skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a problem with keyCodes in general. They're a very blunt tool that would useless if it weren't that there are barely any alternatives in JS.

JavaScript has absolutely massive issues with anything regarding internationalization. This is the language that shipped with a Y2K bug in 1995!
Key codes are pretty good for little things, but they break down pretty quickly if you want international support. In Mathquill, we ended up just using a hidden textarea and a setTimeout, with a few hilarious hacks. The comments and commit history are worth a read: https://github.com/mathquill/mathquill/blob/dev/src/textarea...
how are you managing the titles for the requests?
I think you are saving items in one table with unique id, but the url is with text/title. Are you looking over a full-text indexed column for every request for an individual item?
Barely anything on reddit is original content, I don't think the users should complain about reposts on other sites. If it keeps certain demographics away, it might even be a good thing for reddit's content/comment quality.
+1 on the TV advice, but I personally don't need the scotch ;) I find that old cartoons and/or space documentaries on Netflix do the trick.
Never mind 9GAG, what about Zynga?
I like the book. I lose respect for anyone who just dismisses it out of hand because they think that's the cool choice.

But I agree that the plot and characters are shallow. The book was designed to showcase her philosophy and it does it well. I don't believe it was ever intended to be realistic, and I think it fell a little short of being entertaining a lot of the time. It was far too long. It was still far better than a lot of other fiction books I've read.

What I get out of the book (which I've read 3 times) is a different look on self-worth and self-sacrifice than all the rest of society gives. I believe people would be better off if everyone acted in a rational manner to promote their own interests. (It's not actually rational to hurt others to promote yourself. In the long run, that's a losing strategy.) I also believe that this will never actually happen, and so compromises are in order.

I believe that book has helped me form a better sense of my own worth, and was at least partially responsible for me leaving a job and getting a 40% raise at the next one. It's not the only factor, but it helped to be able to objectively assess my value to the company, as well as how much I value my own time.

Does that mean I'm a card-carrying Objectivist who doesn't give to charity? No. It means I'm a more rational person who evaluates things a little more clearly. In fact, I actually give to charity more now than before, so the book can hardly be said to have hurt that. I do give for slightly different reasons now, though. Before, I gave because it was the thing to do. Now, I give because I want that charity to work. If I give to the Red Cross, it's because I want them to help sick or hurt people. If I give to Child's Play, it's because I want sick children to find a little bit of joy in their lives. Those things may seem obvious, but they weren't.

A good example is United Way. I don't give to them. Why? Because all they do is slice off a large percent (13% apparently) and give the rest to an actual charity. Before, I had never really considered this, and just bought into their propaganda.

"Of each dollar United Way collects, over 87 cents goes directly to valuable community services. " - http://www.forsythunitedway.org/faq.cfm

They used to be very vocal about how much went to a real charity, pushing that statistic in front of you like it was a good thing. That is not good. That 13% could be going to a real charity, too, and actually helping people.

So in the end, don't lose respect for people merely because they like something. You might not be seeing the whole story.
I went through the same thing. My experience showed that the difficulty rose from the two very different work flows. Windows is mosly a point and click deal. Even the .NET IDE of choice (VS) is less about coding and more about hitting the space bar. I'm not critizing it, because it is very good and helps save time. Though it did make me lazier, which I thought would be impossible. On the other hand, Linux/python/any language really, is a bit more raw. You have to do a lot of things yourself. There is little hand holding (though it has been improved over the last years). It pushed me to really dig into the OS and learn how it works, instead of just sitting there clicking. It has also helped as an engineer, because I know write code that is more modular, instead of platform specific. And by modular I dont mean OOP abstractions, but it the end product being able to be used by different OS versions.

I suggest you just jump right into it. Being well versed in Linux doesn't mean you will not hit walls. You will. I guarantee it. It just means you will understand why did you hit the wall and how to jump over it. I suggest you create a VM with Ubuntu running on it and just install stuff without a fear of breaking it. One of the most fun (and frustrating) experiences I had was with learning how to use chmod. I once changed almost every file on the OS to file settings 777 (writeable, readable by anyone).

Just keep hacking at it. It has taken me at least 6 years to reach this point.
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Do you have a tailor?

I buy cheaper department store clothing and have it tailored. It fits me like a glove. The quality isn't quite the same, but the price come out in my favor.
I knew at some point you would tell me it was underpriced! :)

Patrick, thanks for all your encouragement and reminders to charge based on value. Without that I would have picked a much lower price and probably made half the money.
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Doesn't work in IE8. I know IE8 isn't exactly the latest and greatest web browser but some of us are stuck using it at work!
Haven't you heard? Hating on a college education is all the rage these days.
True, I have the urge to check my mails often when my system lies in front of me, I made it a point to keep my laptop inside its case before sleeping and this has reduced the email urge to a great extent.
I've never heard anything in the US about not being able to talk about jury-room stuff, but I never talk about my experience if someone could link it to the case in question. I just can't see it leading to anything good.

I do, however, talk about it when telling people how positive the experience was, and that it shouldn't be avoided. Before I went, I desperately wanted to avoid it, too, but after going through it, I actually have more confidence in the justice system.
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I didn't want to seem like I was spamming my list by focusing on it too much. Though I will continue to mention it in the coming weeks.

Thanks for subscribing to the newsletter!
Nice! But shift-key doesn't work. For example if I want to get the code for +
This may work for the initial fitting, but that is a relatively one. Some of the later fittings, particularly in the shoulder areas are more difficult and more trial/error.
Even the quaility on Hogo Boss is not that good - I recall my Mum who did dabble in fashion looking at my cousins (he was a senior sales guy for Oracle) HB suit and noticing the shoddy workmanship.
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Now there is an A/B testing approach @patio11 might like to get his teeth into - Emotionally-cued directed navigation.

Brighten up the site as they make progress towards your goals (dont have the smiley people on the landing page, have them on the next one)

Move away from the big green buy button, get JS to subtly dim the pallette - can you tip the A/B balance using interactive cues not static changes.

SOunds, creepy now I think of it.
It's been done http://boingboing.net/2008/02/20/infrared-leds-make-y.html
>We can't really be sure of that can we.

No, but we can be sure that conceptually it's far better than the monolithic practice, which has been shown in the past to slow down the standardising process.

>What we can be sure of is that there's no way to summarise the CSS standards compliance of a browser or to indicate concisely the browser level requirements of a website for a human.

That was always true. I mean, we might have had a "way to summarise the CSS standard compliance", as in "this browser is CSS 2 compatible", but we never had a 100% compatible browser for any previous version. I doubt we still have a full CSS2 compatible browser engine, so so much for summarizing.

Now, it could be easier: we could have a browser that is 100% compatible with A, B, C, D CSS modules and lacks in X, Y, Z.

It's not like developers care about the overall compatibility. What they do care is "can I use this or that feature?". To say "this engine is 90% CSS3 compatible doesn't answer that". Only 100% compatibility would answer those kinds of questions ("yes, you can use ANY feature").

So, they way to summarise compliance will be, as it is the practice anyway, with some list of CSS features and Yes/No tick marks. And for some things, with the knowledge that for that module the engine has 100% compliance (easier to achieve than the ellusive 100% compliance over ALL modules).
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If they find a way to force the visibility of ads, we still could move them to the bottom of the page.
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Presumably this game took off because Eli Hodapp of TouchArcade covered it. But according to http://toucharcade.com/2012/07/26/10000000-review/, Hodapp discovered it via the TouchArcade app's Hot New Games list.

Does anyone know how games make it to that list?
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Imagine walking into an IKEA store, and instead of seeing every exposition and every decoration hidden in the different parts of a huge store, you simply sit with the consultant and discuss your needs.

Wow. Talk about missing the point of Ikea. Ikea showrooms are big meandering labyrinths full of vignettes telling you little stories about what your life could be like if you'd only buy you some flat-packed goodness.

I'm not discounting the possibility that large fast 3d printers might someday replace some warehouse space and allow for wider selections of inventory, but a "consultant" and a computer would be a mighty thin substitute for the Ikea experience.
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Created Facebook page using IFTTT. Like
Just created this Facebook page to share cool, amazing, special or informational images.
Like this If you like the concept.
PHP provides escapeshellcmd / escapeshellarg functions for escaping when building commands.

Is there any shell on which those functions are unsafe ? I think they assume cmd.exe on windows and sh on others.
This may work for crude made to measure suits, but bespoke is often more about trial and error than incredibly precise measurement. It also has a lot to do with the preferences of the client, particularly with regards to the shoulders and armholes.

As for automation, a large number of MTM tailors currently email the measurements to a factory in Asia where the suit is cut by a worker getting paid pennies. The cost isnt necessarily in the making of the suit, its more the measuring and interactions between the tailor and the client that can take hours. For this reason alone I dont think we will see tailoring robots anytime soon.
>Food insecurity is not starvation

Pointless pedantic distinction from the well-fed. Try it for a month and then we can talk. I have some friends in MS that beg to differ. Not to mention that it comes with tons of other stuff like lack of health coverage, housing, bad sanitation, etc.

>* -- it is a metric created to justify ongoing concern, because starvation went up against science/capitalism/etc and lost, badly.*

You have to see the TCO, so to speak. Because capitalism (as practiced, not some theoretical model) in the US and Europe also created massive famines, lack of development and poverty elsewhere, on societies forced to structure themselves and produce for the benefit and under the design of their colonial overlords. The western economy, for example, feeds on cheap oil, which it gets by preying on oil producing countries.
But I savil row they have the apretices who do the cutting out and the basic tasks this chap is doping it all him self
Wow! That is an incredible number of subscribers. Sounds like it is time to write that book. I am now at $11.5k in less than 24 hours. With a list like that you could do a lot better.
ZDnet is like TMZ or The Sun. Or like The Register :P Clickbait title and ridiculous argument. HTML5 was never made to contest native apps. It was made to simplify the web. To make its old structure more relevant to the current content, hence for example <header>, <nav>, <section> and <article>. And it works. Hell, ZDnet's responsive design is a child of HTML5 and CSS3. So, just keep calm and move along over this piece.
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Best quote:

"
Word of mouth is still the best form of marketing. Instead of thinking of all of the ways to reach your customers, think of all of the ways to improve your relationships with customers so they reach one another.
"

How I interpret this; stop focusing on getting likes on your facebook-page, focus on getting your customers to like you for real and the rest will follow.
This is not the reason I can't sleep. I fall asleep just fine. I have a hard time staying asleep because of the small child who climbs into my bed in the middle of the night. Even then, it's not the extra person in the bed as much as getting kicked for the rest of the night.
Besides being rude, this clearly does not follow Pidgin's security vulnerability reporting process: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SecurityVulnerabilityProcess
Dear CSS framework writers (not just Neat) can you start adding a section to your docs that states what Browsers your frameworks are supposed to support. This doesn't work in IE8 at all, which is fine if your not going to support it as long as you make that clear.
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That's not what matters. Getting costs is like a TKO in boxing.

They won, the judge knows they won, but they still had to do the road running and the no sex for a month before the match, so its a sunk cost. Lots of sex after the match does not make up for the month before.
I didn't know about 9GAG, but unethical behavior is exactly the kind of reason for regretting funding that I had in mind with my question.
Is it really a huge vulnerability? But certainly a very dickish bug entry.
I get your point, but don't use yesterday technology for future experience. Instead of a "consultant" imagine interior designer, instead of a "computer" imagine a 3D holographic projection. No more labyrinths to go through. Instead, a personal 100% customisable showroom that can be designed just for you. And printed and delivered on the same day.
Even 500 dollars a year ($1.45 for one person) income puts you in the "top 80%" of the world, which means there's a billion people that make LESS than that.

$1,000 a year puts you in the 50% of the world per income.

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

(It seemed too small to me too, until I visited places were people earn $1 a day, like Cambodia -- that is, less than $500 per year).
I'd like to see this legislation deleted and chalked up to a learning experience for government.

In principal yes, I do want websites to be open about their cookie use, but leaving the implementation down to the website owners has spawned many different ways of dealing with the issue. This makes it less clear and likely more confusing for the end user.

Let's try a solution at the user & browser level.
your name seems to imply that you don't know how to spell.
Yes, unnecessarily rude and offensive to the developer(s) who wrote it. If he'd just used a more respectful title and removed the last sentence it would have been fine.
Popups/dropdowns etc semi-forced upon UK websites are extremely anti-competitive in my opinion.

- Visitors who the law is trying to protect (less savvy web users) could easily be scared by cookie messages

- It's another barrier to actually accessing content on the site

- It's time consuming and difficult to implement sometimes. For example, if your site requires cookies to function, what should it do if a visitor declines permission?

These new laws seem to be addressing peoples irrational fears, and not the actual problem. I'd like to see them go down the pan. I hope next year when they start enforcing it they don't make examples of companies with cherry picked large fines.
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interim solution, add this to your adblock plus rules: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list and send me patches when you find a site with a cookie warning
Bingo. Note his posting history.
So, my point is: is the design "awesome" without resizing the window?

I don't think so (not that the design isn't good). But it's even a little awkward at the smallest size, because you see a transitional animation whenever you load the page.
Update: I am now at $11,536.90 in less than 24 hours of sales. I guess I can cross "Make $10,000 in one day" off my bucket list!
Why slashes instead of dots? Wouldn't the key paths make much more sense as "foo.bar.bat".
The reason why most people don't get food is because they can't afford it, not because food is in short supply.

Seriously? Do you think the market is a magical and mystical unicorn we shall never understand?

The reason they can't afford it is because of supply and demand. When the rich have a high demand for food, the prices go up. THAT is why they can't eat.
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Point-and-click vs. the command line isn't just about hand holding. Setting things up with the command line might seem less convenient, but it's very easy to make a script when you want to automate that setup routine.

I'm a little surprised that the grandparent post had trouble setting up Django, though. Once you've installed the python-django package, you should be able to follow the Django tutorial straight away.
Reasons why you shouldn't:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/online-poker-fraud-reveale...

http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/15/news/economy/online_poker_in...

For programmers it should be particularly obvious that cheating is just too easy and too tempting for online poker/gambling sites. Not getting caught is a little harder.
I agree that 'brain dumping' is incredibly useful for soothing a racing mind, but I would also say that caffeine doesn't help.
Why create significant quality content?
Nice! Up until now I've been writing small GreaseMonkey plugins to handle this. Added your list. Expect the occasional pull request. :)

[edit] First pull request sent.
Summary: Because I don't use your software. Please no more ads on HN.
Well, you answer the question yourself:

Do you think that using SSL where your client accepts every certificate (the link points to a function that returns a success code unconditionally, the 'real' stuff is disabled by preprocessor directives) is bad?

Whatever the severity (for me this is certainly high), the tone in that bug report is inexcusable.

Edit: Well, it seems that code existed like this since its creation, 2003-09-29: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/895a5ff9ebd4

Edit 2: The bug report has now a proper response, quite relaxed. So it seems this is totally expected - for whatever reasons. I'm still curious why the code is littered with #if 0 fragments for years (dead code belongs in the vcs history for me), but the initial expectation of a total lack of certificate verification is wrong.
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Pointless pedantic distinction from the well-fed.

It's not pedantics.

A 6' man eating a consistent 1900 cals/day is hungry. His equilibrium weight at age 30 is 135lb. He likely suffers serious health problems due to malnourishment.

Now consider a different man, who eats 3500 cals on a typical day. However, he is bad at budgeting, so one day out of every 7 he eats nothing (averaging 3000 cals/day). This man is food insecure. He also weighs 250lb and is morbidly obese.

The latter case is far more common in the US.

Incidentally, doing the latter mode of "starvation" deliberately is called intermittent fasting and many people do it.
Better content equals less clicks on competitors' search service. Something that your pamphlet misses entirely.
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I strongly suggest divorcing your argument that, e.g., "concern over food insecurity is important" from "patio11 was not food insecure." In addition to improving the quality of the discussion, debating the second argument will be mildly embarrassing for me and very, very embarrassing for you, so let's skip it.
It should be noted that the post explicitly recommends using free/fun to play games and links to a problem gambling site.
I do this - all my technology is in another room of the house. My computer, phone, TV, none of it is in my bedroom. I just plug my phone into a charger in another room overnight.

The only concession to technology in my bedroom is a DAB clock radio. I'm not interested in checking Twitter or email or whatever from bed, but if it's there, I'll do it instead of sleeping. So just keeping all that stuff in a different room works!

This article is nonsense. It's just a sales pitch for some software. Going on the computer and writing your notes in that software just before bed is likely to harm your sleep, as is going on a computer to do anything right before bed...
Fair enough. Until we come up with a better way to detect nested columns, I don't think explicit nested rows is the route we want to take. Our primary goal is to use as few mixins as possible to achieve proper nesting.
Premature optimization. Obviously, this thing works well enough and handles the load. Why worry about whether it's launching a process?

When the system begins to show signs of stress, you look at where it's spending its time, then alleviate the bottleneck.
No.

Also, you mean shim I think.

A shiv is something you fashion out of a toothbrush and shove into the guts of somebody that mouthed off to you in the cafeteria in cell block A last week.