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I recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome plugin (by Google). I have it setup to remove any w3schools results from my Google searches. Suddenly a simple search for "css background-image" returns lovely looking results, with MDN on the top.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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Skimming the comments, there are two camps on W3Schools, those that find it an abomination, and those that find it useful as a quick reference.

It's replacement(s) should disaggregate the goals of programming quick reference and beginning instruction, realize those are different things with different design needs.

And maybe all other sites should learn the value of putting the information that covers 90% of use cases above the fold.

We've gotten a little too impressed with scrolling and the infinite canvas of a webpage, underrating the usability impact of scrolling around to find information, and the beauty of having everything fit on one screen. (I know, dealing with resized browser windows and different sized monitors and high-DPI is hard, but there would be gains...)
A lot of folks don't realize this but it's not just web browsers that you need to worry about. When your app connects over SSL to any service that it's consuming you need to be properly authenticating the remote server. For external HTTP requests (ex: to an external REST services) many programming languages/environments piggy back on the host machine's list of trusted roots (ie. the same ones that your browser uses) but a lot do not. They may just skip over the authentication piece of the SSL handshake.

This is especially true for database drivers. If your database driver includes a "use SSL" flag but you're not actually specifying a pre-shared certificate to authenticate the remote server then it's probably not authenticating the remote server[1]. Think about that for a second ... How would it?

I wrote about this a little while back[2] and gave a talk that went into this in a bit more detail this week (slides should be up next week). The gist of it is that if you don't authenticate the remote server (by authenticating its SSL cert) you're vulnerable to a MITM attack every time you connect. Not just the first time, every time. With SSH we're used to pinning remote host keys the first time you connect but with SSL there's no such thing[3] and you have to be careful to handle it properly.

[1]: I say "probably" here because it's technically possible that your remote server has an SSL certificate that is signed by the same set of trusted CAs that you use for HTTP requests and your DB driver actually validates it but it's not likely. Most database SSL certificates are either self-signed or self-signed via a CA signing cert controlled by a DBaaS. For example for RDS, Amazon signs the SSL certificates for all MySQL databases with a single CA signing cert: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_M...

[2]: http://blog.jackdb.com/post/55178133114/using-self-signed-ss...

[3]: No reason there couldn't be SSL cert pinning and it's something we've considered for our product. However you can't really automate it (you need a user to say "this is okay...") so we decided to have it be a manual step that you can just click to fetch/import: http://blog.jackdb.com/post/55349902000/auto-importing-ssl-c...
I've only ever tried to wire money (online or in person) once in my life. That was online through Chase's web site a few years ago when I wanted to wire $15k USD. I remember it being a huge PITA (due to all the information needed) but I had no problems doing it. I think they called me to verify but I might even be wrong about that.
What's with thanking Netflix for TED talks??? They are available anyway at TED.com anyway or other places, given their Creative Commons license…
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Silk Road competitor Atlantis Market shuts down for "security reasons"
It’s not free actually, you have to sign up to the Mac Developer Program which costs $99 / year. I think it used to be free in the past (the certificate, not the membership) but now it isn’t.
If you open an MP3, speed it up in Audacity, and save it as an MP3, you are still re-encoding it and decreasing quality, which is what I assume you mean by "conversion".

After any processing step, you should save to a lossless format to avoid this. You can start with whatever format you want (AAC from iTunes and MP3 from Amazon are pretty indistinguishable in subjective quality.)

Better yet, use a portable player that can change playback speed on the fly while decoding. (many "DJ" apps, a hardware player than can run Rockbox, etc.)
Double Standard
iTunes doesn't exist to sell music.

iTunes exists to give you a reason to buy into, and/or stay in, the Apple ecosystem - to wit, sell Apple hardware.

Apple has zero interest in providing anything that doesn't sell more hardware. They're not going to prevent it (ex.: someone buying & playing music on iTunes on Windows), but they understand that everything they do must serve the core: sell hardware.
I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that WP8 apps break all historical resemblance to other app UIs. Anyone with first-hand experience that can offer some feedback of how these apps hold up from a usability standpoint?
I'd say the 5th point is true in general, is just that money insulates you from the worst effects of many bad decisions and severe poverty can amplify them.
> Therefore, we assume that the bank faithfully executes the

> protocol and only makes observations that are part of that

> protocol. In particular, he does not act as an onion

> router or as a client, only observes messages that are

> sent to him, and does not collude with the network

> adversary.

"Not collude" part worries me. Can anyone smart enough comment on this?
My credit union, asides from having 20,000 fee-free ATM's across the U.S. just from other credit unions, has free withdrawals at Walgreen's and 7-11. I travel the U.S. quite a bit and haven't had to pay a fee yet. Might want to look into it.
How do you fairly raise those revenues that'd fund the trillions of dollars worth of mitigation efforts? People who disproportionately generate CO2 emissions are disproportionately responsible for the need for mitigation efforts.

So Lomborg's argument isn't so much against putting a Pigouvian tax on carbon emissions, as it is earmarking the revenues derived from those emissions for mitigation efforts instead of using it to pay down deficits or pay for other services. Which is certainly something I can agree with, but it seems politically implausible. First lets get a carbon tax.
Spoiled Blackberries
That's a great solution. I run into an issue with Linux -- Itunes support is slipshod with WINE. Beyond moving to Windows or OSX, any suggestions?
Maybe the water isn't clean enough in many Venezuelan households.

You don't tend to see bidets in a lot of places, but you can basically spend $20 on a simple add-on to your toilet and go paper-free, if you want.
Very good points.

#4 is a lot of why Kiva exists and works here in the U.S. as well as the rest of the world. By being charitable we can offer these higher risk loans, and in the end we end up still having a very high repayment rate.
How about the entirety of Russia? I don't see why it takes being rich to live in a formerly-cold now-hot area.

And even people in poverty can migrate. I really don't understand your point.
Conceding that there are cases of failure on real-estate investment, for many of these new towns, it is still far too early to call them ghost town. Constructions are just too quick that immigration has not caught up(, and some correspondents did count unfinished projects in). Only time would tell.

The current urbanization would not stop without a huge impact(, in a good, a bad, or a mixed way). In near future, real ghost villages, from which people emigrate, are more likely than real ghost town, like what happened in Japan during urbanization years post-WWII.
Hacking Unite nation.
Media: China was doing that, too.

Hacking Encrypt Fax,
Media: Quiet

we developed drone, attacks in pakistan.
Media: Quiet

China developed drone, doing nothing, yet.
Media: Hacking U.S. Secrets, China Pushes for Drones

Enforce human rights to third world countries.
U.S.:
-airline reservations are used to target illegal searches.
-cellphone tracking by tower
-20 miles interior check points,
-100-miles Border Zone as "Consitution-free". As a result, San Francisco, Los Angles, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Houston are Consitution-free.

Now what was the news again?
Umm... don't they have that very simple (yet pretty cool) "Try it Now" button? they let you play around with the stuff they teach so you can get the hang of it
It's amazing how much more biting a simple arithmetic mistake can be when you don't have the luxury of being able to accumulate any significant amount of padding money into your banking account.

Almost as amazing as how blind we the privileged can be to the myriad advantages we enjoy.
Oh, I wouldn't say that's an assumption so much as a premise upon which services etc are offered, because the people who move every week are both a pain to support and not a significant portion of the population.

In other words, all of this is not brought about by myopia, but simple business decisions.
Simple Fractals in Javascript
>In reality, the government's ineffective regulation not only discourages investment, but creates incentives for people in the chain of production to take advantage of access to cheap dollars and sell them in the highly profitable black market. With "import dollars" reallocated to currency arbitrage, there is little money left to import the raw materials needed to make things that Venezuelans need.

The irony is, substitute "wall street" for "black market" and this is exactly what the US is doing, albeit on a slower, less aggressive timescale, and with marginally less ineffective regulation.
I think he's thanking netflix for making them easily available and discoverable to him.
Thanks! Glad you like it!

I already had the data from the first area chart, so I built a line graph on the same timeline that just had market size as a % of 2012. Imported that as a mask in Photoshop and squished everything down to match.

And because I seem to be incapable of explaining without images, here ya go:
http://exceltactics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/HowItWasD...
How to make stress your friend
A friend of mine works at a gas station in my hometown (a fairly low-income, rural city, pop. ~4600). After seeing him post Facebook statuses such as "Oh boy, it's the 31st and I get to work tonight" (in a sarcastic tone) a few times, I asked him about it.

He tells me that on the last day of every month, there are a number of people who come to the gas station starting as early as 9 p.m. and simply "hang out". They wander in and out of the store but mostly linger in the parking lot, chatting with others in their large group, and simply trying to entertain themselves, in general.

Naturally, I asked him why they would do this. Apparently their government "checks" are now "deposited onto their card" (a debit card, basically) at exactly midnight on the 1st of every month. They know that at 12:01 a.m. on the 1st, their money will be available and so they hang out at the gas station in anticipation of being able to load up on cigarettes, basic groceries (more expensive than a typical grocery store, of course), lottery tickets, and such.
Chromecast's API hasn't been finalized and their are huge warnings all over the documentation telling you to not release an app until the API is final. Apple has never released an API and has actively tried to stop things like Airfoil from working.
A trip to the unknown
> What also happened was the well-connected people were able to make arrangements for their own private supplies of gas, and those people included politicians, business leaders, and other wealthy people, but it was secretive and supply was restricted to them. The politicians were publicly attacking/shaming "scalpers" who were trying to sell gas at a fair price, meanwhile they were secretly making back-room deals for themselves.

This needs to be repeated. Time, and time again.
I'm all for harsh punitive measures for (convicted) business-crooks, but are these SWAT raids on peoples' businesses (and homes) ever a good idea? What good can come from a bunch of stormtroopers bum-rushing an office?
It also means there's a cost to buying outside of the Apple ecosystem. I was downloading some previously purchased albums to a new device a couple days ago and couldn't find one in my "Purchased Items" that I knew I had purchased. Turns out, I had got it for half the price on Amazon a while back, but by the time I realized that, I wished I would have just paid the full iTunes price so that I could have re-downloaded it from iTunes like all the others.
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Hazelcast - an open source in-memory Java data grid
Start burning tires folks. We need to save ourselves from an ice age.
If you look at the photos, you can click the right arrow (or top buttons if not on a phone) to see what the neighborhood would look like with eased height restrictions: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/lifestyle/magaz.... Rather than photoshopping in nice buildings, they've put in windowless concrete slabs of uniform height. Sometimes the best way to get people to agree with your side isn't to argue for your side, but to "push-poll" people: do you like the way DC looks now or do you want massive concrete blocks with no windows dominating everything? In photo mockups, it comes off as subtle, but it can shape the opinions of many.

I'm not saying that's what the WaPo is trying to do. I think they just didn't put in the time to do a good job creating a hypothetical new DC with realistic buildings of varying heights. However, if you support increased heights for buildings, their mock-ups make something you consider positive look bad. I mean, I'd hate to live in a city with imposing concrete blocks with no windows. It would look like some dystopian future world. But the photos of what I think is Chicago that were linked to don't look oppressive and don't have uniformity of height - there's plenty of sky that you can see through the buildings since they aren't connected beige blobs. Now, one can still dislike tall buildings (they can change the nature of the area), but they wouldn't have the same oppressive feeling.

So, the mockups from WaPo look oppressive (on purpose or on accident) while proponents of eased height restrictions would insist that it would look a lot more like the Chicago photos than some concrete dystopia.
Pravda was printed on such rough paper. Ach, how The truth hurts!
I've got a MacBook, iPad, and iPhone, and I still love my Roku more than my old AppleTV. The only issue is that the AppleTV has better options for watching sports, but Plex alone more than makes up for that.
Justification for budget increases of said SWAT teams?

/s
Reminds me of the Einstein vs Edison story about Einstein not knowing the speed of sound when he tried the employee test that Edison had developed. I read a nice take on that here - http://www.scilogs.com/the_science_talent_project/einstein-v...
Intimidation. They use the same tactics against raw dairy operations.
Atlantis, The Flashy Silk Road Alternative, Shuts Down
I didn't believe you so I just checked and now it's time to eat crow! You are absolutely right. I will update the original to note that my statement is completely wrong.
Poll: Are affiliate programs that profitable?
Recently I've come across many websites that offer affiliate programs and some claim to be profitable<p>The question is how many of you out there have really tried and made money of it? and was it worth the hassle?<p>Affiliate program example: Booking.com, affiliate member gets a certain percentage for every airline ticket they sell.
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I don't know why I know this, but I'm pretty certain most of the toilet paper is produced from tree farms, not impacting on deforestation. Have a read in the annual reports, CSR reports, of toilet papers manufacturers such as Kruger, P&G, Kimberly Clark, etc. Btw, I spotted a flaw in the "hand + water " argument... how do you make sure the tap is clean after washing your hands?
The Roku remote on your iDevice will allow you to play the music on your iDevice on your TV. No hackiness required.
So if you have not-clean-enough water in your tap, you'd wipe out shit from your hand with a paper instead of washing it off? The water then must be more dirty than whatever you got on your hand then.
That and http://htmlgoodies.com

I learned everything I know about web development from htmlgoodies which has been around for long before w3schools came on the scene.
If a network uses a filtering system and blocks certain keywords, we can modify the W3Schools URL as follows, and submit the URL to search engines:

cialis.w3schools.com
vardenafil.w3schools.com
levitra.w3schools.com
milfcuckold.w3schools.com

We can't get rid of W3Schools, but we can demote and disavow the URL on Google SERPs.

We should submit the link to mechanical turk services on fiverr·com and get the links demoted on Google that way.

It is advertised that bulk submitting a URL into spam-silos helps with SEO, when infact Google hates this and implements their Panda algorithm if this occurs.

It could backfire and increase SEO temporarily - but because we are practicing 'paid links', Google will punish the site owner for this. I think a crack team of Internet vigilantes should link-blast the W3Schools URL into spam-silos, and the W3Schools problem can finally go away.
"the world’s most respected, business-savvy professors can misjudge companies’ valuations of the doctoral degrees they so thoughtfully hand out"

It is impossible to convince a man of something when his salary rides on his not believing it. Your professors have certain incentives to hold particular beliefs about the value of a phD.

There is no polite way to say that, which must be why it was not included in the essay.
Ask HN: How do you go about choosing a cool code name for your hack?
> They never recovered from the iPod disrupting their CD business.

Considering they have large market share in both physical and digital music I would say they recovered just fine. Amazon has also sold a lot of iPods.
surely the people who maintain, build, and upgrade the aircraft will see your wiring...?
I don't quite understand. Can you explain in detail?
You'll probably have a much easier time if you're willing to sell your soul and apply for quant jobs on wall street.
He/She also says

A few people have asked about getting a detailed run-down of my build

clearly not always with good intentions.

How could you copy a build process with bad intentions? The code doesn't belong to him/her and him/her aren't attempting to profit from Pale Moon. I'm genuinely puzzled.
We've been social networking probably before Google or any search engines were created. I'm talking about messaging, email, etc.
I met Andy Bechtolsheim a year or two ago when he dropped in on our small event at Arista's HQ's in jeans and sandals. Surprisingly, I thought that he was a very laid back, down to earth, guy.

Bechtolsheim also invested $100k in Google right about the same time that Cheriton did. I remember being told that Page and Brin couldn't even deposit the check as "Google" did not legally exist at the time (not sure if that's true or not). Together they founded Arastra -- which is now Arista -- c. 2005.)
There are a lot of other problems with release of carbon on a massive scale, starting with gross acidification of the oceans and a significant reduction of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Roku and Plex are a match in heaven.
CAcert doesn't have a WebTrust audit and is therefore not included in many cases. They've talked about audits in the past but every time it comes up it eventually stalls. I have no insight into their process, but I'd suspect it's a combination of people who oppose the concept of WebTrust audits and also that when they speak to auditors they discover they would fail such audits.
Apparently the fact that all other TP factories went bankrupt (or were prevented from being created by the loving government), so there is just one and it cannot produce enough of paper to satisfy demand, is not a hard proof of a total failure of government's policy. If the government was doing nothing wrong in the first place, why would there ever be a situation like this?

I really doubt if this factory's owners somehow unfairly prevent competitors from jumping in and satisfying demand. And if they do, most probably they use government as a nice tool to regulate competition out of existence.

In other words: whenever something globally shitty happens for no obvious reason, it's always a government and its monopoly of violence at fault.
Yeah, maybe we're talking about different things; I may be using the wrong sbt terminology because I generally try to avoid it. =) Here's the original bug where some WTFs were exchanged:

http://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/82401/tickets/453-nee...

Ben's patch made the workaround less terrible for 2.1, but it's still a really weird hacky thing to me and I never got it working with my Maven projects (my preferred backend uses Dropwizard so using a sbt project wasn't really optimal at the time).
Huh! That's awesome. I had no idea Photoshop masks could be used to distort images in that way. Good job!
Re-Ask HN: Any good books/lectures for database systems implementation?
So I'm interested in database systems implementation, nut just using an existing DB.

Topics such as DB kernel engineering, ACID implementation, Query optimization and processing, Logic databases implementation, distributed databases, sharding impl, etc...

Any good starting point for self-teaching?
Agreed: For working within the current systems, cacert (www.cacert.org) seems like a perfect fit.
While I love wildlife, I almost feel like it's not our responsibility as humans to tamper with natural processes like extinction.

The fundamental premise is not that extinction is bad, but that extinction we cause is bad. If a fox tramples your neighbor's garden, that's too bad. If you trample your neighbor's garden, you should fix it.
Then put a minimum fine, that covers the safe issue, and if your earnings go above a certain amount then you pay a percentage.
obligatory http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087747/ - the "USSR toilet paper line" opening clip from it (sorry couldn't find it with original english soundtrek) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR0I3DgWXX8

What i'm genuiely wondering about is how Marx missed the "toilet paper effect" in Das Kapital while he was so true on the money with the rest of the theory.