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Probably it's not stated clear enough (it's a very early release and I wasn't expecting such a buzz around it) that impress.js is meant to be responsible only of positioning the step elements (based on data attributes) and animating between them.

Anything that is on a step is custom HTML and CSS and author is expected to write it. Stylesheet given is not meant to be a part of a library - it's just a demo.

I know that it narrows the target users to people knowing HTML and CSS (on a quite good level) but it's just an experiment and a tool I use. If anyone finds it nice and helpful that's great. If not - it's not my fault.

But for sure some detailed docs for impress.js are needed and I hope to write them soon.
You're making a huge mistake when you say that. This sort of snobbishness is really bad for art. Great art is always connected to the lowly and the popular. Disdain for that which is not "advanced", imagining barriers between high and low, is associated with nothing so much as creative exhaustion. It's the mentality not of the artist but of the critic, and the second-rate critic at that.

It's ironic that you would pick a couple of jazz musicians to illustrate this, since for most of its formative history jazz was derided as a vulgar form. Only in later stages was it championed by the priests of "advancedness". This is a sign of decadence. When the Davises and Minguses appear, that is the late-blooming of a genre, and by the time the scholars move in, the muses for the most part have moved on. (Which is not at all to say that Davis and Mingus aren't great artists.)
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Hasn't been updated in a while, and has some serious bugs and usability problems in use in a real testing environment with more than 50 or so users.
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No doubt. But would you agree that the more you use someone else's language, the more your thinking adapts to their way of thinking, as evidenced in how they designed the language?
Palant said explicitly in a blog post that he turned the whitelist on by default because the vast majority of people don't change the default.

The forum has also been inundated by complaints (I've been following this) from people who installed ABP for 4, 5, 6 of their non-tech savvy friends who don't know what's going on, why ABP stopped working, and how to change it back. Thus, Palant has unwittingly caused (perhaps) hundreds of thousands of people to be inundated with tech support requests from their friends. That's part of the backlash.
You can buy extended life batteries for most phones, which double the life of the battery. They come with a replacement cover; the normal battery cover can't be used, because the batteries are about twice as thick and stick out of the phone.

It makes the phone thicker, but that's a price worth paying. I have one in my HTC Desire Z, and I had one in my G1 before that. They're surprisingly cheap. On the scale of about $15. I had three of them for my G1, so I had no problems going camping for a week, and not having access to a charger.
The original iMac. Same crap in a prettier package, and it saved Apple.

I was surprised that Google Apps caught on, but I'd underestimated Microsoft's lethargy - they had reportedly developed a web version of Office 2003 but decided to sit on it.

Perhaps also the Nintendo Wii.
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I don't know what's happening in adblock plus' forums, but the no javascript, and quick loading requirements are totally reasonable and very important.
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It gets only worse when you keep adding more binary files. After doing this for while your repo will not work unless you pack it, which will take horrific times. If it will succeed: my git was 'surprisingly' segfaulting when trying to acquire 16Gb of ram at once during pack operation. (I was trying to keep RAW-photos synced, git stopped working when there was about 4Gb of files stored.)

Git is made and optimized for text files, no big surprise that it doesn't cope very well with binaries.
Don't use any 'blogging platform'. Use a static blogging system. The best one currently is probably Octopress[1] which is based on Jekyll[2]. But you could roll your own, and it would still be much better than blogger, wordpress, walmart.com, google+, facebook, tubmlr, etc.

Such systems just render your conveniently created post content into a static HTML website than can be published on various free systems (github pages etc) or $2/month VPS. Or an Amazon S3 bucket.

Why?

1. It is not anyore significantly harder or more inconvenient than using a 'platform' like wordpress.com

2. A static site is 10000000% more resistant to idiotic exploits (which unless you are some kind of PROFESSIONAL blogger, keeping up with is more trouble than its worth on any dynamic 'blogging platform' type of system)

3. A static blog system can serve your blogs with any web server in 2012, and will be able to in 2112, whereas none of the free or even for-money 'blogging platforms' is likely to exist in 2112. Which in terms of your life (unless we are lucky and get the gerontological life-extending technology soon) is essentially 'forever.

4. Why on earth would you cede control of your personal output to walmart.com or google+ or similar?

[1]: http://octopress.org/

[2]: http://jekyllrb.com/

EDIT: meant to mention somewhere in there that comments, one of the raisons d'être for these dynamic blogging systems, can now be superbly handled by off-site add ons like disqus.
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I found the following somewhat funny given that this article discusses pecking orders and linguistic choices:

This was submitted 2 weeks ago [1], with the title "Computer Scientists Create Algorithm That Measures Human Pecking Order", which is appended to the main title for the article. (reached 48 points)

pg has resubmitted this 2 weeks later, using the subtitle of the article, "The way people copy each other's linguistic style reveals their pecking order." (so far 96 points)

Now I'm not nitpicking about credit, I don't care. My question is to what degree is this submission getting more traction from pg's status, and to what degree is it getting more traction due to the linguistic choice of a more specific, better(?) title?

I'd say pg, at least here on HN, is higher up in the pecking order than the person who submitted the article first (llambda).

On the other hand, the subtitle is certainly more descriptive, since computer scientists have been making algorithms to measure human pecking orders for a while, with large companies seeking to build brand confidence by giving away their products to "influential individuals", etc.

This is different than the effect described in the article. The original article contrasts their new work with previous approaches that focus on structural/network effects: who's talking to whom, etc.

I guess what spiked my interest is that your power and/or reputation still affect the linguistic choice of whether to respond at all.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3385517
Though I am not a fan of Scoble I do not think that Google made Scoble and other to use the platform. Why? Two reasons:

1.) Scoble interest is to get traffic from everywhere. Raising awareness, brand recognition, etc. Google+ was skyrocketing at the beginning and for already known Internet celebs an opportunity to easily scale on another platform because at that time they were the first on Plus and quickly got traction through existing fans. And as known Internet addicts they cannot just ignore a platform. So it's a mutual and balanced relationship reach (for Scoble) vs content (for Google). Compare also other bloggers/publisher who spammed from day 1, e.g. Pete Cashmore from Mashable.

2.) There are lots of high, high level Google execs who never used Google+
1) It's more likely to get killed if you have criminal gang member in your family. So yes, mom and baby sister are better off without such "help".

2) Why do you equate greed with being rich? These are orthogonal concepts.

3) Yes, it's hard to make right decision when you grew up submerged into bad culture. Fortunately good culture is available too. Even more - bad culture is at disadvantage due to schools, popular mass culture, law enforcement and mutual gang killings.

So in the end the decision of quitting the gang is a matter of personal choice.
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I would be interested in knowing whether the iPhone has this issue when it is navigating.
Go read the original paper. The link is at the bottom, and it's a preprint on the Arxiv so it's not behind a paywall.
I think you missed his point. He wants a device off the shelf to do what it's capable off without dying.
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"libertarian way for government to get involved"

Here's your oxymoron-of-the-week award.
According to Scoble on Quora, no: http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-paying-influential-users-like...

His contract with Rackspace forbids him from doing such compensated work.
There are a great many people out there who are intimidated by exactly this type of mindset. While this may be true for solving extremely complicated problems or building massive applications, the reality is that people across a vast number of professions outside of programming could benefit greatly from basic coding knowledge to solve simple problems. You may not be able build a software company on basic coding knowledge, but you also dont need to have some higher order of thinking or skill to be able to benefit from the basics.
You are simply reducing the power differential between you and the less articulate individual since they perceived you stand superior on the speaking dimension to begin with. You are being humble and inviting. This seems to be an implementation of the principle described in the article, and consistent with the implied hierarchy when one imitates another's speech patterns.
Sorry for pointing this out, Orkut*.

Also, a lot of things have changed since then with Larry at the helm. He is focussed on eradicating bloat (tons of Google products that were recently culled), and making sure whatever exists, succeeds.

And the article that colinsidoti posted seems to have brought a paradigm shift to employee bonuses. Dog fooding is directly tied to your bonueses now. A financial motivator definitely changes the game.

In regards to Google's relatively new strategy of getting high quality content on its products represents a paradigm shift from an Engineering-oriented company to a well-rounded company which understands other domains for it to succeed.
I'd be happy with a thicker phone but extended life batteries have to be much thicker than if the phone had originally designed with a larger battery in the first place. The replacement back cover leaves lots of wasted space inside the case.
Do you have better alternative than jail when you are dealing with thieves?

I guess 2x loss monetary fine could be a good replacement to jail time for first time thieves.
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You know what Google and Facebook have in common?

They both worry about Facebook.

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This comment was clearly written by a non-Unicode expert ;)

U+2070 SUPERSCRIPT ZERO (⁰) is not the same character as
U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN (°). They look rather distinct on my screen (I assume both characters come from Verdana, the font specified in the CSS of this site).
Yes. It's utterly pointless to set these distinctions. Iggy and the Stooges and the Ramones were disciplined conceptual artists, yet they were part of a movement that spelled stupid "stoopid". The beautiful thing about real art, the kind that gets remembered as great art later, is that it is always ahead of the theoretical game.

A famous example is Shakespeare, who was vulgar until the German Romantics discovered him as classic.
Ok I misspoke, it should be "libertarian (barely) acceptable way".
Scoble built his career around having an audience. Scoble is probably aware that preferential attachment plays a role in building an audience. Given this, Scoble had his own reasons for building an early audience on Google+. I don't know if Google compensated Scoble or others, but they probably didn't need to in Scoble's case.

Scoble was very active on FriendFeed. I am pretty sure that FriendFeed did not compensate him.
While it is always nice to have harder proof than is usual in the humanities and to a lesser degree social sciences, I feel mildly irritated by the coverage which presents this as a "discovery" by clever tech people. These facts are pretty basic in sociolinguistics, the study of discourse, psychology of language etc., as amply acknowledged in the paper itself.
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This is definitely interesting. Building an audience even though it might be small enough (in the beginning) to pursue.
Can someone please explain why this got downvoted?
Thanks! That gives a lot of insight on a few doubts I had.
He's talking about using a dedicated charging port instead of using the USB port for charging. 10.5 watts (2.1 amps) at 5 volts probably wouldn't be enough to support usage while charging for the larger tablets.
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I thought Pennebaker found an absolute correlation between status and pronoun usage (e.g. higher-status uses "we" more than lower-status), where this work seems to be about relative patterns between individuals.
i don't think there is going to be a single solution.

* the early usb portable hard disks i got often had a triple ended usb cable; one end for hard disk, one end for data connection and an extra end to draw extra power for the hard disk. could this be done for charging phones?

* offline maps would reduce the power required for navigation as sucking down data on 3g is power intensive. you can always turn off 3g and use slower 2g for lower power consumtion. perhaps even an option that if they are using voice to turn off the screen completely.

* somehow convince the manufacturers that many don't want a superslim phone. if it's twice as thick with twice or more the battery life then i am really interested! even if it's only as an extra option then a certain amount of people will pay.

* removable batteries. designing for removable batteries makes models bigger and bulkier but they are more useful when you can get and carry spare batteries.

* some form of standard batteries that persisted between makes and models so that people could invest in extra batteries and know that they will work with the next generation?

in 94 i could get a week from a psion pda with 2 aa batteries with no effort getting 40 hours of use.

in 04 i could get 2-3 days from a symbian device pushing it to it's limits.

in 09 i could drain an iphone 3g to zero in about 2 hours.

it just seems we are going in the wrong direction.
18.2GB for free isn't enough?

I guess not when companies like box.net are giving out 50GB for free. =/
> Seems like the "fork" would be a boolean value in a default config file.

The message is much louder than the output of diff.
re: comments, I strongly disagree that they are handled "superbly". For many important blogs, the comments are central to the whole endeavour. Why on earth would you cede control of your comments to disqus? Why do you keep your content and your comments separate? Will disqus be around in 2112? This is what I mean when I say that a "static blog system" is not a blog system at all. It is a partially thought-out solution which doesn't have the required functionality.
Agree. Although it was embarrassing for Google in the first few days of the beta that Mark Zuckerburg had the highest number of followers on Google+, without even a single post.
Can a mod please change the link? TFA is very clearly blogspam. The article Sniffnoy posted, in contrast, is actually a very good read.
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Generally true, but for me this little gem is replacing powerpoint for client pitches.
> the reference implementation and all known shipping versions of secure boot have a switch to disable it if the user so chooses

Matthew Garrett reported a while back[1] that some vendors will not provide an option to disable secure boot.

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html
mmm, I wouldn't be so sure. Both can be about as "out" as possible, or about as "complex" as possible. I would say that, in general, contemporary jazz musicians have thought about harmony about as much as contemporary classical composers. I mean, they focus on different aspects of harmony, but I wouldn't claim that one school is miles beyond another. Its almost a silly comparison, anyway.
The author of this piece seems to miss an extremely important piece of khun's philosophy: 'normal science'. Normal science is the practice of the everday scientist working in their paradigm, that is working on known problems, with known methods, make progress - i.e. breeding fruit flies, observing planets. As for the revolution, you need reasons that cause the fundamental shift - problems/inconsistencies that resist current methods.

Computer Science and Software Development fall into a unique area in which there are so many problems we are often working without paradigms and often adopt pragmatic approaches, and quickly discover whole new "domains". Social, mobile, REST/CRUD, media - are all revolutions, but not just in technology but in society, they're fundamentally changing how individuals interact in society.

Now this isn't to say that pure research isn't needed, but I don't think it's supported through this appeal to khun. With so much low hanging fruit it's hard to properly allocate resources. Is developing Ruby on Rails and increasing the productivity of a large swath of programmers more important than a more efficient garbage collector or better NLP system? Both types of R&D are crucial and to write off mobile mobile apps as not being research is short sighted; if an app gains traction like facebook or google it will most likely radically change our current behavior in an as yet unforeseen way.

I'm glad he's reading up on the philosophy of science, it's critical imho to better understand how ideas and technology progress.
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I think the IEEE folks are putting their money on PoE for this. Seems like a viable choice, though to make it work for hones we'd need a standard ulti-slim connector. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet
There are many stackexchange clones. OSQA, shapado, coordino, and several others. The only one that can actually be installed without an infinite regress of dependencies which are no longer available (typical crappy developers who don't care about installation of their own software) is

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"New place does not have to be better. It could be even worse. That could be part of the price of quitting criminal activity."

Great. So you move to some other depressed community, which will have all of what you were trying to escape. Only now you have no support network, nobody who's got your back. Guess what that's a recipe for?

It's not as easy as you make it sound.
There always seems to be noise around the networks he's on. Also, this wasn't just about Scoble rather than having him as an example to try and understand Google+'s content strategy.
Thanks! I'll check out those resources.
I guess that's a good point if comments are truly important to you. Which they perhaps are, for a tiny minority of blogs.

(I personally don't find comments important at all, and even take advantage of the various browser extensions[1] to hide them on various sites that do have them.)

[1]: e.g. http://stevenf.com/pages/shutup.css.html
Ask HN: For a startup which SSL certificate authority would you recommend & why?
I am trying to find a trusted & not too expensive SSL certificate authority with wild card support for multiple subdomains.

This is what I found so far:

DigitCert - Seems to be a good option. Their support & ratings seems quite good based on reviews. $595 for their unlimited wildcard plus certificate.

Thawte - Comparatively higher price compared to Digicert. Not sure how their support is.

Verisign - Submitted request to find which plan of theirs supports wild card certification.

Comodo - Cheaper but several issues were reported even recently in HN few months back - especially the issue in Iran where their Private key was released.

Godaddy - We do not want to go near it anyway.

Your recommendations for any good providers who are priced much lower for startups will be very helpful. Thanks!
Wow. Didn't know about this. Sheds a new light on why Google employees blogged a lot on G+ whilst having their own personal blogs.
Thinking, reflecting and reasoning from the insights are key to improvement.
I'd like to tack on another key feature to these 13th chords (no pun intended)-- and that is of spreading out the voicing across the instrument's (usually piano's) range.

There's a sort of rule of thumb in jazz that the only interval that sounds genuinely BAD is the flat 9. Try it on your piano right now (say, C and C# an octave up). Notice that a similar interval, the major 7 (C and B) sounds pretty, even though the notes are kinda clashing because they're so close. But on the other hand the flat 9 sounds GREAT if you voice it right. To see this, hit a low C, then E, B-flat, and D-flat. Similarly this chord works with all the other color tones: 9s, 11s, 13s.

I think ultimately what makes jazz piano truly musical is when the musician has spent a lot of time trying out different voicings, spreading them out or crunching them in, and listened to each one to see which sounds the best.
Ask HN: What does "Hacker" mean to you?
I'm interested in the use of the term hacker to describe tech entrepreneurs. I haven't seen this equivalency outside of YC, but then I don't live in Silicon Valley. Is it common?

Here in the flyover states, I've always[1] used hacking to mean the act of modifying existing assets, usually from a third party, as opposed to original creation. Hacking is useful, especially in the age of open source, but in this sense, to call an innovator a hacker seems like calling a chef a chopper.

Do we now use hacking to mean any software development, or to mean modifying the way people live?

Or maybe it's simpler than that - an expansion on the old black-hat connotation: hackers are no longer mere bandits on the frontier, but a whole culture of badass cowboys rewriting the rules of gold country.

Clearly this is not the Foremost Important Question of Our Time[2], but I'd genuinely like to know how the hackers of Hacker News think of themselves.

[1] I'm kind of old.
[2] Presumably, "how will Google be made irrelevant?"
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