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They are asking for explicit consent to allow them to serve cookies. This is in direct response to the EU Cookie Law[1]. The law requires that companies who use "tracking cookies" get permission from the user before implementing the cookies. It is their decision to not accommodate users who object to these cookies.

My organization's site does the exact same thing, and we are a privacy professional association[2]. Very few, even among our membership, care about the cookies, but it is still important to comply with the law.

[1]http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...

[2]https://privacyassociation.org
If they're open source, you could fork them with better names. You could even set up an rsync type script so it's always up to date. This could nudge him in the right direction. This would fork discussion in that community, forcing everyone to use two names for a while. But it's probably worth it.
Disagree. There isn't and shouldn't be any hard fast rule for this. Same as most things in programming. Do what makes sense.

Also, [0-9.] not [0-9\.]
I'm reading the Execute book by Josh Long and Drew Wilson and just last night they hit on the point that a few hours of 100% focused work mixed with a few 100% focused leisure hours a few times a day is more productive and satisfying then say 8 to 10 hours of 45% effort of work.

This is how Drew Wilson, creator of Space Box and many other works is able to achieve his high level of output. He manages his energy, listens to his body and mind, and does what is most suitable and productive knowing such things.

3 hours at 100% followed by 3 hours of leisure followed by 3 hours of 100% work would be 6 hours of 100% focused work. 6 solid hours of work is better than 8 hours of 50% focus (4 hours). Not only is the actual effort put in greater, but so is the focus and engagement which leads to even greater results.
It does not compete with SE, because its a search engine. But it does allow for people to discuss items on SE without the friction they create (as an example). You can also do so with other site (actually, all sites).
The one downside to any library that uses before/after pseudo elements is that they take over the pseudo elements and can no longer be used for other purposes.

I would say that they should only be used for styling and not functionality.
More importantly it's owned by millions including me.
Unlikely (for all the reasons of oppression and power dynamics), but even if that were the case, the people who view said fake porn, and for whom having porn be something that, in their eyes, can break your career, are going to be overwhelmingly male, in all likelihood. If having nude photos of yourself were seen as something we ought reward and celebrate, as opposed to something that makes women look like "sluts," then it almost certainly would not have been the vector this perp would have used for attack. I have a feeling fake porn would be a lot less detrimental to a man's career than a woman's.
I've built a few mobile "reader" applications for large media clients and the main reason they use native apps is for offline browsing when your connection goes bad, allowing a smooth reading experience. If the app doesn't do this at the very minimum then there's really no point to it.

Other things we do:
1. Add games and other content that doesn't work well across mobile browsers.
2. Allow in-app purchases of other content such as white papers or related books that fit into the devices "book shelf" application, whatever that may be.

Now for a tech perspective - If you've ever built an app on a mobile device that is based on HTML5 you'll know that the performance lags when compared to a native app. When you throw in content animations, such as in a children's interactive story book, the comparison is moot. I'll bet against anybody that thinks they can get similar performance from a web-based application on a mobile device. I've done it and I know for certain it's a terrible solution who's only benefit is to the development team and not the end user. My apps are almost 100% native now with HTML being used for content I don't want to touch, like terms and conditions and privacy statements that I pull from a website.

My point? Native apps benefit the end user if done properly. Just because some fools botched a workflow doesn't negate this.
Show HN: I made a massively multiplayer game with HTML5, Node.js and MongoDB
And it ignores the thousands of people writing mods for minecraft.
Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5163696.
OP please fix your title, the article states "1% of CMS-Powered Sites" NOT "1% of WordPress Sites".

Also you can move wp-config.php outside the root.
10 Crucial Questions Agile Developers Should Ask Employers
I don't deny that, but if I comedy for smart people is thin upon the ground, I'll take comedy about smart people over reality television that's otherwise permeating the airwaves.
what do you mean lousy climate? some of us quite like a nice bit of drizzle.

better than living in a 40c desert.
If you actually read the article (and view the source of the Chrome download page), you'll see that it's a JavaScript error. Speaks to the wisdom of building an entire page up on JavaScript (something pretty much every site in the Google ecosystem relies upon). Uncaught errors tend to render things useless, whereas straight up HTML is quite useable with a broken link or three.
Ask HN: Domain selling
Got a question for everyone. Selling the domain "flyaway.com". I tried to work with a broker but I didn't feel my needs were properly represented. I was going to be featured in Wednesday's WebFest2013... but that isn't going to work out.

Wondering what your opinion is on this sort of thing. Contact all the airlines/travel companies myself? Try a different broker? List it in every auction under the sun? Sell it on eBay?

Just looking for feedback. Cheers guys :)
The problem isn't fluff, it's blogs that act like a broken copy of the original with chunks missing, providing no commentary either. The voting system isn't a very good solution: it requires the front page to be inundated in duplicate articles followed by people reading both versions and voting up the good one. And what if they already upvoted the spam blog because they liked the information it had and didn't know it was a cheap knockoff?

The voting system lets you compare different articles, but it doesn't let you compare two versions of the same article submitted at different points of a day.
This article does not sound like an "experiment". It seems to describe a zealous manifesto against email.

Also, the core business of Yolk Recruitment is literally people. So, there is an inherent value bias for them to use the most direct and immediate forms of communications as often as possible.
For the people who criticize Minecraft as an underwhelming gaming experience, you need to look at the game from a different perspective...

For a young child, this game has a tremendous lure... it's very simple to visually take in. All of the objects you build with bricks are abstract representations of real life things. For a child, visualizing a castle in minecraft is much easier to process than showing them one in a Lord of the Rings movie.

The other thing is that there's really no rules. You can pretty much do whatever you want... build stuff, explore, play the actual campaign, fight bad guys, etc. This is the exact opposite of the 'cinematic' experience most other games try to create. Kids will bec creating their own storyline in their minds.

Minecraft is the ultimate game of imagination and kids will eat it up like candy. This is why it's made so much money and has become a cultural phenomenon.
A few quick thoughts on negotiating your offer
>Well would your argument stand if I said i have my browser filling 5% of my screen?

That depends how big your screen is.

>responsive design is useful, but designing for majority screen resolutions is just good business sense.

And limiting your site to 960+ is a pretty dumb idea for that reason. A quarter of my monitor is 800 pixels wide. That is an entirely usable size, and any decent website works fine in it. It is especially dumb to break a website for people using <960px browsers when the website in question is incredibly simple and could easily work in a 300px window.
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IMHO, if your intent is to capture a literal dot then you should escape it even if, based on the context, you don't have to.
"After 40 Terabytes, your fingers start to hurt."

--David S. Miller
Labels in input fields aren’t such a good idea
If AI Means The End Of Us, Maybe That's Okay
For well known flags like grep's -E, this makes it less obvious what the script is doing. Not everyone speaks English as their first language and most of the long options are GNU specific so won't be portable.
Like everything else it depends. "rm -rf" is a lot easier to read than "--recursive --force" simply because every likely maintainer will (1) already know the short form and (2) will have no idea the long form options even exist. Likewise arguments to tar are probably best left in traditional form, etc...

Don't rock the boat just to adhere to silly style rules. The goal is readability. You're probably already the best judge of what is most readable, so trust your intuition. If you had to look it up, then spell it out. If not, relax and do it the sane way.
I don't see the point to this.

The purpose of any phone screen I've done is that it's simple enough that no self respecting programmer would have trouble with the questions, ie they are of the fizzbuzz variety.

The point being that if you need to "phone a friend" then you've probably already failed the interview.
The hidden beauty of recruiting
I wish more people understood this. All mainstream sitcoms are just window dressing for the same tired joke machine of setup + punchline. Even Community follows this formula more often than not and let's face it, Community for all its excellence is very hit or miss. Shows like Friends or TBBT more or less follow this formula at the cost of character development and plot, but the people watching them don't care about those things.

If you want realistic drama then try watching a realistic drama. I like TBBT. Its easy chuckles and its fun to see the exaggerated high school version of me getting roasted. There's a lot of comedy to mine in the overly serious and socially clueless nerd stereotypes. The show really is about the hilarity of manboys trying to make their way in the modern world and less about geekdom or 'smart people.' It would be trivial to retool the script to be about obsessed sports fans instead of obsessed nerds.
Eyewitnesses of the King's demise at Bosworth recorded him as having bellowed "traitors, traitors, traitors" while personally charging to within feet of Henry Tudor. Both Shakespeare and recorded history appear to be equally dramatic in this case. Richard's death ended the War of the Roses, and historians such as Norman Cantor would claim that also it marked the end of Medieval era and the beginning of the Renaissance.

"The Sunne in Splendour" retells Richard's life and also offers a fascinating look at his older brother Edward IV, a man who warred his entire life and never lost a battle.
"...as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours" - Bill Gates [1]

Yep, that's exactly what victims of theft feel. When my car was stolen last year, I thought "Well it could be worse, they could have stolen someone else's car". Because the more people steal my stuff, the more money I make, right?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162686
DoD does have large problems with procurement IMO. Parts of it are self-inflicted (e.g. by making it nearly impossible for a supplier to be "certified" you give existing suppliers the ability to extort more money from you), parts of it are inflicted by the government (e.g. various HR laws the gov't self-adopts in order to 'lead by example', requirements to buy stuff the DoD doesn't even want, etc.)

But the big rub is that it's a very hard problem to tackle. There's already tons of rules and regulations to try to prevent the issue of corruption. Adding more rules makes the 'normal path' even less efficient. Taking rules away risks lots of graft in the 'worst case path'.

And even if DoD somehow adopts a most-efficient acquisition scheme, it still has to get the prime contractors to become more efficient to actually realize savings based on this. There's only so many defense contractors to choose from for major acquisition projects, and from the DoD/nat'l defense point of view it's better to buy expensive kit than to stop buying at all for a few years into order to weed out the most sluggish contractors.
I don't want your dick and I never will
No I'm not confused. No you can't watch. And no, your massive shaft won't make me straight.
It's always a cost/benefits analysis. I think for a lot of us, the cost/benefit goes something like this:

"Will I ever have to read and modify this script again? Effectively-100% likely. Will this script ever run anywhere that I don't have the GNU toolchain? Effectively-0% likely."

It's a no-brainer at that point.

If you can't say that second part honestly, reconsider, but a lot of us can.
Chef also moved away from CouchDB to Postgres in Chef 11
It used to be. I don't know when or why it stopped working. Fixing bugs on hn is not a high priority for pg. Nor do I see any reason that bugs which are merely inconvenient should be.

Glad you found it. Thanks for posting the link.
Watch the video in parent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_calving
With something close to absolutely no support from Mojang, even though they've appropriated some of the community's features.
> my life absolutely must be about working to mitigate and slow global climate change. Any other career path or choice would be so morally wrong I would have great difficultly living with that decision.

If you don't value future people, then developing-world health interventions can do more good with your time/money. And if you do, then other x-risks overwhelm climate change.
So, people laughing at nerds is bad, but people laughing at "highly dysfunctional, but lovable characters" is good. Got it.
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Or he could hit cancel and let the browser take him to the site. 1 step. No need for the pissy rant. Note that many people like the app model and that's why people are offering them.
Sexist misogynistic asshole on a project? Take away his commit access and ban him from all channels of communication, if you have the power and if you don't, don't contribute to the project anymore, make the reason public and create an alternative if possible.

In daily life I don't hang out with those assholes, do you? If not, why the fuck are you doing it online? Just because they have decent skills? How many people do they keep away from your project and from this community who could easily make up for that, who would have better skills and who would bring you project much further?

If you have a project and want to do something against what is currently fashionable in discrimination, stop writing comments, write a code of conduct and let's be honest if you don't, you are not any better than the people you are criticizing.
You can always download a kindle app for the desktop or your smartphone.
This is a kind of typical dialogue from an episode:

Sheldon: Leonard, where do you stand on the anthropic principle?
Leonard: Interesting question. On the one hand, I always thought…
Sheldon: You don’t even know what it is, do you? The anthropic principle states that if we wish to explain why our universe exists the way it does, the answer is that it must have qualities that allow intelligent creatures to arise who are capable of asking the question. As I am doing so eloquently right now.
Leonard: I know what the anthropic principle is.
Sheldon: Of course. I just explained it to you. Now, where do you stand on it?
Leonard: Where do you stand on it?
Sheldon: Strongly pro.
Leonard: Then I believe that God created the world in six days, and on the seventh he made you to annoy me.
Raj: Hey, guys.
Leonard: Hey.
Sheldon: Yeah, wait, Raj, where do you stand on the anthropic principle?
Raj: I’m all for it.
Sheldon: Attaboy!
Leonard: Well, hang on. Why do you believe that he knows what it is and I don’t?
Sheldon: Oh, Leonard. Let’s not take a saw to the branch we’re sitting on, shall we?

Why is Sheldon such a douchebag? He is socially incompetent but does he have to be an asshole too? Why doesn't Leonard or anyone else ever want to discuss science with Sheldon when it's supposed to be their biggest interest? It's like they are ashamed of being smart people.
I'm guessing you're just meant to use the js console, it's got the script loaded and a prepopulated array in it.
I don't understand this comment or the earlier ones saying Iceland is "unimportant". It's a modern democracy with a rich history. It's suffered one of the worst financial crashes and recovered more rapidly than the rest of us. It's got crime rates, happiness ratings, longevity and education rates that make other first world countries jealous. Are you saying democracy doesn't scale? Tax doesn't scale? That the lessons of one country are irrelevant to bigger but otherwise comparable countries?
Sweet! That was simple!
Firefox Nightly mobile has a nice "request desktop version" ability.
These two-dimensional presentations confuse me if I don't realize they are two-dimensional at first. I press the right arrow key through the entire presentation and I find it much shorter than I imagined. Then I realize you have to go down as well.
A secondary benefit not mentioned in the article is immutability.

Long flags on a command line utility should never change. Short flags may be modified between major versions of a utility, which would break scripts.

Of course this is just a convention, and I'm sure it's not followed 100%. I'll take whatever protection I can get though.
I would guess that scale in this context refers to the extent to which the calving happens rather than a specific scale named calving.
I love Minecraft, it is genius, original and tons of fun, but you need at least two points to draw a line, one hit does not a trend make.

The game world is littered with 'one hit wonders' but it is very hard to repeat that success, doubly so on the scale of Minecraft.

For those that say Mojang is somehow unique, that Notch is the messiah of indy gaming, all I can say is survivor bias. The game industry is chock full of brilliant, passionate peeps who build really original games that just fail to spark the imagination of a large audience for one reason or another.

Hope the best for Mojang and co, love their work on Minecraft and hope they can follow it up with something just as unique, but this article is making some big leaps.
Is it really a child's game? I got the impression it had pretty broad appeal especially as it's programmable.
It's absolutely not that simple. Try telling a country like Japan (who projects a 30% decrease in population by 2060) couples can only have 1 child.
Think of it as a nerd minstrel show; then those writing and directing choices make a lot more sense. That's what gets people so upset.

I have nerd friends who like it, but these same friends rarely notice that they're being made fun of. So.
I didn't say I don't need to trust anybody. I have to trust even the full client: I need to validate the checksum, make sure I don't have viruses and keyloggers on my machine, I have to trust my backup system and have to trust people who understand crypto better than me.

Everyone must trust someone, there is no clear line in the usability-vs-trust balance. I'm perfectly okay to trust a web wallet on blockchain.info small amount of bitcoins because they do a very good job with their iPhone app and SMS notifications. I'm also okay to put some of my money into Electrum and some - in Bitcoin-QT. And keep some on bitcoin-central.net in case I need to sell BTC for fiat quickly.

Given all of that, it's not fair to say that "the true" client is this one, while all the others - are considerably different. For people who value their time, it's important to be able to sacrifice some trust for usability and vice versa. If we would always tell them that they must use the full client, we are just imposing our personal tradeoffs and do not respect theirs.
Who has the right to kill a robot?
Am I missing something, or is this huge news?
Whenever an instance of blatant sexism comes up, an attempt is invariably made to rationalize away the fact that a sexist act has actually occurred. We have had two such attempts made here so far and I expect more. One commentator is attempting to advance the baseless theory that the bully did not care about the sex of his victim. This particular individual even goes so far to say that "the biggest problem" is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis. Another commentator states that it is because of her popularity not her sex. This too is bunk. There are significantly more males in this industry with significantly more popularity. Yet no evidence is presented that these figures also have received this level of harassment.

There is one word for this behavior mentioned above: denial. Unfortunately, there seems to be a part of our community that refuses to call things what they are. This was an instance of sexism that manifested itself in a nasty way.
We have candidates that make it through the first cut of "culture fit" interviews do an open ended coding project with some of our real data.

What they do and how long they take to do it is totally up to them. They can call a friend, use online resources, and even contact anyone at the company with questions. They present their project at their second interview.

It has been a great way to gauge technical, problem solving, and presentation skills as well as interest in our company.
That, in 1955 dollars, would be about 1% of the trust fund one of his grandparents established for him.

Still, I think he would resist your offer. What would you do with US$10K?
Apparently that is a live studio audience. They once showed a shot of them at the end because they were tired if being accused it was a laugh track.
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Eventually, of course. Right now though I have a ton on my plate as it is and zero iPhone experience :)