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My takeaway:

Their new service organises a blind date for you at your choice of location. An hour before the date an anonymous IM session is started so you can find the other party. After the date, you 'buy' (not sure what that means in this context) "Kudo points" for the other person based on how successful the date was. People with more points are more likely to get future dates etc.

The article is concerned about the gamification of dating.
Further evidence that we all commit numerous felonies a day I suppose.

You would be remiss to not even attempt a defence of such a 'crime'.
Let's clarify the question.

"Does anyone have any insight as to why vertical centering of dynamic-height content is the way it is?"

Yes. The original standards committee created a layout model (block, inline, and inline-block elements) that (they felt) adequately balanced language complexity with features. It's easy to idiomatically achieve vertical centering. http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/10/

"Does anyone have any insight as to why people that code CSS complain about it so much?"

This is a much deeper question, but one that I think is far more informative. Having done front-end engineering for 10 years, across industries, and in very pricey and exclusive consultancies, I have never found another engineer who had read the bulk of the CSS spec, or even a book about it, for that matter.

Developers, the ones with the mind and experience to bring technical discipline to CSS and create a set of idiomatic patterns (both low-level and high-level), treat CSS as a second-rate citizen. The bulk of the rest of the CSS userbase consists of visual design types (coming from print or graphic design), where the tools of the trade are physical pen and paper, or something from Adobe Creative Suite. The remaining portion of the userbase are equally non-technical hobbyists.

This is the real problem of CSS. Those that have the mindset to devise idiomatic conventions to the community don't think the language is worth it. At best, you have semi-experienced developers duct-taping various non-idiomatic ideas together and giving it a fancy name.
>Chomsky presumes that the US and US foreign policy are evil

Tending towards an anarchist position, he presumes all concentrated power is bad. On what metric is the US government and foreign policy (like any) a clear, unequivocal 'good'? Take Vietnam for example. You seem to have enough issues yourself with overarching, expanding state power, but think these issues stop at the border?

But Chomsky has never called the US, it's government, or it's foreign policy 'evil'. Care to refute a position he has actually taken?. I don't believe he has any bias against the US, it obviously attracts most attention because of it's place as the world's current superpower (and as such holds the most power too).
Take a look at this.

http://paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/

Specifically the Performance section.
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Nice! I like the game-centric approach; it's what I loved about 106a.

I'll definitely pass it along to my brother.
First example that comes to mind (although not a tech company) is TechCrunch with Arrington running the editorial side and hiring a CEO. That seemed to work well for a while.
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The negotiations were over whether he should serve any jail time at all.
The key bit is where Rep Issa says “whether or not there was excessive prosecution is something we’ll look at.” This means, thankfully, that we'll be seeing some form of congressional investigation of Aaron's prosecution.

Confirmed here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/darrell-issa-aaron-...
I haven't worked with tables and this much, so I can't speak for that.
How? How can Congress affect a US attorney once confirmed, unless by impeachment? I guess that a committee could call in the attorney for hearings, but how likely is that?
So now you know how to make the front page!
The fact that you don't understand my perspective on an issue, or have decided to put everyone in the world into a "with me" or "against me" bucket, does not mean I'm being inconsistent. I wouldn't bother to respond to a comment like this except that this is such a common pathology it might be helpful to call it out.

What makes this pathology even more annoying is that it suggests we'd rather have punching bags than discussions. It's as if any place we agree on the issues, and any progress we make towards agreement, is something to be mad about.

My guess is you've put me in the "thinks Aaron should have gone to prison" bucket, and thus we disagree about what should or shouldn't be criminalized. But we do not now nor have we ever disagreed that Aaron didn't deserve prison time for downloading journal articles (for fuck's sake). People who steal credit cards online have received suspended sentences.

And if you find anyone anywhere writing online that is making a coherent effort to argue on behalf of criminal sentencing, I'd sure love to know about it.
and what if your whole site is dynamic? varnish doesn't do anything.
Comment in elaboration, somewhat delayed because (all evidence to the contrary) I do sleep sometimes:

Some folks mentioned that this could be misleading, so to clarify: my research methodology, to the extent it can be called that, was a) open up the IM website, b) take a look at their advertiser partner wall (they don't have a developer partner wall, so I wasn't able to view the end-user experience directly), c) Google the first name that popped out: [babylon translation software], d) clicked the first link and downloaded, e) clicked past the first screen, which let me override my system default of Japanese such that y'all would be able to read the rest of the installer, where industry experience suggested to me that the action would be.

Sorry if I gave folks the impression that this was the InstallMonetizer application -- the impression I was trying to leave was "This is the core line of business for one of their marquis advertisers."
In my experience, it's not as terrible when things "break" in Chrome, FF or Safari, as it is when they break in IE.
I'm guessing that's because saying something like "X signatures needed" creates an easier metric for people to know when a petition will get responded to.

"Top X/month" would assume that they would choose a time of the month when they would compare and respond to those which is probably not the way things work(they respond to things as they get around to them, whenever that is and as fast as possible).
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Does it actually work? Any experiences?
Or the extreme resource imbalance between prosecution and defendant that makes the threat of trial all the more powerful. What about at least:

1. Maximum sentence cannot be more than twice any offered plea bargain.

2. Making the counts non-severable. Or the defense only needs to win half of them to be cleared of all charges. Something needs to discourage stacking on limitless ridiculous charges and hoping some stick.

3. The government needs to cover the expenses for the defense, limited to the amount spent on the prosecution. (this doesn't seem politically palatable, but it needs to be addressed somehow)

Yeah, these things are large meta-issues that aren't a political shoe-in. But pretending that merely amending the CFAA would have prevented this from happening is wishful thinking.

Also, making TOS's inapplicable (which, didn't anyone see this coming with Lori Drew? But I digress..) wouldn't have stopped the prosecution in this case from claiming that simple trespass into an unlocked network closet should be considered felony federal "unauthorized access to communication network".
Way to encourage open communication? Who cares what platform they use as long as they are posting updates, that's better than most sites.
WRT Ortiz vs Heymann: Ortiz has publicly made comments supporting the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, so it's not true that this is a case of the head not knowing what the hands are doing.

Also, I believe---but correct me if I'm wrong---that Heymann is a civil servant and not a politician like Ortiz. He therefore doesn't serve "at the pleasure of the President" and would be more difficult to dismiss.

But I sorta served in the civil service for a little while in that I had a student worker position at the State of Illinois while I was in college. And one thing I know about the bureaucracy is that they are terrified of politics. They know that they can do things that get their boss sacked, and if they do, their career is over. They won't be fired outright, but they will end up sitting at a desk in the copy room.

So the reality is that if Ortiz is sacked, Heymann will be kryptonite in the DAs office, expect him to resign within six months if he has any dignity at all.
Why this is even on the front page?

Someone who doesn't have patience decides that selling apps for money is not for them. Fine.

Entrepreneurship requires a lot of hard work and patience. You need to be resourceful.[1] Big news.

1: http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html
Those were added in 0.9.9, and yes -- they might be useful. If your app tends to have views and models be created and destroyed together on the same cycle, then you don't need to ever `stopListening`. Garbage collection just works as it should.

The new-ish methods are handy when your models live longer then your views do. Because this inversion tracks the listeners on the object that's listening to events, instead of the object that's emitting them, it makes it easier to unbind all of the things a view is listening to, when you want to remove just that view. To that end, `view.remove()` stops listening automatically.
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At first I was interested in Android, really. Mostly because I'm an experienced Java programmer. Out of curiosity I started playing with Objective-C and Xcode and loved it. I was also building some toys for android, but I felt I was not learning anything cool, so I lost interest.

It was more about curiosity, really.
Atheism requires no leap of faith. You can not believe in a god, and operate your life as such, while still acknowledging that you have no proof that there is not god. Nearly every single self described atheist has this position.

On the other than, people who claim to be somehow neither atheist nor theist are being intellectually dishonest to both themselves and everyone else. You operate your life under one of these assumptions.

edit: and for reference, you can either be an agnostic atheist, gnostic atheist, agnostic theist, or gnostic theist. These cover all possibilities as the concepts are defined.
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"Real reform of the CFAA requires two steps (1) a comprehensive rethinking of the statute, esp. since solving the Lori Drew problem would not have saved Aaron and (2) engaging not with the White House, but with Senator Leahy, who is the policy maker most likely to understand and support these efforts. Nevertheless, I'm going to sign this petition. The White House can know what I think."
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-computer-fr...
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I'm unclear on how MIT would have had standing to block a plea deal. The victim doesn't have any legal say in the progress of a criminal prosecution, so you can (say) forgive someone who criminally assaulted you but that won't immunize your attacker from prosecution.
Would be cool to be able to transition between different "sounds" in a "set" - right now you can just tack them together with nothing like a fade in/out.
Awesome! My cofounder and I were actually TAs for that class for the last 3 years before making CodeHS, so a lot of what we've done is inspired by the 106 classes.
Site should be working again. Now I know what slashdotting feels like. Sorry, everybody!
Maybe there should be a new petition to build the Starship Enterprise so the 100k limit can hit by something silly too. Another petition that screams "We know this is a joke to you."
Also written by a fairly notorious former hacker, Kevin Poulson.
I think the counter point would be that if they actually do make positive changes to the laws to reflect their newfound wisdom then perhaps their public pandering will actually be a good thing.

The public just needs to make sure that they do make changes and aren't just happy with them eating crow. Saying shit is broken just to look good does nothing for the people, but if they actually fix shit then they can say whatever they want imo.
Except for the first sentence which has little to no relevance with the advice per se.
Aaron Swartz was ‘killed by government,’ father says at funeral
So essentially - since the thought of potential jailtime makes him suicidal let's just actually put him in jail and stop the suicide. Is that what you are implying? In that case I am speechless. Especially when the point of contention in this case was whether or not the prosecution was over zealous in demanding jail time in the first place.
Its too short, wont pass. Add about 100 pages of junk to it and you might have a shot at getting it passed.
Yep, I remember reading it a long time ago. Quite a fun read.
It's a nice narrow fix and I hope it passes, but the real elephant in the room is 'plea bargaining.' That needs reform at the federal level.
I don't see what problem you're solving by open sourcing, therefore this is just a misguided publicity grab.

* The "open letter" goes from addressing Apple to addressing potential developers.

* What does open-sourcing give you other than people to help you write code for free? You still can't put the app on the app store and therefore can't release it to users.

You can get it on third-party app stores instantly already.

I don't see what problem you're solving by open sourcing, therefore this is just a misguided publicity grab.

If this hiccup is going to stop you creating new things, you're not going to get far.
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OkCupid is still a startup?
I think you just gave them an out.

I hold dr. Abelson in the highest regard but if that were his conclusion I think that might change. Such a conclusion would indicate sloppy work, a single misplaced piece of paper could not have had these consequences within an organization such as MIT. For want of a horseshoe the kingdom was lost, but this is not the 14th century and enough people knew about this case that I highly doubt a single piece of paper could have had that effect.
Why The Attention Barrier Is Killing Your Sales – And How To Fix It
DN interview with Prof Lessig, Harvard Law -- Aaron Swartz's mentor and friend
yep. here's his article[1] which is basically a TLDR (or teaser) for the book, but I'd recommend people read the book without spoilers, more fun (I didn't know the story details when I bought the book).

[1] http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-01/ff_max_bu...
It's fraud.

http://www.stefankendall.com/2013/01/duns-secret-startup-cos...

The press department has been contacting me, but I refuse their calls. DUNS needs to DIE.
To be honest, it seems these days like Apple is trying their best to reduce the number of [small] developers that publish to the App Store.
I have been selling on the app store for close to 3 years, and in the last 6 months, pretty much every thing that somewhat levels the playing field has been taken away by Apple.
The new releases list used to be every apps's chance to be visible for at least 24 - 48 hrs, and if enough people bought your app, it made its way to the top in category list, which in turn gave it visibility as long as people kept buying your app.
Apple has removed the new releases list, and have made it very difficult for people to find the top in category lists. The only prominent lists now, are the hand picked apps in the featured category.
I find it hard to believe that all this is not intentional.
My advise to anyone seeking to develop mobile apps right now? Think it through before you jump in.
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The maximum sentence for a crime is defined by statute, rather than being some special threat by prosecutors. For wire fraud it's 20 years, even if your fraudulent scheme was designed to enrich you by only $1. Sentencing is determined by the court after conviction; it's unlikely that he would have been sentenced to more than a couple of years.

This thing of focusing on the maximum possible sentence is a bad habit inculcated by the media. It's more instructive to look at the median sentence for this kind of crime.
I had an update get pushed in 4 days (two Saturdays ago till the Wednesday after), and just submit a new app this Saturday.

For those interested, here's a shameless plug: http://subvertapps.com/HN - it's a HN reader with, what I think, is the best UI on the App Store for it.

Edit: I should say it's about to come out. Once Apple accepts it. This is more of a sneak-peek.
Would Aaron's Law have helped Aaron? Both Orin Kerr and Jennifer Granick have said that his actions in evading filtering and shutoffs on MIT's networks would have created a plausible argument for the prosecution that he had been evading specific code-based authorization mechanisms and would have known his access was unauthorized.

If you read Reason, you're immediately suspicious of laws with people's names on them; they're often more about PR than about well-thought-out policy changes.

Granick makes pretty good arguments that it's the sentencing structure of CFAA that creates the largest problems (a low evidentiary standard for establishing damages, not to mention the ridiculousness of criminal sentences that scale with the number of documents you download). But more importantly, prosecutorial misconduct is at the heart of this case. Surely we're going to do something about that, right?

Obviously, I don't think TOS violations should be felonies, for whatever that's worth. Lessig, on Reddit, says it's critically important.
In science:

-In science, the ideal is that credibility is no substitute for data and logic. That's not always true in practice, especially when the media gets involved.

-Premises for which there are no clear need are pursued ardently. "Need" is often rather late to the party, and it frequently never shows up at all.

-Theories always remain theories, but become "accepted" once enough tests that could disprove them fail to do so. Even accepted theories are continually tested as new tests are developed.

-Belief is irrelevant.

-If a theory reduces down to another theory, it isn't really a new theory at all.

I'm not sure if your conclusion has anything to do with your arguments either.

For what its worth, I've always felt that, for those of us in scientific fields, what is known is miniscule compared to what is unknown, and we're free to believe whatever the heck we want about the unknown so long as we're willing to react logically when some beloved part of our unknown universe becomes known to conflict with what we believe. If you're an agoraphobe, faith can fill in the vast empty spaces where fact and logic have not yet taken us. It's those who put faith first that we must beware of! They often speak of science in similar language as you, as if it were merely another religion with a different set of beliefs, and therefore what you believe is merely a difference of opinion!
I hate to be a cynic but the timing seems too coincidental with the death of Aaron and the petition to remove Carmen Ortiz from office. She was nominated to her position by the President, so there is an assumption (perhaps invalid) of close ties to the administration.
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Was told by MIT's postmaster that half of MIT's Internet budget went to lawyers, for all the times that someone would see something an MIT student posted on the Internet and shout "I'm gonna sue!" Bonzai Kitten kept them more than a little busy for a while.
None of which makes my point untrue. That he was not a student there. He may not have been charged with trespass, but MIT was not his alma mater, and thus owed him nothing in that regard.
That's what he got, was that also what was sought? Or was that more?
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that IE's javascript engine will halt processing any additional code when it hits an error, so if your site relies on it it won't work very well indeed.
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Lo-Dash is a mostly-compatible rewrite of Underscore, with a fascinatingly different approach to the codebase. Instead of using little functions that are implemented in terms of each other, it relies on code generation to create (eval) explicit large and optimized versions of many of the core iteration functions at load time, in your browser:

https://github.com/bestiejs/lodash/blob/master/lodash.js#L35...

It's a very fun bit of code, and a great example of how differently a fork can be implemented while preserving more or less the same API. There's never been any tension about the project itself -- just about some of the "marketing" methods used to pitch it in the past. That said, Lo-Dash's main developer is contributing to Underscore directly as well these days, so it's all copacetic.
Most people choose the blue pill, a ka it seems Chomsky is not for everyone.

It seems easy to debunk that whole criticism, but what is the point. People believe what they want to believe (which is what benefits them to believe).

Just an example: Islamic Terrorists. Of course fanatics want to kill everybody in the western world or whatever. The question is however, why do people become fanatics. Think about it...
I wonder whether or not his defense lawyers filed any motions about Swartz's fitness to stand trial. If they really thought he was suicidal, that would be part of their job and it happens all the time.
It's not just that losing 92% of their case doesn't cost the prosecution at sentencing. It's that those charges continue to pay dividends to them, even though they're counterfeited by the actual trial.

It seems like one good inoculation against overcharging would be for damages and facts establishing conduct to be fenced off by which charges succeed and which fail, so that failing to convict on a charge puts part of the sentence at risk, as opposed to filling up some freakish "community chest" of sentencing accelerators.
Faster how? Do you have any source? Only thing I remember from my brief scan of the release notes was that it was faster to load as it was smaller (fewer browsers to support) but I don't recall anything about processing speed, happy to be proven wrong of course.
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Fuck this mentality. What do we, as a collective community, say to the companies that can't mutate their business models because a player in the field has changed things up (for better or worse)? We tell them to change or die.

Why is this any different? So what you can't depend on a "New Release" list anymore - do something else to get attention. That's basically a fundamental part of our creed, as hackers and as creators.
I heard this a number of times from small developers.

Thanks for sharing.