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Ugh, CSS flexbox is such a mess. The new standard which is implemented in chrome 17 is here: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-flexbox/

The old standard which was implemented in previous versions of chrome and IE10 beta is here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/

Lastly there is a unrelated display: box implemented by mozilla for XUL which is often confused with the flexbox standards but behaves in some weird ways. Ssee here:
http://csscurmudgeon.com/2011/11/flexbox-sucks/

Now we have an HTML5 advocacy site which is openly suggesting that people use the old webkit implementation and the unrelated mozilla spec based on XUL.

If anything, use the version in Chrome 17, its far better both in terms of property names and the flex() function.
mmap+shared libraries. Don't put so much faith into what Activity Monitor tells you about processes and their Memory Usage.

Even so, having free memory gives 0 performance.
Fair enough! My thought process was, if I just said “affordable,” then to some people that would mean “under $100” and perhaps “under $2k” to others.

$300 is not a hard limit, and a discussion of all price points would be helpful to the community.
I wasn't aware of this issue. Do you have a link to a recent article/HN discussion concerning it?
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I was with him until this:

The real secret to Siegler’s traffic, however, is that he is pals with Gabe Rivera, who routinely drives traffic to Siegler by giving his pieces top billing on Techmeme. (That’s right, kids. Techmeme is rigged.)

Unlike his criticism of Siegler, Lacy, and Arrington, the statement about Rivera and Techmeme is not backed up by any evidence. If he has some -- an analysis of Techmeme placement of Siegler's posts, sources who have knowledge of the alleged "top billing", or some other information -- it should be stated or linked from the post.
That's just completely irrelevant though.

Healthcare provision is rivalrous and excludible, ask any poor American, doesn't mean it shouldn't be universally provided by the government.

Education is rivalrous and excludible, look at private schools - doesn't mean it's wrong for there to be state schools and laws making children attend them.

The only thing that matters is whether the public benefit outweighs the burden on taxpayers.
You never actually looked at any of the subreddits removed, did you?
One of the most interesting lessons from "Founders at Work" is that for everyone who built their desks out of wooden doors, there was another startup with Aerons. For every company with a rigid process, there was another with rough consensus. Bootstrapped? VC-funded. Comp-sci genius? Journeyman coder. You get the idea.

There's more than one way to do it.
Slicehost goes down for major outage - Still no ETA on the fix.
You'll probably need to be a bit more specific about your situation to get meaningful responses.
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Yes - very cool. +1 to posting the code if you're up for doing that!
Node.js CPU use analysis (Don't deliver static files)
Veetle (http://veetle.com/) has had a functioning demo of such a technology live for at least a year now.
Combined Systems hacked by anonymous on anniversary of Bahrain Uprising
Combined Systems defaced and rm'd by anonymous on anniversary of Bahrain Uprising

From Google's description of Combinedsystems.com
"Founded in 1981, Combined Systems, Inc. (CSI), is a U.S.-based firm that supports military forces and law enforcement agencies around the world."<p>Some searching around duckduckgo pull up articles about CSI's munitions (tear gas canisters, rubber bullets, etc) being used on non-violent protesters in Israel and elsewhere.<p>Word is this company is a lead supplier of riot gear.
Good advice, but I don't understand why writing a book is the "quickest way to get ridiculed". If a developer wrote a book that provides value, is accurate, and contained very useful code samples, I can't see how that wouldn't increase opportunities.

EDIT: Totally misunderstood that the OP meant it figuratively. Apologies.
Players kick footballs with their foot too. It's called a field goal.
FWIW, HN isn't all that great either.

I used to really like Reddit. But I loathed the fact that each subreddit sank into a lowest common denominator appeal as it grew: memes, linkbait-y headlines, groupthink. To be fair, these are problems with groups of people in general: they get dumber and dumber as they get bigger. But the total hands-off nature of Reddit meant that this sort of intellectual race to the bottom was not only inevitable, it was expected and allowed to happen, even if a vocal minority made their points coherently. They were drowned out by populist voices who are quick to decree that the voice of Everyone is worthwhile because, well, damn it, it's Everyone.

And that's bullshit. I prefer a site where people at least pretend to discuss things instead of rushing to post "tl;dr" anytime someone writes a paragraph of text.
>morality is relative

I agree with you, but you are going to have a really hard time making that argument with a lot of people. In fact, I believe John Paul II called moral relativism the greatest evil of our time or something like that.
One combination of rule change along with technology that I see helping is shock sensors in the helmets. If the problem is that players receive a number of micro-shocks instead of a small number of concussion level ones, I could see a rule that a player can have no more than a given level of shock (with a formula that calculates intensity of the hits with quantity, kind of like how radiation exposure is measured). After a certain level, a player would be required to be taken out of the game for the week/month/etc. This could probably be implemented at the highschool and college levels fairly easily, but I'm sure that it would take quite a while to develop the formulas needed to determine a safe level of hits x severity of hits.
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Great, so someone explicitly asks for evidence that Apple would release laptops that caught on fire, I provide 3 examples, Directly Answering the question; then I get downvoted.

Maybe I didn't provide references. Here's the references, most with the official statement from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The powerbook 5300 was explicitly recalled, by Apple, for the short-circuit problem. Reference:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/technology/laptop-batterie...

http://news.cnet.com/Apple-woes-continue/2100-1001_3-211692....

http://books.google.com/books?id=R7zgbMJM3vwC&pg=PA10...

2004 recall, same problem:

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml04/04201.html (Problem: An internal short can cause the battery cells to overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers.)

2005 recall, same problem:

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml05/05179.html (Hazard: An internal short can cause the battery cells to overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers.)

2006 recall, related problem:

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml06/06245.html

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Fire-threat-spurs-...

http://www.macworld.com/article/52084/2006/07/recall.html

This is precisely what he asked for, and now I've included references. But really, if you guys don't value facts, research, and actual answers, then to hell with it. Why do I try? Might as well hang out on Digg.
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It's about 1000% better than anything I've ever done, it's free, and the content is good. Seems like the guy is trying to help people build better web apps...that is a noble intent IMHO. Why not offer constructive criticism instead of all this negativity?
The crowds and risk might actually be linked, though, i.e., it's more fun to watch because it looks riskier. I think the reason sports are popular is because they provide an outlet for warlike instincts, and football provides an exceptionally good war simulation, short of paintball or airsoft.
This doesn't really surprise me. I always thought part of the value of YC was its alumni network. If YC alums didn't socialize and help each other out, I'd be worried.

I'm sure there are many more social connections than what is shown here too, though it must've taken FastCompany quite a bit of sleuthing to unearth at least this much.
This is why I feel like a lot of startups raising their hands in a "ohhh write about me!!! write about me!!" frenzy of desperation seems to get them the users and followers (edit: and investors) they deserve. Sure, if your market is the tech crowd, go for it. If you're market is not the tech world, then I believe it makes sense to avoid the shitty tech press altogether.

Getting a Techcrunch piece about your app doesn't mean you're successful in any measure. Having a business model and making a profit does make you successful. Sure Techcrunch is marketing, but in most cases it's the wrong kind...not all eyeballs are good ones. Know your market.
Professional soccer, true. But professional hockey is pretty big in a lot of northern cities. Not at the same level as football or baseball, but big enough. It's limited in cities where kids don't actually play the sport in any numbers though.
I really like Steve Blank's definition of a startup:

"A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."

Source: http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...
Rugby rules are orientated around 'safe tackle' (eg no above the waist).

The defensive side of American Football is very much brute force orientated especially for the larger players.
Recruiting a programmer seems to be a bit more complicated. You have to balance out with "What if we are the next Facebook" or even "What if we are successful" with the opportunity that the person is giving up by accepting your offer. Also, if you don't have something to bring to the table that is probably a bigger reason not to accept.
And what's wrong with a short link, sir?
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I think he means the expression "Don't write a book" - meaning keep it short and to the point.
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Sure:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3516314
What Other Apps Are (or Were) Uploading Entire Address Book Like Path?
I am trying to get my hands on at least 1 other iOS app that was (or still is) uploading the entire address book without the user's permissions.

In all the discussions about Path on HN and other sites, people state things like "everyone is doing this", so I really want to find out atleast a few of those apps that fall into this "everyone is doing this" category.
More people die mining coal each year than have died in Nuclear power plant accidents in the entire history of Nuclear power.

The Bhopal chemical plant disaster killed more people than all the nuclear power incidents in history combined. This plant manufactured pesticides.

Nuclear power is not completely risk free, but it's much safer than most people give it credit for. Anyone who would picket a nuclear power plant before a coal plant or a pesticide plant is an uninformed twit.

Nuclear power also promises to get much safer. China is currently testing thorium reactors based on Canada's CANDU design. Thorium reactors have several safety advantages over Uranium reactors, produce less waste with a shorter half-life, and do not produce weapons-grade fissionable materials as a byproduct. Thorium is far more abundant than Uranium to boot. If Iran went after Thorium based nuclear power Israel would be able to sleep more easily at night.
Actually, at least some public venues are free for qualified non-profit use. So...yes.
Is probably more a sign that HN now has a much bigger diverse audience. Not so long ago it would be really rare to get 597 upvotes in a single story.
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. If you wrote an actual book on programming, then that's pretty awesome. Writing a book for a résumé, however, is not.
I also hope it doesn't break window manipulation when the app is locked up. The difference is that you generally can minimize a non-responsive app under X while on Windows it is trapped on screen.
This rule would only seem to encourage players to hit the best players on the other team as hard as they possibly can.

At which point the number of hits required to knock someone out of the game tends to decrease over time, the length of time during which a game contains the best players tends to decrease over time, and the desire of anyone to keep playing this game tends to approach zero.
I was thinking 'handegg' would be a more appropriate name.
Or extra point, punt, kickoff, or, on occasions so rare as to almost be extinct (only 1 since 1941 -- in 2006), a drop kick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Jsz-fSNd4 (It's hard to see in the video, but this differs from a punt in that the ball must bounce before being kicked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_kick)
Allow me to recommend my own free text, which covers most of the field: Essentials of Metaheuristics. http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
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A good read with good tips and well designed (aesthtically)

Don't listen to the haters. This is good stuff with valuable content.
To the downvoter(s), I would appreciate your open feedback if you take issue with my straight critique (based on my real experiences) of the company's service.
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In my opinion this thread is already littered with examples that morality is relative. Sure, if you have an invented set of ideological morality that is blessed with divinity, it's easy to believe in absolute morality. The wide variety of subreddits and topics covered in those subreddits contain a whole plethora of things that I think are unethical but are legal and vice versa.
"20 times more: 20 * x"

"20 times less: x / 20"
In general, I would prefer for people to be more accepting of harmless eccentricity.
To be clear: that's what they were doing already. This whole hullabaloo was caused by their announcement that they were going beyond that.
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What? Where on earth do people hear these ludicrous things? Besides, what you've described is not illegal.
"In the first half of the 20th century, the three big sports were baseball, boxing, and horse racing, and today only one of those is still a marquee attraction."

Which one?
I think you overstate this here.

In terms of heat the single slow-combustion-wood-fire will be plenty (assuming a good wood supply) to heat this relatively modest space in winter (in Wales).

As for the frost, it might be an issue in a real heavy winter, but Wales is not Canada. Also, the dissapating heat from the building will help, and timber is inherently far better at handling structural stresses than concrete/steel/etc. That said, I hope for his sake the hill-side retaining-wall is built well (well-drained, structurally strong, etc.) to ensure this doesn't happen.

Not saying it won't cause an issue, but I think you overstate the case somewhat.
I wish the English usage matched the math usage. Sadly, it does not.

20 * x is "20 times as much" but only "19 times more", IMO.
Wars tends to be a tad more dynamic than gridiron. Out of the major ball sports it's by far the most dragged out: 5 seconds of mayhem, 60 seconds of faffing about. Repeat for 3 hours.

Soccer, god rot its socks, is probably a better model. Hours of furious sprinting and jogging, lots of posturing and almost nobody ever wins convincingly.
> “It fits the DNA of what BitTorrent is about because it’s open and free.”

> An SDK to work with the proprietary protocol is in the works.

I'm confused
MLG used octoshape for a while, and it was notoriously unreliable. That left a bad taste in the mouth of the exports community when it comes to peer-to-peer distribution.
I think that for medium sized (250+) tech companies with solid funding it starts to just become difficult to NOT be recruiting in the Bay Area simply because there are so many engineers constantly churning and the statistics start to work against you without including the area in your talent pool.

That said, for smaller companies, I still believe the chances of getting everyone under the same roof are much higher in the SFBA as well as in other large, dense cities; only a few of which exist in the US and none of them being particularly cheap. There's a reason successful companies are willing to continue to pay the premium decade after decade for locating in big cities: it's worth it.

Overall though I think the point Alex was trying to make is that the exact location is unlikely to be a make or break for early stage startups. Pick a city with a solid background in your chosen field and it can be a launchpad for a successful company.
That's sounds like a plan! I suppose you have a tech demo of something like that?
Indeed. The price to keep the information is peanuts.

Take Amazon S3 (at its highest price point, <= 1 TiB):

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

($0.125 per GB) * (1 terabyte) = 128 U.S. dollars per month.

I'm surprised Google doesn't want to keep the data available in order to data mine.
Please use a solid color (preferably white) background under all content text, Thanks.

The site has great content. The new design makes it too hard to read.
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Smartphone determines if its owner is depressed
Ask HN:  Best resources to learn Android?
I've looked around and can't seem to find any high quality Android videos online. Is there anything out there for Android that's on the level of Stanford's CS193 for iOS development?
The rule itself is broad, and could encompass things like popular cartoons, artistic works, and even clips from television shows that hint at sexuality. However, that's not how it's been enforced, and I don't see the admins using it to remove those things. The issue is "borderline" material that would take careful consideration as to whether or not it is pornographic.

As I touched on in another comment, I doubt a father posting an album of his vacation to /r/pics that happens to have his 12 and 16 year old daughters in swimsuits in it would be against this rule. However, someone posting an album filled with candid photographs of minors in swimwear at the beach would probably be removed, even if the person who posted it would not be prosecuted under US law.

If you feel that course of action is against this person's right, for whatever reason, that's fine. But please, do not think this is some slippery slope to a prude reddit. Just because the admins are removing what is— at very best— child erotica doesn't mean they're bending to the will of some overbearing "Please, think of the children!" mentality. The stuff removed was truly perverse and unsettling and brought nothing of value to the community.

If you wish to discuss this further, there exists [a subreddit][0] created by some of the very people who first initiated the removal of these subreddits that is open to discussion. You can find a handful of informative threads in there (and the sister subreddits) as to why [this wasn't some raid by Something Awful][1] and how some of the content posted [truly was child pornography][2]. You might have to wade through some heavy circlejerking, but if you're interested in why those subreddits were actually removed, that's a good place to start.

That was probably more than was necessary, but I'd like to use this as sort of a final comment on the subject. I'm so tired of arguing with people who feel the need to defend a person's right to post at best stolen pictures of underage children and at worst legitimate child pornography on the grounds that "maybe some of the content wasn't totally illegal!". Not saying that is you.

[0]: http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSDiscussion/

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSMeta/comments/pody3/another_wall_...

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSDiscussion/comments/pkq5r/here_is...
That said, the whipsaw effect of hitting the ground still causes concussions and traumatic blows. Neither code of rugby is gentle; Union is particularly brutal.
Jordan, your sense of humor isn't limited to just to your story, you can also find it in your team's biography: TJ's main role, it seems, is to "look attractive" and your artist, Anders, is "sexy".
Thanks. Rare to hear from someone who has done this. Much more sense in the last line particularly than most of the rest of this thread.
Craigslist a used Humanscale Freedom chair - not as well known/desired as Aeron to keep used prices up, so folks closing out an office will often sell cheaply to unload (I've picked up several in great shape @ $100-200). BTW, I personally prefer the Freedom over Aeron, but am very happy with either.
The Right Stuff remains one of my favorite movies ever.

If any of you youngsters haven't seen it yet, you should.
I disagree with the push for newbies to overshare on Github. Some of the code I wrote when I was learning how to program in middle school was completely awful. I'm pretty happy that it's not used as a representative sample of what I am capable of today.

It's one thing for a recruiter to say "hey, I saw you have a GitHub account..." It's quite another when the recruiter forwards your profile to a seasoned engineer and they make a DailyWTF post out of your code!

Also - you've received offers out of the blue, do you mean offers to interview, or offers to just join the company w/o interviewing?
Beyond the Leap (which I recommend unreservedly), here are some other well-regarded options I came across in my search:

Haworth Zody (~$700): http://www.haworth.com/en-us/Products/Furniture/Seating/Desk...

Steelcase Think (~$700): http://www.steelcase.com/en/products/category/seating/task/t...

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Humanscale Freedom (~$1,000): http://humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=Free...

Herman Miller Embody (~$1,200): http://www.hermanmiller.com/content/hermanmiller/english/pro...

If you're open to less traditional seating styles, there's also:

Swopper (~$650): http://swopper.com

I had a Humanscale Freedom at a previous job and found it kind of stiff and awkward to sit in. YMMV, of course.

The most important thing I learned is that it's a huge help if you can find a local store that has several of these so you can sit in each of them and see how they feel. It's a very subjective thing. I'm in the DC area, and a visit to the Healthy Back Store (http://www.healthyback.com/) was a huge help in my decision-making process.
I could come up with a dozen ways in which Google could use their assets to do new things and potentially increase shareholder value; that doesn't mean they'll do it. pg is in a fairly unique position to tell us how Bump can add value, not just some random speculation, e.g. from myself.

What sort of confuses me is that normally he is shouting from the rooftops about how a startup changes a user's life, but that's absent. I don't get it, especially because I am bullish on Bump.
In case anyone's curious, the leap v2 chair can be found new on ebay for $450-600 instead of the usual $900 to 1200.
Rugby (Union) does not have the same incidence of head on head clashes which is what the article focuses on.

The mouthguard is actually the key safety gear for reducing the likelihood and severity of concussion injuries. The soft headgear sometimes worn is primarily for protecting the ears during the breakdown and scrum.
In the case of Christopher Handley, the prosecution ignored the vast majority of his collection, and pursued the handful of manga that actually were straight-up child porn.
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