skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don’t know why this simple attack is allowed to work … browsers should not allow the href to be modified on a link with the onClick handler."

It is often necessary to attach click handlers to anchor tags. For example, let's say you have a link to an image, but when a user clicks on that link, you don't want to navigate to the raw image - you want to open it in a shadowbox. But if someone right clicks and copies the links URL, that will take them to the raw image.

In terms of browsers "allowing" this to happen - anything beyond the ham-fisted approach of just disallowing click handlers on all anchor tags would be prohibitively complicated.

It is something worth being aware of though - just because that link says it's taking you to Google doesn't mean it won't take you somewhere less savory!
coz 5$ are a lot of money, buddy
Possible solution (I can't see the comments in the original post; are those facebook comments?). The balloon is attached to a ring, and a thread (A) passes through that ring. This thread has a ring at each end, and these rings are smaller than the ring attached to the balloon.

Finally, a thread passes through each ring of thread A; let's call them threads B1 and B2. Each kid holds one end of threads B1 and B2.

If for example one of the ends of thread B1 is lost by its kid, B1 will slip out of the ring on thread A, and thread A will subsequently slip out of the ring on the balloon. The ballon flies away :)
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Great blog post... but the grammatical errors were a huge distraction.
Actually you should also correct some internal width that causes the whole page to overflow horizontally, causing a useless scrollbar.
Here's the slide from the Kindle HD announcement:
http://www.androidcentral.com/amazon-hails-improved-mimo-wif...

At the time it beat the iPad 3 but I don't know if the mini changes that.
I was just talking to my parents about this. They're in their second decade of "retirement" (really just working a little less and volunteering a lot more in their case.) Many of their friends fulfilled lifelong plans to sell their homes and move to the lake or someplace warm or travel the world. Most of these friends are now back in town having missed the connections that they built over a lifetime. One couple even bought the house next to their old house so they could reconnect with their neighborhood. God bless people like the author and her husband, but most of us are sustained not by where we live but by lifelong connections to others.
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The first 2 lines (display, PPI) and the price line are why I did not buy an iPad mini, which would have been my first tablet had it been priced at $200 or maybe even $249. So marketing is dead on, in my view.

Instead I bought an Apple-refurbished iPad 3, for $379, which is $79 more than the soon-to-be-shipped Kindle HD 8.9".

For $50 more than the Mac Mini I get a bigger and better display. And for $79 more than the Kindle HD 8.9
I get better apps and user experience.

EDIT: clarified what first 2 lines were
Tailrec.js -- Dead simple auto-trampolining for Javascript
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Apple are known to take much bigger margins than competitors on their hardware. The reason has actually been given by Jeff Bezos during the Kindle HD announcement: Amazon wants to sell their ecosystem, their ebooks, movies and music; the hardware is only a gateway to allow users to buy from their store. Apple makes money on hardware itself and needs a bigger cut (even if they have an ecosystem on their own, much bigger that is in some domains).
iPad mini can't play 720p either (1280x720) without scaling or cropping since the screen is only 1024x768.
Edit: Not sure why the parent was deleted, but it basically stated that in Chrome and Safari, the mouseover URL pointed to the same URL as is set in the 'tricked()' method.

It's interesting though, that they bother to resolve the click event URL so, in a sense, they're evaluating the code before the click event fires and the code is actually executed.

I'm not a security guy, but there seems like a potential for exploit there, though I'm guessing there's probably a very good explanation why there isn't.
Really not worth a discussion as this functionality is probably around since the first web browser implemented JavaScript. I don't know anyone who's actually giving that "hover" target-preview attention anyway. On the other hand, preventing this is not a solution. It would break patterns for AJAXified navigation.
I agree that Apple is great at marketing, but I also don't think that there is any lack of criticism/analysis online. I actually felt that they even failed to set the conversation point with the iPad mini - I have not seen one excited person on the internet, yet many comments complaining about the lack of a Retina screen.

Speaking of aggressive runner-ups, it will be interesting to see how Samsung behaves in the future. Right now, they are still at the "Mac vs PC" stage.[1][2] And they're highly effective too - they've pushed the Note form factor from ridicule into the mainstream. Are they too big already to launch another comparative ad campaign?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-Prx19ZM, [2] http://www.droid-life.com/2012/09/17/this-full-page-galaxy-s...
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How long did that take you to figure out? I imagine that would drive me completely mad.
What are the benefits of having to supply a custom font instead of a custom icon?

edit: looking at it more closely, you'd have to specify the font just for the icon you want to use - if you used it for text, the ligatures would screw you up in short order. Try typing the word 'tileset' or 'padlock' in the box, for example. So if you're going to specify a font only for icons... why not just use the icon image alt text for screenreaders? (as suggested below)

A cute idea, but not sure of the pragmatic applications.
There used to be a DOM attribute specifically for changing the window status text, which was the same area used to display a hovered link URL.[0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.status
What's so great about Surface besides its design and build material? I don't mean to knock on those. I think they are great, but that doesn't equal that the product overall is great. Windows RT is performing very poorly on an high-end ARM chip (don't want to imagine how it would perform on an older dual core ARM chip, or god forbid a single core one) compared to the true mobile operating systems like Android and iOS, and its app store is virtually non-existent. Office on it is also an exercise in frustration.

The price is also too high for what it offers. Even if the build of materials is exactly the same as the iPad 4 (I think it's lower), that doesn't mean it should cost exactly the same as an iPad 4. Because it offers lower value than an iPad (think ecosystem, brand, etc). I also don't think it's acceptable for a $500+ product to have such a low resolution anymore. And don't tell me it has an "extra 16 GB". It doesn't. It only has 17 free GB of storage.
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Why this is interesting:

"RISC OS is a fast, light-weight operating system specifically designed for the ARM architecture. It was developed by the same team of engineers who created the original ARM processor"

Original Acorn Archimedes (which ran RISC OS): 1988, £1000

Raspberry Pi: 2012, £27
Doesn't matter how much better the specs on this device are. I'm uncomfortable using it to purchase content that can be revoked without warning or appeal[1] and nothing short of a popular article on Hacker News can reverse their decision (and only then as a PR issue).

I realize you're also "renting" content from Apple but the company doesn't have a history of abusing this and Amazon does.

1 - http://digitaljournal.com/article/335484
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Aren't points 1-8 commonly referred to as "advertising"?
I do think that one problem with the situation in the UK is that 'getting sacked' is a real problem for your career - there's a big stigma associated with it and it can make it very hard to get your next position. If there's less of a sense of fault in dismissal, maybe that's less of a problem.

However, I'm somewhat dubious about claims of it leading to unemployment due to old and useless employees who are entrenched in their jobs - if it were, wouldn't there be more scope for new companies to emerge who weren't weighed down by those older employees? If adding a new employee did add value, wouldn't it be worth doing anyway? If those employees sacked before the magic date were in high value roles, would companies be willing to throw away their experience? I suspect that the problems ultimately stem from deeper problems than this, especially in the case of Spain and Italy - there's probably a thesis that centres around them being historically poor, agricultural countries who've artificially benefited from the EU in a way that has masked big problems in the fundamentals of their economies.
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Not disagreeing with you -- there have obviously been sites like Slashdot and Reddit that scaled on MySQL for a long time before the current crop of NoSQL solutions, but it could also indicate that scaling MySQL is non-trivial and hence, worthy of noting tried and true solutions to emulate.
I'd say you can't. People are always going to try to game the systems and that's why a certification given to you in person is always going to be more credible than something gained online.

I think ultimately the rigor for actual "testing" is going to have to come from whoever is accepting applications from these types of degree holders, sure you might be able to apply to graduate school with them but you'd probably have to sit an additional test that "standard" degree holders wouldn't or in the case of a job interview there would have to be a bit more rigor in testing the applicant.

Cheating on an online course right now seems so...pointless, the only reason for them at the moment is to enrich yourself and learn something but if people start accepting them in the same way we accept a standard degree we'll see a massive drop in the value of all degrees.
Do you have any actual data to back up the second point?
Don't get me wrong, I understand the fill rates necessary, but i keep hearing this with no real data.

After spending the past 6-8 months working with all sorts of embedded GPU's (mainly as an HTPC hobby on embedded boards), I kinda have serious doubts that the power usage is the factor here, and would like to see real data, not assumptions.

You are assuming that higher resolution requires linear scaling of number of cores/shaders/etc, and thus, 4 times the power.
If it's displaying using 3D, it's definitely not true (it requires linear scaling of some hardware, but not all hardware, and thus, power usage is not necessarily going to be 4x).

On the 2D side, 2D cores have been so fast for the past "whatever" that it's not clear it would require any more power than normal.

In fact, the only articles i can find that did any real testing show the power usage is only increased about 30% (overall, including both panel and GPU) on a full sized laptop. Their methodology seemed very suspect, so I don't want to quote them here, just point out that there is some alternative claims.

I'm not trying to pick on you in particular, it just seems the common refrain for why the ipad mini is not retina, and i haven't seen a single shred of evidence to back it up.
ASCII video with getUserMedia
Perhaps Apple will release an iPad mini with Retina Display sooner because of the peer pressure:)
I do very much the same as you alluded to here, the only difference being that I am in tech project management (cue a gasp!) so remote pm roles really don't appear that often so I tend to do 3-6months contracting then head off somewhere cool for month or so.

This year I've managed to hit Australia's East Coast for a month, do central America for a month and take the best part of a month off for the Olympics. I call it itchy feet syndrome!
Especially considering that you can't hover in mobile phones or tablets.
Actually you don't need that either.

onclick="window.location='<badurl>';return false;"

If you want to be even more shady you can use the 'onmouseover' event with the same redirect as above. Which defeats the look before you leap approach of hovering before clicking.

onmouseover="window.location='<badurl>';return false;"
I think this is a great new feature to an already impressive site. I find myself coming back to CSSDeck for bits and pieces of code very routinely.
Meet the Raspberry Pi-based ‘root any Android’ box
Yes, but it'd be great if you could register on Doorkeeper as soon as it's confirmed you're coming to help us keep track.
As far as I can tell, this does appear limited to international trade for business purposes. It's a new, very specific kind of import ban. Protectionism of a sort, but not really that scary.

Problem is, this new ban doesn't actually appear in the copyright act at all.

No, it's not terribly scary and Ebay isn't going to be shut down. But that doesn't mean that the courts should have a license to create a new law that simply and clearly didn't exist before.

And your conjecture that this prevents arbitrage is FUD, as there are numerous ways to version differentiate (simply change order of questions, localizations, etc) that do not require giving the government a gigantic new policing power.
The only thing keeping my wife and I from full nomad is pets. You can't keep critters if you move all the time.
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That's a good point, luckily, I'm quite fortunate, I left the UK for 2 years to live in Spain and spent nearly the entire time in constant employment, so I have a pretty good track record as far as past employment goes.

Thanks for taking your time to answer me :)
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>It doesn't seem to work online - there are always those who insist on "sharing" just how clever they are.

To be fair I always love when an "interview question" article shows up and we get 500 versions of fizzbuzz implemented in the most mind bending way possible.
I'd be very interested to see some sort of visual grid editor for bootstrap or a similar framework.
Which is what I thought this article would be about based on the title.
It's called "NoScript". I have yet to see the solution on the site :D
hold on guys, can someone explain me what the browser is doing wrong here? I mean the source says it will take me to /utils/onclick.html which is exactly what the tooltip says as well. Please help me understand?

http://i.imgur.com/8PrfP.png
That riddle is NP-hard
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I can't see this being a problem in most places. Most places will be a small deposit plus a month up front in places in Asia, Central America etc, however more developed places such as London, Syndey etc will be less tolerant / desperate for bookings.

The two most useful tools I've found when doing this is Tripadvisor and Airbnb, you can usually haggle a room from either of these longer term.
This trick use to be used a lot in "adult" galleries about 10 years back.
I was thinking the same thing. It would seem that to do what he's suggesting you would have to prevent any interaction between the anchor tag and javascript. You can trigger window.location.href on hover for gosh sakes.
Hmm…iPad 3 supports 802.11n (which has MIMO) as well. Perhaps the Fire HD is still faster, but it seems disingenuous to leave the iPad column blank.
I am fairly sure the discussion centered around "is it possible", rather than "is it easy". No, it's not easy. I am surprised you came away thinking it might be.
Reminds me of the late 90's along with scrolling titles.
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> I'm a designer, honestly, a logo takes a few hours.

Please don't state this as fact, it's really dependent on the project, the client and your process.
Strange. it doesn't work under IE8 & 9. I checked the font-face and it seems ok at first glance.
Just came here to ask the same thing, i cant see whats wrong with his test link, goes to where the on hover says. :s
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So it's not really an accident. They meant to hire those people, they were just bad at forecasting. To me, those are separate issues.
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Click that link to /utils/onclick.html and then try clicking the link on the new page that says it will go to www.google.com
I think in the industry I'm in (CRM consultancy) then "job-hopping" can look bad - it was mentioned at my last interview (end of last year) that my CV doesn't look the best for the amount of jobs I've had (9 different jobs in 15 years) however at your age I wouldn't expect it to be negative at all - I had 5 different jobs between the ages of 16 and 20 and it didn't hold me back at all.

When I'm happy in a position, I'll stay till the bitter-end (case in point, the dream-job I had I stayed there for 5 years, until the company went bankrupt) whereas 2 of my jobs have only lasted 6-9 months due to things not being right - things you don't pick up on in the interview or probation period, but you know it's something you can't happily live with.

Everyone has the right to do the best for themselves, and it's not greedy at all to want to have more than £3 a week left over from your bills to actually eat, which I'm assuming means you don't have any money left to socialise or do something just for you (which is important as well)
Isn't the issue that the designer can choose to work for less than minimal wage or not work. That's a very limited sense of consensual labour.

The exploitation of the global market is available to the commissioner (stackoverflow) in a way that is not available to the designer.

Whilst SO are enjoying a position of wealth wrought in part from the [owners] geographical location they are, here, using the lack of mobility of designers to get a relatively low cost design created. Moreover they are exploiting those who, on the whole, don't have the benefit of their wealth in order to maintain a low cost and at the same time creating a vast inefficiency in the labour performed to produce the design.

So the immorality IMO comes in via exploitation of the low paid, deflation of market price below local [labour] costs (as they are benefiting disproportionately from those high local costs), and purposefully introducing inefficiencies in to production.

You may not find those condition immoral - after all population control by virtue of below-subsistence wage levels is a natural part of a free market; some people seem to find that satisfactory.
And this is why we use Firefox with NoScript on unknown sites :-)
It is a boostrap component/plugin.

From what I can tell this is a wysiwyg HTML editor that you drop in your bootstrap based web pages - rather than a boostrap style/grid editor.
Ha, that's a good point! I'm curious, though: is it possible to do that on a Kindle Fire? I had thought that was only possible on a regular (Black and White) Kindle
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If you click that, it opens a demo with a link that's ostensibly to google, but actually goes somewhere else.
Site is down, how compatible will this be with the existing software library? If I'm not mistaken there was a pretty good set of Amiga/Atari ST games ported to the Archimedes back in the day.
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Pretty, but definitely not quite there. The white text on nearly-white background is nearly unreadable here (OSX + Chrome), whereas it's fine on an actual device.
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When does learning (to code) stop being so hard?
It's a plain link to a demo page, not a demo link.
The author phrased it strange. The proof of concept link isn't on the blog page, it's on the page it links to.
Of course, this assumes there is no friction or that friction is negligible compared to the upward pull of the balloon...
So you didn't "accidentally" hire people. You did it with a lack of foresight. To me, that's different.

Saying you accidentally hired people makes it sound softer than it really is. If Raytheon or Boeing hired 2,000 people ahead of a defense contract they were sure they'd get, and didn't that wouldn't be an "accident." That would be poor planning (counting your eggs before they hatch kind of thing.)

Either way, I don't really care either way about Zynga. I don't think I've ever played their games, but at the same time I'm not hoping they fail.
I use apt-cacher-ng as a caching proxy for Ubuntu packages. Highly recommend it if you're updating multiple machines.

As other commenters have noted, your particular system's bloat is likely due to a -dbg package (with debugging symbols). It might be time for a fresh OS reinstall to purge the accumulated junk. (A new Linux Mint -- my personal distro of choice -- will probably be about a month after the Ubuntu 12.10 release.)
After watching one of the videos, I mentally started clapping! Really amazing! And both the site and the editor are uncluttered.
I'm really glad to have received so much support, I expected wide-spread "stay" please to be perfectly honest.

And you are perfectly right, my social life has suffered, I couldn't go out for the Halloween parties with my friends, and it's quite demoralizing, especially when I see people who are on benefits and receiving more money to live off than me.
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but my tool Jetstrap (http://jetstrap.com/) has grid support. You can drag in a grid row and then drag in grid columns. The UX on the grids isn't quite where I want it yet though.
The ties between agriculture and herding are not clear. Mongols are nomads and have a diet that is basically just milk.

I believe the benefit of drinking milk is obvious. A herd can take calories from grass and drink mud, while the human enjoys a source of clean, caloric, nutrient rich drink that can go anywhere. Farmers, on the other hand, can just be ran over, pilled or sieged by enemies.
This is a fairly recent development, isn't it?

I'm sure I've successfully copied links directly from Google's search results before, but I've only recently (past few months?) noticed the URL mangling.
Are Apple competing on hardware or software?
The "brilliant" part was convincing people it was $199, whereas in fact it's pretty close to $250 after shipping. I ended up buying a 16GB model ($275 including shipping) because the price difference was so small.
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Hovering is showing 'www.google.com' for me in Chrome 22.0.1229.94 so I'm guessing the comment is incorrect (or only correct for some unknown version of Chrome). I don't have a mac so I can't test Safari.
What I found most interesting was in the Update to the POF article where Jeff Atwood compares the cost of scaling up (as POF did) vs. scaling out (as Atwood does) and notes the comparison of 1 heavy DB server vs its equivalent cost of approximately 83 commodity boxes.

The article factors in hardware and software licensing, but completely overlooks the cost of system administration. With the base cost of $100,000 used in the comparison, that's only a minor part of the price point vs. hiring the head count needed to administer 83 commodity servers, which I could reasonably see requiring a few FTEs if they performed their own hardware support.
You’re absolutely right. It is more of a JavaScript-less experiment (folders) than an actual css version of an iPhone Home Screen.
I only "hover" before clicking on suspicious links in emails.