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Node.js 0.10.8 released
Nice answer from a previous similar question on HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318154
I'll bite

"In 2007, there were 613 fatal firearm accidents in the United States, constituting 0.5% of 123,706 fatal accidents that year" [1][2]

[1] http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
[2] http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html
I'm not sure what these questions have to do with anything, but no, no, and no.

Again every point adds nothing to the debate:

Guns are tools for killing. I'm pretty afraid of that, and I think so are lots/the majority of other people, so that settles that.

Because there is the police and courts for trials. I don't want to be tried by some dude with shit judgement and there - my life is over.

You really are hopeless case. The whole world laughs at the stupidity of US gun control laws and it's just agonizing debating with someone on the other side. You know, the Boston bomber shouldn't have done that. He should've just assembled one of these and killed a couple hundred in the crowd, and you should be there.
I have the liberty to do as I please as a human being on this planet so long as it doesn't hurt you.

No, you don't. There is such a thing as exposure to risk. Otherwise anyone would have the liberty to build a toxic waste processing plant by your back yard because, hey, that's not hurting you. Yet.

Strangely, this is not the established way of things in any actually functional society.
Google absolutely can physically harm you or destroy your life. It might ( might, depending on how they do it) be illegal for them to do so (thanks government!) but it's not like a massively wealthy multinational corporation lacks the resources to have you or your loved ones shot, sued into bankruptcy, labeled a kid fucker.
While I enjoyed the movie, it was just a bunch of people sitting around talking. This was too much for many people to get over.
Technically, the part of it that's legally considered a weapon, the receiver, is not built from a kit, it's built from scratch.

If the rest of the parts were not legal to purchase, they could be built from scratch too. A skilled craftsman can make an entire AK-47 replica in ~one day. An unskilled one following plans on the internet working from what's procurable from any hardware store and using cheap tools from the same source can make (a much shoddier one) in a few weeks.

Making guns is not hard. They are, in their basics, very simple pieces of gear, and can be built from the same materials with same tools as any other metalworking project.

In conflict zones where gun imports are successfully blocked, the locals invariably build their own. These weapons range from AK-47 replicas to zip guns [1] that make 15 minutes to make. I'd argue that for crime, the zip gun is the more practical one.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Va87gB_4AI
I do love the lifestyle we have in Paris, I think anyone being able to spend a year there should feel very fortunate. Of course French might not agree, but traveling months per year the recents years, I'm always happy to come back.
How does this compare to dump | aespipe | s3cmd?
Okay, a quote from him:

The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed. The past which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William S. Smith (13 November 1787).
What?

The problem is interfaces that look good statically, that are flashy but are bad UI's for actually doing things.

Dictatorship of design is good shorthand for this.

That's it. We're looking at a rolling freight train of disastrous desktop designs over the last ten years. A somewhat cohesive, simple explanation would be good. This sounds like it. OK?
First thing to address those frustrations was to set expectations with the product management team. In their approach, they really wanted to have a lot of drop-in interaction with the engineers, which worked...well, about as well as one would expect it to work.

So, what it took me doing was learning more about the product management daily process. It turned out that what drove a lot of the communication needs of the product management team was a desire for status updates because (drum-roll please) they couldn't articulate it sufficiently to the executive team.

We drove toward what information was needed and how timely, then figured out how we in engineering could supply product mgmt with that info while staying in the wheelhouse of our own flow. So, evaluation of things like JIRA (Atlassian), Redmine and other tools to coordinate product management actions with engineering actions. It took a little while, but it required everyone all around to work together in expected ways to lower those frustration barriers.
Edit: Thanks so much for the feedback, I updated my version of Chrome and Kosmos suddenly broke as you described. I debugged it (Chrome once again has changed how it interprets GLSL) and applied a patch. I am also adding an updated compatibility warning message suggesting Firefox, because for whatever reason it performs much more smoothly is less flakey. (Chrome WebGL support is really flakey even on Mac - it literally stopped working for no reason after Chrome auto-updated for me once, then resumed working with another update, and now it was broken again.)

This is actually precisely why I'm abandoning WebGL in favor of Native/OpenGL-ES for future versions of "Kosmos" (I intend to eventually make a game) - WebGL is plagued with compatibility issues, for all but the most traditional/simple GLSL shaders.

Since all the planets in Kosmos are procedurally generated on the GPU, this requires rather complex GLSL shaders (GPU code). Sadly, even with a lot of ugly hacks I've only been able to get this to work on Windows for Firefox, after hacking out a lot of features. It works great on Mac/Linux in my testing though, as long as you have a sufficiently modern GPU that supports modern OpenGL.

The compatibility issues I think are mostly due to ANGLE (http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/), which is Google's so-called "compatibility" layer for WebGL used in both Firefox and Chrome on Windows, apparently. It actually takes your GLSL shader code, and rewrites it as it sees fit. This would be fine if the rewrite didn't break things, but sadly, it breaks things.

But ultimately, the user doesn't care about excuses. The user cares that they see a black screen with no content. Hence, I'm forced to abandon WebGL and go back to native code + OpenGL[ES]. It was a really fun experiment though and I learned a lot in the process.
Fair enough--my general instinct is just to start bringing up stats when something this emotionally-charged comes up. Carry on. :)
Same way you learned engineering. Go read about design, design stuff, and get feedback. Try and replicate sleek website designs. CSS takes a long time to master.

The most essential design education book ever written is " Notes on Graphic Design and Visual Communication" by Gregg Berryman. You cannot design without reading this. It's very short, 45 pages, and the only handwritten book you'll probably ever read. http://www.amazon.com/Crisp-Graphic-Design-Visual-Communicat...
Was just having a discussion on this topic with a friend a couple nights ago. Seems that "management" and "HR" always seem to have traditional desks and offices with closable doors. Always. For software developers, they often get lumped with the same desk/working environments that people doing call center or phone support work get.

It got me thinking why that might be, and I had a thought I hadn't had before. Management types typically have their days broken up in to short 30-60 minute blocks - that's their standard work process - meeting, meeting, meeting, planning, etc. I don't think they can really understand people focusing for 2-3 hours at a stretch, and that there's often a big increase in productivity for some people working under those conditions.

Thought-workers are somewhat alone in this, and because the people who make office seating decisions don't work that way, they can not fathom anyone else might need to work that way (except, of course, they still need their doors to be closed for quiet/private work conditions).
Can't TPM be used for this? It could verify your /boot with keys external to the disk itself. I'm not sure if somebody has actually built a solution that uses it yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
If the Libyan, or Iranian, or Chinese, or Russian police come knocking, I probably wouldn't.

Beyond that, it's a judgement call. Lots of countries have agreements to assist each others' police forces in obtaining evidence.
Design is getting increasingly competitive. As people learn about the theoretical foundations of visual design (e.g. golden ratio, usability, etc), the more they will be impatient with amateur attempts at design.

I have been a designer for over 10 years and not to toot my own horn, but it is a practise. You have to do it constantly to get good enough to the point that your design solution IS a solution, and not just a makeshift.
Yeah that can get kind of unpleasant. ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
I guess I passed that over because I couldn't see the point to your hypothetical. No, I don't see how such an article would be at all "disingenuous". What is the hypothetical supposed to illustrate? I imagine a "kit-built cars are perfectly legal to build at home with no oversight" article would be interesting to read too.
If you live in NYC only blades greater than 4" are banned in public places unless being transported for a legal purpose. Otherwise all knives seem to be legal to possess.
Heh, so out of the millions of policemen and militants in the world, that protect the billions out there, you found a handful that have gone bad. Sure, let's let anyone kill anyone then! Moral reasoning!

Heh, I'm < 25 yrs old and a coder at a top software company with a six figure salary. And I've only been coding for a couple of years. I give you advice, kid.
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Ask HN: What to do next in my career?
TL;DR: Where could I find a decent balance between paycheck/technology/career progression/work-life balance in London?

Hi fellow HN's,

I'll have to move to London soon, in the next months. I'm a senior software developer (8+ years) with some experience with Scala. I do some coding in my free time (small things and one side-project I expect to publish soon) and I collaborate in a small open-source project for the community of a framework. I'm married, so some family responsibilities here.

I've spent my career in boring Java shops, not as much innovation and usage of new technologies as I'd like. London offers a lot of choice in IT and a couple of talks I recently had made me doubt where to apply.

I'd like a company where I can use interesting state-of-the-art technology.

I'd like real career progression.

I'd like to have a decent life-work balance, don't mind some extra time but I run away from 60h/week as a standard or 20% travel, I have a wife.

I'd like decent pay as London is not cheap (I've already had a bad experience with an offer of £45k/year. I was expecting more like £55-£60 from what I've seen and my experience)

I'm not sure whhich kind of company should I apply to: financial related companies, big companies (like O2) or something smaller like Mind Candy?

I initially discarded financial as I assumed it would be long hours and legacy code (and I don't dig suits) but a recent oconversation mention that it may be normal hours (37.5h/week), very decent pay and benefits and interesting technology. Is that true?

On the other hand, big companies may have better benefits and may be easier to get a promotion, but they may use "boring" technology; while a smaller company may give less benefits but a better work environment, although I'd fear the pay check differences.

So: Where could I find a decent balance between paycheck/technology/career progression/work-life balance in London?
> I think that when they look at this rationally they believe are better served by being able to access these conversations.

I don't doubt that FBI believe that total surveillance and complete control over every move that their citizen do is useful to data mine. However, the article question such logic because of the social impact that total surveillance has on society, criminals and innocents.

And this article is not alone on that aspect. The Swedish secret police had similar objections when the military suggested introducing such surveillance in Sweden. Their primary objection was that ubiquitous surveillance pushed criminals and innocents alike to darknets and encryption, which would then make their job harder (through, after they got a slice of the surveillance pie, they have now become very silent on the subject). I guess the police would have similar objection, however they are also getting a slice soon.

In the mean time, we can actually see in real-time the effects on society, like hot-lines being called less, people avoiding calling priest/lawyer and so on. Germany has some direct statistics since they introduced the surveillance several years before Sweden. I guess we will have to wait for hot-lines being added to tor hidden services before people feel comfortable again with talking with a stranger about suspected child abuses or domestic abuse. Criminals will as suggested move to more encrypted routes. Botnet distributors can get an increased slice in facilitating secure communication, and the military, secret police, and to a degree, the regular police can catch those too slow to follow the technology change.

Is this a dumb, evil, or just incompetent change to society?
This is a Hail Mary, but I've found some important email address by running a WHOIS on that person's known web properties. While he may have hidden his registration info for his personal site, he may have slipped up on his project sites
If everyone starts including a 2 minute intro, then it won't make you stand out anymore, and you'll need to take a different tack.

Having helped with conferences that strongly encourage submitting videos along with session proposals - folk would likely still stand out.

Coz a surprising number of those videos still suck quite badly...
I don't know if anyone at Qz.com is reading this, but if you open the link in internet explorer it redirects you to an article about programmers and autism.
It is? I'm surprised that the rest of the world has such developed gun policy. I understand the majority of first world nations would probably ban this but its interesting to learn that 3rd world countries have developed similar laws.
I use it to keep incremental backups of my VPS. It lets you use S3 as your backup destination and uses GnuPG to encrypt all files.
I guess it depends on whether a person thinks that the political process around gun control will result from rhetoric or from honest debate. If it's an honest debate, the exact words used to describe the eventual line that gets drawn shouldn't really matter. A semi automatic rifle with a few 10 round magazines is plenty scary enough when used for violence.

Also, when I looked up the number for post ban magazines, I realized that I was wrong about assault weapons and full automatic. Wikipedia has a summary of the federal ban:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Cri...
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"...you found a handful that have gone bad."

You do realize that your point there is exactly the same that most gun-control opponents make? If we are to accept your point, you need to accept theirs.

What do you work on, out of curiosity? Maybe it's something you're actually qualified to give me advice on--I'm always up for learning. :)
Great response from facebook. I prefer that nothing visual be censored. People should just ignore shit that is offensive to them. And we as a society should just look down on people who create offensive shit.
Glucose Aversion in the German Cockroach, Blattella germanica [pdf]
OS X planning to jump to Windows and Ubuntu.
The beauty of liberty is I don't care what you think about me exercising it. That's kind of the point I was trying to make. That whole "give me liberty or give me death" thing really means something to some of us and we really don't care what others think. They have a name for us actually - Americans.
I would argue that if the designer is doing their job properly and working with and for users, then they will be usually right, and if you don't like it, you're wrong

Uh this is working really well...

Let's see, Unity, Gnome 3, Windows 8... there is a pattern where static design has prevailed over the coherent, overall functional design of products. This is especially painful in the desktop PC market because people use them to do thing, even ordinary people have a use for a keyboard OMG.

The thing about overall functional design is that here you might talk to the engineers a bit. You might windup with a slightly less slick product but one that does what the users want it to - assuming you have users who to do more.
Your whole premise is false: keeping and bearing arms is much safer than driving cars. I can go into details as to why I believe that's the case, but to start with, whenever I walk outside the door I put my carry gun into a holster, and then never take it out until I return home. So it's just sitting there on my hip under my shirt or vest, not much of a danger to anyone as long as I keep it away from an MRI machine's strong magnet.

But the raw facts speak for themselves; off the top of my head, the latest available numbers are 33,000 or so vehicle accident fatalities per year, 600 with guns.

Lots more car owners accidently kill than gun owners, and as I've mentioned elsewhere, the proper analogy to a drivers license is a concealed carry licence, and I'd add for hunting a hunting licence, which nowadays requires proof of taking a hunter's safety course (unless you're an old guy like me and are grandfathered).

As far as "convincing" "the rest of us", we simply don't have to do that any more than I have to convince you that I can use a printing press without prior restraint, its an enumerated Constitutional right. Want to change that? The Constitution has a mechanism.
That is not only in France, it's in all Europe. Salaries in Germany, The Netherlands, UK and so on are much much lower than in SF or NY. Developer jobs that pay more than 60k euro are few and far between. A 50k+ job is already above average and upgrading is not going to be easy.
But you wouldn't consider it to have any relevance to the broader cultural problem of traffic fatalities and vehicle registration? Or you don't think others would?

Or you think that any misleading effect is regrettable, but not a reason to alter the tone of the article?
As someone from one of the BRIC countries (now living in the US for the past decade), I can tell you that $6,600 would be a ridiculously affordable option for tens of thousands of students in these markets.

Brazil, in particular, has the exact opposite model of the US. Public undergrad schools are generally weak (with very few exceptions). If your parents can't afford to send you to a private high school, you'll probably have a tough time ranking well on the top public universities (which are not only free, but normally ranked lot better).

Not surprisingly, some public universities receive 10-20x more candidates/spot than other private options.

MOOC and initiatives like this pilot from Georgia Tech have the potential to change this picture radically in the next 10-15 years.

Instead of spending $100,000+ for a second class degree, some students will opt to spend a fraction of this, for a top tier US school. And you could use the difference to complement your education in other different ways - in-person courses, unpaid internships abroad, trips, etc.

Probably still not the same as going in-person to a top university school, but still revolutionary. The goal shouldn't be to send everybody to the best universities in the world (which is an impossible and unrealistic goal), but to give the best education that each person can have.
YES! Early morning brain fart? :-) Thanks for clarifying that.
"Customary"...
Power may be a necessary evil, but it's still evil. It robs you of empathy, because putting yourself in the shoes of every person affected by your decisions is just too emotionally taxing. And lack of empathy is the root of all evil.
Should have gotten a double mastectomy, that would have made more sense.
If none of those commands perform dedupe and compression then tarsnap is much cheaper (like 20x cheaper).
I went and visited a friend at the New York Times building last year. Between TV and my own experience working around writers, I expected it to be a busy and loud environment as I walked into the beautiful ENORMOUS OPEN FLOORS that building seems to consist of.

They had a made the best hack of all time in my opinion: everyone worked in dead silence. I was around a hundred people but you could hear a pin drop and I quickly felt uncomfortable chatting with my friend using my normal speaking voice.

THAT I think is how you do it. Just culturally enforce total and utter respect for the environment. Don't take phone calls. Don't chat loudly around people's desks. Focus on your own work.
Valve has desks on wheels. Want to move? Just move; unplug your computer, roll your desk to your new spot, plug back in. The IT folks have it set up so that your location is automatically updated so people can find you.

This makes it incredibly easy to put yourself next to the people you're actually working with. It tends to cut down on interruptions (you're not stuck in a room working on feature X while there are other people working on features Y and Z).

Flexibility and freedom are wonderful. Of course, you have to be able to trust people to not abuse it; it might be difficult to implement this in an existing large company, though you might get away with it in a smallish division.
I can second this. Ive been going over the hackdesign material for the past few months and Ive found it really useful
Interesting. Why the jump?
Gnu/Linux with KDE, I've been using it for a while and I find that it fit my needs perfectly.
Currently using it under Chakra Linux, but I'm liking OpenSuse lately.
How have I never heard of Easel.io?? I just did the demo. Blown away.
I'm in a team that benefits from an open space and frequent chair swivel initiated conversations. Thankfully my chair has wheels and my laptop a headphone jack because it's not terribly difficult to go sit in a corner.