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Gravedigging a bit here, but WTF dude?

I've started authoring websites in 1996 with just Notepad and I still hand-write my HTML on a daily basis.

The problem with HTML has been (and will be, for a long time) that there is no WYSIWYG editor that can offer quite the same quality as handwritten HTML.

In fact, if you're dealing with HTML from a WYSIWYG perspective, you're most likely ignorant of the language. The distinctions between divisions and paragraphs, between links and spans, are not something that is adequately reflected by an input editor purely concerned with visuals.

Just as the purpose of CleverCSS or it's Ruby predecessor is making it easier to write CSS by cutting down on the redundancy (and even by increasing the level of abstraction a fair bit), the purpose of SHPAML is making it easier to write HTML by cutting down on the redundancy of closing tags, angle brackets and the verbosity of divs, spans, ids and classes, thus letting you express more directly what you mean.

You don't have to like it. It's mostly a stylistic choice, but it means little overhead and can help HTML authors a lot by cutting down on the usual boilerplate. Just like frameworks and syntactic sugar make it easier for programmers (though the argument could easily be applied to them as well -- how dare they find it easier to code with less boilerplate if the actual writing is the smallest part in creating a functioning program).
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Hmm? The hash will be a fixed length, which is the only thing you'd be storing.
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Duplicate of - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067333
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My java experience is in the opposite direction: using HT enhances performance (but by no means by 100%).

That, with an Intel 5500 (2 quadcores, "16" cores total when using hyperthreading).
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True, but then the point the original article makes kicks in: that's a relatively poor way of doing things. Originally HT was supposed to be transparent. Then it turned out the abstraction wasn't quite as good as they hoped and OS level support was needed. That adds a lot of complexity and possibilities for mistakes. At that point, they should have dropped HT and go for actual cores instead.
I'm connected via a regional Australian ISP at the moment and don't find it slow.
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hmmn really??...just tried connecting to QUnit and got:
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Formulas aside, you can roll your own Excel clone fairly easily. Have a normal HTML table, capture the cell clicks. On a click, replace the cell's HTML with that of a text box containing the same text. Capture tab, shift-tab and enter keypresses and you're nearly there.
We often do something similar -- I usually try to find at least one detail about a site that wouldn't work in a form letter and work that into a personal follow-up. On sign-up people first get an automated mail, but then we (for paid accounts) always do a personal follow-up.
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>If I earn $2 MM a year in salary, then in a short period of time, I could quit, retire, and work on whatever (open source, nonprofit) technical projects interest me.

Is that really so bad? Probably one of the first things you would do is blog about how great it is to retire. Other star programmers will see this and all line up to work at this company.

Plus, if star programmers could break out of the rat race they probably wouldn't stop programming. They would just (as you say) work on things that interest them. Think of the best free software projects and imagine if those guys didn't have to work for a living. What else could they (and others like them that haven't had the time to build things yet) build? If they build something that helps the industry then it helps the business they were working for (e.g. lowering the costs to do whatever the new software does).
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Some guy likes another guy's blog post?
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No need. This kind of stuff happens even to people working for the same company, in the same building, in low PDI countries.

Outsourced projects fail for exactly the same reasons that other projects fail. The difference, if there is one, is that outsourced projects are more often set up to copy the exact features that are practically guaranteed to lead to disaster.
In order to get that hash you'd have to process the password in its entirety. But really, if they're that concerned about the buffer I see no reason to cap it at 8 or 10 rather than 1000.
I mentioned it because I used it just now, because of this story, and I found it too slow to really be usable. It's, you know, a comment on the submission. Other sites are fast (e.g. HN).

If they use a lot of javascript, that might be slowing it down on my eeePC; but it doesn't seem to be javascript heavy. I wonder what it is. Incidentally, git itself is lightening fast on the eeePC.

EDIT on checking, they do have a fair bit of javascript. Most of their users, on fast machines, wouldn't be affected. A "githublite" version would be nice (like slashdot and reddit have), and might even increase sales marginally. I just tired adblocking their js, and it approx. doubled the loading speed (from 10 sec to 5 sec). Still too slow.
I'm sure this is just one of many to come. I doubt anyone on their netops team would agree 1 site is suitable.
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The Lotus vs. Excel thing is more likely showing the fact that smaller teams can outproduce larger teams, since with smaller teams there is less coordination needed.
One example of extreme login security that I've seen is with treasurydirect.gov. Password: min 8 char, 1 letter, 1 number, 1 special. Mailed key card: 7 x 5 alpha numeric grid with a random 3 char series ((A2, G5, F5) for example), 1 out of 3 sets of 10 digit numbers on your key card, 3 security questions on unrecognised computers (out of around 10 - you must remember which 3 questions you set and answer them appropriately), and to top it all off, no keyboard entry - you have a randomly ordered soft keyboard that must be clicked for all password and keycard entries.

Personally, I think it's overkill, but I'll admit that I wouldn't envy anybody tasked with getting someone's account.
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Already posted a few days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1061726
I've come across people that were mildly confused. Even with non-trivial amounts of exposure to American language-isms/culture it's still possible to over-look the nuances. There are probably a lot of instances where the context doesn't allow the listener to make the distinction between whether the 'Canadian definition' or 'American definition' of the term is being used (unless you're really paying attention for that sort of thing; like if someone told you to pay attention to it).
Thanks! This is helpful, and I think I'll give it a shot. I've pretty much already transitioned to eating mostly fruits/veggies/meats/whole grains, so I guess the main thing would be simply focus less on the grains and start counting calories.
Just 2 days ago, I got a call from Natwest bank (UK) from the credit card fraud team. Again. I duly called back and they explained that an attempt to use my card online failed at the Secure Code step. I explained to the caller that Secure Code is a piece of rubbish because it uses very weak passwords (alphanumeric only, 8 chars long) and it's the equivalent of protecting my money by wrapping it in a piece of paper. I refuse to sign up to it or use because it is so rubbish.

He couldn't care less. So I asked him to file a formal complaint about this point. I doubt he did.

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They should be storing a salted hash, not the actual passwords, so the content of the password shouldn't matter.

No, they should be using bcrypt. You didn't think you'd get away with this by posting after tptacek's bedtime, did you?
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I'm confused by the application of this law to food. My reason: excrement.

You put some mass that contains chemical energy into your body. Then that mass comes out of your body, minus SOME of the chemical energy. How much of it is extracted? What determines this? I have no idea. That said, I think it is funny to treat it as if the only way to get rid of energy is expenditure. How about:

Energy intake - Energy Ependiture - Energy still in food when it comes out the other end = Change in energy stores
That duplication recognizing thingie is pretty dumb. My submission has a trailing slash while yours doesn't. Shouldn't it have figured that out?
> It is very difficult to get people to make strident affirmations of their political allegiance...unless you start making threats, even if they are crazy threats.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. How is this any different than McCarthyism? Aren't you just trying to publicly 'call people out' on something in an attempt to embarrass them or shame them (or get them arrested)?

Even in the story that you linked to, that guy's reputation will be sullied over being arrested for something that he didn't do, much the same as someone being accused/arrested for child rape/porn. Even if the person is innocent, people will always wonder, or know him/her as 'that guy/gal that was arrested for being a pedo.'
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Starting it at $1 risked the work being sold at a low value, probably to someone who won't value it as much and in turn might be less prone to follow the contract and thus continue the cycle. Restricting it to people who have $2500+ to spend on 'art' means that these people will more likely appreciate the creativity of the piece and preserve it.
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I've always been dubious of the value of outsourcing software development. Things like production are easy because after someone has 15 years of experience, he can't come to some developed country and make 20 times the money doing the same job the way developers can.
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Who is paid when the item moves? It would seem that the artist set up his own eBay account and would be paid every time it was sold. If this is the case, why does he want 15% of the appreciation between sales? That would only make sense if the recipient was paid by the new buyer.
Seems like it would be more accurate if it were based on their profile page and the "created X days ago" bit.

Once you've grouped by day you could then look at participation to provide a little more granularity over the course of the day (put everyone at 23:59 on the day and if a bit of participation can proven to have been earlier in the day move the person to that time).

Then the chronological result is your list and a better indicator of the potential userid.

Not that I think this is accurate, I run a community that does use userids and when you account for the accounts deleted because they were spammers you end up with a sparser set of users. Someone isn't the nth person on the site, they're just the nth id allocated by an autoincrement counter.

The utility is a little pointless though. Whilst a userid is one of a number of useful metrics of social status (ah, an early member! or ah, a n00b!) on their own they are pretty useless.

You do need to put these metrics in context, they're useful when you're on slashdot because they're visible as part of the comment stream so you can factor them in to your reading of the comments and easily compare the various indicators of authors visually.

If the function to get the metrics is elsewhere and not easily comparable, the usefulness as one of a collection of metrics is far lower than if it were visible.*

All that said, I prefer the equality of usernames. I like the precept that "time registered" isn't a major factor and that your words and thoughts are worth more than just having signed up early.

* Perhaps you want to make a greasemonkey script?* *

* * You could do one for tagging too so that tagging over there is transparently part of the site here.
There are roughly 20,000 HN users, and < 2000 days since it started so I think this method is more accurate.

If someone signed up very recently then they aren't in the db yet.

Anyway, it's just a gimmick but I thought it was a fun one.

The tagging feature is quite useful actually, feel free to help out by tagging stuff.
Language is a big factor: English is the first foreign language taught in European schools (and the mother language of most UK and Irish citizens); Americans are traditionally poor at foreign languages, so are less likely to move to a country where they need to learn one.

Another factor is culture - America is more "welcoming" to ethnic minorities, and is built more or less on top of recent immigrants. European nations have a stronger ethnic identity which is less able or willing to accept new groups.

Really though you can't compare America to Europe in a single generalization - Poland, UK and Spain, to name a few, are completely different places, more so than, say, California and West Virginia. It will be impossible (and undesirable) to achieve the same kind of unity America has, not in this century anyway.
Read the rest of the article:

But in a call with analysts, Mr. Schmidt made it clear the company wants to continue doing business in China, one of the world's largest markets, even though it will stop censoring its results.

There is no contradiction with their original statement, but it's very misleading of the WSJ to start the article with the quote you mentioned above, not to mention the headline: "Google Says It Is Committed to China as Net Soars"
Sounds like a credit union I used to use that restricts the charset, is silently case-insensitive, and emails you your password if you go through the lost password dialog (it had been upcased). I sent them a letter chewing them out for this joke of security (about a year ago), and they still haven't changed anything.
> By using services that tell people exactly where you are, you're really telling people exactly where you aren't: your home.

Craigslist has had its share of issues with people getting robbed. I don't necessarily think that Craigslist is a bad thing though.

You have the same issue with valets. You give them your keys (which probably contain the keys to your house/apartment), your insurance information is in the glove compartment (which contains your address), and they know that you're not at home because you still need to get your car out of valet.
So... am I old fashioned for using ERb and LaTex?
I do this too. The typical response is that they are forwarding my concern to their technical department, and I hear nothing further, and the issue never gets resolved.
This kind of thinking terrifies me:

> Not content to limit speech, the program also informed resident assistants that “all whites are racists” and that it was the university’s job to heal them

But it doesn't terrify me for the reason it would terrify most people. Me, I'm pretty international, from what I know of genetics I'd actually prefer to have mixed blood and bi-cultural children.

So why am I terrified? Because this kind of nonsense is really the only way that a vicious white nationalism could make a comeback. It's been thoroughly beaten down, but you could generate a hell of a backlash if you kept up with this kind of "all whites are racist" (direct quote!) type stuff.

Really, I think we need to put all forms of nationalism down. White nationalism, yes, but also various fanatical patriotism, religious nationalism, and other forms of racial nationalism - including amongst minorities. This isn't a popular opinion right now, but I think encouraging people to make their skin color part of their identity is likely to lead to adversarial relations.

I understand the historical reasons and practical considerations on why it can be beneficial. But at some point you've got to take the high road and stop playing that card, lest you risk resurrecting white nationalism, which certainly wouldn't be a good thing.

At the very very least, cut out the "white people are the enemy" thing - the vast majority of educated whites in Western democracies are very open minded, accommodating, and even go a little out of their way to look out for people from tougher backgrounds. The only thing that could be done to screw that up is repeatedly ostracize them... which is exactly the strategy some people are taking. Seems like a very bad idea to me, on pretty much all levels.
I do show it my non-programmer friends to explain what goes on under the hood of a browser.

Really? I read the first few pages... it gets fairly technical. I don't think most of my non-programming friends know what a thread is. If they have some vague idea, they certainly don't know the difference between a thread and a process is.
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Japanese social networking users tend to like their privacy and therefore will tend to use a nickname instead of their real name.

Uhm, before Facebook, every social network, virtual community, online discussion board, etc, used nicknames. One of the things behind Facebook's success is that they didn't, instead they used real names.

Before, whenever a new interesting virtual community appeared, I used to find my existing "net-hooked" friends in there, because I knew which usernames they usually use, or I already discussed it with them over some other channel, resulting in me only meeting the usual suspects.

When Facebook came, I started finding people that I had never seen online before, it allowed me to get a connection to them because they used their real names. We were all used to nicknames, but it turned out to be a strength, not a weakness, to use real names instead. I don't see why this would be different in Japan.
"it’s going to be another 2 weeks because we need the new servers to arrive"

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In India (at least around Delhi) you just call any medium size shop, place your order, your order will reach to your door within next couple of hour. Pay the person on your door by cash or credit card (through wireless credit card payment machine).
I buy a HP laptop with the same way around 15 days back, where dell was asking for four days for delivery.
This makes it a lot harder to scan the UI looking for a particular piece of functionality: you have to guess which button is actually a menu, and which submenu of that menu the thing you're looking for is hiding under.

Completely agree. These overly minimal interfaces are great if you only use the most basic functions (open file, pause, play, stop) or already know what you are doing. However, if you need to figure something out its pretty horrible.
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can't a work of art remain a work of art - or even take on new artistic meaning - if it's declared 'not art' or 'dead' to the artist? Especially when it's entitled 'a tool to deceive and slaughter'!
Okay, I actually partially agree with you, but I also think I know why you're being downvoted and how you could comment a little differently so it doesn't happen.

I firmly dislike works-in-theory fails-in-world idealism. It's a terrible thing, it causes all sorts of hell and misery.

That said, you're probably getting downvoted because you didn't back up your claims to add to the conversation much, and generalized too much. There's sane feminists, and crazy radical feminists. Then, while "idealistic" conveys information, "demented" doesn't add anything. You'd be much better served just pointing out what the dementia specifically is, and dropping the word demented entirely as it's just mudslinging. So, I reckon if your comment had read more like:

"This is the end result of ceding terrain to people who are highly idealistic but don't care if their plans work in the real world and don't think about the secondary effects of their actions. For instance, take Radical Group XYZ (link to Wikipedia) - it sounds like a nice cause at first, but it's done a lot of damage." I think that comment would get upvoted quite a lot, as I agree with your general sentiment but slightly disagree with its presentation (I upvoted you though, you were -2 when I came along).
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you'd be infringing the terms of your contract with the artist, and he could sue.

there's a cold, hard legal side to this work which I find every bit as fascinating as the invention itself, and I would consider totally inseparable from the work in terms of its artistic merit
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It's the same as Secure3D for Visa, right?

It is actually kind of secure because the card processor never gets or knows your extra code, but the implementation is atrocious since it requires the website wanting your money to display a webpage from your bank. The odds of that page integrating nicely with the website's payment flow is kinda non-existant, and always sets my fraud alert spinning.
Interesting, but I'm guessing a lot of WoW players are going to hate you for it. "My parents found out I play 10 hours a day and now I'm banned from using the computer."
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