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I'm certainly not a jQuery fanboy, but jQuery's DOM-manipulation functions are certainly more concise and abstract away some of the funky internals (NodeLists, etc.).

That said, I've always found jQuery's function naming to be particularly ambiguous. There's no indication that "find" searches an element's descendants for a matching CSS selector based on its name. On the other hand, vanilla JS's element.getElementsByTagName is so much more verbose. Back in the day I found PrototypeJS [0] to be much better organized and offer the same feature set, but it's largely fallen out of use since Rails dropped it. mootools is nice but the docs, while comprehensive, are arranged in no logical order. Every time I try to pick up mootools I end up running around the docs in circles.

tl;dr jQuery is overblown but I think there's room for improvement over vanilla JS.

Plus there's always the (literally) hundreds of plugins for every possible application of jQuery.

[0] http://prototypejs.org
Ask HN: How do YC/Techstars partners get compensated?
I assume it is a % of the returns and different per person, but is this vested? Is it only the delta of the companies since that partner joined?
The words "in my opinion", "I think", "I cant" and "For me it seems" are sorely lacking in your post.

The beauty of flat design is in many ways counter to the points you made. For example they can look warm, inviting and polished. Of course they look unfinished when done improperly, just like anything else.

Skeumoprhism as well can be done with very little CSS, lots of efficiency and in a modern way, and if done properly it does not have to be "stuck in the past". The part about that it does not leave room for new UI elements comes down to design. If designed properly the website should accomodate alterations in the same way ant other style might. "Old UI clashing with New UI" comes down to design again. No style can help a bad design.

Your points on what design should be centered around seems to be purely your own opinion. I like my buttons with sharp corners. I like strong gradients where appropriate, I like loud design elements as they help grab attention, and I very much like strong colors. There is nothing wrong with using pure white, as it is in many instances the appropriate thing to use for content, style and design. If the whites hurt your eyes, may I suggest you adjust your screen?

90% of what you said boils down to design. If a design starts out terrible, it will most often stay terrible. It does not matter if it is flat design or skeumorphism.
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Shouldn't Facebook be allowed to do what it likes? Regulating how an internet company chooses to run its product is very worrying.
Per violation. If they keep violating they keep paying and under my limited knowledge of the German law, repeated violations can go criminal.
Working at a software company that builds portal software for banks. We are not a startup, we are building enterprise software, software that runs on premise and is not sold as SaaS.

However, HN is great inspiration and a valuable source. IMHO enterprise software or enterprise is the market place that is missing innovation and real challengers. More and more companies should fight the status quo and challenge the big dominators (e.g. IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, HP). And I hope to see 2013 as the year where we see more Y Combinator startups and also HN discussion around startups that do exactly this.
Sometimes the API is more convenient. Also, it's so widely used that it's often easier to find samples and documentation on how to do something with jquery than it is without using jquery, even where the plain javascript solution isn't really that much more complex.

A modern, more minimalist alternative would be a nice thing, but at the moment I think jQuery is probably still a good bet for simple cases.
Hum... interesting I do the same thing but with rail roads and only software (Desktop software) we use other people sensors and GPSs( thanks God our problem is 2D, yours is a lot harder)

The Company software is planning the train routes so 15k tons trains filled with gas don't crash into another 15k tons train filled with iron ore in the middle of a city.

It's not a startup but we are only 30 people and half are administrative roles, so we are pretty small.
Cool. Reminds me of the old Amiga demo days and many nights spent perfecting "Fire" demos.
This seems like a trivial thing to abuse (and I'm sure many do).

I used to think the same of Netflix DVDs when I had the 5 out service. For the life of that subscription I had 2 never show up. I talked to the CSR and he assured me they keep track of these things.
In this case the fraudster was logged in to an Amazon account. They created a new account using the alternative e-mail address and set the address differently to the original account.

They then claimed that the original account was lost due to the e-mail address being "hacked" and that they needed the order numbers. They then used the order numbers to request a replacement using their new account.
I had a strange issue with my Amazon account a while back where I couldn't log in and when I finally could, all my account history was lost. I can't recall if it was my mistake (I've used dot-emails before), but this definitely reminds me of it.

As a Canadian shopper, the abuse of these shipping depots is a bit concerning to me, as I've used one of the depots mentioned in the post. These are such high volume shipping locations (to so many different addressees), I'm sure Amazon has shipped tonnes of orders to these locations and I'm wondering if they've investigated them before? These centers are very easy targets for abuse and I know Nike keeps a database of these addresses and blacklist them.

I'm not sure if they do it to prevent grey market exports or fraud, but (from a consumer perspective), I hope Amazon doesn't go this route.
This is really fun and bizarre. Unable to really say anything, I find myself trying to communicate structure by my action. I've been trying things like: holding my block in one place, trying to stick to somebody else's block, joining the builders.

I think there's an interesting idea here of multiplayer games with highly limited expression, but with some need for them to communicate through whatever limited means.
"The Thorium fuel produces U232..." Yup, which is one of its nicest features. It means that the U233 is unlikely to be used for weapons. And since it never leaves the well shielded containment area in a LFTR, there is no hazard.

If the kettle is breached in the LFTR, the salt will probably just condense on any small break and seal it. If the break is large, the salt drains into a drain tank which is still in the shielded containment volume. No worries, mate! Oh, and since there is no significant pressure and no volatile chemicals like liquid sodium, there are no forces trying to disperse the materials. Inherently MUCH safer than any PWR or LMFR.
Mental illness and how I had brain surgery to increase empathy/stability
Must be the only designer/project manager here. Working fulltime and running a startup selling people http://royaltyfreemodels.nl/
It was pretty clear they made a profit from reading the top paragraph saying $3 per unit was the total cost, and the first block of numbers said they averaged $3.89 in payments. So, that's $0.89 x 85,000 profit. I figured the rest was a story leading up to a good punchline.
On the side, I'm building experimental composite frames for quadrotors. If I come up with something usable, I plan on selling them to the quadrotor FPV community. Not really a startup, but hopefully a profitable side business.

Most high performance quadrotor frames are made out of carbon fiber. This makes them expensive, brittle, prone to horrible vibrations and not so great for RF interference. I'm basically tooling around in my garage with new combinations of composites to see if I can replace CF with something else. =)

I'm ex-biology and a year ago worked in a wet-bench neuroscience lab.
You sure about this? My interpretation is that they chose one site to test the case in court and will then if successful go after the others.
That is a complete misunderstanding of the word model. Models are tools to help describe expected behaviour given a plethora of assumptions - they are not there to perfectly predict what can and will happen.

The idea that a model can do so has caused innumerable problems of late and it is frustrating to hear such myths perpetuated.
Using AirPlay and HDMI in iOS apps. #Objective C #coding.
Where are you based? I'd love to talk to you about a full time role.
The change in policy is demanded by the "Independent State Centre for Data Protection, Schleswig-Holstein", a public institution of a constituent state, but not a court of law.

It will probably go through all the court instances, before a conclusion is reached. So let's talk about it next year.
Long on AAPL? Hopefully not since September!
I actually like long verbose names. Unfortunately, plain JS names are often long, verbose and unclear, so that's not a win. (e.g. document.querySelectorAll - that should have made some reference to css; and "all" should be implicit as it is the norm in CSS).

I'd love to see a JS library that doesn't try to add a lot of functionality, but only decruftify the browser API.

The right aim would be to end up with a complete API that might actually replace the normal JS api (DOM+otherwise) in actual browsers.
Same here. Profitable two year old hardware startup in niche distributed antenna systems and M2M www.RFvenue.com
Sounds cool. Fellow FPV'er here. I think this hobby will explode in popularity really soon, if that isn't already happening.
I'm an engineering and physics student. Did some of my first Javascript last week helping with the Numbers.js project I saw on here . . .
I guess it's a technicality, but I work for an e-commerce company that has it's roots in brick and mortar stores. We actually run four B&M stores and a fifth outlet-style location. We were the first in our industry to have an e-commerce site, before "start-up" was even a term.

Our shop runs a wide range of technologies. I work mostly with Python, Javascript, CSS (Sass/Compass), HTML, PHP, MongoDB, and various SQL systems.
Ask HN: Is there a good guide to the Internet that I can buy for my Dad?
Hi everyone, I've been searching for a good book that introduces key internet concepts and has some fun and interesting things to do on the net.
My Dad has just started using the internet with the family laptop and he knows how to email, but I want something that will show him the true power of the net.
I couldn't really find a book that fits the bill. Does anyone know of any?
Law is law. If there can be laws against sharing copyrighted works or child porn why not the law against soliciting from people their real names?
I'm an English teacher in Japan. I only started reading Hacker News because one of my private students -- an IT guy who needs to improve his English to keep up with the cutting edge -- got me interested.

I'm a computer nerd at heart, but that's not where life has taken me so far. Maybe one day I'll end up like snugglethorpe, or maybe I'll go back to my home country and do something like what MalphasWats is doing, but currently my day job involves teaching rooms full of surly Japanese teenagers how to use the passive voice.

But I do know Javascript. And JQuery. And Haskell. And C+++. And....
Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy
I am pretty sure it might take more than one year since this should end up in the European Court.
Looks like I've found a very nice todo for the winter break.
I'm just saying to treat it like webgl: a recent feature exposing un-hardened code to network assault that only allows recent/whitelisted drivers. It scales pretty well and puts the burden of network safety where it should be, on the application pulling in network data. If you blocked all potentially-weak code just because someone might feed in network data you'd end up with a brick.
I work at the European offices of a major Asian electronics company. Little web or start-up about my work. The skew on web start-ups on HN is just buzz, I don't click on half the links.
I'm a developer working on enterprise-level software that's been around 18 years. Talk about legacy code! It's gone from a C++ Windows Desktop/Server app, to ASP, to C#/ASP.NET, to now a SAAS C#/ASP.NET/WCF system.
If you operate in a country you still have to follow that countries laws. Being an 'internet company' doesn't change that.

Now for this specific case, whether Facebook has offices in Germany or if they sell to Germans, I don't know but if any of those are true they may have to abide by by these laws.

Also, no, no company should be allowed to do what it likes.
Nice project...

I am also an ex-biologist and 4 years ago was working with Sugar Cane genetic engineering and Bioinformatics, it's sad that here in Brazil they pay you s* to research like that and a lot to program in Java.

So here I am.
Bootstrapping a product company, but looking for consulting gig to keep going
I am a founder and CTO of a product, which has slowly gained traction. We are bootstrapping. To keep me going and product dev continue, i am looking to offer consulting help.

I can do product architecture, hands on coding on major web technology platform. Any takers? please contact me on sid4it@gmail.com
Your blog is fun. We need more elder perspective around.
One thing about this DRM method that worries me is what happens in the future?

I still occasionally play my ooooold copy of simcity 2000. So if I do like the new simcity, what happens ten years down the line? Will I still be able to play it? Or will I not be able to authenticate/save/access old saves because the official simcity server was taken offline?

It seems to me that we are buying digital products with an expiration date. And that seems wrong to me.
I'm off to take the final exam for my first-ever finance class [1]. It's an upper-level undergraduate engineering course taught by a mathematician. Possibly some of the most difficult math I have done!

[1] Based on this book: http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Finance-Mathematica...
I noticed awhile back that Instagram branding was appearing in television commercials, such as recent Taco Bell ads about Doritos Locos. If companies are using Instagram content for branding it makes sense to try to change the license agreement to capitalize if you're focused on monetizing an acqusition. As we've seen, however, it will certainly anger a solid chunk of the user base.

Nick Tran, social media lead for Taco Bell talks a bit about the campaign in the below article: "http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/content/13959.html
The perl source repository quite many historic releases also, and the first few commit messages also contain the accompanying release notes.

See for example https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611... for the perl 1.0 annoucement (click on the [...] link to get the full commit message).
Speculation: They probably force the supplier or courier to foot the bill. Maybe sack the delivery driver with a carefully vague intimation that they've been stealing?
I make desktop content creation software (mostly video stuff), and have been doing my dinky startup thing with that for about 7 years now.

Right now I'm trying to finish a web multimedia design app called Radi:
http://radiapp.com

It's at version 0.9.6, so that means it's 96% done, right? :D
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Google, Israel Antiquities Authority launch Dead Sea Scrolls digital library
Conciseness  Verbosity  Leaky
Could be the subject of a good eBook that could be kept reasonably up to date as time (and the key sites of interest) passed.

Otherwise - why not just email him a link every day until he is a confident Internet voyager?
I'm an undergraduate Engineering Student. About 16000 undergrads in my University.
EDIT:
I also know javascript
Show HN: My crazy EOTW weekend project
THQ evaluating Linux
Social Proof can be a Bad Thing
Seems very slow in firefox, can't keep up with my typing and missed the characters inbetween.

Not sure if it's supposed to just say 'Loading...' at the top the whole time either..
In a word/acronym, RTOS. Its forest of O(1) algos and insane low latency reliable guaranteed response.

The joy of (hardware related) spinlocks and related contention control algos that non-embedded systems would resolve with the reset button and/or blaming the operator.

Mergers of a lot of classical engineering control theory and computer science (although not limited solely to embedded).

I don't think anyone in industry writes mathematically provably correct software except embedded aerospace.

As much as it pains me to say it, on a multidecade basis, exception handling and testing seems to be retreating to life-critical embedded work, even if in the rest of the biz those topics get a lot of PR.

I think they're writing about "real" embedded like the space shuttle autopilot as opposed to "its just a PC w/ PC app, but not typical PC hardware and outside a cubicle" like an asterisk appliance or a linux based small NAS appliance.
"I don't know which is worse... that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low." - Hobbes (from Calvin and Hobbes)
Haha yeah, that's why my dayjob is as a software engineer. I feel your pain
I build internal web applications and services for an insurance company. Not a startup, but not a big company either. We like to play with technology a lot, and since we're a JVM shop we've been sneaking in some Clojure apps. The core products we're working with may be boring, but we keep the job sharp and interesting.
There is a difference between a contract that "Joe can use this" and one that says "Joe can let anyone use it". Sure, if Mary uses it Joe can say "She's just using it for me", but UNLIKE code, the law is not completely decimated by a single loophole. Judges and juries can see through blatant abuses and rule that the contract did not cover that use. ("Can", not "will", but even the chance is enough: a 1% chance of losing a 100-million dollar class-action lawsuit is a million dollar cost, plus legal fees.)
good joke, ha ha.
Highly unlikely. I live in a small country (Ireland), without any nuclear forces or advanced military. Even the police force aren't armed (except for a special branch), and they have one helicopter. I stand a much better chance against that than you do against the US armed forces.
What's wrong with web?
the VZs are dead, wer-kennt-wen is also dying and not using real names on XING does not make much sense IMO. I guess, they only care about the real big fish in the pond for now.
Bad channels & the wrong customers
>having had to had a broken Kindle replaced whilst on holiday //

What would the negative repercussions of Amazon only shipping to the original verified shipping address have been - waiting a week to get your free replacement kindle?

I'd say it's ridiculous to re-ship to a different address based on an unverified claim of non-delivery; especially for high-cost items.
Agreed. Components are just getting cheaper and cheaper. The biggest obstacle right now is information and experience, in my opinion. All the good information is locked up in billion-page forum posts. I've considered writing a bunch of in-depth tutorials and info-guides...but just haven't found the time.

Experience...well, you just have to crash a few times because the servo is installed backwards before you really understand =)
Technical translator freelancer here, looking to do a patio11-style consultancy startup sometime in the near future. Maybe not as successfully, but hey, there's gotta be a really long tail there.
Apple v. Samsung: No injunction for Apple, no new trial for Samsung
Because you're not forcing people to register for the service.

"Law is Law" - my point is that this shouldn't be the law.
At Flickr, your photos are always yours (2011)
Why refactoring?
You mean should we abolish all laws? No, no we shouldn't.
Ask HN: Where can I find iOS developers willing to join an early-stage startup?
I'm co-founding a startup in London and we're looking to find an iOS developer interested in working with us.

I'm the technical co-founder, while the other founders are business and design respectively. I'll be doing the majority of the development work, but looking for an iOS developer since I've not got any previous experience creating iOS apps and need progress to be fast.

I'm wondering whether there are any guys here that can help hook us up with a freelance iOS developer or agency willing to accept equity (or a possible salary/lump-sum) to work on creating a prototype with us.
Depends. Some countries empower the local data protection commission to make binding injunctions forcing a company/person to do/not do a thing. I know Ireland has this. No idea of Germany, but presume it's similar.
Up now :) (13:28)

Looks nice, always fun to see hardware making it on the frontpage.
Windows 7 is perfectly suited as an enterprise solution. Based on how many companies still use XP - I think we've got a good 10 more years of use from win 7.

Once it is no longer tenable to use it, you'd better hope microsoft have developed a usable windows version for offices, because I don't think live tiles updating me on my social network is exactly a selling point in an enterprise solution...
A very good introduction to how a computer works from the inside, but you need to know the syntax of Verilog to really understand the code you wrote, any way it gives a general feel to people outside the VHDL domain, like me who is a systems integrator and designer I work at a 30,000 feet view on assembly upto C, C++, PHP and DotNet.
Depends. Some countries empower the local data protection commission to make binding injunctions forcing a company/person to do/not do a thing. I know Ireland has this. No idea of Germany, but presume it's similar.

So, yes, this might have the same legal force as a court injunction.
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Are you aware of a good jQuery -> Javascript guide? I learnt jQuery years ago, as I was advised to avoid the mess which is browser configurations, in particular there was problems attaching triggers. Given I would count IE9 as a "new" browser...
I'm still finding that JQuery makes for much more concise and readable code, especially for chaining operations on groups of elements or xhr.
Thanks guys. I was (hoping) he would have figured out a way to submit half-way bookmarklet links so someone else clicking on it would be the official submitter. But when clicking on the link I was disappointed :)
"Once you have 50k employees worldwide, Ubuntu does not cut it" - yep, it costs too much. No... wait, it's free. There's no deployment tools... no... wait, there are... There's no good office softw... nevermind. No one has ever... wait, there's that town in Germany. I give up. Why isn't Ubuntu suitable? It even comes with an RDP client so you can use Windows-only programs remotely...
I would presume that they will have to change their policies soon if this is the new interpretation of the law.
No of course not. But regulating such a ridiculous issue is a waste of money and anti-competitive.
>>"Apple who are insisting on keeping OSX and iOS separate."

Is this the case? I see OSX and ios slowly merging into eachother. Just look at the launchpad screen or whatever it is in osx, it looks and swipes over just like an iPad, with all your apps right there. I would be very surprised if these worlds didn't converge.
In addition to whatever you find and think up (and it would be nice of you to post what you find later) ...

Set your Dad up with a blog - blogger, wordpress, posterous, tumbler ...

Discovery is very different when you're a participant rather than a mere consumer.
undergrad student. I am interested in your average HN-ish stuffs, startups, web, mobile apps, but I mainly code in C#, JS and PHP, still looking for a field to jump into
Regulating privacy is not a "ridiculous issue" in my opinion. Many countries have laws regulating privacy.
They have offices in Germany (albeit not in Schleswig-Holstein, as far as I know, though close to it, in Hamburg).