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Title is a bit misleading, it's a valid CSS property, not a hack. And the width of block elements has always been predictable, albeit slightly confusing (width + padding + border = element width, etc.)

Polyfill for supporting IE < 8: https://github.com/Schepp/box-sizing-polyfill
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>Why wouldn't he be competent to lead a team?

IMO you need to have a technical background in order to lead a technical team.Otherwise you will fail to distinguish between making software and shoveling snow.
Statistical and data mining techniques have been used to detect fraud in elections and financial statements.

http://www.economist.com/node/8733747?story_id=8733747

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Analysis_Techniques_for_F...

The NY Times reported last month that

Studies by Goldman Sachs and other institutions over the years have strongly suggested that Chinese statisticians smooth out the quarterly growth figures, underreporting growth during boom years and overstating growth during economic downturns.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/business/global/chinese-da...

So private corporations (who granted have their own agenda and biases) make assessments of economic numbers reported.

It would be surprising that there is not publicly available studies that report the general reliability of economic statistics reported by a country. It would even be interesting to reported statistics aggregated in a way that allows for easy comparison between numbers reported by different countries. Something like the Index of Economic freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/default

(I am not an economist - so can't say I have done an extensive analysis of available sources...)
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This thread is an argument about semantics. No one is disagreeing with the notion that "[gender-related, uncomfortable situations like those presented in the article] in the tech community is real and is a big part of why there are so few women." People are disagreeing that "sexism" is the right term to use. I don't see why this would be bothersome. The argument has few practical implications, but people like to argue.

Has someone said that the author's experiences are acceptable?
So what are the restrictions on getting money out?

That's a major concern to me. You say you handle them manually, but do you have restrictions on how much money can be paid out, what country the recipient may be resident in, etc?
There seems to have been an increase in big-name-related releases recently. Is there a particular reason behind it?

Are there more break-ins happening, or more being reported, or are more companies being more open about this kind of thing? Or is it even that the burglars are being more open?

I'm not involved in the field, but am finding it interesting that a lot more of these break-ins appear on my radar.
I have no downvote :S
In the US, the government just openly changes the methodology, which is forgotten shortly after. Seems to work just as well as falsifying the stats, with none of the risk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com

I'm not recommending Shadow Stats specifically - I have no idea how accurate or biased they are.

But there's a clear need for this information in order to do any kind of historical comparisons of things as basic as inflation and unemployment numbers.
It's really not intended as an argument against open source. It's an argument against using open source forum software (maybe even open source web app software with user accounts). There are always exploits available and you can't always patch in time. Sometimes there isn't even a patch available before the exploits are in use. I was always taught never to rely on security through obscurity. I understand that it's a best practice to not. But feeding off of what jvdongen said, you are far less likely to be hacked using well-constructed homebrew software than an off-the-shelf open source solution.
"The statement you make is essentially that all behavior has an explanation behind it, no matter how distasteful or uncivilized. Fine, agreed. First, what is the value in pointing out this obvious conclusion?"

No more value than the author of the article provides by pointing out she got hit on / harassed in a crowded bar full of males.

"You then continue to say that because behavior has an explanation, that behavior cannot be sexism."

I do not believe I ever said that, point it out to me if I am wrong. What I did say is that sexism is a different thing from say, sexual harassment, misogyny, sexuality, sex-drives, or anything else with the word sex in it. Like I pointed out before, my original gripe is that "sexism" is used incorrectly here. Call it sexual harassment, then we are good.

On the topic of complaining about sexual harassment - yes go forth and complain, or don't. I really don't care, but either way the words will be lost in the wind. The only thing you could do to prevent this behavior is make stricter laws about sexual harassment, and do we really want that? Should we start arresting people when they hit on others, unwarranted, in a bar, where single people go to find mates?

As for everything else, I'm not going to waste a bunch of time typing out answers because you seem to have derived many conclusions, some of which are true, but most have nothing to do with my actual arguments (they are related to the topic of sexism, so bonus points there). I say this with all due respect, and no sarcasm: this will help you construct better arguments and avoid fallacies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
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"Interactive object" in question is just a link. It would work without CSS just fine. But it would not work without JavaScript (in current implementation).
As for rendering efficiency: it just does not matter. There is a lot of things that could be improved on HN that would have orders of magnitude larger impact on performance.
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I've heard one reason for knowingly buying fake fans is so that you can claim a vanity url - e.g. http://facebook.com/my_company . Strange, as I think you only need 20 "likes", but when I see offers on fiverr to give 100 likes for $5, it starts making sense to me.
"Did you open by sexually assaulting this woman, such as by unwanted touching?"

Touching someone on the shoulder is not sexual assault. Let's try to keep things in perspective, please--if simply touching a member of a particular group warrants jail time, that group is an overclass.
"I think it's not only true in real life, but on dating sites as well. Women receive so many messages from men that you are probably just going to get buried in all the noise if you send one. The best approach would be to make a good profile, and wait for them to message you."

I've gone on plenty of dates from online dating sites. Zero of them were a result of a woman messaging me first. I don't think the strategy you're suggesting is a good one.
yes. and that's a problem.
The difference with programmers/scientists/hackers and politicians/authorities/lawyers is that the former see instantly where seemingly small changes in laws and policies will ultimately lead whereas the latter will dismiss these potential problems by making remarks such as "It will only be used against bad guys", which translates to "We had a few hairy cases where this sort of law would have really helped, so we wrote one to cover similar circumstances in the future and while we don't really know how to think of what else goes out with the bathwater we will need something at our disposal."
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No, I don't know what you mean, because you seem to be saying that the definition of "sexual health" is to primarily evaluate a subset of humans on their gene-passing potential. "News flash": that's sexual dysfunction.

There are a bunch of different forces at play in the "design" (random evolution to local minima) of humans. There are also a huge set of behaviours that we throw out because we've decided they're not compatible with how we want to live, among them murder, rape, and paedophilia. So if you want to make the case for your "natural" inclination towards the opposite sex, can I assume that you are also a supporter of these "natural" inclinations too?
Of course there are way to cache renderings, this is the reasons firefox used to use so much memory, it would cache the uncompressed images. Why would you think that was not possible?
It is correct. What is incorrect is to thing that symmetrical interface elements can have asymmetrical actions.
How would you like if turning steering wheel to the left would give left turn, but turning it to the right would stop the car?
If you want asymmetrical meaning, please, use different elements.
I used powershell pretty comfortably for years when managing Windows boxes, it does the job superbly. It's a bit weaker as a general-use scripting language (a la Python/Ruby), but I believe it never promised to be that kind of tool. It's just always tempting to use it as a REPL for when whipping out a throwaway C# project in VS is too much of a hassle. It works as one, I'm just not a huge fan of its syntax.
[citation needed]

I would love to see the study that demonstrates this, controlling for all societal factors.
PowerShell compared to Cygwin bash, in my experience:

* Powershell is more capable than bash, straight up.

* bash is easier to use; writing ad-hoc pipes etc. in PowerShell has never seemed pleasant to me, the commands are verbose and the contractions non-obvious; getting help is tedious, and options are often very long.

* Object orientation works well when you're dealing with meaningful objects. But often you just want to deal with a singular list of items, and it can make things more awkward. It's a bit like the OO - relational dichotomy.

* Interaction between PowerShell and Unix utilities is very clunky, because by default PowerShell will include column headers and formatting characters as part of the output. Something else that's unpleasant: PowerShell doesn't have a simple mode that can work well inside a terminal. I mean, just running PowerShell inside Cygwin mintty results in a copyright notice and an apparantly hung program. That's because it's using ReadConsole rather than ReadFile for I/O, but ReadConsole only works in Windows' horrible console windows. You can work around it with 'powershell -', but then you don't get a prompt. Similarly, running a PowerShell script requires echoing a return character to the PowerShell process to get it to exit! Literally: "echo | powershell -file <script file>". It's a bit ridiculous.

* Deeper Windowsy things like WMI or COM automation work infinitely better with PowerShell. In practice, the only time I use PowerShell is when I need access to something in this area; and then I'll take some arguments, do the PowerShell work, then output the results as text so I can do the main work in bash.

Powershell doesn't really feel like a shell to me. It's more like a SQL query command line and scripting language REPL hybrid. For example, something as basic as job control is almost non-existent. Forget about carefree application of '&' and 'wait'; that style of working, doesn't.
Wow. I love it when the developer of the tool answered the question. And he gave a superb answer. Make me want to try out PowerShell.
Yes, this is the preferred approach since Windows 2008 Server Core. Please note that Powershell is only installed by default in Windows 2008 R2 Server Core.

You can then use Powershell remoting capabilites, or log into the server with SSH, like on UNIX systems.
>>you know what I mean

I'm afraid not. Your implication does not really define anything.

>>If you want to argue

I don't. But I'd like to impart the following.

>>If you <snip> maybe you are the type of person that believes in which case our views are inherently different.

That exceedlingly bad form in any sort of argument, and a very weak position to take.

To paraphrase:
"If you don't believe in God, then maybe you are just the sort of person who believes not in God, in which case I'm just going to ignore any argument you make anyway because I'm inherently not that sort of person."

Basically it reduces whatever case you're arguing to your personal opinion/ pet theory.

It basically fails falsifiability, because every objection that can be made against your point can be countered with "Yes, but in my mind .... " reducing everything you say to "true", and becomes thus useless for further discourse.

@@gavanwoolery
@swa14 - Have you ever tried to argue with a believer of god (from an atheist perspective)?

"God" was just a drop-in example to illustrate the point in arguing with someone who believes in his opinion so strongly that arguing against it would automatically classify that person as "that (opposite) kind of person".

So to answer your question, ironically, yes; in fact, I'm doing so right at this moment.

>It is pretty fruitless, which is why I would advise to avoid it, just as I would advise arguing against me if you believe in mysticism like soul-mates.

"mysticism like soul-mates" are your words and have nothing to do with the subject at hand.

The "type of person" you argue with is not "they who believe in 'mysticism like soul-mates'", but, "They who do not take your inner ideas and values as granted truths".

The point of my post was that the way you put your argument puts it firmly in the "pretty fruitless" category, since it can neither be denied or confirmed. If you want your argument to be given serious though, you would need to rephrase it.

>>Anything which cannot be scientifically proven or disproven (like the existence of a god) generally leads to fruitless arguments.

Which is why token_female's "[citation needed]" was right on the spot.
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unless, of course, you are vulnerable to a certain class of attacks (e.g. the ruby on rails attack this year). the chance that others have already fixed it is way better when more people use the same software.

i'm not subscribing to the "enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"-argument, but the opposite is also wrong. deeply wrong.
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That's one of the reasons I really like Opera mobile and Opera mini: if you fat-finger and there are two possible links you could've hit, it zooms in so that you can disambiguate the click.
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I was under the impression that all browser already switched from "increase font size" to regular zoom (as Opera had for example). But yeah, Chrome seems to broken in this regard. It's not as horrible as Firefox and IE used to be, but still... I'd file it as a bug report to your browser vendor.
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When the site was initially made that was what the meaning was: Agree/Disagree.

However that norm changed when people realized that was a bad idea.

The UI didn't change with the norm change.

At one point the norm was you could downvote to disagree if the comment had a score greater than 1. But now that comment scores are no longer displayed, that norm changed too.

Now the downarrow basically means spam/stupid/useless, etc. Actually for spam you also need to click on flag.
China has issues gathering data in the first place, some of the problems are evident by doing comparisons between their own reported numbers.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-28/markets/30564...
I would be honored if "doing a gavan" or "woolerying" became terms. ;) But seriously, the only way to right a word of its negative context is to start using it in a positive fashion, that way no one can use it abusively. Retarded was actually not first used as an insult, but just a term meaning slow...people decided to make it an insult. Two of my friends who are gay call each other "faggots" - which is probably the best thing you can do to remove the negative connotation of the word. Black people have successfully done this, with the N word, which they have made exclusive to their community. Really, words are just words. If someone calls another "retarded" it depends more on their tone of conversation than the word itself.
Apparently it is not the case that the * selector is slow, see Paul's article.

>> You might get up in arms about the universal * selector. Apparently you've heard its slow. Firstly, it's not. It is as fast as h1 as a selector
I use Firefox "Zoom text only" which only zooms text.
See: github, dropbox, and probably a thousand others. Both companies claim free accounts are marketing costs for expanding their networks of paid subscribers.
I have "don't care" relatively weak passwords, various mnemonics for stronger ones I want to remember, and a bash+python script that takes a hash of a memorized passphrase + site domain as a random number generator seed that spits out 64 "graph" and 64 "alnum" characters (and some helpful trimmings for common, ridiculous, "maximum length" of sent passwords (20, 12..) that get SHA1'd into 40 characters anyway). I typically just remember which combination I used for the site, and since each is unique I just let the browser store it if I don't care too much for the account. Before I started using my script, for some sites that were important but I visited maybe once a year at maximum I grabbed something off of http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ and forgot it and then used the "forgot password" feature when I needed to log in some other time in the future.

Few things bug me more than sites that have a maxlength property on the registration password forms (that's longer than the form-width shows), but not on the login password form.

I wonder what hash nvidia uses? These days when they don't specify, I just assume sha1. I hope it's not md5.
Disclaimer: I am posting the article on behalf of my camp-colleague jollife[1] who had troubles publishing on HN.

1: http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=jollife
Does Google purposely slow down browser history deletion?
Does anyone else experience how it may take minutes for Chrome to delete the browser history, making it a very tiresome process. Just deleting the history for "today" took 54 seconds.

Obviously Google has a lot to win (Adsense) from saving the history.

Is it reasonable for this process to take this long? Please try and time it yourselves.
awesome idea, and makes you wonder how else you could leverage open graph for semi-internal apps/projects... well done!
By downvoting you in order to show disagreement, it looks like the consensus is quite eloquently explaining why it thinks you are wrong.
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If you use it sparsingly, like on specific div's only - and you can do that, because box-model:border-box only _really_ matters and is _really-really_ good when dealing with percentage widths, you can fix it with 'behaviour' and css calculations. Done that.
Interestingly, the field of Computer Programming used to be stereotyped as female just ~50 years ago.

http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
Has Mozilla given up on Typestate? I see no mention of it in the release notes.
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> touching != assault

Fair enough. It's battery. Still a crime in the US. (Also UK. Also probably many other places.)

You've used the word "sexual" here. Using your word we see that some law would have been broken if this happened in England and Wales.

You've tried to say say that a touch without permission is not assault. Protip: in England and Wales you don't need to make physical contact for it to be assault. But, if you do make physical contact, and the contact is sexual, and you don't have permission for that contact, and there's no reasonable expectation that you'd have permission, then it's sexual assault.

(http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/3)

> regardless of what some arbitrary legal verbage

Protip: that arbitrary legal verbiage somewhere is what judges are interested in.

> The problem is that some folks (both male and female) don't always perceive things the same way.

I'm guessing that no-one likes having their shoulder licked by un-invited strangers.
The 'getting them round a table talking' was largely an effect of a massive intelligence and infiltration campaign that reduced the IRA's offensive capability to the point that they figured they'd be better off playing the electoral game. Make no mistake, the IRA was defeated - but it took decades, and involved the kind of subtle work that seems to have been missing in Iraq or Afghanistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeknife is the best example - the guy who was put in charge of finding moles within the IRA had been a British agent for 20 years!

Not that you'd expect any British or Unionist pols to mention this... when they've won, no point in rubbing their opponents' noses in it.