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Ask HN: Why has Firefox still no support for the html 5 date element?
Just curious, because Chrome has it since 2012 and even Microsoft Edge supports the new date input.

Firefox however is the only major browser that does not support the date input type. The only reason that I load a date picker plugin nowadays is for Firefox compatibility (in my country, nearly nobody uses Opera or Safari).
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So I've joined a company (+100 emp) as their CTO. CEO doesn't know what I do or what I'm supposed to be doing. We stare at each other weekly. I speak, he nods, agrees with everything and then does nothing expected of him because he didn't understand.

It's Kafka every day.

The business is sustained by a legacy product but people not knowing what they are doing and failing at their jobs repeatedly seems to be endemic.

I feel like the only same person in any given room.

Have you been in a similar situation? Prognosis?
> One year later, his management companies closed the gate and put up a no-access sign. A billboard that had advertised beach access was painted over.

What a jerk.
Oh come on, a blockchain isn't an improvement because you can call lawenforcment and they'll try to catch the hacker? This was 100% illegal, even if you consider the law article he linked.
"The smart contract is the authority"

Not sure that's as clear as the article suggests (at least to the extent you are dealing with entities within the reach of U.S. law (which is a whole lot!)).

See my thoughts on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820950
I believe that most of these value decisions are made from the speculative perspective of 'because Alice is 25 she will be a better cultural fit and open to working more hours' rather than any known candidate quality. I also believe that this a perfectly valid hiring judgement and if a mistake is made it is self correcting.

Older folks (myself included) shouldn't take this personally or get angry. Eventually we will all be working PT as retirees doing something totally different or consulting and/or owning our own business. That's the progression as I've seen it.
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I remember there was an issue where you couldn't easily see a seller's recently sold items, only currently listed and items with feedback already received. So you couldn't see that this well-reviewed person selling an Xbox for a suspiciously low price just sold 30 other Xboxes in the past 48 hours.
I've been decrying Amazon's usability for years. Such an unintutive mess of menus and sub-systems. Such a poor customer experience for anything other than simple "click and buy" usage.

I blame their extreme position ahead of other emarketers. They have very little reason to be nice and helpful. People will throw money at them regardless.
Has that happened to people in the past? I do have an AWS account attached to my prime account (a dumb choice from years ago). The stuff on it isn't critical or anything, though.
> I would just contact amazon and find out where the money went

I like to think that Amazon won't give its users bank details to random people. A federal officer could force them give it up.
I was born in communist Eastern Europe and grew up in the years immediately afterwards. What's your point.

It's still not even remotely similar.
There are 2 things:
1) If you've been doing it for many years without any success - it's a signal for them that you're not willing to go all in or you're not ambitious enough.
2) Sales and/or number of users will be the ONLY way to prove your idea for a majority of investors. They understand that it does not really matter what they think about your idea - what matters more is what the customers think about it.
I'm not a domain expert, but both could be right - isn't the point that some currencies and tenors are very illiquid, not that the entire market doesn't exist?
I think it requires 750 or 1k karma, which isn't a huge amount. I'd image a decent percent (~20%) of users have flagging power.
They don't prefix with the vendor? So they mix the stock of all their suppliers? That's pretty unbelievably sloppy, is there some public proof of this?
To put this another way, though, just because I don't sanitize my database inputs on my website, doesn't necessarily mean your SELECT * command will not be considered a hack.

Both are exploitation of unintended behavior.
Well that's nifty. Kind of a shame that referrer matters to them.
On the actual contract, it's possible a court would find that the contract was between parties x and y, and therefore party z inserting themselves into it is not valid. Often law comes down to intent, so the hacker could well find themselves in trouble, even if technically all they did was play by the rules allowed by the contract.

There is another interesting point here, which I think applies to Bitcoin too - if the blockchain/smart contract is the distributed source of truth and lets you deal with untrusted third parties without a middleman, it shouldn't require external arbitration.

If you need external arbitration in the event of problems, which requires verifying identity, intent, etc, why not have a central system with strong identities and regulatory bodies in the first place and forget the distributed system (which is slower and another point of failure), since the centralised system is what you fall back to anyway when the distributed trust fails.
Reported.

edit:

Response from support:
"Hi xxxxx. This account is not affiliated with GitHub and we are looking into it."
This story was published 8 months ago and yet there is not a single other country where Lyft has expanded. Also Uber already faces heavy competition oversees. I suspect most of the money they are losing is because of their desire for world domination. It is going to be very hard for Lyft to enter or retain those markets.
Excuses for anti-consumer policies.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
I think a lot of the time the publicity helps a lot. I think the sharks can help sometimes. Like things with fashion and home good I think Lori and Daymond help get them into stores.

However probably the biggest shark tank success story: Ring. Ring didn't get a deal, but it is probably worth more then every other sharktank company combined.
> But Lyft told CNBC, "Along with our international partners, we are updating how we serve our users traveling abroad. We will now direct them to download the partner's app in the country they are visiting."

So basically they aren't going global.
What do you mean by "no basis"? I suspect to you it means something like "too abstract" or "not good enough"?
Maybe a little bit turbulence. I had a flight from LA to SEA that they couldn't serve drinks on the whole flight and the overhead bins kept opening up.
Without reading the article, I know this is Vinod Khosla. The title should reflect that: put his name there, and save us a click to know who he is.
I think a big difference between the USA and the USSR is that in the USA, everybody hates on their countrymen and thinks that the rest of the country is full of shit, while my understanding of the USSR is that you could only do this if you were relatively powerful. In the USA, no matter how offensive you are, you can find someone who agrees with you.

Mr. Damore has already been offered a job by Wikileaks. He's making the media rounds. He's being hailed as a hero by Breitbart and other right-wing talk shows. Chances are, he's not going to have trouble finding another job.
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And if I use a teleportation device to move money directly out of a bank vault no breaking and entering has occurred and therefore no theft.
Matt Levine is so much better on these topics than Matt Taibbi that one might hope the site would switch URLs. But, of course, accuracy is not the reason people read Taibbi's financial reporting. They're both humorous writers (though in different ways; Taibbi is the better of the two as stylists), but Taibbi is also emotionally satisfying.

It would be helpful if people kept providing Levine pieces to accompany Taibbi pieces.
is there a vote2edit feature?
/rockthevote
Seattle also seems very... optimistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idem
> The central question of this technological change will be: why do the hyper-wealthy need people?

This is what concerns me. They already apply their wealth and organizations to treating the general public as a farm they cultivate. They shape the educational, tax, media, and legal structure in their favor quite successfully today. With the technological advancements in media development and their hold over education policy, tomorrow has a terrifying forecast unless some educational miracle of critical thought occurs.
The left-wing equivalent is the existing policy, and his proposal was a mainstream conservative one.

And no, we won't be able to ever rationally discuss this when opponents straw man the memo as you're doing here.
> In other words there is no basis for libor

No, there is a basis. The regulator Taibbi cites speaks competently about this [1]; the least actively-traded currency-tenor traded only about once a month. (Every other currency-tenor traded more often.)

That may be a fine frequency for 6-month wholesale interbank rates in Danish krona (which, until recent reforms, was one of the currencies Libor was quoted for [2]). But turning it into a daily rate with three decimal places of precision is silly.

[1] https://www.fca.org.uk/news/speeches/the-future-of-libor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor#Currency
Let's pretend this is a journal article, if he pointed out flaws but didn't really do much else, does he end up in the list of authors at the beginning of the paper or does he end up as a thank you at the end?

It seems in this case people like Jobs end up as first author.
Use the Bypass Paywalls add-on.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...

Chromium-based browsers: http://bypasspaywalls.weebly.com/ Used to be on the store but Google took it down.
For OpenBazaar, built on IPFS, we've gone the route of federated search with an open API. A DAO could be interesting but a lot more work for little gain.

Eventually I'd like to open source code that lets any user create their own index/search server and potentially charge for usage if they want.
Are the same companies also discriminating new hires by age? Is that more or less consistent with lying about their own age?
I'm not sure that's the best thing...
Looks great! So you're selling (up to) 5% coupon clean energy bonds? How is that working out, are you getting a lot of interest from people?

I haven't done too bad investing and have a few ideas myself for a fintech business (there are some opportunities relating to tax deductible pension investments in my home market) yet wonder whether, say, a 5% yield is sufficient for the average person to even bother taking a risk.

Second, if you don't mind, how's profitability? I assume it does need massive scale for the math to work out? How is sourcing users / are advertising fees working out, in terms of cost?
I like NPR's approach to broadcast ads: their own commentators read a short little script, rather than playing an audio clip that was provided to them. There are various ways this can and has been applied to Internet ads, like making them text-only.

On the other side of things, I would love to see a search engine that pushes sites down in its rankings proportionally to the obnoxiousness of their ads.
Prior to having read what was written, or seen the company fire him, people generally towed the line of "pro-diversity". Once it was publicly available, and after he was fired as a direct result of it, people took a step back and thought about it. We have more information now, so the tone now is more likely to be accurate.
If it's actually to protect anything, it's dumb, as it's defeated by whitelists, filters or even poor connections...
I would open a case with the USPS Inspector General https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/filecomplaint.a...

This seems like it would be considered mail fraud, and as UPSP was used they have jurisdiction to investigate it. I'm not sure how serious they will take the case however.
It's more about enabling applications with decentralized data storage than it is a new type of object storage.
I just tried that for a different WSJ article and it did indeed work. How is that site getting access to these articles that require registration?
Nice. One of the things that kept me away from the .net platform, is that the only viable development IDE is Visual Studio.

Especially on OSX and Linux. I hope that together with the new .net core initiative, .net becomes truly cross platform like Java.

I used to program a lot in C# before buying a MacBook Pro a few years ago and really liked the .net platform.
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shark tank is not a VC, it's a tv show

The founder's response is: "That would be a mistake, because ..."
Me too! I didn't notice until you mentioned, but then I immediately thought "that's it!". :)
It's there now; there's a certain amount of fluctuation as upvotes and flags come in.

The [flagged] annotation only appears when flags exceed upvotes by a certain threshold. Story rank is affected by flags before that.
Another fun fact, 99% of what people consider bad turbulence is less bumpy than the average bus ride. It's just that being in the air messes with the subjective importance people assign to turbulence.
The caps make a huge, huge difference. That's why mobile LTE plans are sold almost completely in terms of the cap.

Consider a 100 mbps cable connection with a classic comcast 250 GiB cap. Now obviously home internet is designed and sold to be bursty. But if you do the math, this is only 6 hours of max-speed traffic, for an entire month. Or look at it from the other extreme, no bursting - it's less than 1 mbps spread over an entire month.

Frankly, 100 mbps is overkill, I'd be happy with a solid symmetric 40 mbps. The reason the numbers are so high is people who aren't network engineers think "hmm my internet is still not enough somehow, I should get more" but the rated speed is not the problem. In fact I recently switched from 200mbps/20mpbs cable to 100mbps/100mpbs fios, for the significantly faster and more consistent upload speed. I don't miss the extra 100mbps download speed at all.

Summary: speed matters less the higher you go. The caps matter more.
Exact same thing happened to me. They couldn't fix it until Monday though (it was Friday and was porting a number).
The Spider Network, about the banker in the center of the scandal from a ways back just came out earlier this year and was an entertaining read.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062452983/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
How does one vouch for this?

I don't think this article deserves to be flagged. I'm also unclear if whoever flagged it was trying to flag the article itself or the discussion it created.
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http://scout.com/nfl/Board/104112/Contents/wAtCh-49ers-vS-Ch...
My anecdata confirms it - Tacoma is within 50 miles of Seattle, and 1 hour is my normal travel time - on weekends or after 7pm.
Lana is usually a female name, isn't it? Not that it much matters, they still appear to be jerks.
I don't how it accounts for the fact that in coastal cities like Boston, the only direction you can travel is West (SW, NW) etc. So that kinda limits the area that you can cover in an hour.
>So is the stance that there are fewer women primarily because of social factors.

No, it is not speculation. In my previous comment I mentioned a number of converging lines of evidence supporting this position.

>The SSC post shared multiple times in this thread is one example and I don't see any attempts to rebut this on your part.

Check the comments, and the reddit thread that he links to correcting his mistakes regarding Harvey Mudd. The argument is full of holes. Remember that SSC is just a blog, and it's written by someone who is not very well informed on these issues.

>Sure 'women keep telling us about sexism in tech'. I've read some of those anecdotes.

It's quite offensively dismissive to refer to multiple independent and credible reports of sexist behavior merely as "anecdotes". But I guess it's clear from this what your position really is, despite your claims to neutrality.

>And there are anecdotes such as the one that this thread is on that suggest that sexism in tech can have the opposite effect.

This isn't what the article actually says. The title is click-bait.

>My intent is to argue that there are potentially other factors at play

There are always "potentially" other factors at play. That is so weak a statement as to be meaningless.
If you are the person this happened to file a complaint with the United States Postal Service office of the Inspector General. As they used USPS this would actually be mail fraud something the law enforcement arm of the postal service has jurisdiction over.

You can file a complaint at https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/filecomplaint.a... or by calling 1-800-ASK-USPS
Curious about your use of Indiegogo - what made you decide to go that route to gauge interest? It doesn't strike me as a place where folks go to find Saas apps though I could be wrong.
Why not? The cost of running Soundcloud is comparable to the cost of one F-35 jet.

It would be funding a distribution platform for art. Most of the music on soundcloud is free for anyone to listen to. That's a public benefit, in my opinion.
You can only vouch for things that have been killed by flags (are [dead])
If your tabs scroll in Firefox, there’s a dropdown at the right which lists all tabs. I find this decidedly superior to the overflow behaviour you describe.
This was downvoted (presumably as snark) when I saw it, but I think we can reasonably assume that's the subtext behind why this piece ran today. Not because WaPo believes such a war is imminent, but because people are talking about one.
This would create a crapton more traffic, if you could even satisfy the demand in the first place.
Hilarious but sounds mildly illegal.
If you're talking about SoundCloud.com, actually a Backbone app :)
This was a waste of time to read.
I don't think its just liberals - I've met as many conservatives who repeat whatever nostrums and slogans the talking heads tell them to - but cant justify or explain why they are the correct answer - and just like liberals, they're certain of the righteousness and justness of their cause.

In my humble opinion, the problem is authoritarianism - left or right doesnt matter - its dangerous - the big concern I see, is historically liberals are rather effective at governing, so a left wing authoritarian movement has teeth, when a right wing one may not.
The existence of some differences is pretty well established. The relevance of those differences to software engineering is less so. As one example, here's a pretty thorough take-down of the Baron-Cohen experiment that Damore cites as part of his evidence.

https://www.recode.net/2017/8/11/16127992/google-engineer-me...

Then there's the fact that even in the presence of persistent individual differences greater diversity might be beneficial to the group as a whole. After all, if you're putting together a football team you might want more than one kind of player. Why should that same "different people for different roles" principle apply among software engineers at Google? People who harp on "the science" of Damore's memo should consider that there are plenty of scientific points involved other than the one about infant cognition.
Oh. Does the flag penalize it in the rankings?
So wait what, can someone explain:

What is being DMCAd here?
"Currently our demos do not support Mobile, Firefox, and Safari. Please view them on desktop Chrome for now." That's a bummer.
"100 year old fruit cake tastes just like new fruit cake." /s
I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

The "and abilities" part is the important bit because it's where he makes a logical leap. So here's what I'm going to ask of you as someone who seems to like Damore's document and likes the scientific process behind it. Can you find me scientific evidence that men are biologically predisposed to have greater tech abilities?
You nailed it with your earlier comment about how James' firing had more to do with the fact that a great deal of people has interpreted his post as offensive rather whether being offensive was his ultimate intent. His memo was not clearly written, caused a scene, and damage to the brand. If he had some great idea, he has done it a disservice, and his supporters should blame him for such bad writing, rather than Google for doing the rational thing.
Spark already does a good job at that, imo. It's increasingly easy to query information, at this point we are basically writing SQL-like queries with it. BUT, Spark isn't a relational db, or even a storage solution. What I miss is just having the one piece of technology that deals with both storing and querying: Actual relational databases.

It's interesting. 10 years ago I would have probably said something like that "relational dbs will just get better as data grows", quite the opposite happened... Relational has been pushed to the side and we now have to learn a lot of new technologies, in my case: Cassandra; Spark; Pandas (python). This whole stack used to be just MySQL :)... And I miss those days!
It's common in white collar crime/social engineering schemes to use female names regardless of the criminal's gender as socially people are less suspicious of women, for whatever reason.
You do realize though that changing just 1 bit can change the entire hash? What's to prevent people from appending a random bit or two, and getting an entirely new, unblocked, hash?
Courts will absolutely use intent to judge contracts.

The interesting thing with the DAO though, was the explicit INTENT of the contract, was for it to be entirely governed by the code.

As in, the announcement website, and all the marketing for the DAO included a whole lot of lines like "None of the information here is binding. The only thing that it binding is the code. The contract is the code".

So, it is arguable, that allowing people to exploit "bugs" in the code was actually intended.

Of course, they didn't think there were going to be any bugs, but I bet that if you asked the DAO people ahead of time, before the bugs were found, something like "Hey, if I find a bug and exploit it, is that within the contract?", then i bet that the DAO people would have said yes.
It definitely does in NYC. The distance that you can get via car is significantly less than the distance you can cover via a number of different rail systems:

* Amtrak

* LIRR

* Metro North

* NJ Transit
Ah, Rolling Stone -- great source for solid info on LIBOR.