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I'm very glad this is HN front page, my site became actually blocked for all users because of a tour we had that used a floating overlay, but I still don't understand, is it a bug? or just following the specs? is there a concensus on this? if so, should we expect it to be fixed? or copied by other browsers?
True, but participation in bitcoin is voluntary, whereas participation in governmental monetary policy is not :)
Either way, thanks to both of you. I appreciate the guidance as a relatively new member of the community.

And with any luck, you'll see me at PyCon this spring!
Is this related to something happening at twitter?
Check out Twitter Bootstrap as well. It works well with jQuery and you can end up with a pretty nice site even if your design skills aren't that great.
I really think this is the proper stop-gap until we get rid of the traditional brick and mortar public schooling all together with something more Khan-esque.

It doesn't hurt that the bottom in the tablet market is falling out, you can put something together that can easily read documents for $50 now.
Yeah, Google decided the Wrench icon wasn't meaningless enough so they changed to something that means even less.

I presume it's for consistency with Android, since right now Chrome for Android still makes references to 'the wrench icon' in text.
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An example would probably make this comment a lot more valuable.

If you're sick of hearing of "high growth" as the only type of startup... why not point out some examples that you think better fit the term?

Here's a freebee: Steve Blank's startup definition is that a company is searching for a business model, and when it's found the model, it is no longer a startup.
Other than twitter bootstrap, check out http://foundation.zurb.com
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But of course, your profile lists lisp.
Anyone using AirBnB data without API?
Are there some services providing 3rd party API for AirBnB data?
You'd be surprised. The amount of CSS/HTML that goes into your typical LOB application is quite large and the applications are typically orders of magnitude more complicated than "sites" as you mention. The piece of kit I work with has approximately 900 ASP.Net MVC views...

I just ran CLOC. We have 6.2 million lines of code in 14 different languages!
I actually agree with you on that point. If having a freer immigration policy leads to populating a country with people who aren't for free market, is the freer immigration policy actually a free market policy? It's a difficult question for sure.
>So your ok with them taking away a better product for a crappy one simply because they know about it and are trying to fix it?

No, he is not OK. He is just able to understand the business reasons behind it and knows that this is not a user-complain forum.

"They made the Maps worse" is neither interesting, nor new. For one, everyone can see that. It's more important to see why they did it, if they could avoid it, and how they should fix it, than to complain about it.
I too saw plugin-container.exe grinding my disk to a halt yesterday. I'm considering going back to FF...
I think it's more correct to say they tail end what still works and is supported, which is why our baseline is IE7.
Apparently not. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587264
Okay here is an awesome description of monads: a function buddy!

Want to print out parts of a function? Want to log something? Don't add an argument to your function! Use a monad!

Basically if you have something orthogonal you want to do with a functions results, use a monad. You don't have to pass everything as an argument explicitly any more!

P.s. don't listen to this until a haskell demigod corrects me
I agree that more authors are giving away their books online for free (John Scalzi, for example). My point is that it's unusual for authors to do it by pointing to a torrent.

Of the four examples you mentioned, the authors provided links in a wide variety of formats (ePub, HTML, TXT, Mobi), but I didn't see any torrent links. All the links I saw in a fast scan were direct download links. I think that's much more common than an author posting a link to a torrent.
> There's no need to monetize this or to encourage monetization of this kind of knowledge.

Respectfully disagree. If Patrick didn't have the incentive of making money on the course, he wouldn't have invested the time, effort and money to make it. I believe he hired another person to help with video editing too. Who pays for that?

Nothing creates a healthy ecosystem of knowledge exchange more than people being fairly compensated for their knowledge and hard work.
Trying to sign-up, but never received SMS message. I hope it's not for US only mobiles.
I actually spoke to a SkyDrive team member about this one. The root problem is that once you have a truly shared folder, it takes up both people's quota (it has to, otherwise you could link a lot of free accounts to get extra space). The way it is implemented now makes it an explicit operation to move something to your skydrive, so you know the quota implications up-front. That said, they are trying to figure out a better solution for this.

Ironically (or not), this is the reason I quit Dropbox, because they do not warn you that a shared folder will ruin your quota. Someone shared 50GB of photos, it started syncing, maxed the quota, and resulted in some important documents never making it to the cloud.

Neither is an ideal solution. Nobody's solved this problem yet.

Edit: The other reason was security; auto-sync is an excellent vector for malware to enter the system. Get into one person's skydrive, infect their shared folders, rinse and repeat.
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Listen to this wise being. Never try to motivate others into learning something you yourself are passionate about without the use of a good spell checker. Even then, you best make sure the words you use are the right ones!
Neglecting: Throwing little more than a new coat of paint on something and incrementing the version number.

And what has that $100m annually produced? The Ribbon interface? New themes?

You might argue Office 365, but I see that as a desperate reaction to the cannibalization Google Docs is causing them, not an innovation.
The underlying motivation is to write it specifically for a few people, whose current way of working I know, and who have asked me for some information on zsh. If it were not for them, I would not have written it, since I don't add anything new, just summarize in a different way.

Having written it, though, I thought I might share it. For most people, like me, the timing has to be right to try something new. You have to have the time and the motivation and everything else. By sharing it, I hope to hit some people with the right timing (and based on some comments, upvotes, etc, I know I did).

I must have seen 20 Haskell advocacy posts before I actually tried writing something in it. Same with you for some new technologies?
The guy you can thank for the multi-edit-streams is Pavel Curtis. I got to sit down and chat with him about the development of the calculus involved and all I can say is the guy is a genius period.
I hope you do not get downvoted, for providing a different point of view. However, I think the important thing to look at is the ratio of useful input on this site to "selling stuff". With patio11, it's very high: he provides tons of useful advice and information, and rarely out and out just "sells stuff". So when he does... well, great, good for him, let's hope it works out!

If on the other hand, someone only comments to promote their own products, I'd look a bit more askance at that.
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>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's not how it works. People complain about beta software all the time.

Case in point, Siri, after it's introduction.
transit directions never worked outside the US.
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Whoa, that post made the rounds of the functionalerati long before Bret became famous for his kill math and kill programming stuff.
Does anyone else find irony that Tim Cook shares a last name with James Cook?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=cooks+map
There was an observation made that the cost of an e-reader would cross below the cost of a single text book (I think the calculus math book is $60) and would replace all the books used by the student for 8 years. The math was pretty straight forward.

EDIT: I just looked up Prentice Hall's high school texts on Amazon [1] and they range from a couple in the $45 dollar range but most clustering around $100.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&...
Well, I was obviously playing on "hexadecimal" which isn't great itself; it's a mish-mash of Latin and Greek, and should probably be "deca" instead of "deci" anyway. Regardless, it can't be worse than those stupid resolution acronyms like WUQXVGA which are, for some inexplicable reason, still managing to survive.
agreed, it took a while before I realized it was fiction.

good story, though.
HN doesn't talk a lot about Microsoft Office, but it's by far the world's dominant software application. American adults spend 35 billion hours in Office every year, compared to 15 billion hours in Facebook, and 30 million PowerPoint presentations are created every day. Any service that handles document collaboration, such as Dropbox or Box, is dealing mostly with Microsoft Office files in the enterprise.

Shameless plug here, since we tackle the same problem: People want to collaborate in real-time, but they also want to use the standard Microsoft Office applications that they already know how to use (well, maybe not the HN crowd, but the corporate crowd). The way people use Office today is completely broken, with filenames like "Marketing_v133_Tuesday_v4_Final_ReallyFinal.pptx" being emailed back and forth in a Lynchian version control nightmare.

We're trying to go one step further with LiveLoop -- instead of bringing "save and sync" functionality to the desktop applications like SkyDrive, we bring true keystroke-by-keystroke real-time editing to Office. The first product we support is PowerPoint and we just launched two weeks ago.

You can find us at http://getliveloop.com .
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I hope this is all automated :)

This seems very tightly coupled to the front end webapp? Do you guys have a completely different system for backend services? Or is there a level of abstraction that isn't being revealed?
for the float issue, I did find this:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=133474

it may be a dupe of an older bug, but I got tired of looking.

It's worth noting that it does not render as stated in Firefox (Mac or Win) or IE9 (in IE9 or compatibility modes).

IE9 puts the entire h1 below the floated content. Firefox is partway between IE and Chrome and moves the "This" off to the right side but puts the rest of the h1 below the floated content. Safari is the only browser that renders like the "old" screenshot with floated content and the h1 overlapping (and I would bet this change was made at the webkit level, so webkit nightly and eventually safari will lay out like chrome).

I avoid floated content whenever possible, so I can't comment on which browser has the correct rendering. That every browser renders differently doesn't speak well for the state of the float spec, though :) It looks like it's the negative top margin of the element after the floated content that is the root of the disagreement, and that particular case may just be under- or unspecified.
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I just added it to http://coursebacon.com (a side project of mine).

As a side note, the popularity/ scoring algo will run tonight:
http://coursebacon.com/tutorials/43-capybara-2-0-upgrade-gui...
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News trying to cut "live" reporting.
I feel like this is really irresponsible for a news channel to try to cut events from a live reporting.
I took significant pleasure in downvoting your troll and even more at having a karmic position sufficient to openly gloat about it.
Is this a case where the bug presents a better solution than the intended design?

Your last sentence is reassuring that the developers appreciate this too.
Skydrive is great! I use it on my Macbook, iPhone and Win8(desktop)! The syncing is almost seamless now, works great through all ecosystems, and it is much easier to organize your documents on the Web and on the OS! Unlike GoogleDrive, which is a mess to deal with and try to organize your documents! The sharing options are also much better with Skydrive!
I ran into the z-index issue yesterday with an internal application that uses Twitter Bootstrap. It had been working perfectly for months, and then became unusable. After the new Chrome was pushed out, Bootstrap's modal dialogs were hidden behind the backdrop and therefore inaccessible.

It might have been an edge case related to the layout of this application, but ultimately I ended up having to patch bootstrap.js to fix it. I felt bad about editing bootstrap, but should anyone else need a temporary(?) fix, it came down to this code in bootstrap.js

this.$backdrop = $('<div class="modal-backdrop ' + animate + '" />')

- .appendTo(document.body)

+ .insertAfter(this.$element)

That change had been discussed even before the Chrome changes, here

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/3825

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3217

So, is this a Chrome bug, or a new spec that's being followed?
If Google had started their mapping service by removing working maps for tens of millions of people it would have been a major disaster too.
Package installation is a known pain point in python. The problem is one of a plethora of half-baked solutions.

For now, you can get most of the way by trying 'pip install X' or 'easy_install X', but there are important edge cases.

It's being worked on for Python 3's next big release, last I heard.
One of my profs in undergrad had been programming since the 1950s (no joke). He'd start writing something on the board in, say, C, and by the time he was finished with the code it would have FORTRAN and Lisp in it as well.

Awesome teacher, though.
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Funny thing is that, if you use the Chrome Developer tools on the first example "Floats don’t push block content down" and select in the source the <h1>, the tools highlight the position where the <h1> should be, and not the position it actually is. (a picture is better than a long explanation sometime: http://imgur.com/d5xnj )
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It varies a lot. During one of the big thrice-yearly compos, your posts will fall off the main page within minutes (but there are tons of people reading), between compos a post might stay on the front page for a few days (but no one is checking the site). During the other events like a Mini-LD and the Oct. challenge it's somewhere in between.
I appreciate the documentation of this, because it provides a possible reason to some things suddenly breaking despite no relevant change in code.

In a complex code-base, there can be a lot to blame, but it's nice to have some plausible explanation.
In all fairness, it's hard to improve without impetus. Madden (all sports, really) releases a new edition every year that's largely the same as the year before. Look at iOS6.

That said, some of MS's divisions could really use some turnover.
> I'm still unclear what the standard method for managing these is.

If only this was just a documentation issue. Alas, the reason is that there is no standard method. Here's a short practical article on how to install Python packages and get on with your life: http://dubroy.com/blog/so-you-want-to-install-a-python-packa.... For a longer historical perspective of this whole clusterfuck check out http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/22/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/
> If you live in the Valley, I'm sure it's fine, in fact I'm sure it's great

The Menlo Park public library is shown located on top of the train tracks in Palo Alto, so no.
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They didn't say "cycle * hz" in their blurb anywhere, so I wasn't talking about it. I'll grant that it's a more sensible way of describing what's going on (although I think "cycles per second" sounds a little more natural, despite being equivalent), but it's unfortunately not what they actually said.
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No not at all. Most of the LOB applications you see these days work very well in most browsers. Ours works in Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari perfectly and is entirely plugin free. I've not seen an ActiveX for about 5 years and that was a file upload control. All our fugly desktop integration is done with a broker application which runs on the user's machine and talks to local COM objects via web services. You see an occasional fugy J2EE page or a WebForms page but mostly, it's pretty spankingly good looking and works well. This is financial sector stuff as well which is the worst market for heel-dragging.

Corporations fear things breaking. Retraining is rarely an issue for a browser upgrade. However, if someone pushes out a crap Chrome update like this and an LOB application goes pop then heads roll. Chrome is entirely out of band from their normal operations and skill sets so it just doesn't even get considered. It also has dubious unpredictable support lifecycles and a rate of change which would scare anyone. To use a car analogy: they want a 3 year old Volvo, not a 6 month old Tesla.
But it's not simply a question of money and having skilled people move to the highest bidder. The difference here is that we have high unemployment rates across the country, high unemployment for new grads, and a relatively small STEM workforce.

Throwing money at this issue only moves the same group of smart, educated, and skilled people from the same level of jobs. That's not the problem. The problem is that the supply of these talented people is small because the lower education is weak.

Finally, I think it's interesting you advised someone stay out of STEM but out of the "banking/consulting/law/medicine" you mentioned, only law is not explicitly STEM. Banking and consulting still have elements of Mathematics and Medicine is still very much in the realm of Science.
> They seem to be using a automated scanning program to flag content.

And when the content gets flagged, what do you think happens next? Don't you think that, at some level, there will be a human involved?
One thing I love about the hacker culture is that it functions like a (somewhat dysfunctional) meritocracy. Software that is good will often gain kudos, and bad software will be torn apart in critiques.

This fails when it comes to large companies as old biases and conspiracy theories tend to kick in, but still, when Microsoft does something good, eventually people will fess up and write good things about it. It's definitely one of the nicer things about communities like this.
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Usually they have a background in marketing, biz dev or a combination of both is killer.
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I was trying to say that maybe total surveillance would feel less bad than occasional surveillance, since you would be forced to "get used to it" from an early age, and for things where there are no particular consequences other than embarassment, maybe that would be an improvement.

(Yet, that only applies if you assume the oversight is only for spotting criminals and the guides for criminal activity exactly agree with your own, and the system is fair).
> But the question is, why is Google acting like judge and executioner?

Because there are lots of people who make sites that are essentially pirate content + ads and there are lots of people who will sue Google if they find them sending money to a pirate site.

I'm assuming this was an algorithmic mistake, but you can understand how it's hard for them to research the copyright status of each thing. I mean, hypothetically, what if this guy was lying about it being his own work, or the copyright was disputed by someone? Google ends up in the middle of it and there's no real upside for them, because there are a lot of people who are quite simply out to get Google over copyrights.
And by making the experience horrible to everyone else, they ensure the majority of their userbase is on Windows.

What's disappointing is that this indicates they never tested it on out-of-the-box Macs as they all come with case-sensitive filesystems by default. It says a lot about Microsoft's QA.
I've been looking for a rich text editor for linux - I got sick of OpenOffice's load times (47sec) and seeing Oracle's logo.

It was inconceivable to me that MS has a webapp version of Word. Unfortunately, it takes 27sec to load a document (in chrome, slower in firefox).

Abiword takes only 7sec (though the rendering is bit buggy sometimes, and it doesn't selects words when you x2 click).
Did you read the entire article? I thought it made sense.

Google is adding features to it's own mobile OS maps app while withholding those features from it's competitor. Google offered to include the features in exchange for ads and customer data, two things Apple has always tried to minimize. Apple historically defaults to accepting the pain of adopting new technology too early as opposed to too late.
Fair point - I agree there.
I could reverse that and say how horrible git and svn are on Windows for the same reason (have you ever dealt with a repo that has a file Test.cs and test.cs ?)

It's just an incompatibility you have to live with.
Did anyone else find that all their extensions disappeared?
Right, agreed. Services really were the hardest part of it, come to think of it. In this particular case, I was setting up the server for an intended non-private network.
You've just done a better job of marketing grove in two sentences than grove has ever done itself. That's really the point. As it stands, grove.io markets itself as $10/month for 5 users to chat.

The first two words anyone is going to read on grove.io: "Hosted IRC".

Right about there, 80% of people are going to ask "What's IRC?". It's never explained.

"and so much more." Like what?

"plus additional features"... uh...?

"Why Grove is better". Better than what?

Oh look, a feature. Almost, if not completely on some screens, below the fold. "Archives and search"... of what?

Finally, "chat logs". Oh, it's something to do with chat. Well, I already have that!

If anyone even bothers to look at pricing, they're going to wonder why they want to pay somebody for all this.

Meanwhile, at least half the people who already know what IRC is are unimpressed. "IRC? Who uses that anymore? We have IM now. It's free. I even have logs.". Oops. Same problem.

Edit: Meanwhile, an experienced IRC user like me: I run irssi in screen on a reliable server. All my channels and private messages are logged, and I know how to use grep. What's grove for again?
I don't understand your problem.

A startup is simply a company trying to get off the ground. Once it is established with customers, a product and a stable source of revenue, no matter how small (or big) it is or how much growth it is experiencing, it is no longer a startup. It is an established company.

Frankly, I don't understand people who try to widen the definition of startups to include nearly every non-public company on the planet.
I've also noticed issues with animations in Chrome 22. Everything is prefixed properly and works well in other Webkit browsers like Safari. Chrome doesn't even run the animation, it just flashes and shows up.

Anybody else have this issue?