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Yeah, the fact that they named it 'immersion' makes it pretty misleading. My idea of immersion has always been using that language and only that language. The official definition of immersion is 'a method of teaching in a foreign language that involves exclusive use of the language'. The plugin's implementation is more like the opposite of immersion.

I'm still skeptical of people without prior knowledge of the language using this plugin because learning via computational translations is unnatural and detrimental to beginners who don't know any better. Beginners don't know when something has been translated wrongly or if that phrase is how a native would express it. This makes the plugin a little redundant, since their market would have to be people who are neither beginners nor completely fluent (since someone that is fluent can engage in actual immersion). The only instance where the plugin would be useful is for people with prior knowledge of the language (can read and write it to a certain extent) but would like to expand their vocabulary bank.
Apple seems to be pretty clueless with regard to companies using the enterprise developer program to sell outside of the wall. I know of several companies doing this already. I have notified Apple and they seem to not care about it. Maybe that's what they should do, give away the apps using the enterprise developer program and forgo the wall and app approval process.
As nice as the colors are, the value I find in CSS preprocessors is the nested rule syntax and being able to use math and variables.

I strongly advocate giving the SCSS version a try. It's straight-up CSS with all the things that should have been there in the first place.
I agree. Definitely all over FB feeds everywhere. Good for them. Hustle on.
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Agree, the first AI class was horrible, while Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class on Coursera was top notch. I think both platforms have advantages and things to improve, and I'm glad they are both activelly working on it.

Not sure we need yet another platform with eDX, but let's see. So far it seems more of a West versus East type of thing..
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Thanks! I tried hard to make it look great on all the things.
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This is great to see. For the last week or so I've had this uneasy feeling that much of the potential of this wave of elearning was going to get strangled by patents, and other IP concerns. This looks to me to be a big chunk of openness and prior art being set free. That won't stop the trolls, but it's a start.
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If you want an interesting puzzle from Weebly, check out their jobs page:
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Prior HN Discussion on the Puzzle:
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I just spent a solid 2.5 hours working on it... Fun stuff and I learned a lot about the Chrome Developer Tools!
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Yes and no. There is no such notion in copyright law. Case law is unclear, however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis#Copyright
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Thanks for that. So what exactly would you be able to use this for?
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For Mandarin (not sure about Japanese), the plugin would definitely benefit from pin yin supplementation at the 'novice' level. Non-latin characters are difficult for people whose primary language is a language of Latin derivatives. But implement this, they would have to take Google's pre-existing translation tools and translate the translated text into pinyin using something like the Ruby on Chinese Pinyin tool (http://www.kawa.net/works/cantonese/canton.html).

But at the moment, the plugin seems to expect people to have prior knowledge of the language and its so-called immersion revolves around reading and literacy uptake. Pin yin is more for speaking/oral purposes so translating articles into phonetic characters is unconventional for languages that are not meant to be read in such a way.
"In the absence of a quantitative engineering method with which to evaluate either approach, isn't it a purely personal and political choice?"

No.

Here's one idea: perhaps everyone's opinion is not equal on every subject. Perhaps by looking at the opinions of respected accomplished people who have garnered the respect of other respected accomplished people you can being to see who's opinion should get more weight. This is the process that came up with the very ideas of things like "engineering" and "quantitative".

I know we love the young upstarts disrupt the old way of thinking meme. That's why you framed it this in that way with the folks vs the traditionalists. You might want to remember that historically the young upstarts have been wrong 99% of the time. That's why it's news when they are right.

"One man's best practice is another man's anti-pattern"

And in the vast majority of cases, when you ask that question about a specific problem: One of those men is wrong. Even if they're both smart. But how to tell? If a huge number of other smart and experienced people have been convinced by one of them ... well I'd go with that guy. You won't be right all the time but it's the best system we've come up with so far for things that don't conform to double blind placebo controlled studies or mathematical proofs. It literally is the best way to be right most often.
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Unfortunately, the person who this post is directed at won't see it for at least a year.
I poked around in their iPhone app source while I was learning Backbone and didn't see any Sencha classes.
Note that it supposes that the first team has access to the specification, source code, or any IP-encumbered indication about how the software in question works

No it doesn't.

The Wikipeda link[1] mentions the original IBM PC clean room implementation by Columbia Data Products.

It doesn't have the complete story of that, but from memory the way it worked was CDP had one team documenting how the BIOS responded to inputs, and then a totally independent team reimplementing that behaviour.

Most clean room implementation don't have access to a specification, let alone source code.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Personally, I have recently come to love SASS after using it for the past five months on a very large project. What I hate about it, though, is the implementation, which is currently (AFAIK) available only in Ruby, and I just can't stand all the issues with dependencies, fickle behaviour of support apps and the like.

I'm yearning for a good Python-based implementation, ideally a drop-in with Django so I could use SASS files directly instead of Django templates, but nothing fully satisfactory has been produced yet (and I don't have the time to do it myself).

Please note: this is not intended as Ruby bashing, it's a perfectly fine language; it's just that I've practically never had a smooth experience with it.

Edit: Ah, and yes -- the author's job could be even easier if you used the Compass framework (specifically, it has a predefined helper for those gradients, and other stuff that are currently in a browser-prefix-hell): http://compass-style.org
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Giving up reading is just "harder" than giving up the Internet.
You don't have to do that.

It's long powerlines that will be strongly affected from induced current. Small wires like those in devices will not be damaged.

And in any case a metal box will not help - the frequency is very low, and a faraday cage will not work (the magnetic field will go right through it).

If you do want to shield it you'd need some Mu-metal.

And, BTW you will have warning. Usually 1 or 2 days, sometimes as little as 12 hours, but you will have warning.
A Faraday cage will not work, the frequency is too low. You'd need some Mu-metal.
The separate password page is served over https instead of http like the initial page. This allows the initial page to load faster without the ssl handshake overhead while still sending the password over an encrypted connection.

What's unusual to me is that the username field is on the initial page. On most sites I've used that upgrade from http to https, only a generic login button is on the unencrypted page, e.g. creditkarma.com. Maybe facebook a/b tested this setup and found users log in more often.
Why? Surely a balance can be made?

I'm giving up reading "giving up" blog posts.
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I'm not familiar enough with Cappuccino to comment, but GNU Step was an independent implementation of the published OpenStep interfaces. That isn't reverse engineering.

Linux is an independent implementation of the Posix interfaces.
I seriously think Node.js is one of those things that get's overhyped. Yes it's fun to code...until the nested callbacks get's too much. For me personally I will stick production code with ruby/sinatra and eventmachine and play with node for personal projects.
Either you are buying off a different Amazon store or there's some new Topaz DRM decryption scheme. As far as I know, most current Kindle books aren't crackable.
If we can get Samuel L. Ipsum integrated, I'm in. Either way, I think this is great if for no other reason than the amount of time it will save.
I am not logged on Facebook, and I see both email and password field.

Also you can name a class anyway you want pretty much.
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HTML7 is likely a joke on Matt Cutts' twitter status https://twitter.com/#!/mattcutts/statuses/17066581623
Satire on what?
A C implementation just came out recently[0]. Unfortunately, no support for indented SASS, only the CSS-superset SCSS.

[0]: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
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Looks like it could be used in an application that needs to send email without relying on a platform-specific SMTP server or external service.

edit: I'm wrong, listen to this guy ->
I understand the satire, I just would rather see this in the comments of the original article. This feels more like a slap rather a thoughtful critique.
I completely disagree. We absolutely know how to resolve these kinds of disputes and it's very accurate (not as accurate as Science, but better than everything else). See my other comment here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3922527).

The tribal attitude is the enemy of this process for sure, and humans are very prone to that attitude but that doesn't mean you can't still find the answer more likely to be right.
.NET (.NET Enterprise Technology) is a bit more than just an API like Win32. It's a whole cross-platform language runtime, in addition to a massive standard library...
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Electronics on Earth will probably be OK as long as they are not plugged in (and preferably powered off). The atmosphere makes a pretty good barrier to the charged particles that will destroy satellite electronics.

The main problem to worry about is in the power grid as the rapidly changing magnetic field induces strong currents in transmission lines (or any other kilometres long piece of conductor such as copper telephone lines).

A major solar storm event such as that would likely destroy satellite communications, GPS, et cetera, and severely damage power grids and potentially telecommunications infrastructure. Your laptop would be OK. Of course, you might not have power or internet connection for several days or weeks.
I have never heard the line "most of your companies will fail" from anyone I know of in Y Combinator. Mostly because "fail" isn't really well defined -- even a mediocre startup is usually more interesting than a boring job. Even founding the next Instagram might be a failure for someone who really cares about medicine or space.
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Someone could print it out for him to read...
I like how the words generated are totally hipster!
They have an escape vehicle they could use. It would not be a sudden event - there would be at a minimum 12 hours notice, and usually a day or two.

You are forgetting about airplanes - they would also be effected, and would probably be grounded.
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Yes. But you are interested in banking so maybe not.
Windows 8 has no code parentage from DOS. Windows NT was as a completely separate OS design. Compatibility and so on for various submodules, sure, but DOS isn't in the parentage. They've had/have POSIX as well as OS/2 subsystems in there too, but NT is its own thing.
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Or at least six weeks.
I am almost certain there are more gay male (and thus might have boyfriend) startup founders than female startup founders (who might also have boyfriends), too.

It's probably better to use something generic to represent the general case.
incognito: with the identity disguised or hidden

Google doesn't know who you are, so results are not as relevant.
Seriously? Learning a language translated by Google Translate websites to watch? With ideas like this to run we are all dumber, not smarter.
In my opinion, this is one of the most important features of CSS preprocessors. Wether you're doing rapid prototyping and working on the real deal, having a set of variables for colors, fonts and whatnot helps you a lot controlling the look and feel of your site and avoid mistakes that even Facebook did [1]

This is one of the main reasons why foundations like Twitter Bootstrap or Compass are awesome but unfortunately people are so lazy they don't even change the color variables in Bootrstrap, hence the "yet another Twitter Bootstrap" site.

[1] Facebook had 706 CSS files, they declared the Facebook blue color 261 times, used 548 unique hex values for colors, had 6498 declarations of color. http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1379
you've just described every website, ever, yet they have managed to become quite popular despite the superior performance of native applications.
Ask HN: Is this a good way to run a business moving forward
Hello HN,

I have been a lurker here for quite sometime but finally couldn't contain myself from asking your feedback on this.

I founded an online service (think marketing, design,etc.) company about a year ago and the business has been profitable from day one.we are projecting a revenue of $500,000 this year.

One thing that has me worried is we have only two full time employees (including myself) and rest are all freelancers. We are growing rapidly and although a full time employee would be great to fill a few roles, I have been able to manage it with freelance help. One thing to note is that most freelancers we work with have been working with us since the start of the business. We currently have 14 freelancers and each of them work on 2-3 projects each month.

We try to take care of them to the best of our abilities. Giving out bonuses, pay raises per project, birthday cards, gift certificates and all to show our appreciation. As the business grows and if we can manage the growth with freelance help, is it wise to not hire full-time employees given all the hassles tha come with hiring full time? Or should I continue to take this path?

Feel free to ask questions. Would like to not disclose the name of the business or what we provide at this point. Your feedback is much appreciated.
It's actually for an application that needs to receive an email.
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I agree. I build expensive beautiful custom-designed websites on open source CMS platforms (mostly Concrete5 these days, which is ideal for the kinds of sites I do). But 90% of people don't need that and I refer a lot of people to Weebly. And it seems that most of the innovation in CMS's these days is happening with hosted services, so it will be very interesting to see how things play out over the next 5 years.
they may work in a 'proper' compost, but i can testify that they do not degrade in mine
Interesting. I'm skeptical of the marketing because 14 weeks doesn't seem like long enough. I'm also skeptical of this experiment though.

Sunchips specifies 14 weeks in a hot and active compost. A new compost pile (like in the experiment) would not be very active compared to an old one, especially since he didn't add any worms to it but he did get the water and turning right. He also mentions that it was cold and rainy in the weeks after he started his compost. An old compost would shrug this off but it would have a negative effect on a newly started compost.
Someone I worked with long ago had a t-shirt with about 8 of these COM 'rebrandings' with strikethroughs through each.

The one that I recall was "Windows DNS" (no, not that DNS, it was distributed network services or something, aka COM+).
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But still the ad is not even remotely related to jquery image hover effects.

Don't advertisers pay Google to deliver ads to people who are looking for relevant info ?
If someone found yet another task that today's small computers could be used for—great. The fact that these computers are also commonly used to call and text doesn't matter (we do that from their bulkier counterparts as well).

I believe a lot of opportunities in the world of mobile computing are missed because many of us can't stop thinking about modern mobile devices as ‘phones’.

See also: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/welcome-to-the-post...

Also,

> Which is like being the easiest way to cook in the shower.

is a kind of response I think you'd get if about 30 years ago you say PCs could be used for publishing.
It's always hard to get the tone of a forum message. I thought that the contact of sociopath brought you to cynicism. Obviously, I was wrong.
I agree tapping into the existing userbase is enticing. And that's no doubt what some people are trying to do (e.g. the Russians).

But all VOIP codecs are not created equal. Skype's success is not due to NAT piercing. Even though Skype easy to use, maybe easier than previous SIP alternatives, if calls sounded terrible, people would not use it. Skype's success is due to being usable and having decent sound quality. They did not use the decades old codecs other softphones used. They wrote new ones. And anyone can use them.

Using the same codec as Skype uses should not in any way bind you to their network. It has nothing to do with compatibility. It has to due with getting Skype-level sound quality. Quality that the older codecs have failed to deliver.

It's easy to get people to sign up for free voice and video calls. The key word is "free". You do not have to find inroads into the "Skype user base". Skype spread by word of mouth. If people learn about another client that works as well or better (same sound quality), and it's easy to use, they will almost certainly try it.

Forgive me if I have misunderstood what you were trying to say in your comment. But I do not understand your reasoning.
The first cohort (Spring) of http://DevBootcamp.com graduated a month ago. It was an ultra successful class, we had some amazing teachers, mentors and fellow students (I was one of them). I've just checked the current statistics and 14 of the 17 students looking for jobs have now had offers. I think at least 5 have accepted an offer and started working so far.

Average salaries are around (but slightly less) than San Francisco junior industry averages.

This is after an 8 week course. These programs work.

Disclaimer: I now work for DevBootcamp.
First time I've heard the term, but I take it to be the sort of person who is brilliant enough that you hire them and then work out what to do with them.

I know a sporting example might not be overly popular on HN, but let me try! In the NBA draft, teams will choose between drafting to fill a need (e.g., they're weak at centre, so they'll draft the best big guy), or drafting the most talented player still available (e.g., a brilliant point guard even though they already have two).

In this hiring context, it's a bit like drafting on talent alone - take the "A Player" and worry about the details later. In the NBA example, this means trying to force a fit (shifting a SG to SF), trading them for things you do need (an elite SG for a decent big and a roleplayer), or rebuilding your team around them.

Michael Jordan was drafted third in 1984. The first pick (Olajuwon) was a top-tier talent but the second pick (Bowie) was a bit of a bust. Portland took Bowie ahead of Jordan because they already had Paxson and had recently drafted Drexler.
Socialcam's growth is fake! Aside from the already mentioned underhanded spamming. Their growth comes from non-Socialcam content. Most Socialcam video viewing I see among my Facebook friends are viral videos that are just uploaded from YouTube, etc.
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These kind of support your position:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces

The most popular way of indenting Python is with spaces only. The second-most popular way is with tabs only.
For new projects, spaces-only are strongly recommended over tabs.

Function names:

...

mixedCase is allowed only in contexts where that's already the prevailing style (e.g. threading.py), to retain backwards compatibility.
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>It's not for the human readers to skip the section so much as to simply acknowledge that you're doing it for the machines.

Yes, exactly. That's a much better way of wording it.
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I don't find this as quite a ridiculous idea as the satire presumably assumes.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --Albert Einstein
Hysterical - I started to formulate a theory on this that leadership distracts themselves with these types of tasks just as a person might engage in avoidance. Of course, I'm about 56 years late: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality
For one example, this would certainly take care of a lot of the work necessary for creating a disposable email service.