skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes one wonder. I can see how marketers might use that technology to recognize that you were the person who called in asking about availability of a product. If they could that would give them a way to match up voice offers over the phone with purchases in a store. I could see companies paying for a service like that.
Well, there's a few possibilities. For example, if the ip address was associated with a DN, you could do a reverse-lookup and then do a whois.
What stops lesson planning being done at a higher level than per-teacher? That's obviously how it is happens now making TPT a great resource but why are schools/states/federal bodies not providing the lesson plans that are needed instead of making each teacher do something unique?
R.E EDIT - Yeah its a good blog post that, I wrote it =)
To be honest I'm just having a play with this news to get some reaction, I'm sure LI won't even bat an eye lid to it.

But good to hear that you see potential in our product, I'm sure your 'cohorts' will find their way on to Zerply sooner or later :p
Craigslist data provider countersues classified site
Reports of Foxconn factory riot spread through Chinese social media
Did you ever have the opposite, where you thought something was a scam check but it turned out to be legit?
Is he similarly well-qualified to dismiss an entire profession?
...even though it has been shown that GPA has zero correlation with ability as a lawyer...

A charitable interpretation of the actions of law school admissions departments would simply be that they don't believe this "fact" (a citation for which is desperately needed).

Further, you are attributing anti-black racism to a group of people (law school admins/profs) who routinely engage in pro-black racism (see, e.g., Grutter v. Bollinger). It doesn't even make sense.
A nice idea!

But [urls are disguised so easily](http://horribleurl.example.com). The A element has split the real URL from the text description since forever.
Remapping Tweetbot "Open Link" Shortcut
Also he might know the friend's ip if the friend sent him an email.
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Cool, I've former coworkers that had less than great internet options however.

One annoyance I have is with Comcast that they are only upgrading plans "for free" in FIOS areas.
I can so relate. The first startup I joined post Sun was a place called GolfWeb, which was a website dedicated to Golf enthusiasts and it was, in 1995, the top dedicated Golf site on the Internet. We had all sorts of Java plans, except only a few of the people coming to the site had Java, and RealAudio plans, but the same story. The great masses were all AOL customers it seemed and not all of them had a browser that could display tables correctly!

As publishing site you had to shoot for the lowest common denominator in order to reach the most customers. That is still a good strategy, sites that can shrug off features that aren't supported but still get the message across. Maybe MySpace will get that message.
A super simple way to improve HackerNews
The number one feature I wish HN had is a way to hide a comment family - similar to what Reddit has. This is the way I read Reddit, and it goes much more quickly than scrolling through all of the children once I feel there isn't much more discussion to be had about a particular point. See the image below for explanation (sorry, it can't be a link in the text field of a submission).

http://imgur.com/8hd9q
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Perhaps not. I am just trying to expand upon what
enraged_camel mentioned about blame not being zero sum.
It's a question of barriers to entry. Restaurants have not formed a monopoly in any country in the last 1,000+ years. However, places like Disneyland or the Pentagon will often prevent open markets and create a small internal Monopoly on food.

As to cable and high speed internet / cable. Most locations prohibit completion, artificially limiting which company's can sell cable in a given area. They had a rather tough fight getting off the ground even for an incumbent like Verizon.
Is there any difference between those two maps? It seems that all Apple's POIs are on Google Maps, except with bigger font and symbols. Also, the Apple Maps screenshot shows a maps that is more zoomed in.

It also looks like Apple shows the local translations of the roads and POIs names - contrary to Google Maps, but this difference could be from the language preference of the app or OS?

Seriously, who would make a judgment based on those mere screenshots?

I wish http://41latitude.com was back online. It had the best maps comparisons every published, but Justin O'Beirne closed it when he joined Apple's Maps team few years ago.
If you're having problems thinking of a good passphrase, there's https://www.xkpasswd.net, but if you're uncomfortable with doing that in-browser, there's a bash one-liner[0] and a Python program[1] that do the job well.

[0]: echo $(grep "^[^']\{3,5\}$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n4) # Try different dictionary files if you want a less complex passphrase.

[1]: https://github.com/redacted/XKCD-password-generator
I like github as a tool and use it daily, but am I the only one to think this hiring article is pure PR speak woven with some artificial coolness?

To compare with other companies: Google communicates in a more traditional way with possible candidates so it is visibly PR speak and don't try to hide it.

Facebook had a nice shot recently with a fake negative view. That was cool and did not smell the strong fragrance of PR speak.

Github here has a middle ground I would love to love but...
Good point. Training family members to look at the status bar first is probably pretty hard, and probably not even effective. At the very least you would have to train them to recognize and avoid url shortening services...
(1) You should have a standard contracting agreement (your MSA or "master") and a template statement of work (SOW). You'll tend to negotiate the master and you'll tend to keep technical details out of it; the SOW will be very simple and will list the work you're doing, the price, and (if you're a developer) the acceptance criteria for your project. You'll pay a lawyer to eyeball these at some point, but lots of people use boilerplate contracts they pull off the Internet. Each client will have one master and potentially many SOWs.

(1a) With that said, when the the client pushes back on using your MSA (2 out of 3 bigcos will), bite the bullet and use theirs, because you will rarely win that fight. You need a lawyer to review these.

(1b) You're not negotiating or reviewing contracts until you have the "verbal" commit that you won the gig. It's called a "verbal" because the "written" is the contract negotiation, which you wouldn't waste the money on unless you won the gig, so you need a verbal.

(2) Grab one off the Internet. Generally, for your benefit, the master will specify a term, a venue (disputes resolved in your state), compensation terms (net-30, etc) though note that the master will usually refer to a SOW for the actual price, and limits to your liability. For the benefit of the client, the contract will make it crystal clear that you are 1000% a contractor and not not not a full time employee I say it again not, assign all intellectual property generated during the engagement to the client, and possibly require you to maintain professional liability insurance.

(3) You write a proposal. The proposal usually has bios at the end of it. A bio is like a less formal version of a resume.

(4) Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco, plus all over the country.

(5) Wide mix 'o both.

(6) Something in the neighborhood of 40/60?
The electricity cost is noise compared to the depreciation and wear on the battery.

On that front, Better Place says they can make money leasing batteries to you at 10 cents a mile.
I know the guy who picked the song. He was still securing it Friday and telling me he had to get it, that it was perfect. I agree. ;)
"Hey friend, it looks like you are using Opera. Beware, pal, that we don't go to the opera down here on the ranch, so there may be rough-riding ahead! Try one of these nifty browsers buddy, or sally forth into the unknown. OK, pardner?"
By licensing, or being forced to license, their tech to extremely competitive companies. I believe that Tesla will end up making only high-end cars and making money mostly from licensing. But that's just an opinion, really. No one really knows where things are headed to. One thing is for sure: youngsters don't like cars as people my age.
If I zoom in one more step than he did on Google Maps, I see the same POIs as on his Apple map. And the copyright on maps.google.com is... "AutoNavi", the same provider he praises.

I agree that Apple have done a better presentation here by showing more data at a further zoom level. It's the exact opposite of my experience of Apple Maps here in Japan - I have to zoom in to absurd levels just to see train tracks (which should be on par with freeways IMO)
I'm also curious about this.

One option would be to lure the troll to a site & pull down the location info from his browser - I'm not sure how readily the troll would authorize that, but maybe with some clever social engineering it could be done. His father did mention he was on his mobile a ton, so it's possible he got pretty accurate data, instead of just his local ISP.
(Related - I'm on Clear right now, and apparently I'm in Portland. I'm actually up near Canada.)
Some schools/districts do that. It turns out though, that many teachers want to control their own classroom and do their own plan. One of the gripes my fiance had while student teaching and then subbing was that she wasn't in control of her lesson planning. One of the issues with the Chicago Public School strike was that the teachers weren't able to create their own lesson plans.

Standardizing the lesson plan eliminates (or greatly reduces) the ability for the teacher to be creative in their classroom and teaching. On top of that, a standardized lesson plan would also be hard to work around in case there were areas that took the students longer than expected.
> I responded: "I'm not criminalizing a 17 year old kid and ruining his future.

I really hope restorative justice works. Well done for doing something that must have been incredibly tough.
To quote the patron saint of Hacker News, patio11: If you don't like it, maybe you aren't in their target market.

Do you think you are in MySpace's target market?
It's far too easy to imagine private-citizen Obama not getting hired because of his birth certificate, legally, as recently as 1964.

There's a credible case to be made that much of the present opposition he faces stems from the same root cause.
It's still not fair to toss HighScalability in with the pageview whoring tech rags.
AngelList vs CrunchBase
Please update your HN profile with contact information. Also: what do you sell? (Do you have a niche?) How do you sell it?
So what exactly do you propose? That we just halt all technological innovation on the web so that people that don't feel better about having old browsers and/or computers?

This is a ridiculous idea, and a ridiculous comment. I'm a web developer and I'm so excited about making awesome things and the fact that the web is evolving and enabling us to do this, and share our creations with the world. People like you and comments like this drive me crazy.

That being said, I don't think that you should just put up a blanket disabled site announcement when it's not necessary (as is the case with opera here), but if your computer or browser is actually missing capabilities because it's too old, that's too bad - you just don't get cool things. Upgrade or move on.
Knowing the IP is the easy bit.

Taking that IP and finding a street address is the tricky bit.

It can be done with court orders. (In England. I have no idea how Ireland does it.)
You would never tell someone to "learn to read" in face-to-face conversation, so you shouldn't here. Equally importantly: the comments you're replying to are productive; they are the actual answer to the question posed.
Yes, the message could perhaps be targeted at Opera specifically, but what else do you want when your browser IS the minority on the web? If you've ever shipped software you know the time will come when you have to cut your list down. How do you make the justification for supporting Opera? And like notatoad says, it's not just a matter of adding some JS, you need to test, etc.
I'm very sorry you went through that. I actually couldn't finish reading it - too unsettling. I hope you and yours are okay and this is behind you.
That was my first thought too. My guess would be a shortened URL that redirected to a private server, which then redirected to some Facebook contact form. Facebook message times could then be roughly correlated with IPs harvested from logs from the private server.
I hope that The Troll learned something from this experience. It is truly interesting to me what kind of mental processes drive this kind of behavior.
No it doesn't. You simply say "I charge in 1 day increments", and the hourly-billing problem goes away. When you come to the day at the end of the project where you only use 4 hours, you have a very complicated logistical conundrum that after careful analysis and financial modeling you solve by billing the full day because you charge in 1 day increments.
What part of the article reads PR speak to you?
It's the risk we run when playing in this arena. Lots of space for imitation/theft -> plausible deniability -> lean & favoritism for the "big boy". Fear of this happening used to cripple me and my efforts in the past.

At least in this case there's plenty of press that "endorsements" was on Zerply first.
This seems like something that Patio11 could have (or still can) capitalize on.

It seems a natural progression from generating Bingo Cards, to branching out to lesson plans to facilitating the sale of user-generated lesson plans.
And in those 10 years the amount of data you can mux into fiber pairs will have increased at an even greater pace. What do you think your wireless carriers are using as a backbone? fiber.
The fact that speeds of wireless providers have caught up to the average speeds of landline ISPs in most areas is just a sign of the corruption of the cable companies, not that wireless is a superior medium for data transfer.
Or maybe Chloe tried to slip through the subnet while Miles traced his physical location by looking at the binary (http://blog.sfgate.com/tgoodman/2006/04/25/this-doesnt-make-...). That last season of 24 made me realize how little I knew about networking.
My knowledge of this comes from the linked-to tutorial: "Web.go doesn't include a templating library. However, there are several good ones available, such as mustache.go. The template package in Go is not recommended for web.go because it doesn't allow templates to be embedded within each other, which causes a lot of duplicated text."

It seems that the web.go authors thinks that Go's template language batteries are of the wrong size.
Go Error Handling Sucks
If you have one, work at your local public library instead of a coffee shop. Even though they're usually nice about it, coffee shops don't really want you there, unless they're not doing a lot of business; they're driven by turnover. Your library, on the other hand, needs you there; your usage of the library justifies their budget. I found our Oak Park library to be a better work space than the coffee shop anyways.
I find articles like these disheartening only because it is impossible for all workplaces to be this way. What if you are at a mediocre job with mediocre teammates? How would you ever get to experience the joy that is working at a Google or a Facebook or a Valve or a GitHub.

It's nice that this strategy works for them, but I wonder why everyone isn't doing it if it is so successful?
"Scientists were soon hurling fortified tumblers off their nine-story facility and bombarding the glass, known internally as 0317, with frozen chickens."

What's the deal with frozen chicken tests? Don't some other objects, like tennis balls, work just the same but are a smaller hassle logistically?
I have to say as a fellow designer.

Great work!

It looks stunning I hope it works as well as it looks cause that is probably more important than the visual aesthetics.
Actually, false positives with alarms are really, really bad - I will start to ignore them very quickly if they're not reliable indicators of an actual problem.

EDIT: If you have reasonable default tolerances or the ability to set tolerances on tasks, I'm pretty interested in trying it out - do you integrate or have plans to integrate with pagerduty, or do you simply fire off an email?
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Nolo Press has a book with some standard boilerplate contracts in them. http://www.nolo.com/products/consultant-and-independent-cont... They are a decent starting point. Sometimes a client will take my boilerplate, or sometimes they will have their own. I'm ok using theirs after I have a lawyer read it.

Whoever wrote the contract will have the advantage. Even the Nolo book provides each contract written from the perspective of the client vs. consultant -- keep that in mind.
Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody. The driverless car is coming.
A worthwhile read, and a funny story about Jobs calling Corning's corporate number, not getting to the CEO and then making fun of him for being "all corporate".

Corning CEO later called Apple's listed number, asked to speak to Steve Jobs, got a runaround, and secured a good response to Jobs' remarks next time they had a meeting.
To me, Pinterest interface means random pictures and captions displayed in arbitrary sizes and order. When watching the preview video, the first thing I thought was "horizontal Pinterest".
> few organizations need to support transactions on a global scale

That doesn't ring true to me. My previous job was in the field of services to administrations, nothing very uncommon, and we needed global transactions very badly. I suppose any bank, insurance and even plane ticket trader would love to have global transactions.
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Let's hope it wasn't "use a proxy."
If he knows the friend ip, he knows that they both match (friend = troll).
Here's a possibility: On his blog he has a field to enter in your email address to subscribe to posts. If he's recording IP addresses there's a good chance his friend (not the son) would have put in his email to follow. Once he got the IP address of his Troll he could have just looked in his registration table on an off chance there was a match.
Chickens are used to test airplane windshields for bird impact resistance[1]; perhaps that's why.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
Tesla is in 'sniper' mode right now; few bullets, and they have to hit with them or the company goes down.

Selling a 50-100k sedan almost requires it to aim at the BMW 7 market, IMO. But don't despair, over time they'll expand the lineup and I'm sure they'll make one that fits your needs.

The next model should be 30-50k and I would expect it to be about the size that you describe.
For testing purposes I use Chrome's "Users" feature to keep an extra profile with no extensions installed handy.

The same could be done for a "Porn" profile too I guess, sand-boxing any history, extensions and bookmarks to that profile. You could even associate tie it to a Google account for portability.
This looks like a great way to be a social network for bands/DJs/music and potentially monetise around the sale of music/festivals/marketing-music.

bands actively use Myspace still, that is a massive captive market. Not sure why this is getting such negative press here on HN since I'm sure Patio11 would agree that this is genius on their behalf.

The fact that the music industry is in turmoil could make for a great monetisation strategy for Myspace. Potentially with a much greater Profit than Facebook (ie Myspace may capture the music marketing/distribution problem which is still a multi-billion dollar industry). Think Google Adwords for music discovery.

I wouldnt be surprised if Justin Timberlake has an album coming out which can be downloaded through his Myspace when it comes online.
Facebook continues to demonstrate the business case for App.net
My wife and I just had a baby and it has made me realize that I would burn the world to cinders in defense of my family. I have no idea how this guy reached through the fire and shook this kid's hand. Wow.
Going on 7 years as an independent now doing only corp-to-corp contracts. Full-stack dev. is a necessity. I enjoy it b/c I tend to get bored, so I move project to project and pick up new tech, learn it, build it, and then move on to something different.

I worked from home for the longest time, and it can be a lonely endeavor. The best mix I've found is home 75% and 25% on site. You get to interact with real humans once in a while, but go back to no distractions.

Friendly tip: If you have small children, forget it. Get an office space.

Also: Get a good accountant -- pay yourself a reasonable wage and take the rest in distributions at the end of the year in a tax-deferred retirement account. I aim to retire at 55; so far, I am on target.
This is a preview. Complain if they launch publicly like this, otherwise, cut them some slack.
Modern web development is pretty demanding and resource intensive as it is, add not-100%-compatible browsers into the mix and it's hell. I think that considering Microsoft pissing on everyone for over a decade with their IE compatibility issues, Myspace have done a completely reasonable decision. Consider Opera (and whatever other oddball browsers are there) as collateral damage.

Things were of course different if it was a paid service (where users can post demands) or Facebook (where the market penetration is so high they can't afford to forgo non Chrome/FF) but in Myspace's case, I think their decision is completely understandable.

We made the same decision for our site (not yet up) and our user base is way more conservative than Myspace's. We just don't have the resources to do pretty and cross-browser, so we'll have to do with FF and Chrome only.
Over Constrained Passwords
I completely agree. Bands have never left Myspace, and it seems finally Myspace will try to really incorporate bands/DJs/Marketing campaigns into the social network. I imagine monetization would come rather easily with this as well.
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This is like scraping Amazons reviews since they are available via Google and claiming you can display that user submitted content how ever you like. I can't see 3Taps having much of any case here.
"Someone spoofed it" is a much much higher hurdle than "someone misremembered it."
Sure, you can handle errors and you can explicitly pass the buck. That's no different than what we do in C. Exceptions are out-of-band (from a regular return value), and what you're talking about is entirely in-band. What you're doing, functionally, is returning a tuple. This is as old as the sun and nothing at all like exceptions.

I'm not sure what you think idiom means (Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya), but you never need one to do anything in code. In human language they capture some context and their meaning must be understood by rote or in terms of that context, but in code they are entirely explicit and work just as well before and after becoming idiomatic—which is solely a form of classification that people use and computers don't.
"Submit your information and we'll respond with a quote" == "Our software costs twice as much as it should, because we need a fat margin to pay for the long sales cycle". I don't think I've willingly filled out one of those forms for over 5 years.