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The advantage of documentation isn't that users read it before asking questions.

It's that you answer questions by pointing at the relevant section of the docs.

If that section doesn't exist, it's a good practice to see that it does (either write it yourself, have another contributor write it, or encourage the person asking the question to submit a doc).
I seem to be A/B tested out of the sample video. Anyone have a link?
Every infomercial ever.
I set it up on a separate partition.

Quite frankly, I can only imagine the horrendous bug nest that would require what amounts to little more than a file syncing application to demand a case-insensitive filesystem. Do they really store the files on NTFS volumes somewhere?
Additionally, Chrome 22 changed the behavior of -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased so that the weight of fonts looks much different than it used to when this was enabled. It makes icon fonts look especially bad.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304
Measuring the universe’s ‘exit door’
It would be nice to see all picky professors just collaborate on the http://www.wikibooks.org/ site, and simply make their own edits on, for example, the The One True Microbiology Textbook.

For students who need dead trees, the Wikibooks platform already supports printing PDF's.
Some people want to talk but aren't sure what to talk about, so what were your favorite topics from last year? Some of mine were:

* Sketching a Better Product

* Building a Robot that Can Play Angry Birds on a Smartphone

* RESTful APIs With Tastypie

* Documenting Your Project With Sphinx
Famous directors make porn, too -- but they only show it to each other
>The background of the room, all Japanese-y, is distracting as well.

Well, he does live in Japan...
"Obvious to Apple"

Apple != public. Plus it was a beta, ppl are not going to go crazy complaining about a beta product because they expected it to be fixed. That is something only Apple would know.
This reads like an article on the Onion. Unbelievable.
They highlight what I would call a limitation in other array languages. Octave (and I would expect MATLAB as well) allows scalar operators to be lifted to multidimensional arrays only if one operand is scalar or both have the same dimensionality, which looks to a J programmer like it's just incomplete special-casing.

By comparison, J's lifting permits mismatched dimensionality ("rank"), e.g. using a scalar operator on a list and a matrix, though the dimensions of the particular axes ("shapes" of the arrays) must still match (one must be a prefix of the other). This generalizes to operators written for higher-rank arrays too.
DIY SEO Bootcamp For Startups
Yeah, my first response to seeing the price was "WTF? Raise your prices!" as well. I was expecting a number somewhere in the four figures.

I mean, I was only checking on the price out of curiosity because I'm a broke student who doesn't even sell software, but if a broke student's first response to your offering is "Hey, that's actually only a little bit too expensive for hours worth of instructive entertainment!" to the point where I was tempted to buy for like two seconds, you can be sure that you could extract a whole lot more money than that from people who'll get actual business value out of it.
Yeah the apple maps were disappointing but the apology letter yields to the masses. It doesn't show leadership. Always look forward.
Okay this is giving me more info. I am all for opensource and sharing code so I have no problem with that.

Me not wanting them to use it is because I have poured hours at night working on this and received no recognition what so ever. No offer of a bonus for something that has saved hours weekly. No simple "thanks". I get taken advantage of too often by employers.

I suppose i'm SOL in making this happen but does mean I can freely use it my self and build on it further.

Where\How do I release my source code at?
Depending on the target audience of the web-site, I can see that there might be large percentages of web-site users who don't know what a FAQ stands for. Anecdotre of one -- I recently emailed a mortgage lender with the word "docs" (instead of "documents") in it and she actually sent me an email asking me what was "docs"? Sometimes things that seem very apparent to us due to the group we move around in may not be apparent to others outside the group.
> Don't be a law breaking jagaloon and you should be fine.

Yeah. That makes it perfectly fine for them to peek into your files, watch your home movies...
155 (tied, interestingly): Cleveland, Ohio

Lake effect snow

Anyway, compare this to where I'm from (South Florida)[1]:
Average rainy days - 135
Average rainfall - 62" - 64"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_fl#Climate
I've used it, it seemed great. There are a couple reasons I don't use it, though:

1. It's not Microsoft's bread and butter. History has shown when it's no longer cost-effective, they'll drop it or neglect it in a heartbeat.

2. Say it does become wildly successful and pushes out its major competition (Dropbox & Drive), history has shown they'll still neglect it until it bit rots enough that a competitor can grab a foothold (eg. IE, Office, Hotmail, etc etc etc).

Microsoft has awesome, awesome engineering people. They just need to change their vision and their leadership.
I've been using SkyDrive for a couple of years. It's great. I use it to sync my desktop, laptop and phone (lumia). The main powerful thing for me is OneNote which just works transparently.

There is literally nothing out there as good. I've tried everything. Google drive is Just crap - it doesn't leave real files on your disk and its buggy. Dropbox is better but has no application support.

I think why no one has noticed is that a) the SkyDrive proponents as per much of the userbase isn't that vocal and b) everyone is blind to Microsoft these days.

As for the risk if account shutdown and them peeking at stuff, this is a risk for any 'cloud provider'. If its a problem, keep a backup (which SkyDrive does as it mirrors everything rather than providing links) and don't use it for anything dodgy. I've had 9gb of mp3s up there for two years with no problems.
Append ?video=yes to the URL. It will shortcircuit A/Bingo. (n.b. This behavior ships off by default in A/Bingo for a variety of reasons -- think very hard before enabling it.)
Sorry for not being an ass kisser, but I think this is way too overpriced and I would not like to see HN turn into a marketplace. Imagine if every HN contributor started selling their knowledge this way - - it would be a bad community where everything was behind paid walls. And yes, I do know that Patrick has contributed a lot to HN, but so has thousands of others, and I am sure he has learnt a ton here as well. There's no need to monetize this or to encourage monetization of this kind of knowledge.
Ask HN: Should I leave working at a startup in favor of university?
Hey HN,

I've been working as a software engineer in startups for the last 12 months since I graduated high school. I chose working in the industry over accepting the university place in Computer Science that I was offered. For added context: I'm a non-US citizen working in the US. The college offer was in my home country in Europe.

Fast forward 12 months and now I wonder how this decision will affect my long term employment prospects. While I would have work experience relevant to the positions for which I would like to potentially apply unless I change my course I will lack any quantification above a high school level on paper. I could see this being a possible disadvantage even in preliminary screening of applicants were I to apply for a job.

What I have seen of the tech industry would make me think that ability trumps your paperwork but I don't know how long that will last or whether I would be barred from working any higher up than simply being a developer. Would management positions be completely out of reach were I to continue? Can work experience really count more than a degree?

Any thoughts on this would really be appreciated as it's an issue that I have been pondering for quite some time. I figured HN would have a varied enough audience to be able to give good advice from all sides.

Thanks HN!
Not quite the same, but I have found http://www.quakelive.com fun and practical.
Ask HN: How do I achieve "full stack"
I'd like to complete my skills to be able to bill myself as a full stack programmer. I believe I'm close, but I am missing the front-end. I've written many a RESTful web service, but primarily as an API or debugging interface to our gear which is primarily installed in large carrier or enterprise networks. Not public facing, so pretty has never been an issue.

So given I can do the server side of web, in Java, Python or even C - which skills should I work on to flesh out my front end skills? Do I need to have the ability to make things pretty? Or is just functional good enough - and then a designer can take over from there..

Any suggested frontend frameworks, libraries? I don't want to jump from one cool library to the other. I prefer to pick a framework or library and stick with it - learning it more or less inside out.

Thanks for any input.

As for background.. I'm a seasoned C programmer, lots of system programming, device drivers, low level network programming. Web has worked itself into what I do, and I'd like to complete the picture right onto the front end.
Good attempt, but some of these results are wonky.

Right off the top of the list, the result for Allanburg is actually perfectly right - administratively it's part of Thorold hence why GeoNames came back with that. Dain City is maybe 500 m off the centre rather than outright wrong as suggested in the list. Ayr comes back as "8 George St, Kitchener ON N0B 1E0, Canada <+43.29177700,-80.45398100>" - the coordinates and the postal code are correct, the street and city name are not - I don't know how to rank the correctness of such a result. Same deal with nearby St. Jacobs. Port Robinson is also described incorrectly but has the correct coordinates.

The answer for Burlington has first coordinates that are "close" (well within the city but not at centre/downtown/city hall), and the 'region' one is about 8 km off with a silly large error radius of 15 km. Ditto Kingston, Kitchener, and Markham. Similar deal with Clarington, Clarkson, Falconbridge, "Sudbury", and probably a bunch of others, though there's the added difficulty of Ontario municipal organization thrown in for those ones. Bizarrely, Ottawa's point result is perfect whereas the 'region' result is more than 20 km away with a specified radius of 55 km, but I'm not sure if that warrants a 'wrong' rating.

Echo Bay points to the body of water rather than the settlement around it, and I don't think it's fair to expect the search to know you meant the settlement specifically. Jordan Station is marked "close" but is in fact 500 km off. Wilno is marked "close" but is 10 km of forest away. The results for Mississauga are unreasonably far away from the centre of the city but within the limits.

Then there's search context - if you ask the service for "Baltimore Ontario" with no further context it might get it wrong, if you ask it from a device that knows it's at least in Ontario (or even New York or Michigan) it might work better.

It would also be useful to somehow quantify the results by search likelihood, popularity, community size, etc. A few names I recognize from the missing or wrong list are fairly small settlements. Scrolling through the list (currently on W), the largest results I saw that were flat out wrong so far are Belleville, which is about 10 km off, North Bay about 8 km off, Whitchurch-Stouffville about 6 km off, and Burlington/Kingston/Kitchener/Markham/Mississauga 'region' issues as mentioned above.
Chris, the position: fixed z-index issue is more widespread than you have there; I'm trying to come up with a case for reliable repro, but I just bumped into it a bit ago and had to redo some things to work around it. (full disclosure, I'm one of Chris's coworkers)
10 foot by 10 foot for $350 is quite expensive. Cheaper to use magic whiteboard or just pop some Formica up
Awesome. Please make a Twitter account and write more of these, you have a gift :)
As an aside, that is one of the coolest functional tests I've ever seen. It's thorough, well-documented, and includes nice visualizations (the table at the bottom, not the pie chart up top).
Glad to see Ludum Dare getting some exposure on HN. It's come from such a small thing to something that's having a serious impact both for beginners and experienced game developers. (The first Steam Greenlight approved game, McPixel, was originally a Ludum Dare entry.) They pretty much have the online hackathon idea nailed down.
Because the majority of the userbase are on windows?
Really? When I first read a text book about lambda calculus, it was fairly straightforward.

When I read _this_, I was puzzled. What the heck are we doing? Why do I care about alligators? What's the point of this?

And it only made sense when he said "it's like lambda calculus". It's a sad explanation if you need to understand the concept to understand the explanation.
Same here. oh-my-zsh was too slow for me and took away one of the advantages of zsh (that of being faster to load than bash). Also, a great number of oh-my-zsh config options are, to me, incredibly annoying (the long completion menu is the worst shell interface ever invented).

I'm in the process of trimming down prezto to exactly what I need, since it also has too much fluff. It's a great resource, I'd recommend it to anyone wanting a slimmer and easier to grok zsh configuration.
Maybe I should put together a google spreadsheet for HNers to play together on Xbox Live/Playstation network!
I get the feeling you haven't used IE, hotmail and office for a while. They're definitely not rotting.
No, it's still being built and is probably months away[1]

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3407614/apple-over-a-year-...
Forget You Friends List: Luunr Lets You Talk With the Whole World in Realtime
I agree, it's an interesting and appealing idea.

I think one of the biggest obstacles to that at the moment, at least in the US, is the arguably earned reputation that some unions have as being profiteering thugs, if not outright extentions of the mob itself. Those bad unions have spoiled it for the good ones (and there are good ones).
I don't disagree with your central point (most startups fail). But my personal opinion is that it is the epitomy of unprofessionalism to "go on sabbatical" when you are the CEO and your company is literally melting down around you.

At his point it the decision should come down to "how do I right this ship?" or "should I turn over the helm?" not "should I go to Maui, Tahoe or both?" His responses show such an unbelievable detachment from the investment made in the company, the employees, the technology and anything else that's going on around him.

"I do this historically. I take off for a little while and I vacation. It’s nothing new or exciting."

Imagine the CEO of any company, after having some disasterous lauches and really really struggling to find a direction and needing somebody at the helm more than ever, just up and disappearing for a couple of months, nobody really knows exactly where he is or how to get ahold of him. Banging around Monte Carlo or the Maldives or the Alps. And when somebody finally gets ahold of him to find out his opinion on why the dev team up and left, why the product and company are failing and what he's going to do to fix things comes back with this pile of nonsense.

"I feel bad about it, I can see why people would leave, you know with everything we've ever done being a giant failure and then with me up and disappearing for who knows how long, if I was back at the office I'd probably pivot, maybe, but I'm not there, maybe I'll feel like figuring something to do with the money we have left in the bank when I finish parasailing, maybe whatever, it's not like I don't have a habit of just up and disappearing like this, the board knows this about me. We'll chat when I get back from Snowboarding in the Alps."

Most startups fail for a variety of reasons, lack of experience, funding, mistargeting the market, etc. Most startups don't fail because the CEO took his money and ran off to a tropical paradise "to vacation" while the house was on fire.
Best HN comment all week! Thanks for giving me a smile.
Is Inspircd significantly more difficult to set up initially? I recalling taking a day or two to figure out how to set it up and link to services.
Your title: "Wireless charging is useless, until its essential"

The article's title: "Wireless charging is useless — until it’s essential"

See the difference? Please ... please ... don't try to type titles, copy them. Don't contribute to illiteracy.
Downloads - LOLCheat
I've been using WAZE for months and before that GPS Drive. Better turn by turn has been available on iPhone for a while. There's no excuse for Apple's poor offering
It is a bizarre requirement, especially since Skydrive does preserve case.

I'd just never run into anyone with case-sensitive HFS before.
Oh goodness, the floats thing isn't good. A lot of sites rely on that, including my own. D:
In Germany you pretty much have no data as soon as you leave the streets for cars. While driving directions might actually be okay, as soon as you walk around and leave the city roads it's getting bad. And even if they have the data, it's displayed in a horrible color palette, a lack of contrast and a very low information desitity:

http://i.imgur.com/Dktjo.jpg - This is the view of a nearby wood in Apple Maps. Take a look at those thin grey lines in the big green area. I'm not sure if I could see them on the map walking there in bright sunlight. If you zoom out just a little more, the trails vanish completely from the map and the whole screen is just a big green area. To actually see a trail well enough you have to zoom in so much that you lose the overview and don't know where you're actually looking.

http://i.imgur.com/DDx7R.png - This is the same are in Google Maps. Great contrast, good color palette and you can distinguish the larger from the smaller trails and roads. There's also a lot more information.
I'm not sure exactly how I feel about this...

I want think these things are great for a start, to reach that first epiphany which clicks a concept in place, but I'm thinking they should be applied selectively and discarded as soon as possible.

I base this pretty much entirely on my own frustrating experience being "taught" with methods that focused entirely on and metaphors and procedures for "how" of things, not the "why" which I believe is essential to any real understanding.
again, 10/month for 5 users.
for position: fixed and changed stacking contexts, you're likely running into this:

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/09/Stacking-Changes-Comin...

Basically, the position: fixed on the parent of the span you're trying to put on top is now making the parent its own stacking context, which means that all children will be stacked relative to each other, not to the first absolutely or relatively positioned ancestor of the parent, as it was before.

The easiest fix is to set the z-index on the parent, since that will correctly stack it relative to its sibling (your other position: fixed element). The other way is to give the sibling that you want to be below the other content a negative z-index, since that will, again, specify it in the stacking context you want to affect. Both of these fixes should render correctly in older browsers (I believe).

This is annoying when it affects existing content, but it is part of the spec now (and it's apparently how mobile browsers have always rendered it).
Talk about an alarmist title of "breaks everything...". Appreciate the HN Mod changing it.
I don't know if this is related, but I had an issue with flash yesterday which seems to correspond to the Chrome 22 release.

I was playing a game which had never had a serious issue before, and I noticed that the timing of things was way, way off. At first, I thought that my system was just lagging - I had a server VM running, Firefox (my main) always has a ridiculous number of tabs open, and I was playing the game in Chrome because I don't like logging into Facebook from my 'everyday' browser - but shutting down the most resource intensive applications did nothing for the game.

Eventually I checked the plugins page and noticed that Chrome's built-in Flash plugin had re-enabled itself - I disabled it a couple weeks ago due to some video streaming issues - and it was once again the default plugin for those applications, therefore overriding the (higher version) system wide install.

I'm really hoping I'm not going to have to babysit Flash every few weeks when Chrome updates, especially since there isn't always a visual cue that you're running a new version of Chrome.
By far the easiest way to get similar behavior is to run your Django app via Gunicorn (proxied from Nginx). Gunicorn supports hot code reloading via SIGHUP, and it does so by forking and gracefully killing old processes.

If your requirements don't match gunicorn (not django, not python, etc) then you can use https://github.com/TimothyFitz/zdd a project I wrote to automate rewriting nginx config files to deal with changing proxied portfiles. To integrate any existing server, all you have to do is make it bind to port 0 (let the OS choose a port) and the write a foo.port file that contains the port number (like a pidfile). That's it.
Please leave the asinine BS out of this forum. One of the things that sets the conversations here apart from run of the mill news sites is the civil tone. Note that it's very possible that the guy you're making fun of is reading what you write, and one of the guidelines is, "Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

Projects fail. I would be exceedingly surprised if Bill takes the current state of affairs lightly and would even expect that his absence is only nominally his choice. Do you really want people lining up to mock you the next time you invest a chunk of your life into a project and it goes south? The guy is already rich from previous massive successes; the CEO checks that you mention won't contribute significantly to his net worth.
Standard HN comment these days. Bitch about signing up or sharing something and not make a single comment about the product itself.
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Another Question: Since I am the primary and only author, I can freely remove and modify the current source to what I like. Meaning, removing a field or adding a new field without the consent of anyone? I know this question seems silly but It would help me fully understand.
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1. Flat-rate unlimited orig? How many channels then?

2. "Unblock caller ID"? You mean, perform a CNAM lookup on the number? If a caller doesn't send a number, that's sorta that. I'm guessing you're just referring to the flag "hey please don't display the number or lookup a name", right?

As far as setting caller-ID, that's great. Do you have a plan to deal with abuse, which is why I imagine Twilio disables it for the masses? (Not that it's hard to do at all, from a technical perspective.) And of course, not available for doing with SMS.

Good luck!
Yeah, well that's not at all relevant to the customers - they need clean, simple videos where the focus is Patrick and the content he's providing. Anything other than that is a distraction.