skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A graphic designer was violently murdered today by someone who had used her web site. The killer reportedly said that he 'didn't like the layout' and that this alone was enough to prompt him to bludgeon the designer to death. She leaves behind a husband and two children."
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Are there any measures in place today preventing someone from throwing road spikes on a busy interstate?
If I changed the words from 'said they would' to 'said it would be', would that be satisfactory?
for the lazy but unenlightened, Acme namespace is reserved for fun modules.

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That was my point. If they don't have that functionality in the browser they certainly won't go looking for it. If it's built-in there are ways to make the user aware of it (startup tips, random info pop-ups or even suggestions from more advanced users - "did you know you could do X very easily?").
I think this would be a perfect opportunity to change the Title here on HN. Avoiding flame-bait is always a worth cause.

Suggestion: "Google awarded patent involved with driver-less vehicles"
SLA' s in the cloud and should you care?
"The real issue here is that a driverless car manufacturer is going to absorb all liability for all accidents while with a driver, the driver absorbs that liability."

Says who? That's far from a decided matter.
What is it about Debian that caused the proliferation of derivatives?
I think that donations are sort of a red herring. As long as the MPAA and RIAA can afford to hire people to live in Washington DC and befriend politicians and explain in detail how SOPA will Create Jobs or whatever you'll have pretty much the same problem. Campaign donations are cheap compared to hiring lobbyists, and just serve to make sure that its the MPAA lobbyist who sees a politician instead of the cement industry's or whoever.

And as long politicians have to vote on a hundred issues a year that could each reward a lifetime of careful study this'll keep happening. We all know SOPA is terrible but most people in the US have no clue. How many laws are made that we're apathetic about, but which we'd be outraged by if we knew more about the issue?

I feel like we really need to either find ways of making sure our politicians have better sources of expertise on hands than the ones provided by industry, or to stop trying to make such complex laws that demand more understanding of the workings of things than our politicians have themselves.
The major reason for end users to still have IE6 around is that they use proprietary applications which were written with IE6 in mind, and they see no good reason to spend money to upgrade these applications (if the vendor is even still interested in doing so) if it still works.

So, as long as there is a way to opt out, I imagine there are a lot of corporate folks who will do so.
Have you see Uzbl? http://uzbl.org/

Their tagline is "web interface tools which adhere to the unix philosophy".

Uzbl is WebKit, and very little else. Highly script-able and customize-able.
Some of the sites polled, like Reddit, usually have fairly active comment threads. But I can't click through to the comments, only directly to the thing that Reddit is linking to.
This doesn't make any sense to me. This argument assumes that the output of Bush is the same as the output of Obama, which is most certainly not the case. I agree that there are disturbing similarities, but economic and social outlook is very different between those two presidents.

The main problem is that the system does not allow for effective involvement of the people. The key to solving this isn't to vote for the worst option possible, but rather to reform and change the system itself.
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What would be the features you'd like to see in a new browser, other than 'fast'?
I think seamless synching of history/bookmarks/passwords over all platforms including mobile would be nice.
What else?
I'm stuck on the word "productive". Productive to what ends?
EDIT - Posted the above, and now, yet again, I'm experience 10 second or so page generation delays, which is another of the (the rather pathetic slowban) passive-aggressive ways that HN tries to force conformity. Perhaps it's just coincidental, but a test on another IP had virtually instant response times.

EDIT2 - Awesome. Hellbanned as well. For those who see showdead, you now know how HN manages such a coherent, consistent (yet superficial, often wrong, self-congratulatory) opinion.
Interfering with intellectual property infringement is rather different than infringing on intellectuals.
I don't think "Cold War" is a good description. They are actively fighting for market share, not sitting still, threatening to fight.
Not a decade for XP and IE6, but certainly more than two years. Close to a decade for IE8 potentially though.

XPsp3 drops off extended support in April 2014 (see http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?ln=en-gb&c2=1173 for detail) at which point it will get no new security updates unless you are a company that can afford to pay for them to be done (and if you did need to try that, it would no doubt be very expensive).

It is highly unlikely that the large companies (who are the main bodies holding on to XP and IE6) will allow themselves to still be using XP or IE6 beyond that point.

Unfortunately IE8 will work on Vista and 7, so I can see some corporates upgrading to IE8 and no further for now. The lifecycle lookup chart at MS (http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselectindex) doesn't list dates for IE7 or IE8. Assuming that IE8's support window is tied to Windows 7 the same way IE6 and XPsp3 were tied for support purposes (as W7 was delivered with IE8 installed), they'll be able to use IE8 under Windows 7 until 2020 (http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=14482) if they are stupid enough to try.
That is reasonable. I will look into finding a tidy way to resolve this. Perhaps with the number of comments next to the post which when clicked lets you skip directly there?
Do you honestly think this was Sarkozy himself? I'm surprised this is the highest comment at the moment.
I think I can see my house!
I work at MS and we use Lync Communicator a lot. Group chat seems to work well (as far as I can tell). Then again, who knows what server they have us connected to - it's probably v.latest.

I've read that there is an XMPP federation service [1], although having never touched it I don't know if there are any caveats.

[1] http://ocsguy.com/2010/11/29/deploying-lync-for-xmpp/
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Do trains use QR codes to park? I can't find a good source.
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Google is one of the few companies that legitimately has me excited for the future.
Must be a really slow news day. What are there, 20 people in line?
I would've liked it if the author factored into account how you would sustain yourself financially after you take the leap or if it is assumed that you save before making that escape.
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A lot of my customers find the latency from Australia to southern Asia, EMEA, or North America far higher than what' typical with South America to North America. Might be a user experience play more than anything else.
> Liberals, and specifically Obama, are openly hostile to one's right to property and the fruits of one's labor. And they're not too keen on the sovereignty of the individual: their right to decide their own values, and act as they deem best to maximize their own values.

I'm sorry, but this is a gross oversimplification. There are those that call themselves liberal but have a point of view exactly as you describe, but there is nothing that requires someone who is liberal to be against property rights and determination in individual's work.
Although I should have mentioned this in an earlier response, you have actually twisted my words. I actually said

>I would rather put my trust in Google than Microsoft, I believe that Google have the interest of a faster more up to date web than Microsoft do and I go with their values.

Not I trust Google over every company in the world. And I state my reasons for trusting Google over Microsoft. Because I think they are more in tune with the values of what I think the web should be about.

Yes I also think the more domineering companies are the most innovative. Do you think if WebOS was so innovative and fantastic HP would have canned it? Would HP (or google) be anywhere near the level of phone we have today if it wasn't for the iPhone?

You're right in that it has a lot to do with marketing and Google would not have got Chrome to where it is today without their ability to market it but if it was crap then there would have been no uptake? They don't get a 25% browser share from developing something that doesn't work?

Look at Google Wave, massive marketing, everyone looked forward to it and it was rubbish. It's not all about marketing or love for a brand. It's a mixture of everything. I also don't start dismissing a companies products because they are getting too big, I don't want the next best thing, I was the best tool for the job. Regardless of who it is (within realms of common sense)
Maybe Microsoft could enable an auto update to XP to a limited Win 7 OS :)
It depends. I know my previous company, I was able to get a $3k license for some software I wouldn't normally get because it was the last week of the calendar year and if the department didn't spend their budget, they would get less next year. I would assume situations like that are fairly common, although it would also mean a lot of sales for B2B would come towards the end of December.
Great that they abandoned the “intranet apps still depend on IE6” talking point. XP still won't move past IE8, however.
You can see Browser-share as opposed to Browser-version share if you go to the statcounter page linked above. Webkit is around 6% and Chrome is 27% making WebKit ~33% and rising. All versions of IE are ~38.5 and falling. Firefox is ~25% and falling really slowly. Opera is <2% and rising really, really slowly.
How old are you? 12?
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Ask HN: Does anyone need products (widgets) to work with?
I know a lot of HNers are building experimental e-com and consumer oriented businesses. The thought occurs to me that some new businesses just need "widgets" to sell, and it doesn't really matter what.

I'm working now for a 30 year old jewelry wholesaler and I think I could convince them to help start-ups who need product, but can't afford anything. We could give you the data and drop-ship for your first small amount of customers, take care of email confirmations, etc.

Not sure if this will interest anyone but I figured I would put it out there.
You are displaying 'undefined' instead of time for Youtube videos
Obama Refuses to Veto the NDAA Bill
I'm actually thinking less is more here, I can't think of the last time I've even thought about using autofill for forms.
Of course syncing is important, but actually one of the more nice-to-have features.
The important things IMHO are: speed/efficiency, interface/usability and how easy it is to customize the browser. I can't even think of a reason why Google chose to omit configurable shortcuts.
Perhaps it's just because I've never been a big fan of Debian, but I would say its age. It's one of the oldest distros.
I'm not sure about the Grand Challenge, but a fair amount of work for DARPA involves the performers (companies/organizations who did the work) walking away from the program with full IP rights to the result with the ability to patent it or do whatever ... as long as the US government retains I think free license to at least that product/whatever and also maybe free license to anything produced by it? I think that might vary program by program.

DARPA is a "stimulating" organization. giving it patents would not fit into its mission.
Because Bill Gates realizes that China is the world's largest consumer of energy, and its share of total global energy consumption will continue to rise in the coming decades. It is the biggest and most lucrative market for a nuclear technology startup's products and services. (Comparatively, the U.S. is very slow and/or unwilling to invest heavily in nuclear power).

On a "greater good" level: China's enormous fossil fuel appetite can have disastrous environmental and economic consequences, and the depletion of resources could lead to regional or even global conflicts -- whether cold or hot -- in the not-too-distant future. (Many wars are, at their most basic level, contests over the division of scarce resources). So, if we don't help China develop alternatives to fossil fuels, the world loses in a big way. Oil prices spike, economies reel, and the environment takes it in the backside.

I'm not naive enough to assume that the "greater good" argument is at the heart of what Bill Gates is doing. It's not. It's a nice consequence, but the goal here is profit. And it stands to reason that Gates and his startup will go where the profit is. If the U.S. was the buyer, they'd just as soon sell to the U.S.

Finally, the headline of the article is a bit sensationalist. The way it's phrased, it gives the immediate, emotional impression that Gates is selling or developing nuclear weapons technology to China. That is obviously not the case, but it's what many people would infer, even if subconsciously, when they see the phrase "selling nuclear technology to China."
Ask HN: What constitutes a "Senior Developer"?
There's been a few threads on hiring recently, and I've been a little surprised as to what constitutes "senior developer" status in some peoples' minds.

Do you have any particular criteria you use when applying that label to someone (or yourself)? If someone refers to themselves as a "Senior Developer", what characteristics do you look for right off the bat, whether in a resume or face to face?
No, I don't think so. If Twitter's statement changed from this:

"We had a great time working with the Android team and are thrilled that Google will be open sourcing the code used in this app in the near future."

To this:

"We had a great time working with the Android team and are thrilled that we will be open sourcing this app in the near future."

Then I would have been convinced.
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I had the same, but dismissing the error seemed to let it work just fine. Hard to see given the minimal contrast between the "X" and the modal header
GroupsFinder Adds Events
Wrong. An all-Webkit web would be just as bad as an all-IE web. IE and Mozilla serve to keep WebKit honest. Plus, there's no sense in condemning them based on IE6 when IE9 has come so far.
I only wanted to speculate about possible reasons. Maybe there was something else - does not matter, really.

On the other hand, ditching your rounds with the subsequent interviewers just because you became emotional about one of them does materially decrease your chances to get a job - instead of one "bad interview" round feedback you got that one plus all the subsequent ones. This is a sub-optimal strategy. And, arguably, a waste of both your time and the remaining interviewers'.
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This is my site. I posted a barebones iteration a few months ago. It didn't garner much inerest (perhaps deservedly so).

Anyway... GroupsFinder helps you find and track all of the groups near you, and the events that the groups host.

What's cool/unique about this is that you can track entire categories (currently tech, and design) via email, Twitter and RSS (as well as on the site) without having to join all of the groups.

Also new in this iteration - global scope, a new UI, a second category (design groups/events) and lots of other little tweaks.

Let me know what you like, and what I need to change.

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Microsoft should just start to bundle IE with new solitaire games, so that people would be forced to upgrade IE to get the new games. That should kill IE6 in a few hours.
I want to see up front viewing of cookie data per request. This should have been there day one so people could have more control and visibility over what's being tracked about them, and easier ways to delete cookies. It would have avoided years of paranoia and misinformation.

Also, a "find" bar "on" all the time in a browser (as if someone hit ctrl-f when the page opened) so people realize they can actually search in a page instead of slowly scrolling and wasting their time.
I would like to see a browser that is keen on letting me know vulnerabilities by being very verbose about them, but without getting in the way.

For example if facebook is eating my browsing data on other sites just because I have logged into facebook, or even while I log out (http://soshable.com/facebook-tracking/) then this (also-very-fast) browser would let me know this in case I want to do something about it
That sounds bee-yoo-tee-ful.
In what way, since IE5.5 and XHR, has IE driven innovation in browsers? Serious question.
Yes, I know that patent is actually more specific than "driverless car." I was just being snarky.
Well here you go -- this account is now hellbanned.
Actually, I think this is exactly what happened to me!
1. Send random user agent on each connection.

2. Never send referrer.

3. Built-in blocking of all tracking and ads.

4. Javascript disabled by default.
I'm not sure if they are counting the retail price as revenue instead of the price they sell to their customer at. Where do you get this impression from?
Ask HN: What framework do you use (if any) for your pure web games?
It seems like there's one major (and a few popular alternatives) game framework for every language except pure web languages. What framework/engine is Hacker News using for creating web games without browser plugins like Flash and Unity?
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Very nice graphic. If there were some way to zoom this a little (I know I can browser zoom, but then the text is unreadable) and some way to distinguish the more popular flavors, that would be pretty awesome. For instance, CentOS is one of the most popular distros at this point, and it's really tough to find (purple branch under the main RedHat line, halfway to the right)
are we all now moving towards "keep your hand out of my cookie jar" ?
I think these are best addressed with the X-UA-Compatible header, and various other ways to trigger the use of an older IE engine. Otherwise, users are offered a choice between broken legacy internal apps, or breakage on most of the rest of the web.
Yes, I was a little careful in how I phrased that one, precisely because some people are beginning to teach something different. But the exceptions prove the rule -- Amazon was one of those revolutionary companies that did things contrary to the conventional business-school wisdom, and in the process re-invented what was taught.
It's a job title. It really doesn't mean anything other than that they are likely making a bit more money than mid-level.

I've worked with junior/mid-level devs that are amazing and senior developers that couldn't string three lines of code together.
The need for data centres triggers downtime possibilities
Large corporations run lots of browser-based applications. To upgrade these applications, or even to regression test them - even in virtual environments - costs money. Any money they spend on IT comes out of their profits, or is added onto their prices. Would you pay an extra 5 bucks to buy your car insurance from a company that has ditched IE6?
Looks like I might of had a regression there in hyve. I see that now. I will look into it.
People from more than 3/4 of all the countries in the world took classes at Stanford this quarter and none of them even knew if the professor was wearing pants because everything was remote. Laptops have been around for decades. Video conferencing for several years, IM for decades, collaborative white boards and editing software. Bugtracking and version control are all on the web. What on earth is going on at these companies that they don't know about what is going on? Even hospitals are getting xrays evaluated overseas.

There is a crucial observation in this particular portion of your post. Remote development forces you to streamline processes like "put everything into the bug tracker" and "diagram everything on the whiteboard". Having remote developers can actually force you to become a more streamlined and efficient company. You are right though, with Skype, bug trackers, and SaaS there is no valid reason why someone can not consider a remote candidate, save for some serious security concerns, like top secret classified information and systems.
> the IE8 JavaScript engine is quite slow too

I would go with very slow. Faster than IE6, but not by nearly as much as more modern browsers are faster than it. DOM manipulation is very slow compared to more modern browsers (recent versions of Chrome, FF, Opera, ..., even IE9) too. DOM changes being slow is what you'll notice more with most code.

As an aside: make sure you set X-UA-Compatible (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325%28VS.85%29....) otherwise you'll have no idea if people looking at your stuff in IE8 are using compatability mode or not.
On clicking one of the random IP addresses it showed me that they had tracked, the right sidebar Facebook comment column had a comment from a developer that stated they tested the application locally, and then pushed the same database live, so many of the 192.168.0.0/16 block (and I could assume other RFC 1918 blocks) are the actual developers traffic.
It's clear that the Elysée is big and full of workers of every kind.
Jobs In Making Movies Are On The Rise, Not Falling
The average user doesn't even know about cookies and is very easy to profit from. Privacy should be more important than it is today.
We can only speculate on that number. But point is whatever percent that is, they are likely Firefox users, since Chrome doesn't do real blocking of those sites.

If the number of privacy concerned people is only 5% (a guess as good as any other guess), add that number to Firefox percentage, and the picture looks quire different.
As I've said time and time again, fences are for the sheep.

God help up when we're guarded by wolves.
What about files with limited or no history. Cycolmatic Complexity [1] to the rescue?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
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