skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you right away what their response will be, and it is that meta extensions are an accepted way of extending HTML5 with browser-specific features, see:

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions

"You may add your own values to this list, which makes them legal HTML5 metadata names. We ask that you try to avoid redundancy; if someone has already defined a name that does roughly what you want, please reuse it."

They will also argue that menu is intended to create toolbars and menus within a webpage, not within the browser itself - and that by using meta extensions, the IE team have implemented their browser-specific extensions in a standards-based way supported by the WHATWG. They will say that it also doesn't pollute the markup with an extension that only applies to a single browser on a single platform (which is why WHATWG developed the meta extensions). In short, pages that implement this are HTML5 compliant.

Now my own opinion. The browser makers need differentiation between their products. Browser market share is as important, if not more important, than OS market share.

If Microsoft want to enable websites to deeply integrate with a Windows desktop by using meta extensions, then that seems like the right place to do it. A lot of us would prefer that every browser maker simply implements the standards, but a lot of innovation in web technologies (img tag, applets, xmlhttprequest) started life as browser-specific extensions. Frowning upon, or not allowing any differentiation would remove a lot of motivation for pouring resources into browser development.

As much as we might not like it, we have to deal with it - at least they put this extension in the right place with meta instead of not implementing menu properly or doing their own implementation of menu (besides, I can't think how this desktop pinning would work on for eg. OS X and Chrome - it seems something very 'active desktop' windows specific).
James Cameron to go 7 Miles under the sea for film (and X prize)
http://www.jetbrains.org/
It only takes a few people you don't need the vast majority of the pirates to know it. Once they crack it the results can be made available to all through the magic of the internet.
Web frameworks considered useful
What do you put in abs ?
Women make up 60% of all Swedish university students. Are (Swedish) universities failing men?
Applications of the Chinese remainder theorem
Get honest about your current situation. Rate the following areas of your life on a scale of 1-10: Physical Health, grades, job performance, personal happiness, relationships, financial situation, etc.  Then follow up with the question: What would it take to make this area a 10?

Steve Pavlina (another self-help guru which has gotten posted to HN a bunch) has a great post on why the 7's in your life are particularly pernicious:

What you’ll find when you leave the comfort of your 7 and go chasing after that 10 is that your 7 was never a 7. It was only a 3.

If you think you’re at a 7, you’re really at a 3 maximum. The 10 is way, way out there. You think you can see it, but your definition of a 10 is based on your experience of a 7, and you can’t even see a real 10 when you’re standing at 7. It’s beyond your ability to fathom.

If you were to go out and find someone who’s actually at a 10 in your area and asked them how you were doing on a scale of 1 to 10, they’d be able to label your 7 accurately as a 3. How would an Olympic gymnast rate your current diet and exercise habits? Are you really at 70% of their level? Ask a couple that seems to be googly in love with each other how they’d rate your relationship? Ask the most motivated, successful person you know how they’d rate your career? Is your 7 really a 7? Or is it a 3?

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/how-to-get-from-a-7...

(it's Derek Sivers approved! http://sivers.org/hellyeah )
Your family.
"In an extreme case, if there is only 1 left unvaccinated, the disease won't spread."

Vaccines don't necessarily grant immunity. They give you a 70%-85% chance to gain immunity. So even if 0 are left unvaccinated, 30% of the population has no immunity.

It is unlikely to infect a large portion of the population, but especially for vaccines which are only 70% effective, it's highly likely 1 or 2 others will get infected who were vaccinated but it didn't take. In addition to the 30% of people who do not have immunity, immunocompromised people often time can lose immunity to certain viruses based on their condition. They are the 1 or 2 people our society has chosen to be effectively infectable in spite of vaccination. That's why its very important everyone else gets vaccinated.

The likelihood of a huge outbreak is still relatively small, but you're wrong on the statistics of the small infection, as you'd see from a friend coming by or out to dinner with you or going to day care. Roughly 15% to 30% will get many of the diseases when "intensely exposed". The chance of a small outbreak is moderately large with 70% vaccines and even moderate lack of vaccinations.

Your argument, in addition to be attempted technical nitpicking which is wrong, is very dangerous as other posters have made. The effect of one additional unvac on a given population is extremely noticeable on small populations, such as groups of friends and daycares and businesses, aka the very places I suggested ostracizing people from.
Superb, surreal photography there, the audio is a nice touch as well as it gives you some context to the people who were there experiencing the real horror of what this sort of technology is capable of.
Say Hello to the New Yahoo Mail
Also, your opcodes are complete shit. In case someone's actually reading.

And it's such news!
Your Credit Cards Will Never Be the Same Again: Meet Card 2.0
Ask HN:  Are you shocked by how vengeful users can be in the app store?
If a user doesn't like an update, he/she will say so and give it a very low rating to try to kill your sales until the issue is addressed.

Something seems wrong about this. A single user can have way too much power over sales. And there is a total lack of respect for the developer.

Perhaps Apple should allow users to go back to previous versions if they don't like an update.
50 minutes and no doctor/researcher has rained on this parade yet? Where is everybody?
The MPAA has powerful lobbyists. I can see people being disenfranchised pretty easily, at which point, what's your recourse? Vote in the next guy who'll be just as easily swayed? I don't agree with DDOS'ing people, but I can understand how some people might think it's one of the few options which might bring about change.
There's certain cases, Amazon is another example, where a user interface violates what traditionally is considered 'good' design and is enhanced because of it.
Wow, weird to see markup of mine show up in a blog somewhere.

Meta tags are the most standards compliant way to do those jump menus. I don't buy the idea of hijacking a menu tag to alter browser chrome. From an implementation perspective, I'd much rather they let me link to a manifest file of some kind than add multiple meta tags in places, but it's not a horrible choice.

As an aside, I can tell you that if they'd implemented it as a menu tag, we wouldn't have put it on Ars for the purposes of that article.
Apple's new 27" LED-backlit display is finally available
>As long as only a small percentage rely on "herd immunity", we're fine. If only those who actually have severe reactions to vaccines rely on "herd immunity", we're fine. Even if a few nutjobs fear autism and a few others simply don't get around to it, we're fine.

As an entire country, you are correct (for many diseases, especially ones who have vaccines in the 85% effectiveness ranges). The range of the outbreaks will largely be limited to those 15% who didn't get immunity once vaccinated, and the remainder of those who aren't vaccinated due to their ignorance.

However for small groups, they GREATLY increase the chance of the disease hitting your population. By small groups, I mean circles of friends, co-workers, schoolmates, nurserymates, etc. You should IMMEDIATELY kick people from those groups, as they increase your and your children's chances of getting infected quite a bit. (Remember, you and your children have a 15-30% of the vaccine you DID take to not work).

Remember, you're not looking at just 15-30% from one disease. They have 0% immunity to EVERY disease.
What is the timing sensitivity of this? Is this practical beyond a high-speed, otherwise unused local connection -- on a single device with a single caller (the demonstration device) and thus no uncontrolled variances that would skew the timing otherwise. Is it applicable outside of scenarios where timing can be controlled down to the sub-microsecond?

Adding random sleeps certainly does add variety, however even without adding random sleeps any site on the tubes is going to naturally vary significant just as a result of other requests, tube congestion and routing, etc.
I might be biased as a retrocoder hobbyist myself, but I feel like 6502 assembly would still be very useful in the classroom as a teaching tool, with it's small and (IMO) relatively straightforward instruction set - in some ways it's sort of like the 8-bit RISC-before-there-was-RISC processor. Plus there's great retrocoding potential once you learn it! ;)
For the record, almost every business of a sensitive nature uses a bland, nondescript name for the credit card statement and mentions it in big print in their checkout. This obviously increases chargebacks substantially, but it's standard practice so I would imagine is well worth the cost.
It's Alright - Google Knows You're Frustrated, Baby
While I feel for your friend, polio hasn't been given for a generation and a half in the US, so isn't really an apropos topic of discussion. (And is one of the last oral vaccines, which usually use attenuated viruses instead of dead ones).

Any time you stick a needle into someone, you risk giving them a brain embolism. Life is risk. However vaccines are CLEARLY in the make you much safer part of risk, like seatbelts and washing your hands.
I barely recognize most of the companies I purchase from on my CC statement, and they're non-porn. I always wondered if that was intentional, but it's definitely annoying. Of course companies like Amazon don't obfuscate their name, but many others do.
I used to love Google, and will still love Google. But this action of theirs disappointed me. Google thinks that they are an "open" and esp android is very "open", i.e. it is free and open source. Manufacturers can modify the code and adapt to their hardware. Thats all well and good. But when Motorola modifies the code to add skyhook wireless for location, Google says take it off, or else.... This is really not good and does not match up with Google's ideals.

And note that skyhook wireless is a known firm for such a thing, in fact they had the first databases for wifi location search and iphones also used to use them
Only a layman here, but it wounds like this could inhibit tumor growth in a broad spectrum of cancers. I wonder, if a drug inhibiting this alternative metabolic pathway were developed, would cancers simply evolve a different pathway?
You know that Cuil's dead, right?
Miller Columns
Fortunately for all of us, over the last couple years this question got answered by academia and then in practical demonstrations by security researchers.

Microseconds over the Internet. Nanoseconds over private networks.

You can time a simple string compare with single-digit microseconds precision (hence all the broken HMAC implementations). But the timing channel here is much worse; it's a question of an entire crypto algorithm being performed or not performed based on whether the bit you're seeking is 1 or 0.

Note that Microsoft's "sleep" suggestion matters not-at-all, since it averages right off. "Adding variety" doesn't mean anything. This is high school statistics.

These are practical attacks. They've been demonstrated repeatedly by some of the best cryptographers in the world (Dan Boneh at Stanford, 10 years ago; Paul Kocher at CRI, 15+). They're trivial to exploit (the exploit for HMAC timing is even simpler than the exploit for padding oracles). And yet everyone's first reaction to this problem is, "no way could it work in the real world over the Internet". Because, one assumes they're thinking, if there's one thing computers have trouble with, it's counting.
You most certainly can shame them, and as long as they get the vaccinations they can, even the ones unlikely to be effective, they've done enough in my eyes to be let in areas I can control attendance to.

And missing one vaccine because their parents are idiots isn't the point. Its the walking infection vectors who are the people who have absolutely no vaccines in them in are the issues.
The workaround doesn't work around the vulnerability. It only works around the most obvious implementation.

This gives a false sense of security.
Sounds awesome, I've just registered! Hope to see more of you guys there. Any ideas that you're going to present?
Aquaponics actually gets you pretty close to a closed-cycle ecosystem.

I read the other day about a family of four which grows all its food from an old in-ground swimming pool in their back yard. They put a greenhouse covering over it, filled a couple little ponds inside with tilapia, added vegetables and chickens. After one year they're extracting all the veggies, fish, and eggs they can eat.
Opportunity knocks.
As important as shipping products, hitting release dates for new web portals, delivering books to publishers on time, etc. is, it is at least as important to:

enjoy the process, get totally caught up in what you are doing in the moment, and look at learning and skill acquisition as a life long process.
Unfortunately this is just a symptom of user led opinion systems. Hotels suffer from bad reviews on aggregator sites (e.g. TripAdvisor), products can suffer bad rep through Amazon and so on.

When you give users a platform to voice their opinions they'll use it and any small niggle or frustration will exacerbate what they say in their review.

"Total lack of respect for the developer" may be a cause for concern at your end, but at the end of the day you're the one going out their to impress them and products you sell need to be of good quality to get good feedback. That's just how it works!

The real problem with all of this is when rival companies or rival products can sometimes 'flood' review sites with negative comments to drive people away from their competitors, that's the sort of thing Apple should be striving to prevent but proving such practises can be very, very difficult.
Why I stopped reading HN
>How about those who can't afford it?

I honestly feel as a matter of public health it should be free. If it was someone I saw every day who alleged this reason, I'd take them to the doctor right then for the shots, paying for it.
This doesn't make any sense to me. Either there's some assumption about self I don't get, or they're just making shit up. Cuz after reading that, I'm. No closer to reproducing it.
Participating in a distributed denial of service attack is not necessarily illegal. There has to be some intent on the part of the visitor to cause damage. You could get involved in one just by innocently visiting a malicious web page which makes your browser download large files from the victim. Or suppose I set up an under-sized server with a very popular web application, the server might collapse under the load, but my visitors would not automatically become criminals when my server went down.
I think I should reuse that idea of the weekly waffle meeting (mentioned in the comments) in our team :)

Anyway, I'm happy to see someone argument that: office matters, as do building architecture. Office arrangement clearly influence the way folks work together, when, how they eat etc. Evidently the business results are influenced by the office arrangement amongst others.
The point isn't to absolutely protect against every disease. Vaccinations don't do that. The point is protect against walking disease vectors. Once they get all the vaccinations they can, they're much like you or I: fully vaccinated.
Cool, that is very useful. I can see that I am going to spend time today updating my own project files!
I'm bothered by the "web.config" thing too. As far as I know, Juliano and Thai haven't published yet, so we don't have full details, but I'm inclined to think this was a mistake on Microsoft's part.
Email peter.armstrong@buy.at or Rebecca.riches@buy.at. I found their details on this page:

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/travel-leisure/151557-exp...

These companies want API users, there is no reason why they aren't letting you access the data unless you screwed something up previously

(edit: sorry no idea what happen there, went to edit my comment and it deleted. I was going to add that you might want to mock up your app with test data so that they can get an idea of what you are doing, as opposed to showing them an empty site. Scrape some hotel details for a single city with fake booking info and show that to them.

These companies have no problem with affiliate spammers dumping their entire DBs onto hundreds of crappy websites, so they shouldn't have a problem with you - just mock something up for them to see so that they know you are real )
You are getting vaccinated though. You get they are important and are going through a very harsh trial (high temperatures are very scary in young children, especially to them) to get them all. You should be given a medal.
Only if it sells.

eg. electric cars were in production around 1900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#1890s_to_1900s:_Ea...
I wish his "HTML 5 from early 2008" site would support zooming on my iPad, pretty obnoxious it doesn't.
Long ago I learned "Do it Right, Do it Right now".. but it's more "don't half ass it" rather than "do it perfectly"
Modern vaccines have almost no side effects beyond mild fevers. Talk with your pediatrician, most will promise you that you'll see nothing like the things your wife's generation saw.
I think the best way to do it would be an XML file referenced from a meta tag. This is a property of websites, not web pages, so it makes sense to put all the information in one place.

<!-- page.html -->
<meta name="msapplication-jumplist" content="http://arstechnica.com/jumplist.xml">

<!-- jumplist.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jumplist>
<name>Ars Technica</name>
<starturl>http://arstechnica.com/</starturl>
<tooltip>Ars Technica: Serving the technologist for 1.2 decades</tooltip>

<task>
<name>News</name>
<action-uri>http://arstechnica.com/</action-uri>
<icon-uri>http://arstechnica.com/favicon.ico</icon-uri>
</task>
<task>
<name>Features</name>
<action-uri>http://arstechnica.com/features/</action-uri>
<icon-uri>http://static.arstechnica.net/ie-jump-menu/jump-features.ico</icon-uri>
</task>
<!-- etc -->
</jumplist>
Ask HN: determine language
I'm planning to work on a project that will involve i) harvesting small pieces of text and ii) determining the language of those pieces, to be later able to display the pieces sorted by language.
I'd be very interested to hear HN'suggestions on how to do that language identification part the simplest, quickest, cheapest way. Not looking for 100% accuracy here, rather something that can be implemented in a day or 2 of coding and gives satisfactory enough results ;)
Thanks!
Why the 7" iPad makes a heck of a lot of sense
Stop Comparing Yourself With Steve Jobs
I'm really confused: after all that insightful discussion of social site size, why is there suddenly a "programmers" site, in addition to "stackoverflow"?
One is an abbreviation. The other is a coloquial term, pronounced 'kays' used in most western speaking metric countries.
They should have used MS SQL Server instead :-)
Having just spent 3 days at an annual NCI meeting this article sort of made sense to me. What's fascinating is that the state of the art is moving so fast in this field that many are predicting within a few years we'll be able to deliver individualized chemo-therapies. General internists and even oncologists can't keep up with the rate of progress.

As an aside, it's also a space where fast moving small startups could make a big difference
The first application I thought of was robbing banks... but I guess that would have to wait until there was more than one of these otherwise it would be fairly obvious who did it.
"Match.com" for startup founders / co-founders
Rjlipton's Book On P=NP Is Now Available
>vaccination is a personal risk you take with yourself or your children, and you weigh the risks and are responsible for (not taking | taking) them

Vaccination is a risk you take with yourself or your children and everyone you and they come in contact with.

This is why you should be shunned. You're playing with the lives of those who should be shunning you.

We're not talking about the flu vaccine. We're talking about measles, mumps, rubella, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hepatitis, Varicella, Meningitis, Rotavirus and various other VERY FATAL ILLNESSES. If there are enough flu vaccines for everyone in a year, you should get them, but we're talking about the main, childhood vaccines which protect against the horrible diseases of earth's past.

You not only should be shunned, you should have to walk around with a sign alerting people to your presence as a willing infection vector to make you well labeled enough the rational among us can avoid you.
Ask HN:How is your perfect coding place?
Would you rather be around more coders? music? outside? text editor?
My comment was in the context of the article. I'd say firing up LOIC is plenty enough intent for it to be illegal.
The simplest, quickest, cheapest way to solve any problem is to let somebody else solve it for you.

Like Google, for example. Their AJAX Language API for Translation and Detection sounds like it might fit your need.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/
Sounds to me like the reasons he stopped reading HN were:

1) He couldn't stop himself from posting. He had to comment on things even when he had nothing to add. He even admits to commenting solely to gain karma.

2) He couldn't stop himself from reading the things he found pointless. All the flame wars, the arguments, etc.

Just learn to skip all that. Learn to only post when you have something to add. Only read an article when you actually care about the article. Only read the comments when you care both about the article and what others have to say about it.

Learn some self-control.

That, or tell me what the new best tech-news site is. I get a lot more information about new techniques, languages, etc etc here at HN than anywhere else at the moment.
Wow. Step through the months from '96 and watch the number of current mortgages decline steadily.
+ASP.NET

> [Microsoft] did some good changes with Vista+, sure. But their code
> base for most of their products is still a huge pile of crap,
> security-wise. IIS, Exchange, Outlook, and even Windows itself.
> Not all remote exec bugs are mitigated by the new OS features.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397222

Edit: Also at Ekoparty, Immunity presented their very cool looking ROPe compiler tools working against DEP/ASLR protections in Vista+.
I have and currently work for adult companies (AFF / Stockroom / AEBN etc...) and this problem is even bigger then this article explains. Several companies have closed their doors. One interesting thing I have found is that niche / fetish sites are immune to this because their content is so unique (and sometimes disturbing) that tube sites wont run it and cam sites are doing better than ever. The sites bitching about their content being pirated need to innovate and do so in a way that can not be stolen. AEBN attempted to do this w/ the real-touch but failed miserably because the thought of having sex w/ a machine does not appeal to men and it was far to expensive ($299.00 a unit & 1 dollar a minute).
I agree with most of this post. But, a small correction: food only commutes in, but then waste commutes back out again. Unless you propose to build landfills in the city.