skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typo in article: There is, of course, still a potential gradient. As the abstract notes, the important thing is that there is no equilibrium point, i.e. no place where the gradient is zero. The object can be pulled all the way back to the source.
I completely agree with you. It's not that hard - but it requires effort.

If you continue to believe that CSS is an abomination and can't be tamed - you'll remain unable to use it.
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There's a great ebook, Patent Pro Se, that gives practical advice on protecting you IP, and it is now free to download...goes over everything from Provisional Patent apps to the Mail-yourself-a-letter-method. May be a good resource for you http://www.carrferrell.com/free-resources.php.
I can see where you're going but it sounds to me like the entrepreneurial spirit in you has done what it tends to do in all of us: Look for a way to make lemons into lemonade.

But my perspective is that I would probably prefer not to have those particular lemons! My time is valuable to me, and so is my patience. And as a software developer, I spend far more time using other peoples software (IDE, DB clients, etc) than I do using my own.

The best way I can better my products, I think, is to devote as much time as possible to fixing bugs and adding features. Time spent waiting for my IDE to load is time spent not adding value.
1. Typo: "FreemusicforthemassesS.com" - extra S in there.

2. I'm not entirely sure what your site is, judging from the homepage. I know you explain it on the tour page, but it should be immediately obvious what your site does. Cool idea, but you should communicate it more clearly.
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
The UI pretty similar to RKWard (http://rkward.sourceforge.net/), which is according to me the best IDE, especially for Linux users.

P.S. Someone should make a comparison between these two IDEs.
Newspapers and magazines also have a stake in their own brand, image, and "feel." They also have a stake in the marketability of their product, or their own idiosyncratic view of such, which in this context would be your essay/article.
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This idea is as old as Phrack Magazine. Pieter Zatko demonstrated the L0pht's version of it in 1997: a Palm Pilot rigged up to sniff network traffic and phone it home via telephony.

The problem isn't small form factor computing. It's internal networks where MAC-layer connections aren't authenticated, and where there is no access control between desktops and data centers. It's been that way, in virtually every company big and small, since 1993 when networks cut over from IPX and extended TCP/IP to the desktop.
How about: Explain valid Doctypes and rendering modes then:
<style>

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

.columnwrap { width: 960px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;
background: url("faux-columns-red-green-blue.png") repeat-y; }

.col1 { float: left; width: 200px; }

.col2 { float: left; width: 500px; }

.col3 { float: left; width: 260px; }

</style>

You could create 90%+ of the websites with that and even IE6 would know it, because that's how floating designs were made 5/6 years ago.
One of my worst errors was trying to find a function definition while I was coding on a c++ project. I managed to execute 'grep operator> *'. First I found it strange that the grep operation didn't return anything. Then I started opening my files, and they were suddenly all empty. It took a few minutes before I realized exactly what I had done... (Of course, I hadn't committed anything the previous 5 hours.)
I think you're right that this is a glimpse into the current state of the AT&T / Apple relationship.

Beyond AT&T stocking an iPad alternative, I think the Kindle announcement was timed to distract from the iPad 2 announcement as much as possible (even though that isn't much). After all, the news comes a few days before the iPad 2 event and the Kindles go on sale a few days after. Coincidence? I think not.
White iPad available immediately? We'll know on Wednesday
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But I honestly believe sometimes a bad workman blames his tools.

I took the time to learn how to use it, so maybe I'm biased - but it's really not that bad.
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Site to Phone only sends links from desktop to phone. What makes Push Browser different from other solutions is that it also send links from iOS to Chrome by pushing data to the browser using Comet.
I feel a major problem here is that what we're using the medium for has evolved massively since it was first considered. The article suggests having special definitions for common elements, like header, footer and menu bars. What happens in 5 years, when those concepts are mostly obsolete and have been replaced by another way of doing things? That's how we ended up with the confusing model we have now.
Mine is simpler:

1) Ask the Googacle

2) Read the source code

3) Give up, try something completely different.

Usually if I get to 3 then it means I'm going against the grain, trying to do something that just isn't meant to be done that way. Recognizing that point is an important life skill. :)
I love sass, but that's not what he's talking about. You still have to figure out your 2/3/whatever column layout. It's still a pain to figure out which elements to float and which to position absolutely. Much as I love sass, and I do love it, making the syntax easier to type doesn't make the fundamentals of the layout any easier.

Eric Meyer has a great post on the subject: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2009/02/17/wanted-layout-s...
I've done better, I can be honest about that. Way better. I'd give this a 5.5/10 on my scale. I wanted to focus in more on the type of things Hipmunk and hellofax are doing. Disruption as a whole is another topic and would take a lot of time to write, hence why I've held off.

As for the title. HN automatically changes from "X ways" to "How To", so I just did it to save the editors + pg time.

As a sidenote, the comments on HN have gone to shit lately. We always complain about HN going to shit,but I finally think it's almost at that point. Maybe it's Jacques leaving or something I can't put my finger on, but the magic is gone. A lot of the comments focus on minute points that don't address the topic at hand. Before you say "oh it's because it's your article", I say, hold on a second. The comments are focusing in on whether hipmunk is disruptive instead of the actual points of the article, aside from Swombat's. It's not even trolling. People are still very nice. It's just insight. I'm not learning as much as I used to here.
> I know in design land this is an absolute no-no, but at the end of the day 1) it works 2) it's simple 3) it's x-browser 4) it's reliable.

The conclusion I would make from that data is that designers are... ahem... idiots (for not using a working, simple and reliable cross-browser solution)?
I happen to have had this item open in a window while I went for dinner, then hit "Reload" when I got back, and I noticed it's been down-voted. I wish, oh how I wish, that if someone downvotes me that they'd tell me why. Why did this particular comment not add to the value of HN? Do you just disagree? Tell me why! Do you think it's wrong? Tell me why?

I really, really would value the opportunity to learn. Even if I disagree with you, I'll still learn about the existence and content of an alternative point of view.
This could help out those who are building projects using Django &/or Django-nonrel.
I particularly like "Heating with Radium"!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RuSVOqUY0CI/AAAAAAAABD...
True, although he may still feel like giving up in that moment, which is what I think the post was about. There will always be moments as an entrepeneur where one feels like giving up, but the wind of desire and ambition returns to fill the sails.
Handoff does not send links from iOS to the desktop.
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This will only backup the master (or any other specified) branch. I find it's better to just have a bare repo in dropbox added as a remote called "dropbox" and use:

$ git push dropbox --all

or

$ git push dropbox --mirror
I applaud your effort. ;)
It's typical for Microsofties to use IE, search on Bing, etc. simply for dogfooding purposes, but it's not a specific requirement.

It does draw some raised eyebrows if you show up at the office with, say, a personal laptop that's a MacBook and a paired iPhone, but it's at the level of good-natured ribbing rather than actual managerial disapproval or job problems. I would usually say "Yes, but I convinced a family member to buy an XBox 360, so my corporate loyalty karma evens out!"
if this is a problem for you, then you're really screwed when we have fly sized drones just sitting on the walls in your conf room.
1. Google
2. Coworker
3. RTFM
4. Think

I'll never actively engage community via stackoverflow or irc, I'll only check for existing questions and answers since I don't have time to actually wait for responses.

Occasionally, I'll bring Think to the head of the stack is if the problem sounds fun--or seems like I would enjoy the challenge of solving it.
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Great article explaining the issue but his solution is basically protectionist which would instantly create million of jobs in the US.

Why is China allowed to tack on a 15-30% premium on imported foreign goods but we aren't allowed to do the same?
With my personal experience of being a student in graduate level engineering classes, one thought to consider is that while there is a load of books for undergraduate courses when you get in the tougher subjects (or more advanced subjects) there really exist little amounts of new books to teach with which leaves the burden on the teacher to create notes and problems for the students so make sure it is in a field you enjoy and do indeed know a good amount about (of course if it isn't engineering courses you are teaching it may be different).
I freaking hate how everyone is now using the word "Pivot"
I've worked on the software of a lot of big energy companies. A lot of those companies can make tons of money just because they are huge and have deals going on everywhere. This gives them a lot of information about what's going on in energy markets all around the world. In short, this information is highly valuable, and yet it often flies around corporate networks in plaintext. Just undetectably getting this information to an outside party would be a highly illegal act that would enable a great many other profitable and highly illegal acts.

(And it would also be very hard to do this without getting caught. Even harder than most people would think. Particularly at the point where you're trying to make money.)
Exactly - I don't think it's fair to blame a spec when its lack of knowledge that's driving the criticism.

EDIT: Thinking about it - maybe the author should have employed a front-end developer? There's a good reason people specifically work on this stuff ..
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I am not a fan of Quora -- but you can't outdo Quora for entrepreneurs as so many of the VCs seem to be on Quora. Entrepreneurs will always go to where the VCs are.
Mirror of original article:

http://blog.aaziz.org.nyud.net/i-hate-css
I wouldn't say it's because of your article, but I'm not sure it's such a new development... Geeks have always had a propensity for focusing on minor points of disagreement... (particularly when they disagree with the title/subject)

Focusing on the article, I think it would have been better presented as "Things Hipmunk is doing right" - then it would have an implicit context, and could be insightful without generalising to all disruptive startups. In a way, the "disruptive" tag did more harm than good, by focusing the discussion on people arguing over whether Hipmunk is disruptive according to their personal semantics...

Oh well!

(PS: Sorry for the 'tough love', but I knew you could take it ;-) )
The IRS has cracked down on this practice. You can't just call someone a contractor that meets the conditions to be an employee. You can be mindful of these conditions and work around them but just calling an employee a contractor is not good enough. Even intentionally working around the IRS rules can get you in trouble.

You might get away with it but if you want to make the IRS happy, you better not call an employee a contractor if you don't want to deal with the fines, reclassification and back taxes that go with it.
When trying to find out how an object is going to interact with the electromagnetic field, it's generally useful to decompose the charge distributed on the object into "multipole modes". It turns out that any arbitrary distribution of charges can be expressed as a sum of such multipoles, and the interaction of each multipole with the E&M field can be solved even though the object itself may be too complicated. Usually, only the first few multipoles are important, which allows efficient computation of the objects behavior by summing up the contribution of the first few multipoles.

The first multipole ("monopole") is just the net charge of the object. The second multipole ("dipole") is the degree to which the object has positive charge distributed toward one side and negative charge toward another.

A single isolated point charge is a perfect monopole, with zero higher-order multipole components. An object composed of two opposite charges of equal magnitude, separated by a distance, is a perfect dipole, with zero monopole and higher-order multipole components. And so on.

Apparently, the point is that objects which are electromagnetically simple (such as a single point charge) cannot be pulled by a tractor beam. Instead, the object must be complicated such that it has several large multipole components which interact in the right ways to produce a net pull.
I like the idea, but it is somewhat sexist. How about something more neutral, like a litter of kittens that gets larger as your password grows?
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"TFA seems to be down right now, so I can't read it"

Try this mirror:

http://blog.aaziz.org.nyud.net/i-hate-css
I'm seeing a lot of the replies here are only thinking about designers working on the final visuals of a project. While, yes, a designer might make the icon better than a developer, what about the actual interaction processes that designers often define? Those can be system level changes that need developers to do, which means the designers need to be working along side, or ahead of developers, not after.

Too often when I try open source software I see just a default list of options that really makes no sense, or I often see the developers trying to accommodate every need that might exist, resulting in overly complex user interfaces.

It takes someone (a designer usually) with knowledge of human interaction to know when a toolbar with multiple tabs works or when to keep it simple. Without doing this, designers are (in an overly simplistic description) just applying colors to existing boxes.

To get involved, Designers need a clear place to find projects to help on, and a clear way to help on projects -- as designers aren't about to open source code, install it on their own system and then begin work on the project.

I consider myself to pretty knowledgeable in the tech community and work as a full stack designer/developer, yet I have absolutely no clue where or how to get involved design-wise with any open source project. There's no "design" section on github or google code that I've ever seen :)
> takes like maybe ten minutes of reading a how to guide as to how to figure out how to do it with real css.

Sorry but I'm skeptical.

If you could prove this by sharing a paragraph or two (should be all it takes, right?) teaching how to use CSS to build reliable layouts I would be grateful.
Quora certainly hopes so. But Sprouter could give them a run for their money.

On the one hand it's not like Quora has to dominate every market space to succeed -- StackOverflow will be better than them for programming questions, and there's a law site whose name I forget that rocks for legal stuff. But since this is so close to their core (Silicon Valley web startup scene) it's potentially a real challenge...
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We aren't psychically empowered to understand you are expressing a sentiment about the sentiment expressed by the button that triggered the behavior of the Tolkien estate.

Yes, I've been long aware that the esoteric power of reading comprehension is beyond the reach of many net denizens' psyches. (That's a drink in the stcredzero drinking game.)

How about this for a clue -- I referred directly to the button's content.
Quora certainly hopes so. But Sprouter could give them a run for their money.

On the one hand it's not like Quora has to dominate every market space to succeed -- StackOverflow will be better than them for programming questions, and there's a law site whose name I forget that rocks for legal stuff. But since this is so close to their core (Silicon Valley web startup scene) it's potentially a real challenge...

[Apologies for the duplicate comment]
The OP is treating a basic layout like a "holy grail". Around 2004 Glish.com published a series of CSS-based layouts they called "the holy grail" and many more followed. It's a bit of an insider's joke I guess.

A wrapper, a header, 3 columns, a footer in CSS was a "holy grail" back when table-based design ruled and everybody was figuring out new things to do with CSS (csszengarden.com).

Nowadays, it's easy. It doesn't require any contortions at all. Wrap the floating columns and clear them... The OP is lamenting 5+ year old problems, where there are simple and proven solutions available to anyone willing to simply look, instead of rage.
I'll get downvoted to oblivion for this, not that I care. But what the hell is this doing at the top of HN.
I've been getting into Scala in the past couple of weeks, as well, and this part was certainly agreeable:

"Scala’s type checking saved me from doing stupid things several times and I really appreciate the effort put in to the compiler."

The reason that I was first intrigued by the idea of Scala was because of what friends had told me about its static typing and its type inference. I was concerned that there would be an untold amount of frustration from poor inferences, but the compiler absolutely protects the coder. It has done so well for me, in fact, that it has started to reinforce a sense about when to be explicit and when to be implicit. This has been the big joy of Scala, for me.
Just wanted to say: thanks for prettifying up the web with your Silk icons!
Using LOLSPEAK as an alternative to lorem ipsum would be hilarious. At least, to a subset of people.

Coincidentally, I had created a lorem ipsum generator made from the nonsensical names of tech startups back in 2007. I haven't updated the names in years though, but maybe I should. (Apologies for seeming spammy; that's not my intent at all. Just thought I'd share.)

http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/the-web-20-lorem-ipsum-genera...

Wouldn't be hard to tweak that for LOLSPEAK at all.
What impact will Sprouter's pivot have on Quora?
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What you do you propose?
I could not solve the following problem from the article.

Suppose that 40% of the eggs are painted blue, 5/13 of the eggs containing pearls are painted blue, and 20% of the eggs are both empty and painted red. What is the probability that an egg painted blue contains a pearl?

Any hints/ideas?
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This. People get hung up on this type of debate when there's a perfectly obvious hybrid solution.
Me too.

I suspect what he meant was that you can come up with a simple layout with 10 minutes of reading, but that's a strawman. The real problem is that it's extremely easy to rapidly make a once-simple layout a nightmare to maintain or debug.

With bitter experience I've realized I need to be extremely disciplined when I use the CSS directives margin, padding, and float. Everything else is relatively straightforward, with localized implications. But anytime you mess with the box model itself you really need to think about the big picture of your page's layout.
Malice and incompetence seem like too narrow of a spectrum. I voted it down because I found it unhelpful for the purpose of further discussion. Saying "there is no quit" strikes me as pap, and merely a meme friendly way of saying that self-doubt is never productive.

As someone feeling trapped in a business and searching for meaning and purpose, I preferred that top billing on the page be elsewhere. What do you particularly like about this response that makes you think that no one would intentionally vote it down?
Hey Pewpewarrows. Thanks for the feedback!. I've been a little held up lately with writing and haven't yet had a chance to strip out all of the old code related to the longer header (but it's definitely on my todo list). Thanks for flagging again!
Trying to melt a web server, I think.
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Is this Sprouter's 2nd pivot? I seemed to remember they had some sweeping changes back in early 2010 but can't find any evidence online or in my email (been a member for some time)...
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Looks good, but it's crashing on my Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). Any idea how I can debug/fix this issue?
But suppose a lot of angels and VC's decide that Sprouter's a better place? For example anybody wanting to do business with international companies can't be happy with Quora's English-only attitude ...
An on-page console would certainly be an interesting idea and I'll consider it. With respect to other eBook formats, because I manually convert these (so as to avoid tables splitting across pages etc) it may be at least a week off before you see something in place, but I'll do my best!
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I didn't think of that, it's pretty funny.
Yes, people certainly ARE buying apps on Android.
My goof, of course you don't accept the null model (you generally never accept any models -- you only eliminate ones that are worse at explaining the data).

In basic frequentist stats, you usually have two models -- a simpler one (usually called the null hypothesis), and a more complex one called an alternative model (what makes it more complex is usually one or more extra parameters), and you're usually interested in testing whether the more complex model holds up when compared to the more simple one. You do this most often by a likelihood ratio test: you divide the probability of data given null hypothesis by the probability of data given alternative model, and then you compare the value of the negative log of the resulting ratio to an expected distribution of said statistic assuming the alternative model is false and taking into account degrees of freedom (how many more parameters the alternative model contains). If it turns out that, under the null hypothesis, the probability of the ratio statistic being larger or equal to the one at hand is <= 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected. The alternative hypothesis is not automatically accepted yet but it is said to explain the data better than the null model.

Basically everything you wrote is correct, it's just that I misinterpreted what you referred to as "model" to mean "alternative model," while you actually meant "null hypothesis" or "null model." Now you should have been more clear on that, otherwise you can confuse people new to this subject (you already confused me!)