Python 3 enabled version next weekend (http://www.ctpug.org.za/wiki/Meeting20110305).
In that 0.000001% of the time (snicker), your email is 100% inaccessible.
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No. Not even remotely true.

741s are around in books and in EE labs because they're what people used back in the 70s' (and perhaps cause the lab bought thousands back then). Since there was such a huge volume of designs produced using them, you can still buy them today.

No engineer in his right mind* (no disrespect intended: I know you're a student) would use a 741 for a new design today. They are slow, imprecise power hogs, and require bipolar supplies to get them to do anything. Even a jellybean LM324 outshines them.

(*) if anyone can counter this statement with a useful application of the 741 where a more modern and cheaper opamp wouldn't do better, I'd be really interested in seeing it.

[edit]
It looks like the 741 has been improved quite a bit since I last looked at it. So I don't need to be so harsh, but I still can't see any good reason to use it for new designs in 2011.
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body {
#header {
@include column(24, true);
}
#right {
@include column(4);
}
#center {
@include column(14);
}
#left {
@include column(6, true);
}
}

That's Compass/Blueprint.

Complaining about CSS is like complaining that the register names in x86 assembly have too many 'e's and 'x's in them. Don't write CSS; write something that compiles down to it. People argued about macro assemblers. Then they argued about C compilers. Then they argued about high level languages. People are always going to argue with replacements to technologies they've grown expert in. That doesn't mean you have to listen to them.
Looks great. Who did the web design, if I may ask?
If you could somehow gather all the lolcat meme texts together to use as an alternative to Lorem Ipsum, that would be hilarious!
Along the same lines: for all of the Rails developers out there, I wrote a gem called "Sex It Up" that downloads and caches public domain images of famous artwork and sculptures.

Definitely improves the look of any prototype.

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It's not so much about searching out the content as it is about choosing what to post. It's easy to find links today with Twitter, etc. But it's hard to predict the ones that will be popular. I rely on my Twitter favorites and several other interesting sources for links. I have definitely learned a lot and know of some great, niche ways to find high quality links now.
Yeah, that's nicer if bar() can be defined at the same "level" as foo() but if it makes more sense to move it somewhere else the closed-over variables need to be passed.
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While I wait for the site to load, I figured I'd comment with my own placeholder-cat experience. A site I worked on was taking a while to get me the actual images, so I took to Pixelmator and fixed myself some LOLcat placeholders. People loved it, except for one of the QAs, who said it was going to give her nightmares.
You need to learn how to clear floats, 'overflow: hidden / overflow: visible' are your friends.

I work with HTML and CSS constantly and rarely have problems with floating elements.
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I noticed that loading the main page results in requesting 19 css files and 8 js files. I suggest combining those to provide a better loading experience.
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I haven't used a table for layout in 6-7 years, and although floated columns were initially difficult, I quickly found them to be very easy and more reliable than tables. These kinds of rants usually come from programmers who don't want to take the time to understand how CSS works, and when it doesn't "just work" the way they expect, they blame CSS. That said, CSS definitely needs improvement. I hope the flexible box model gains traction. I find that to be a more natural way to lay out pages, although the syntax seems a little clumsy.
I don't know your product, but if your link takes them to the actual Alpha page, and they can interact with the Alpha page, you should make the argument that you're bringing them customers. I think if they're reasonable, they may actually appreciate the traffic in that case.
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Thank you to everyone who has checked out the site. I've gotten to have some interesting discussions in this comment thread. The HackerNews community has yet again lived up to my expectations. I'll try to keep the community up to date on the progress of this startup periodically.
I honestly would be OK with CSS if its only problem was anti-intuitive complexity.

Unfortunately, CSS suffers from this complexity PLUS the fact that browser makers don't interpret CSS in the same ways. Both of these together make the whole enterprise of web development burn up far more time than is reasonable. What makes this even worse is that the w3c doesn't bother to step up and make clear the ambiguities of how CSS SHOULD BE interpreted. They're in a perfect position as an arbiter of correctness, but they squander that power and are content to leave everything up to variable interpretation.

Sure, there are frameworks that abstract away the bullshit of CSS, but these are the result of COUNTLESS wasted hours of suffering that have propelled people to create layers of tooling for something that could have been VASTLY more simple in the first place.
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Well, suit yourself. I'll take the former.

Hopefully RSA will publish their own summary of this attack ;)
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Reminds me of a quote I saw on Twitter somewhere:

Any vision of the future involving buttons, or humans, is a vision of dystopia.
Maximum likelihood estimation falls out of Bayesian statistics with the right utility function. In practice though, that's often not the utility function you want, hence general Bayesian statistics.
I'm not sure how this is really new. Everything he's describing has been possible for years with a laptop. I guess "plug computer" might make it a little cheaper and a little easier to conceal?

If anything, I'd say plug computers are good for security, if they're making people more aware of how god awful stupid the "eggshell" model of putting all your efforts into perimeter security really is.

Unfortunately, instead of focusing on security their internal servers and app, my bet is most "enterprises" will instead respond by just extending the eggshell with greater lockdown of end-user PC's. :-(
Nice job noticing that. This is a high priority on the roadmap. I have some cool compressions and reductions planned for the site's assets.
At first I thought Mary Meeker was delusional - to think that the US budget problem is one of identification is completely missing the point. But then I realized she's just pushing the underlying link between technology and politics: promise radical forward progress through tough decisions (made by you) and sacrifices (made by nebulous other people).
So if I'm looking at this correctly, this seems like a SIM Card in the cloud (somebody punch me in the back of the head for using that phrase, I beg you)? I think VZW uses a system like this where they can push contacts to a new phone if you lose your old one?

My vote is yes, keep doing this. I love that Android currently gives me the option of saving to the phone or to my SIM card, something like this I would most definitely use.

Here's one question: if you continue this, will there be plans to export this data in a human readable, highly portable format? i.e. synchronization with an email application like outlook or Thunderbird?

I hope more people see this post, I nearly skipped it since it was on the bottom of the "new" page. Good luck!
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Nice feature, but not super important for new projects. I suppose it will make porting some existing projects over.

I didn't remember seeing SQL on the roadmap however so I had another look ( http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html ) and I'm very excited to see it as been revised with a few awesome enhancements. I've had several projects I wanted to try on app engine which were impractical because of GAE limitations like no full text search, no programmatic access to blobstore, no bulk export/backup, no mapreduce. The future is looking a lot brighter for GAE.
I am not a Terminology user, and I do have the Alpha app on my iPhone. But I still think this is foolishness on the part of Wolfram. I am more likely to use W|A if I can click on a button and jump straight to the page I want, then if I need to switch apps myself and retype my query.
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> My other big problem with CSS is the "inheritance" model. For one, it shouldn't be called inheritance. It should be called "cascading" because that's what it is.

Cascading already means something in CSS (hint: the C means "Cascading", that quite strongly suggest there is a concept of cascade in it). And I'd like to see what problem you have with CSS inheritance: if an element inherits a property, then it gets the same (computed) property as its parent. That seems pretty simple and straightforward, and a good match for the word "inheritance".

> Inheritance at the class level would actually be useful (and is another glaring omission).

What does that even mean? Do you mean mixins at the block level? Overriding rules? Classes are just a type of selectors in CSS, where would inheritance fit in anything? And if you can inherit classes (whatever that's supposed to mean) why couldn't you inherit ids, attribute selectors or pseudo-selectors?
However, over time both will increase in performance past the point that most users need, and both will be able to serve in the vast majority of circumstances.

I'm not sure sure I agree with this bit; depending, of course, on how you define "most users." But as CPU power is steadily increasing, so to are the size and the complexity of the problems we need to solve. So we're solving part of this by the move back to centralization... I have a big dataset to crunch, I crunch it on a cluster using Hadoop or MPI or what-have-you...

(Thinking out loud here)
I can't help but think that the problems in the "it makes sense to calculate locally, but not to push it to cluster" space are also growing larger and larger, and that the problems and the performance needed to solve them will continue to grow in lockstep fashion. So there is, in effect, no upper limit the bound of performance needed by PCs (or "endpoints" per the article) unless we go wholesale back to a model of doing anything substantial on a server/cluster. So, is that really where things are going? Or is there always going to be a middle ground for high-performance PCs that outperform tablets, smart-phones, etc.?
> [it] really takes like maybe ten minutes of reading a how to guide as to how to figure out how to do it with real css.

This is the crucial point! CSS isn't remotely difficult.
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