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Am I the only one that likes DST? I think that it has important function of enabling socializing and nightlife in the northern hemisphere.

I was never bothered by it. The switch requires day or two at most. And because certain hours are ingrained in the society fabric as late or early it is just not possible to achieve the same effect with mandating transport and businesses to shift an hour early/late.

It works a bit like central bank monetary policy - it is easier to devalue/strengthen the currency than to renegotiate a few billion contracts.

So it is better to shift the time an hour to have a better utilization of the workday than to have all of the time arrangements changes.

In the summer there is a lot of light that goes underutilized on 9 to 5 workday, but in the winter it is bad for people to start working while dark-ish outside.

if we want to remove DST we have to get rid of 9 to 5 workday. Good luck with that.
Surely "ye olden HTML days" aren't that far back that we should be talking about them in past tense?

I just had a conversation with an iPhone repair guy. He asked me to help him fix a centering problem in his website. So he pulled up the HTML, and it was just awful. Table-based layout, broken tags... But it worked, and I taught him about the <center> tag. He gave me a discount on my repair.

Malformed HTML input is still very much alive and well, and necessary for non-technical people.
Why did Woz guest star in this?
Funny, but P/Invoke seems to work great on Linux with Mono... it's probably the single biggest reason I started out with it, as JNI by comparison is an ugly beast.

I love a lot of what C# and .Net have to offer, even though half of my server-side dev time is in node.js for the past couple years, I still like a lot of .Net ... It will be really interesting to see where things go in the next couple of years. I think unchaining VS and Office from Windows would be the best move MS could make right now. Web Matrix (with an extension) is imho second best dev environment for node.js out there, and that they haven't integrated this into VS really surprises me.

MS put a lot of effort into libuv, so not sure why they wouldn't get the runtime system that uses it up to speed better.

The BCL in .Net are second to none in terms of breadth and comprehensiveness. I feel that if MS really opened up most of .Net in MS-PL or something similar, it could really gain ground outside of windows... Again, this would mean getting VS and Office away from the windows anchor.
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It's rare that you have transatlantic meetings, but you fly abroad so often that you can't keep track of when the shops open? (your phone could compensate for that). Do you also flip the fuck out when you fly to Australia and it's goddamn Summer in January?
Please shoot my mistakes, I'm just trying to learn FP and open for reviews. :)
I thought they were saved by giving them $50 billion of the people of the US so they could invest in stock and then using the printing machine(Fed's QE) to make stock market fly.

Basically a transfer of wealth from the people to mega corporations, orchestrated by politicians.

Now the mega corporation is doing as badly as before, but it will take a while to waste such a big amount of wealth.
Got to this late today. You have no idea how impressed I am. I was able to sign my signature with my finger in my phone and it actually looks like my signature. This is incredibly impressive. I'll read through the technical specs when I'm in a less tired state, but I've already forked this. Please, keep working on it and improving where possible.
You're doing good work with ngx_pagespeed! Been running ngx_pagespeed in production for a couple of months now and very happy with it.
And this is why building a great product with the intention of selling it to the highest bidder is a fundamental betrayal of your customers.
In the paragraph above your quote, the author lists three problems that he said all existing solutions had. The problem he had with Signature Pad is probably the last one, “Didn't have the signature smoothing component”.
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I guess the problem is what if the team doesn't deliver all the stories in the sprint? This can happen when they don't know their velocity very well.
This app proves also very helpful if you use Nginx: https://github.com/andreiko/django_graceful
Couldn't find any book on programming?
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Didn't you have a chance to express the preference of where you'd like to end up?
Also, did you were a fresh grad when you got hired?
Ever hear of someone missing a meeting because it was scheduled for 2:00EST and they thought it was 2:00PST? Ever see an email from an employer, or hear the news reminding you to change your clock this weekend? It's not a programming problem, programmers are just more keenly aware of it.

And it's not really a "problem" at all. Just an idiosyncrasy. Like imperial units.
<center> is deprecated in HTML5. Unfortunately teaching him about margin: 0 auto and text-align: center might be a bit more complicated.
Why don't you read the article, and learn something from a person, an immigrant, who became a billionaire? FYI, no one can become a billionaire without delivering value.
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>And this is why building a great product with the intention of selling it to the highest bidder is a fundamental betrayal of your customers.

Maybe you might furnish us with a list of business models you do approve of? How about:

- Building a crap product and selling it to the highest bidder?

- Building a great product and selling it to the lowest bidder?

Building a great product and selling it (when the offer is) made to the highest bidder is the basis a of large number of business models. Are you against selling companies at all?
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>In the very early days, HTML was often written by hand

It's still often written by hand, but not generally by novices.
This definitely corrects a misconception I've had for years.

When I first started writing HTML, I would set colours using the english colour names, for example color="red" or color="white" and this worked well for my needs.

However, I would always get an odd result when I tried to set the colour grey. Turns out, I didn't spell very well (I was pretty young at the time, though still spell atrociously).

<font color="gray">

And the colour would come out green. What?

I quickly realised my spelling error but wondered why things ended up green. I decided what was happening was that the interpreter read the colour name up until the first invalid character (in this case resulting in "gr"), then chose the closest match. Green would be before grey in alphabetical order and... voila!

I see now the solution was simply that gray was interpreted as 00 a0 00. Another life mystery solved!
Well, the assaulter would probably not know about the problem until it's already taken too long to try and pry them off. By that time they would hopefully be stressed enough to take off. Even so, it might give more time to get help or fend the assailant of.
It's a bit late for you to enter, unfortunately, but the UK does have something like this. I had the great pleasure of sponsoring a team in the Young Rewired State "Festival of Code" [1] in 2012 - which is open to 13-18 year old students and runs for a week in August.

If you're interested they are always looking for both sponsors (which basically means giving up a meeting room in your office for the week, and providing lunch for the team) and mentors [2] - who can spend some time with the team helping them shape their idea. It's a brilliant scheme, and a really inspiring week.

[1] https://youngrewiredstate.org/
[2] https://youngrewiredstate.org/festival-of-code/information-f...
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> Speech patterns would adjust.

It isn't even hypothetical. The speech patterns of all English speakers who spend a significant amount of midnights awake have adjusted precisely like that.

There was a lovely looped animation of the world's online activity over the course of 24 hours. Can't find it right now, but I'm pretty sure it was on HN. It really exemplified how daytime no longer relates so much to the presence of the sun in the sky as it does to the level of physical alertness and electronic communication. High noon is more like the median longitude of human and network I/O than it is solar noon.
That sounds very much like the UK's Science Media Centre: http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/ . How good a thing the SMC has been is another question.
> Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand turn their clocks back one hour.

I find it hard to take this solution seriously when they can't even get the basic facts right. I'm sure this is some kind of argumentative fallicy but Australia's DST started in October and we put our clocks forward one hour, because we're in the Southern Hemisphere and heading in to summer. This semi-makes the article's point about confusion... but really computers have fixed all that confusion for me anyway.
Orgo is, in many ways, like learning a foreign language, in that the memorization early on is supposed to support and later be superseded by understanding the "grammar" of how things fit together. I think the way orgo is often taught, or perceived, as being just about memorization is what can make it soul-crushing and not all that effective.

The introductory orgo classes I took early in college were heavy on reaction mechanisms, molecular orbital theory, and intuition and light on memorizing bucket-loads of reactions, and it ended up giving me and my classmates a much better grasp of the material than students from other schools. Many of us ended up breezing through our university's graduate courses in organic chemistry while graduate students from other universities struggled painfully through the same courses. I suspect that it's part of the reason it was the top organic chemistry program in the world.
Interestingly, yang wawa is also the term used to described children of Chinese and mixed ethnicities.
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I always enjoyed this video to show how crazy DST is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4
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Amphibear - self-built amphibious car starts on around the world trip
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By your argument, DST should be suppressed entirely.

If there are less accidents going to school during the day, then the switch in March to DST means that in many places people will go to school when it's still dark, which sucks..
From the previous article linked on HN:

> Downing's research also suggests that studies of increased traffic accidents and injuries, which variously support or condemn the practice of daylight saving time, don't really show enough of a difference to be statistically significant in a nation where more than 30,000 people are killed in traffic accidents each year.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131101-when-...
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I got up to level 13 then got thrown off kilter by the cluster bombs.
I actually don't like PowerShell, I don't like the verbosity of it all.. it's easy enough to get most unix tools in Windows (minw) variants... put these into a folder added to your path, and most stuff just works the same, or very similar. I tend to use the command line tools, and piping, or I'll use node.js scripts, which work pretty much the same everywhere I need them...

The only differences are nssm for windows services, and init.d for linux ... haven't had to setup any background/startup services on my mac yet, so not sure what it uses.

I don't get why people hate windows so much as a rule, I really like the Win7 UI (not a fan of 8, but can see how some would be)... Also, warming up to Unity (more than win8)
Cool; for a couple of years now, I've purchased furnace filters and used a simple box fan. It handles a great deal of particulates in the air (compare rooms during a sunny day with an without the fan is very stark)
A very legitimate fear of a very common horrible event.
Can you ask your employer to shift the schedule?
With my countries local intelligence agency I have a minuscule, but nonzero chance of having influence over it by the means of elections and some protection by local law. Neither of the two exist when ATT does the collection for the NSA.
>Candidates who live in NYC and are legally allowed to work in the US only, please.

This is not your yet another dumb job board. Next time use different wording, please.
I keep a utils directory added to my path, and generally have windows builds of all my common unix tools there. Easy peasy.
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This looks really nice. Comprehensive, well-written tests as well. Do you integrated this with Hapi.js, just out of interest? Obviously they're both well designed to not be dependent on each other, I'm just trying to get an idea of Walmart's stack.
I don't think I've ever heard people using 娃娃 to refer to anything other than dolls. Is it just me?
> Views are functions from Request to Response in Django,

The thing that irritates me about django is request is passed as an argument, and if you need if further down the chain, you have to pass it around. I want the request object to be available throughout the request cycle without it being explicitly passed. I like the flask model of importing request when you need it. In Django, I can have a middleware to handle it for me:

from threading import local
_locals = local()
class ThreadLocalMiddleware(object):
def process_request(self, request):
_locals.request = request

@classmethod
def request(cls):
return _locals.request

@classmethod
def locals(cls):
return _locals

But then there are edge cases. What if the threads are being reused? What about greenlets? I am thinking of taking out the flask/werkzeug implementation of locals and LocalManager

> Very full-featured templates & helper functions.

Django templates are nice; Jinja2 is nicer:-)

> Lighter-weight microframeworks like Flask don't have this property.

I think it's not just about Flask being light weight. It's more a function of Django existing for longer and being more popular. Granted that Django itself includes lot of batteries which Flask doesn't, but the "somebody has already solved it" is mostly either an extension, or a forum/stackoverflow solution.
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A $25 assortment of capacitors/capacitor goodie bags from ebay or your favourite supplier would be far more useful.

There really is no substitute to building up a stock of parts for prototying where the parts can be part of the completed work.
Perhaps, but the way things are I feel more like we should try to improve upon the average person. Young kids don't know what is and isn't "hard" yet, so they're more apt to try. Makes it easier to teach them certain things than adults, because they won't just give up straight away.
Yes you do but you usually netboot to do large installations so this is just a case of adding a new root device with some extra tools on it on your netboot server.

There is an official solution in -current that involves DHCP but I don't know the details.
author of sekizai here. you seem to misunderstand what sekizai does. it's not a replacement for block.super. it's main points are support for included templates, for loops and being able to put content anywhere in the template from anywhere. It is however entirely possible that you have no use case for it, but dismissing it as useless is a bit harsh in my opinion.

Further reading on why sekizai and what it does in this blog post: http://ojii.ch/post/why-sekizai/
Also ask your friends' employers, the restaurants, the fast food joints, the public parks ...
It's a very common practice on StackOverflow to give a short answer first, then flesh out the rest with an edit later.
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Thanks for posting my talk.
Distributing your public key? No.

Edit - However you can't just use your public key as a password, but they could form part of a much simpler login process.
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It would sure be nice if there was a specific person/contact for each open position, or even any email address you can contact, on the site.
Man, I must be showing my age, because I remember a time when everyone hated cubicles - they were tiny, cramped, and almost always drab. In fact, I always thought the modern open-plan workspace was a response towards the backlash against cubicles.
Make it language neutral - communicate by HTTP. That would also greatly reduce security concerns.
The claim is:

"most published scientific research is probably false"

and the evidence for that claim is:

The number of false negative "might easily be 4 in 10, or in some fields 8 in 10"

(quoted from the video)

This is rather weak.

And maybe more importantly: this assumes that researchers test random hypothesis uniformly drawn in the space of all possible hypothesis, which clearly isn't the case.

Anyway, this can't be really serious.
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> Frequent travel between the coasts causes jet lag, robbing employees of productive work time. With a one-hour time difference, bi-costal travel would become almost effortless.

Jet lag is caused by traveling significant distances east or west at angular speeds moderately close to the earth's angular rotation speed; you'll see the sun rise or set quite a bit sooner or later than your circadian clock would've expected.

The unexpectedness of whatever time the wall clock at your new location tells is only a side-effect. Tinkering with the clock will not make the jet lag go away.
I thought that MS had already re-engineered Skype, and most of the if the peer to peer operation was removed in favor of central MS server control. Which also had the side effect of making it possible/simpler for the NSA/FBI to gather information from skype conversations.
Interesting. Who published it prior to Aleph One?
Google Voice/Talk/Hangouts does about the same stuff and has similar market penetration, as far as people's familiarity with the company and likeliness that they already have an account.
On an historical note, despite growing-up in Ireland I only discovered recently that the potato harvest failure in the mid-1840s was part of a much wider European famine.

Ireland and northern Scotland had similar levels of per capita potato consumption ( around 2 kg per day! ) which was much higher than the rest of Europe and indicated the monopoly of potatoes in the Celtic diet.

So for the first year or so of the potato failure the other countries were able to shift reliance to rye and wheat. But in 1846 those crops also failed...

Interesting reading here:

The European subsistence crisis of 1845-1850: a comparative
perspective

http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers3/Vanhaute.pdf‎
That's one of the things about Django that I really like and one of the things about Flask that really scares me.

I'm writing a retrospective now about things I've learned in almost 5 years of working on Google Search, and the entry I just finished was "In almost every case where we allowed non-local effects, it has bitten us. Badly." The cost is in understandability, and is usually not apparent when the choice to make it a global is made. But 2 years later, things inevitably grind to a halt because bugs are being shipped and nobody has a handle on the code any more.

I've cursed out having to explicitly pass arguments around many, many times before (not just with Google work; when I was doing Haskell stuff I used to curse how inconvenient it was that I needed to explicitly pass around stuff, and often wrote a state monad to hide it from myself). But I've found that over time, those apps never hit the brick wall where I'm like "I cannot deal with this anymore"; they remain maintainable, if ugly, indefinitely.
Nokia has a poor reputation in the netherlands? I don't think most people in the US realize that.
Looks like you are searching for www.dozeo.com. You can find the API at api.dozeo.com.
So even if I don't use a password hint, other people who use hints will still give away my password.

Of course this is just an Adobe account. I don't think there's anything of value on there, is there?
HN readers don't seem to be interested that much in the phone hacking scandal. Although not on the same kind of scale as the NSA story, it covers similar topics, fits in with quite well with HN's interests and it is just as morally repugnant.

I haven't heard of the NSA deliberately targeting a teenage girl who was murdered, as in the case of Milly Dowler.
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An incredibly thoughtful and eloquent set of speeches (already!) about the revelations of Snowden, Manning and Assange, how they came about, and what the implications are for the future. He not only takes the negative outraged position, but also the constructive positive point of view. Now that Snowden has revealed things to us, we can see what still works. We can see where things have gone wrong and we can use our democracies to bring about change, since we now can make an informed decision.
The index is the problem. The index for each application and library looks different. There are headings and subheadings and subheadings.. sometimes they're descriptive enough to help you find what you need, but in my experience, they often are not. But in either case you still need to read through them and interpret them. And reading through tens of headings is a pain, especially if after reading them you navigate to the seemingly most relevant page and find it doesn't have the information you need. ("Where the hell was it?!" is something I've said more than once, trying to battle info documents.) This is what I mean when I complain about structure; it's not consistent, it's not predictable. I don't want it to read like book, I want it to be useful and being consistent in such a manner that I can always find my answer quick helps there. Good man pages more or less have this consistency. And because they're terse, it's still quite easy to scan even when the structure for some reason does not conform to the tradition.
That's what cryptographic signatures are for ("digital signature" vs "electronic signature"). Hash the document and then sign the hash, to establish probabilistic certainty as to exactly what they signed.
OP should publish a patch instead of telling people to modify the code by hand, and/or submit a pull request to the repo [1].

[1]: https://github.com/chjj/marked