skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not miss the point here. IE11 will be massively easier to support than IE8 or 9. Old versions are disappearing relatively more quickly. There are fewer random impossible-to-debug quirks. Flexbox is becoming a viable option.

Microsoft is moving in line with the rest of the browsing world and we get to complain about things like favicons and event.detail bugs. In a few years, you might not even have to write IE-specific styles at all.

So sure, get upset about idiosyncrasies. But at the end of the day, doing good development is getting much easier.
I'm colorblind and I usually don't have an issue with flat design. I rather like it.

I do tend to rely more on light/dark than hue, and if a hue is too similar, light/dark is my only visual cue. For example, in similar shades of red and green, red usually "looks darker."
New Experiments to Pit Quantum Mechanics Against General Relativity
The answer to your pains, and how it relates to the article and its insights, is that culture is a system.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say culture is the root of the organizational tree. It's underground and most organizations sort of ignore it, or worse, treat it like it was a hypothetical illusory nuisance they have to lie about to attract rockstars. Ugh.

So culture is the root of the system. It defines how people work together, and how people and work are treated. Culture defines the unseen and unmeasurable motivations people rely upon, without which you get exactly the problems you describe: lack of common purpose, lack of knowledge of process, lack of improvement, infighting, game playing, reward seeking. These are all cultural problems.

I wholeheartedly agree that this is a sign of major problems in perspective in the US. The anti-pattern here is individualistic-dominated thinking, which doesn't accurately describe or solve the problems of an organization of more than one person. It's actually painful to watch corporate culture in this country if you have an understanding of systems design and process control, and especially if you apply it to the human systems of which we are all a part. Science has the answers, but no one cares. Painful.

Read up and spread the systems knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
That's the nature of investing in stocks. If you want something guaranteed, open a savings account.
How long ago was $168m their annual revenue? How long ago was their annual revenue $0?

If you're making an argument that their revenue growth has plateaued, that's a separate argument. But their current growth curve is impressive.
If people make biased (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_of_an_estimator) guesses you will still have a problem. I think that's often what's meant by "rational": that people, in aggregate, make unbiased guesses.

The truth is not so - people get irrationally exuberant or are afraid to cut their losses, etc. These are problems of statistical bias of their estimations - and the opposite is assumed in many (most?) economic models.
Interacting with my email is one of the biggest non-automatable tasks I have.
Note that GOOG hasn't actually paid out any of its cash flow to investors.
If this sounds interesting you should also check out GiveWell: http://www.givewell.org/ They have a great blog.
Does Omakase leverage research[1] to find out which charities are putting their donations to work?

[1] http://www.givewell.org/
That's a great quote, but poorly applied in this case. The financial crisis we will face in the absence of effective reform is of concern to more than just the "moral busybodies".

Obamacare has problems, but being targeted to just 3% of the population is not none of them. Are you completely free from anything that an insurance company might call a pre-existing condition? Do you plan to never be unemployed? Of so then congratulations, you might not personally benefit from healthcare reform of this type. Most Americans are not in that boat. Certainly more than 3%.
I'd love to see something like this expanded to all fossils and artifacts. I can only imagine how free and easy access to this kind of information would help aid in archaeological research.
NY's own health exchange received 10 million visits by evening of the first day. That seems like a lot of traffic for 20 million residents. As of Oct 28, only 37k people have enrolled in insurance. If the numbers are all true, the traffic seems fishy to me.
Twitter does not sell directly on the exchanges. Instead, various big banks have purchased "first dibs" on the stock directly from Twitter. THEIR price was $26 a share.

Now before you call this "unfair", remember that Facebook's IPO went downwards rather quickly, and is considered to be a failure. Banks definitely lost money by participating in Facebook's IPO, which IPOed at $38 and then fell to $20 for months.

Its too early to call Twitter's IPO a success btw. Lets wait for a week, and see where the stock ends up. IPOs are extremely volatile.
looks like this solves the #2 reason, but adds to the #1 reason.
quick note: no profit =/= no revenue
I'm personally shocked they have that much revenue. Is it just selling ads?
If the standard says it needs to be O(1) then you implement it that way and have a different list for fast splicing if needed.
Square talking to banks about possible 2014 IPO
Certainly I consider UX stability a good thing.

Just this week gmail decided that being able to open my calendar in a single click was a horrible idea. It only took me a minute or so to figure out wtf happened. But multiplied across a large number of people of varying computer literacy and near weekly changes you are talking about a lot of lost time. Much better to have an annual or biannual training day where changes across a range of software products can be introduced.

I suppose someone will be along to stamp NOT AGILE on my forehead shortly.
Not necessarily. Only if the share price remains this high for the next month or so.

All shares "pop up" on the first day or so. The question is if investors are willing to continue to buy the stock at that rate.
Again, friendly advice. This attitude guarantees that you will lose all your money. If not shorting TWTR then on the next deal. If the money is burning a hole in your pocket then give it to a worthy charity. If you are interested in the stock market then you need to read some books, discover a trading style that matches your personality and life situation, learn capital management, watch price movement until nothing surprises you and most important of all, overcome your psychological money demons (EVERYONE has them).
Did that information exist two days ago? Because if it did not exist, then there was no real $46 value. No REAL market (which is the place where information on value is) implies no monetary value (or a worthless one).

What happens is that they did not guess (and this is an important term, there is no inherent value in a guess) TODAY'S market's expectations correctly. But that has little to do with true monetary loss or gain.

Of course, their expectations today might be crushed. But personal expectations and hopes are not valuable as shares are.
Then you might be better off with a std::forward_list which is typically the size of a pointer.
I managed to get a galileo board at the Maker Faire Faire Rome if you are interested I can sell it to you, it has never been used, totally new I can send pictures. I live in France.
A short is borrowing stock to sell, promising to re-buy that stock in the future to give back to the lender. The stock price can rise arbitrarily high, which means you may have to pay an arbitrarily high price to re-purchase the stock in the future. See "short squeeze" and read about the Volkswagen/Porsche example a couple years back.
Regarding the "messy account passing", I'd just like to be able to interact with a vendor's own UPS account with minimal setup from my vendor. Thanks for the info! It clears some things up.
> (Obama pushed this healthcare law thru, so he owns it)

Facts:

Congressional majority voted in favor of it, then Obama signed it, turning it into the law of the land. All those individuals were voted into their jobs by the American people, by a majority of voters.

The Supreme Court then upheld it.

The same President who, as you said, pushed for it, and signed it into law, and who was the candidate of the very party which also comprised the overwhelming majority of the Congressional votes which turned it into law, was then chosen by a majority of voters to be re-elected as President for a second term.

Now, that law is starting to finally go fully into effect.

This is how government works. All the key players above were either elected directly (or put into place indirectly by the former) by a majority of American voters. Your side (I assume), lost. It happens. This is a democracy.
A P/E of 207 could also be expressed as 1/207 = 0.48% rate of return on your investment. That's easier to compare to inflation, and to your bank account. :P

Of course, your bank account doesn't have much opportunity to grow its business, and Twitter doesn't have FDIC insurance.

More generally, the value of a company is the sum of all its anticipated profits for all time... discounted for inflation, risk, and the time value of money. (The first two of those discounts are obvious; the "time value of money" is just the fact that it's better to have $50 now than an inflation-adjusted $50 in 30 years because you could do something with the money now, like invest in other companies or invest in bonds or invest in re-insulating your basement to save on heating.)
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I find it hard to accept that a rational person thinks twitter will ever have the profit earning capability of Google. It just seems nuts to me to justify twitter's future earnings potential on a black swan event.

Speculation on the other hand I can sort of understand and accept (although it's kind of sad that the speculation is driven entirely by hype rather than any kind of solid metrics).
I love Spark Inspector but they just don't respond to support requests. Because it uses Bonjour to connect your app to the Inspector, if you are on a corporate LAN, the Bonjour publish often fails. The only work-around is to disable your network completely while debugging and re-enabling your networking after establishing a connection just causes the established connection to be severed. Much sadface for an otherwise wonderful debugger.
If the core issue is one of trust, I don't at all understand why people would trust you more than the charities they're already suspicious of. What am I missing? What assurances can you provide that the charities themselves don't?

If the other core issue is vetting & curation, isn't that what United Way (and many other meta-charities) have been doing for decades? How is your approach better?
Inside The [IPO] Deal That Made Bill Gates $350M (1986)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10008673/does-frege-perfo...
That's an oversimplification. For one thing, stocks can pay dividends even though few do anymore and Twitter seems unlikely to do so any time soon. Also, there's no reason the hype needs to ever die. GE has been trading for 120 years.
I'm just saying it doesn't have to be that way. They could keep the core os component running the old version and have the newer standalone version of the browser running next to it.
There may be some minor technical hurdles with all the shared libraries. Sure. But there's no reason it couldn't be done.
The skull labeled as Homo Sapiens is actually a Homo Erectus, which precedes us by 1.5 million years. Amazing athletic performance, crude tools and possible domestication of fire.
Or it would've been cheaper to enact price caps on healthcare services and eliminate for-profit insurance companies, to replace them with single payer.
I believe the counter argument to a money making inefficient market strategy is "I'm just a little guy and the big evil bankers won't let me make money".
From my own experience, many don't give because they don't want to. Oh, they will use the excuses presented here or make them up as they go. Never met more selfish people than I have in this industry, remember working my way through school at a grocery store and those people were more willing to contribute.

How I found my charity? A radio show many years ago highlighted Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. I give nearly two percent of my gross salary to these people through automatic credit card payments.
Vertical centering isn't that useful when you already have to know the height of things... I mean, if you already know the heights, you can just put the numbers in straight.

The best way to do real vertical-centering that works with variable heights, and doesn't use JavaScript, is to take advantage of the fact that table cells do this with "vertical-align: middle". Inexplicably, only table cells allow true vertical centering with variable heights.

So you can either convert the surrounding element to a big ole <table><tr><td></td></tr></table>, or you can use CSS to give it a property of display: table-cell. And in both cases, give it a "vertical-align: middle". Then you're good to go!

And of course, horizontal positioning in the table cell is easy.
True, that was very stupid. But, if he were in a place where the US gov couldn't operate, that wouldn't have really mattered
tech stocks with no profits selling at 15-40x sales are a complete crapshoot. might as well go to the casino
The title here is misleading. "Their offices" were not destroyed. The office involved was just a single office used for scanning content.

That being said. They are an amazing resource that I have used a few times to obtain copies of content that I had lost.
So you'd rather your government spend money on the NSA, TSA, wars on terrorism and drugs and a thousand other programs that inhibit your freedom than to ensure that the poorest, most vulnerable members of society have access to free health care?
We are talking about a government entity trying to tie together purposefully archaic data feeds from insurance companies, waterfall methodology, a myriad of different consulting companies, and changing requirements right up until the last month. ...and you are looking for a conspiracy?
Hmm.. isn't PPTP essentially broken as far as crypto goes?

http://www.h-online.com/security/features/A-death-blow-for-P...

With that in mind, I'd say wait.
> Yes, we're not "like the rest of the civilized world": this country was founded on valuing individual rights above the whims of the majority.

This is why we fail so badly as a country.

Your right to previously underpay for health insurance had ended. Externalized costs are now being internalized. That's how insurance works; to spread risk across everyone. Now, if you're unhappy with that, I suggest either leaving the country or simply not paying for insurance and paying the IRS-imposed fine. You can then self-insure and absorb any of your healthcare costs yourself.
In some cases, its not about the specific coverage, but about cost. Completely anecdotal, but a friend of mine that owns a small business had his current coverage canceled on him, and that the cost to cover his family (wife, 2 young kids) in the new system was going be about $700/month more. Sure, you can probably identify additional value that he would be receiving. In his case, the new, more expensive plan was the cheapest he could get (subject to unknown constraints that he obviously chose through the search process). In the end, he just wanted his old plan back, and was being offered something he didn't want for a lot more money.
Two problems here:

One not only is the example backwards, but given the previous behavior, the correct thing would have occurred. This is a complete nitpick but whatever.

More importantly, this shows a lack of understanding about the framework being used, not an issue with the framework. The example has a programmer basically assuming the default is False when it was True, or more correctly that the default was not True. That is an issue with the programmer (and testing) not with the framework, unless it was undocumented. Django is documented quite well. The programmer here assumed something worked one way that was clearly documented to work the other.

Booleans defaulting to False is not unusual, but not universal either. Django has chosen to go the path of explicitness, which is a fine choice to make, as opposed to defaulting to False which is often considered to be a safe choice. I don't see a problem with not assigning a default, but I also don't see a problem with the default being False.

Defaulting to NULL could cause other problems, at least for the programmer above who didn't read documentation and worked on assumption.
I love how you make baseless accusations directed at the "Koch brothers" based on an article that doesn't even say that there were actual denial of service attacks.

Then you poke fun at "American idiots", and then admit in your last sentence that you don't really even know how the law works yourself.

Bonus points for picking the two conditions, heart disease and diabetes, that mostly result from poor choices instead of random innocent victims.

Your whole post is like a parody of pseudo-intellectual liberalism.
Because they are open source hackers and have themselves never received any merrit?
I have one galileo for sale today ask if you are interested.
When you say "Joe Public" you make it sound like the stock is being bought with our tax dollars.

Anybody who buys TWTR is making an informed decision and expects Twitter to do very well. It's hard to imagine Twitter today eventually being worth the current market cap of $25B. However, take a look at Google as a prime example of success.

When GOOG first hit the market in 2004 it got a market cap of $23B. It was somewhat hard to imagine a web search company ever being worth that much. Today it's at $340B.
Depth (or lack of depth) is part of the aesthetic.

That flat design is aesthetically different does not necessarily mean you no longer have an information hierarchy, or that it doesn't direct your eye, or that it does not entice user actions. It simply has different methods of accomplishing these tasks.

Since all of these tasks come through the visual approach and execution of the design, I'd say that falls well in line with the definition of "aesthetics."

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Democracy is not the only option, according to the terms of the contract violent revolution is also on the table, but a cursory study of U.S. history will tell you how bad of an idea that is.

Also as I already pointed out, your home, family, friends, culture, and job are there largely because of the services the government provides. So while it may suck, if you disagree with paying taxes you can not pay them and leave, or you can stay pay your taxes and continue to enjoy the services of the government.

Here's a thought experiment. Imagine if the government hadn't invested it's tax revenue back into national defense and infrastructure for the past three centuries. Do you still think your home, family, friends, culture, or job would exist? Why should you get to enjoy the payout of investing three centuries worth of tax revenue if you are not going to contribute?

People give up their homes, family, friends, and culture every single day in the U.S. just to survive. Now I do think it's definitely unfair to those who simply can't afford to move. If that's the case for you or the parent I was responding to, I will personally buy you a plane ticket to Somalia (or any other place with limited government) and give you two months rent.
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I don't know if he is, but I would certainly suggest that markets are not efficient. Not even close. Google had a 40 billion dollar swing in valuation in a day last month. Were they really worth 40 billion more that day? Apple lost 300 billion in market cap in a matter of 6 months. Either they weren't worth that much at the peak, or they weren't worth that little at the bottom. There is no way you could ever convince me that Apple was efficiently priced at both ends (most likely neither end).

Knowing that the market is inefficient is not equivalent to knowing which stocks to buy or sell, or when to do so. It doesn't give you a magic formula, but it does give you some idea of what to look for.

FWIW, I have done pretty well picking stocks for myself, but I'm far from what I would consider "extremely wealthy". That being said, if I had a magic formula for instant huge wealth you can be damn sure I wouldn't be sharing it.
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin...Sometimes I think the NASDAQ is looking more like the "Fine Art" auction market rather than an actual stock market.
Having to filter the scams from the genuine charities may be the excuse, but I have doubts. Any metropolitan area has a number of local charities you can check out for yourself. Animal shelters would love to have potential donors swing by for a visit, as would local homeless shelters (serve some dinner while you're there). Keep it local if you wonder about the credibility of the "Penguins with Cleft Palates Foundation".

Yes, swinging by your local Boys and Girls Club takes a bit more effort, but I don't think that extra effort accounts for all of the 75%. So what does? Speaking for myself, I think a lot of times we just don't think about it. Or I see a worthy charity I like and I'll, umm, do that later (and later never comes).

Regardless, omakasecharity.org is bookmarked, and a reminder added to my phone that will go off when I'm home so I'll click the site's "buy" button.
I love the concept of the web-based tool. It's really not a lot different than SSHing into your own server, except a better ui (Much like using Gmail instead of Pine to read email).

These types of developer tools will makes it easy for me to move between OSes and even types of devices. These types of tools will eventually allow us to work from out Tablet (maybe for a quick 20 minute editing session after dinner because you just came up with an idea how to do something) , Phone (quick a fix type/spelling error while waiting for the train), desktop (your routine daily development).... all from the same setup. This is the future I look forward to.

Granted: this type of stuff won't fly for corporate/enterprise work for a long time....
zomg your statement is a travesty on all things best practice, and you should be branded a heretic for all times to come!
> Maybe all I see is people posting letters about their rates going up though.

a data point:

I also see a lot of people talking about God and Jesus and how they have a personal relationship with them, etc, etc. Personally I've never seen them. I have a guess as to the status of things in those situations.

Also I see a lot of "people" saying how Justin Bieber is, "like, so cute. OMG. he's so hawt! and a genius! omg. like, amazing. omg. omg". So clearly, this must be factually true, correct?
Facebook is also a good example of a company with its business model out of whack, meaning this ride isn't going to last.
The banks sold at $26 to their institutional clients ("building the book"). The banks didn't hold the stock at $26 themselves.