skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those features are already available for a long time in the free software map clients (e.g. OpenLayers) using free map data (e.g. OpenStreetMap).

With OpenLayers, you can even customize the behavior of your map, because it is designed as a JS library rather than a proprietary web API. Also, the clean separation of presentation (map client) and data source (any map server speaking WMS/WFS/whatever) enables you to combine any map data from any sources. Thus, handy overlays are possible without relying on the mercy and the pre-defined possibilities of Google.
I've seen some offshoring went well and some which went not so well.
Common mistakes are:

Some western companies want to do it ridiculously cheap. To hire really good programmers in Eastern Europe you need to offer bigger than market salaries (which are still lower than western salaries).

The other problem is, even if they hire good people they outsource the most boring jobs, because western programmers keep the interesting stuff for themselvs. The result in this case: Phd-s doing the user interface programming in Eastern Europe. The server is developed in the U.S.

Political stuff: western guys don't want their eastern colleagues succeed. I can understand why: they are afraid that their jobs will be taken.

And sometimes communication is hard to do right. In fact depends on the project. I think it is better to outsource highly self-contained tasks which do not need an exteremely high amount of interactive communication.
Johnny,
There is a startup that can probably help you save some money in this process... Checkout feefighters.com - it's like a lendingtree of credit card processing.
I'm not so certain they aren't still checking him out. That sentence was very odd at the end of that discussion. They wouldn't be placing a device there for fun (I hope)
In my experience (last 5 years in MegaCorporations) the problem is that the people who are actually hands-on managing the offshoring projects are different from those who make the decisions. The guys who decide to offshore are usually at least 2-3 layers of management above.

The urge to offshore software development at that level is strong, and the management sees it as a megatrend which "we'll have to follow because everyone else is doing it".

The feedback loop is broken, the decision maker who offshores a certain project is no longer there when a couple of years later it's clear that the whole thing was a disaster. He's busy offshoring some other project.
Details on What Akamai's "Spy" Disclosed to FBI Agents
However accurate this post is, it represents something I don't understand at all. How often do we see posted here a rant about how terrible it is to deal with some clients. That in and of itself is not bad. A venting space is necessary. That said, I don't care how good you are, if I was a prospective client who a) was savvy b) had heard of you c) read your personal blog which you maintain as part of your professional profile... I would personally not be excited about doing business with someone who called a business opportunity a douche bag (/prick). I know that "hacker culture" prides itself to a certain degree on counter-culturalism, but isn't there a place for class any more?
And in the meantime, ask yourself, “Does my work as a technologist really help people? Am I solving a real problem, or am I chasing personal success?” If you don’t like the answer, change something about what you do or how you do it.

Tall order.

Also, can personal success not align with more humanitarian goals?
The 9th Circuit is absolutely famous for being lovers of government power. They like privacy and police power issues, as seen here. They're also quite anti-business. All-in-all, the 9th Circuit is the most-overturned circuit in the country.

Why is it that it's so lopsided? Since it's the president (I think) who is nominating all of these justices, rather than a local leader, I would expect that the demographics of each circuit would be fairly similar (generally reflecting the preferences of the preceding few presidents, rather than any geographic tendencies).

If I could be excused for wearing a tinfoil hat for a moment, it makes me wonder if it's some kind of long-term strategy to manufacture (and get us used to) wildly liberal case law.
That was pretty well hidden. You have to click on the small grey-on-grey text that says "Nobel Peace Prize 2010" then the even tinier grey-on-grey text that says "Press Release" just to see who the hell this guy is.

Go straight to the page and you see his name, his photo, and a bunch of text in Chinese (which I now see are comments).
You're assuming he wasn't working on them.

In 1810 aged 19 he started University at Trinity, Cambridge.
In 1812 aged 22, disappointed with the level of mathematical tutorage formed the Analytical Society, translating Lacroix' works on differential and integral calculus into English. He transferred to Peterhouse and they gave him a degree without him even having to sit an exam.

He also got married during this time. 10 years later his wife and 5 of his 8 children were dead.

And he stood up again and invented a fucking programmable computer made out of wheels!!

I think I can cut him a bit of slack.
Ask HN: Interview Advice?
This weekend, I'm flying out for an interview with one of the larger tech companies (a software development position).

Would anyone care to disclose a bit of interviewing advice?
Yes, if you care about your data, it's a two server product. Single server redundancy isn't being added until 1.8. Until then, if the server terminates abnormally, there's potential for data corruption. The solution right now is to run a slave.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Durability+and+Repair
True, the page turned me off so much that I had the patience to look at only one "misconception": Why is the sky blue? What the site states is not that the textbooks are wrong but they could explain it in simpler terms. Well, then, misconception is too strong a word for that. And I think the simpler explanation had holes in it, too, e.g. "air is made up of blue particles, etc."
I don't know about service companies -- but you can look up irc channels where fedora-india people hang out, it has quite a few Red Hat people in there. There also is the fedora-india mail list that you can join and take part in the Fedora Students Contributing program to pick up jobs to do.
Cool - looks like a really nice product. Good luck!
I've had good experiences with Drools too. Never used FICO Blaze.
Her first office/storefront was in a small city near Columbus called Bexley.

I know this because the storefront used to be a baseball card store that I frequented back in the day. I remember resenting Angie's List while having no idea what it actually was--but somehow it was to blame for putting the card store out of business!
Yep also was a little typo, I meant "expert sneakscope ops" not experts. My bad.
Left over this? Foursquare isn't a bank. Foursquare is a game. An achievement system for work lunches.

Of the people I know who use four square the response was "Hm, foursquare isn't working" puts phone away.
Thanks for the followup.

re. #2, i think even a revision history, keeping the same URL or a list of revisions on the dropdown should be very useful while you develop the entire product.
35 Striking Automobile Official Website’s For Your Inspiration
Released here are some of the popular automobile websites with their beautiful designs and grand automobile for you to give a test drive
You're correct, but you're missing the point that many clients interests are not aligned with either yours or even their organizations. When someone refuses to commit to decisions in writing, even in an email, then you are a pawn in some game they are playing. You're being set up to fail and to be scapegoated because they believe that this will advance them in the organization quicker than you succeeding (e.g. the project's sponsor is a rival of theirs). That is why they are best described as toxic.
implementation is ugly
Voted back up (to zero).

This point of view is asinine. However, it's very common, and it's the position that the authorities themselves hide behind.

If we want to win this battle to preserve our rights, we need to listen to, and understand, what those who would throw away our rights are thinking.

And I'll throw in a favorite Ben Franklin quote as my own comment on the parent post:

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
What would you build with $100,000 and six months?
In a similar vein, I used Google's Ajax Search API and made this last year: http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ (Google even interviewed me for it: http://googledata.org/google-code/google-narratives-series-c... ).

'Drop Search' lets any site owner create a search box customized to their own domains using just a few lines of JS code. There's an example of drop-search at my own site in the top-right corner: http://chir.ag (search: cat). It does not have the neat lightbox + readability view that metahint has. But it does have excerpts from search results. Metahint users will most likely want that.

Personally, I think metahint is a great execution of a good idea and that's partly why I made Drop Search. It didn't become popular but then I created it as a mini project for fun and not a startup with marketing goals. I wish you the best of luck. I would suggest to you that you take a look at Google's APIs. I don't think the search results are bad at all. I haven't tried Bing. Creating your own search engine is kind of a big deal. Ask Gabriel Weinberg @ DDG.
Why “free” is the millstone round Google’s neck
Passion being the key to success is not limited to programming. If you love what you're doing you'll give it everything. This could be programming or carpentry.

If you are doing what you're doing just for the paycheck you'll do the bare minimum required to achieve your desired performance level (i.e. some may still work hard enough to get an Outstanding rating to get paid more $ but hate what they do).

This is the key thing I've learned to look for in hiring.
"Muslim Community Association" is what was mentioned in the article. A paragraph explaining the organization and it's activities would have helped. Maybe a link to it's website and profile pages for its board of directors. Just to be sure. I'm being sarcastic if you couldn't tell. I think the description is detailed enough for a newspaper article that is not focused on the organization.

This frustrates me as well. I hope the ACLU challenges this.
How Facebook Might Have Landed Its New Patent, and What Happens Now
The mind boggles. There's probably a rockstar in there looking to put something on their CV/resume.
Whatever the case, it smells wrong.
Taking Uncle Bob to school
The basic problem becomes obvious once you compare the device shown on this page with the Web TV hardware from 1997 (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2325942,00.asp): They both have a similar looking keyboard. A TV interface with a keyboard is bound to fail. The interaction has to be minimized.

But what to do if we want to enter search terms, etc., you ask? How about using your smartphone or iPad to do it. That way they could have also reduced the cost from the ridiculous $300.

If this is so obvious why didn't they do it with GTV? They made the mistake of partnering with a hardware maker (Logitech) who has a stake in selling more equipment, not less and is not exactly known to make the simplest remotes. After years of TV remote development from Logitech, I think still the most intuitive and comfortable remote is TiVo's.
Bingo! I say, "here are your choices; A> will get you this, B> will get you this, but not this... " etc.

"Quick and Dirty" is still an available choice, but I warn them thoroughly of the drawbacks and risk.

Basically, if you wanna pay me, I'll still do it your way, but I will also provide ample warning, oftentimes in writing. Few/no people will still choose the bad way, due to the warning.

If their "Q&D" choice is just going to lead to certain disaster, then no, I write off that business as not worth my reputation or frustration, entirely.

But after my explanation(s), I've never had a customer choose the lousy way, and they always accept my explanation and guidance. It's all in the pitch!
What do you mean by a 2 Tire university? Does it mean like a deemed university but takes admission from state level entrance tests? Then nice to meet you, I am also in such a situation (but doing ECE).

I was just wondering do we have only a CS hacker scene? I mean I am more into hardware, embedded systems and such, do we have communities for that? Also are there any such communities in or near Ahmedabad (or Gandhinagar).
SourceRepo - Git hosting

EC2/S3

Google apps - Email, Calendar, Docs, GTalk

Yammer - Not seriously used

Pivotal Tracker - Managing stories

SalesForce - CRM
Since you're not referring to economic fairness, did you mean moral? I don't understand how crowdsourcing is immoral in that sense, or how does that constitute exploitation.
If the semantic content of my blog post escapes you, maybe that is you, maybe that is my writing. But is it spam or off-topic? I really don't think so.
Having been flagged, I thought I'd double-check the Hacker News Guidelines to see what I might be missing -

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

Hmmm....
That's a possible outcome.

Mine is also a possible outcome. I have social anxiety, and generally prefer small groups of people or being alone. But I'm perfectly happy and don't go through life complaining about my lot.

I don't even blame the kids that bullied me. I blame the system that allowed it. Whenever I complained about it, nothing happened. It just continued on. Whenever I fought back, I got in trouble. Since I respected adults, that meant I stopped fighting back. That was a mistake. I should have ignored the adults and fought back more.

Again, I'm happy with who I am and I'm a lot better adjusted than my sister, who was popular and had many friends. So don't take this as a complaint about life or that bullying ruined my life. It darkened my childhood and had lasting effects, but it didn't come anywhere close to ruining my life.
Body organs can send status updates to your cellphone
I wonder what a google search would return.
A thirst for excitement is hidden in your genes
Any reasons why can't I search words like "the", "a", etc?
You're right. When it comes down to it, it really is the lack of a warrant that's the issue. There is still enough trust in the judicial system to screen out federal abuses of power.

It seems to me that anger is based on the circumvention of the courts and not that the boy was targeted because he was Arab American. Both reasons just don't seem morally right.
A number of years ago, I wrote a XML/C binding tool atop the gnome SAX parser. It's able to handle anything in a DTD and a lot of things from XML Schema. I stopped working on it as it could do everything I had use for.
http://xmel.sourceforge.net/
It does O(1) access to attributes as well, since it does binding.
Nice rant, but too bad that OP probably hasn't heard some of the more reasonable counter-arguments and understood their logic. Just a few "enterprise axioms":

- Stuff must work consistently, regardless of who works there.
- All data and programs must satisfy corporate audit requirements.
- All data and programs must be backed up and restorable.
- All technology must be supported, no matter what.

I've seen all kinds of creative solutions to enterprise problems that didn't satisfy these axioms. And you know what happens? Something goes wrong and no one knows what to do.

That server under Joe's desk with those cool spreadsheets just crashed and no one ever backed it up. The nifty little Ruby app that Sue put together; she's gone and no one else knows Ruby. The open source web server just crashed and no one is to blame because there is no vendor to blame. The nine new kinds of smart phones that different sales guys like but no one knows how to support.

It goes on and on. Creative people get creative. Cool solutions help. Until they don't help anymore. Because the costs suddenly outweigh the benefits.

And one more dirty little enterprise secret than many creative people overlook: you can solve most problems with many different tools. Sure the old tools may not be as fun, but they can still get the job done at a lower cost.

In an ideal world, we'd get to work will cool stuff AND help the enterprise at the same time. But if the trade-off is our intellectual gratification vs. the enterprise's profits, the enterprise will win every time; count on it.
You really should have considered a semi-colon over a comma. ;-)
We have had several different merchant accounts and bank accounts over the years, and have found that your bank is probably the last place from which you want to obtain a merchant account.

These days most businesses (online businesses, at least) obtain a merchant account through an Independent Sales Organization (ISO). The ISO is basically an independent sales rep for a Merchant Services Provider (MSP) associated with a bank. When your account is set up, the funds from your customer pass seamlessly through the MSP's bank and are deposited into your local bank account.

The ISO makes his/her money through fees on your account. The more sales you have, the more they earn.

Competition between ISOs is intense, so it pays to shop around. Every local bank I've dealt with "outsources" their merchant accounts to an ISO. I assume the bank receives referal income from the ISO, as the fees we've been quoted for a merchant account through a local bank have always been higher than we've found elsewhere.

A few months ago, we quit having our own merchant account and moved to PayPal, as basic interchange fees have increased to the point where we found that is the least expensive option for our level of sales (>$10,000/month).

We use a basic PayPal Website Payments Standard Account using their name-value pair (NVP) interface. Our customers enter their shipping address data on our web site and their credit card information on PayPal's web site so we don't have to worry about PCI compliance. We use custom headers on our order page ("Checkout: Step 1") and our PayPal page ("Checkout: Step 2") to make it look pretty seamless. You can upgrade to a Website Payments Pro account for $20/month if you want to do it all on your own server, however.
Startup founders: avoid getting scammed in your quest for coverage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UlsArvbTeo
The Ultimate Social Persuasion Device
This is an overly broad question, so here's an overly broad answer:

1. Be good

2. Don't suck
At zferral.com:

Mailchimp (http://mailchimp.com) = email marketing

BatchBook (http://BatchBook.com) = CRM

Dropbox (http://dropbox.com) = File Sharing

Google Apps = Webmail

Chargify (http://chargify.com) = Recurring Billing

Zendesk (http://zendesk.com) = Support

SnapEngage (http://snapabug.com) = Proactive Chat

StatsMix (http://statsmix.com) = Analytics

zferral (http://zferral.com) = Affiliate and referral mgt

^^own product
Agreed. I looked at it some time ago and then again today and its made fantastic progress. Lots of momentum.
Montego Bay [Jamaica] to become the hub for Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship
Pretty cool. Seems to work awesomely. The animation when you preview a site is a bit gaudy, though.
Teachers have freely chosen their economic situation. The price of a job for life is that a good teacher's salary will be averaged with their colleagues who are utterly incompetent (who went into teaching knowing full well that once they got their foot in the door they would be untouchable).

If teachers want to improve their lot, they'll disband their unions. A pro athlete can lose his place on the team in a heartbeat...
Am I the only one who finds Pivotal Tracker's UX horrible to the point of being unusable?

I worked with a team that insisted on Pivotal Tracker and aside from its crashing my Fluid SSB every half hour or so, the text areas were way to small to type in comfortably. I found myself having to write the story in a text editor then pasting it in to PT. With that columnar layout, it just seemed like everything was cramped into spaces that were just way too small. Plus it doesn't track the history of a story. If it was assigned to Joe, then Larry, then Tom, there's no history of that chain of ownership.
Shorten source-code by using swtich/case statements
I've always in theory supported this position. But it's completely impractical. If you don't cooperate, you're going to get a ridiculous treatment. I remember a story I read recently about a guy dealing with border agents at an airport in the states. He refused to answer any of their questions and complied only up to what was lawfully required. And that did not go well. I can't find the link though.
I looked up Russell Crowe but misspelled it Russel Crowe and the page says "Oops, we couldn't find what you were looking for." you should show what my input was so I can google it to correct or have a "did you mean..." function.
> Of course, equating the Nobel committee with the Norwegian government is as wrong as equating a newspaper editor printing Islamic cartoons with it, then torching down an embassy.

This is very western way of seeing thing, which I happen to agree. The current Chinese education system has been trying very hard, and quite successfully, to mix these concepts together: country, geographic land, government, ethnic group in order to make the current political system legitimate by "natural".

Now, if you ask me what will happen to liuxiaobo, I'd bet 80%+ on that he will stay in prison. Based on my observation of the a few years after the tian'an'men massacre and the economic position China is having right now, I don't expect Chinese government to back off on this particular issue under external pressures. What'll happen is the news will soon move on to the next interesting topic and what's going on with China will continue on its path.

As a Chinese, I'm quite impressed by the fact that the Nobel committee has the gut to take the risk and stick with their own decision. I'd, humbly, call this the triumph of humanity since it values human rights and the pursue of personal freedom over pure economic considerations.
Also note that in general, keeping away dubious companies helps both your own reputation and the society as a whole.

And PayPal has gained a lot of bad reputation for several reasons. The Wikipedia provides a good summary of the issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Criticism_and_limitation...
> "If you can educate your prospect on why it's not possible, they'll usually come around and even be reasonable about things."

You're assuming they don't already know. I wouldn't lump the ignorant in with the Toxic, Evil bastards discussed in the article. They know full well what they're asking for. And what they're really shopping for, is someone desperate enough to take the work, because that will mean they have them by the short-and-curlies and can continue to take advantage of the relationship.
Play First Person Shooter Games online at y3 Games club
Play massive First Person Shooter Games Online. Select and play some of them to practice your shooting skill and prove that you are a sharpshooter. Hope that these Online Shooting Games will contribute to your game collection and bring you a happy time.
Towards Ethical Hacking
Kindle gets text-based adventure games
Not to mention that it's nice to see what everyone within the HN network are using. I respect you guys and what you use and why.
Depends. If the professional designers don't enter the competition, things may change.
I've heard there are two kinds of genius, one that blossoms at an early age and those that develop their craft over time to achieve great things later in life.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/genius.html