skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your broader market points are generally correct. And I'd add that amongst younger lawyers the expectation of technology is that it should be well designed, pleasant and smart. Unfortunately, most legal technologies don't stand up to these criteria.

That said, Blake's broader point about the difficulty of the problem still stands, and we think the difficulty - not market trends - is why no one has done this yet. There is much technology and infrastructure that makes what we are doing significantly easier today than it was even 5 years ago. But underlying it all is still a lot of difficult technology that takes years to build.
That is good news. That will help a lot of complementing or replacing useless windows servers..
HTML5 video for retina displays
What if the original DMCA complainant noticed negative results form the DMCA and wished to reverse it?

Surely that would be possible.
$50,000 and no equity. I've never seen anyone else host a competition like this.
Depends on the market. Some places in the US, realtor.com will have fairly comprehensive listings. In others, it's a dud. Real estate firms which specialize in property management can also provide a lot of options on their sites.

The issue is that the data are typically fragmented and often proprietary and aggregation websites are focused on a revenue stream from the listing agent rather than the renter.
The question isn't what "may" happen, but what routinely does happen for you.

If typos are even a significant problem in your code then the solution is to type more slowly, have your IDE flag unknown symbols, use autocomplete, etc. As a solution to this problem, strong typing is both disproportionate and inadequate.
We're happy ZenPayroll users. It's my first time dealing with any sort of payroll, and I haven't had to worry about it once. And the service (online + offline) is amazing.
If we combine all of these efficiency improvements to solar cells that have been posted to HN over the past five years, we can produce solar cells that are, oh, about 800% efficient.

Honest question: Have any of these reached production? I am genuinely curious to hear positive answers to that question.
Pro: Eliminates the sinking feeling I get when an rm with wildcards is "taking too long".

Con: All my files are gone before I can frantically ctrl-c to save some of them.
Never sit still
Show HN: Our take on the "Open Education" problem ...
Wish i could down vote this. Seems to be written like an ad.
Maybe it should have just been titled "Is programming a craft?" ;)
Here is a screenshot utilizing the colors of the album art: http://d.pr/i/st40 (Please don't judge my taste of music ;)
As you can see it also removes the border from the album art to blend it with the color.
Cars can carry a lot more inertia than a baby elephant.
I've just launched a course publishing platform called Pensieve, and I was looking for feedback / criticisms, as well as tips on how to get some traction.

The platform makes it so that anybody can put together a course with videos, embedded documents, assignments, quizzes, and all sorts of interactive widgets. When they publish the course, anybody else can start studying it in a systematic way. I love the Khan Academy, but there is no reason its as unique as it is - the idea of the company is to truly democratize education by giving individuals the tools for publication.

Specifically, one of the neat thing on the site is a screencasting tool, which lets people talk and draw on a canvas in their web browser (wacom compatible), and records that as a video that they can embed into their courses. There are also browser drawing and audio recording tools as well.

Feedback? Suggestions? Right now, the the biggest work is solving the chicken and egg content generation problem, and getting some initial traction.
Golden Runner - remake of Load Runner in the browser
Google News Gets An Updated Look On Tablets, Support For Gestures
Actually car insurance premiums do vary based on gender, at least under a certain age (teenage boys being the most expensive to insure).
Jailbreaking iOS (...) means relinquishing the benefits and ease of the Store.

What?

A jailbroken iOS user loses access to none of Apple's official application and music distribution channels.
I really Love the dashboard view. Also I love the fact that its working with EventStreams[1]. I am working on a general purpose event stream exporter for time series data and this looks to be a great consumer that I can test against.

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Server-sent_events/...
I am not sure what you're getting at.

The very first paragraph of the article (below the byline) has a link to the author's website. And, the "About this author" section on the sidebar also mentions the fact.
mostly a lot of looping and setting CSS, see https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/box2d-jquery/blob/master/... but yes, performance profiling is the next step, also i wonder if position top / position left is faster than transform+translate... any support is welcome
I'm saying that the real cost of the phone, in human and ecological factors, is much greater than $50.
Every non-plumber cares a great deal about the aesthetics of plumbing when they try to do some renovations.

Amazingly, software development is basically in constant renovation mode until the program is put out to pasture.
The coverage for life/disability/long-term on a state-by-state basis is here:

http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/genetic-nondiscri...

While it isn't covered by law in all states (yet), my state restricts discrimination for life/disability and requires informed consent to use genetic information.
In insurance, people who get lucky subsidize people who get unlucky. If you can test luck before getting insurance, then lucky people don't get insurance and there's nobody left to subsidize unlucky people.

Forbidding insurance companies to discriminate based on luck does not solve this problem, because the problem is caused by customers selectively buying insurance based on their own luck.

(Clarification: I'm describing reality-as-I-see-it. I'm not trying to make moral judgements on what laws we should or shouldn't pass.)
The album view displays a color scheme based on the album artwork. The results vary from good to great, I haven't encountered any poor examples of it's application.

You can see an example here: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2012/12/itunes-11-expanded-vi...

The text, background and highlight colors are based on on the album artwork.
Excellent Project Documentation
Ask HN: Online Data Management System - Flextory.com - Looking for Feedback
A while back I got some excellent feedback from HackerNews that I think completely made the difference between me having a toy and now having a product that a couple groups now use on a day to day basis. The original post had id 4330459 for those interested.

I took everything to heart, have ended the beta, and am planning to start charging on 1/11/12. On that note, I'm really wondering what people's opinions of my pricing is. Too much, too low? I've gone higher than planned because I had so many people telling me I was underselling myself (including two of my customers). I'm also debating whether to impose a item/entry limit and was thinking of it being 5,000/10,000/30,000 entries for the three plans.

Finally, I'm also interested in any general feedback on the software, the website, and where to go with the weeks up until my "launch" (which, at the very least, I'll have two paying customers to start off).

tl;dr I'd like feedback on everything.
Something similar to this was done at my old job, about four years ago. It took images that were not square and padding out the shorter dimension with an averaged colour from the edge. It looks like so:

http://i.imgur.com/6WZCQ.png

Sometimes it works well, other times it really doesn't. But it's an interesting idea- and certainly not a new one (though Apple has certainly done it better)
This is a welcome change.

The previous design looked a bit rushed and the icons looked straight out of the 90s.
APIhub - the world's largest API repository
The Digital Nomad Gear List - How to travel the world with a small backpack
I'm curious...why the decision not to support login?
Carpentry craftsmanship risks putting the furniture at the centre rather than the benefit the furniture is supposed to deliver, mostly because we are romantics with big egos. Carpentry is about having a place to sit, a place to put your coffee cup, and a place to store things that fits in with the client's desired style and other requirements.

Non-carpenters don’t care about the aesthetics of joinery in the same way non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing – they just want their furniture to support their weight and drawers to not stick.

End of parody. If software isn't craftsmanship, then the only reasonable alternative is that it's a branch of engineering, but most software is developed in an environment and via a process that is much more like a customer furniture maker's shop than a proper engineer.

It looks like what he actually wanted to argue was something more like "we should learn lessons from other more developed craft professions" but I didn't read beyond the link bait title and inflammatory introduction.
> Now imagine we have a test, that can predict it with certainty. Very soon only those with positive results will want insurance. The insurance against it will become unprofitable and discontinued.

That does leave a time when the risk is still insurable: before the test is conducted.

One can imagine it evolving as an additional service that the testing provider may partner with insurance companies to provide. At the time you buy the test, they say "if you pay an extra $X now, you get insurance against us finding anything catastrophic."

(Just idly speculating here, who knows how these things will play out in a combination of regulatory, market, and technology changes.)
Ask HN: things to consider when negotiating with a startup?
Hello everyone,
I just finished my PhD (about 2 years' worth of industrial experience) and I'm about to negotiate a job with a very small technology startup. Their field of activity is not exactly aligned with my PhD work, but there is some overlap. I like what they want to do and I think that it has lots of potential.
I would be their first technical hire and this is my first time doing this so I have no real idea what to ask/look for. I also have a job offer from a big company (a stable job, but with less potential for long-term earnings). Basically it's the whole risk-reward trade-off and I don't have a strategy of approaching it. How should I proceed? Could I ask for a percentage? If yes then how could I know how much I can ask for? What specific details should I pay attention to?
Thanks!
It's very common that young male drivers (by virtue of being grossly overrepresented in accident statistics) have very high premiums.
Guide Interface Is Now a Feature Added To YouTube Android App & Mobile Web
As far as I know, women in the UK used to pay less for car insurance because they are less accident prone. I don't know if this has changed because of sex discrimination laws. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12600284
Anyone here take part in the Personal Genome Project, and care to share?

http://www.personalgenomes.org/
Honestly though, to me it's strange that you pay them instead of the other way around. It's clear that their primary source of revenue will be the R&D they perform on the material obtained from you. It's a bit like a sperm bank that charges money for deposits.
I don't know about most of their money, but almost all of the companies listed on their (fairly extensive) success page are start-ups or small businesses.

To me, Heroku makes the most sense when you are building a business that may scale very quickly, and especially one that does not have a full-time sysadmin. It also makes sense for web apps that will stay very small and unlikely to grow that much past the free tier, but those are pretty much a loss-leader for Heroku.
Good job "emulating" the iTunes algorithm. Request to op: It would have been good to have some sample code inline in the article that illustrated the algorithm. I know there's an Xcode project attached, but reading this on an iPad has its limitations.
Not to be confused with hell.io, one of my more proud domain purchases :)
SkyDrive + Xbox 360
It's quite interesting, since Switzerland has been quite "under the thumb" for a while when it comes to proprietory software, so this comes as a welcome relief.

Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland.
Great. I'm studying for my operations research exam, and I've wanted to "study" by implementing some of the algorithms we did by hand through code.

Is there interest in some more advanced matrix algebra functions - specifically Gaussian reduction, simplex, sensitivity analysis, and maybe some transport/network problems and integer programming?
In fairness to the WordPress developers, the quality of the product has been pretty consistently getting better over the last few years.

There's still plenty of warts, of course, but that seems true of just about every widely used piece of software -- bad decisions early on in development become very hard to walk back later when any of millions of sites/themes/plugins/etc. could turn out to be depending on that bad decision being there...
Quick question for those that experienced it: did it take down the whole Chrome process, or just a single tab? I'd be very displeased if that happened again and I lost work as a result.
Debian was my first linux distro and moving from stable to testing repos the first time was a real pain in the ass. After doing it once or twice, and reading a ton of stuff and learning what was actually going on when I was changing settings, I was much better off.
I've used http://www.numericjs.com/ to handle basic vector/matrix arithmetic and for numerically solving minimization problems to create constraint-based UIs.

Can you give an overview of how your library is different? Is it just a different set of math tools or is the architecture somehow different? Thanks!
You are just pulling that concept from the traditional definition of "simulation", but there is no particular justification for doing so.

If we detect evidence of what the author of the paper is calling a "simulation" (that is, our universe is being simulated in a 'meta-universe'), then we know only one thing about the meta-universe: It can simulate ours. We don't know that it supports some sort of "life" of it's own, contains anything with "intent", or contains anything like that at all. We do not know that there are meta-men in the meta-universe.

Perhaps there better terminology for such implications than saying a 'meta universe is simulating our universe', but the fact that we are using that terminology in the meantime does not mean it is reasonable to make the assumptions about it that you are making. Just because we call our universe a "simulation" does not mean that there must therefore be meta-men.

(Also I do not understand the point you are trying to make about it being the "natural universe". If some sort of meta-man made a simulation that we live in, instead of the simulation arising through non-deliberate means in the meta-universe, is his meta-universe any less "natural"? Either way the meta-universe is "natural"; whether meta-men exist or not)

In a nutshell what I am saying is that we should not assume intent unless there is evidence for intent. Evidence for 'simulation' itself should not be misconstrued as evidence for intent; it would be evidence for nothing but 'simulation' itself.
Drupal 8 is talking about using Twig, which my guess is very likely. Twig is made by the same people that start Symfony 2, parts of which Drupal 8 is going to be using.
I presume that it's actually a fly-by-wire (drive-by-wire?) system where the steering wheel directs a controller to 'do the right thing' with a combination of steering and gyro changes, rather than directly controlling the front wheel as in a normal motorcycle.
Researchers Plan Test to Determine Whether We’re All Living Inside the Matrix
I'm one of the co-founders of ZenPayroll, and I'd be more than happy to help clarify.

For all federal, state and local taxes, we automatically debit the tax amount (along with employee pay) during each pay period. We then deposit your employee's pay into their bank accounts. Finally, we pay your payroll taxes to the various government agencies before they are due.

In addition to making all tax deposits on your behalf, we automatically file all required government forms, such as 941s, DE-9s, DE-34s, W2s, etc. Wherever a signature is required, we allow you to e-sign the forms right from our site.

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Integrating with Quickbooks is a feature that is coming very soon. Hope that helps!
It shows how easy it easy to write your own function because all you need to do to send an email is perform a single HTTP request.
This is my biggest question also. How does the thing turn at high velocity with those gyros. Either the gyros has to make the bike fall before the front wheel actually starts turning or you have to manually countersteer which the gyros will try to counter. I find it hard to believe that the gyros will handle the "centrifugal" forces by themselves if you do a sharp turn in high speed.

Did nobody notice that they never show anyone driving the thing more than 5 meters at a time and only straight forward?

And when the reporter is "trying" to knock the thing over she hardly touches it.

I would like to see a video with some rougher scenarios before i believe in this thing.
:( I just upgraded my arch a few days ago to 3.6.9, and now I'll have to do it again.
There's also

4. You're (nearly) immune to an infectious disease. It's good to know when a friend is puking their guts out that I can help take care of them since I'm one of the lucky 20% of white people with wonky fucosyltransferase that won't act as a receptor for the virus.

And knowing (2) lets channel potential anxiety about salt consumption into anxiety about fat consumption, letting me stay healthier on a given anxiety budget.
>It would be great if programming were a proper profession, but it isn’t. A profession has a structured model for advancing [...] We need some sort of apprenticeship model, and a way to identify masters, both to apprentices and other masters.

Bullshit. It is precisely because programming is not straitjacketed in such medieval rigidities that it can create so much value these days. Forcing today's youngsters, who may be like Gates, Zuckerberg or the Collison brothers, into an X-years long "apprenticeship" program before anyone takes their code seriously is a spectacularly bad idea.
TL;DR - Get a CDN.
They offer refunds:

https://customercare.23andme.com/entries/22605618-i-recently...
Ask Kleiner Perkins’ Megan Quinn Answers Your Questions
Art is a poor metaphor for software. A bad painting just looks ugly. It doesn't hurt anyone.

A better metaphor is a block of Legos, but where none of the pieces fit together well and 2/3 of them are of such poor quality as to make them almost worthless and, worse yet, you can't choose not to use them because the people setting requirements don't know or care about block quality and "just want it to work".

I'm experienced both in software and creative writing. I've read (and written) some awful short stories and poems. Bad writing is embarrassing. Bad software is a much higher dimension of evil. Bad code kills businesses.
Show HN: NotesTab - A notes app with real-time syncing for iOS, OS X & Windows 8
We built NotesTab as we couldn't find a note taking app that we liked. Either they were too bloated with needless features or were overly simple like those made by Apple. We wanted something that balanced features with simplicity and could sync seamlessly across platforms - so we made NotesTab - a handy note taking app that fits nicely into your daily workflow.

We've already got updates in the works, but wanted to see what fellow HN'ers thought of what we've made so far.

Find out more here: http://www.notestab.com

App links:

iPhone/iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab/id502287001?ls=1&mt=8

Mac (Lite): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?ls=1&mt=12

Mac (Pro): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?mt=12

Windows 8: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/notestab/b44bcc73-9b6a-4d35-9d72-ce3aa308f095
^^^NSFW^^^. I find your reply completely tasteless, I hope some deletes it.
I have the same concern, but having no family medical history (closed adoption) makes the new price point rather tempting, despite the inevitable anxiety.
Thank, debacle. I have a fair good reading comprehension, but my written skills are not so good.
I think a lot of these discussions -- Programming is/isn't Engineering/Math/Science/Craft/etc... -- suffer from what I call "the moon is like an onion" problem. The moon is like an onion. This is obvious! After all, both are whitish, more or less spherical, have layers, and on occasion, drive men to tears. And yet, of course, the moon is not exactly an onion. It differs from onions in other obvious characteristics.

You can play this game with anything. Programming is like engineering. It's like math. And yet it's not exactly engineering, or math, or a craft or a trade or anything. People find one attribute where the metaphor fails and go "Aha! Programming is not X!" Let's step away from the "find the perfect metaphor" game for a second and ask, which word works in daily discourse? Like you, I'd agree that "craft" works pretty well. It's not perfect, but I'd argue that if you want the perfect word, just use "programming."

Additionally, I find the author's argument that "with a craft, the product has an intrinsic beauty in its own right," rather uncompelling. Aside from the fact in aesthetics, the notion of "intrinsic beauty" is suspect, software can certainly have aesthetic qualities. Their audience (other programmers) may be small, and aesthetics may sometimes[1] be hidden from customers, but that doesn't mean code can't be beautiful.

[1] Sometimes, because poorly crafted software tends to have bugs or other problems that annoy customers or otherwise visibly manifest themselves.
> but as soon as you have more than 4GB of memory, there's going to be an application that wants to use more than 4GB

Maybe, but my desktop has 32GB of ram, has a 64bit CPU, and I've rarely seen a single process use 4GB of memory unless it was leaking memory. My laptop has 8GB of ram, also 64bit, and I'm pretty sure I've never had a single process use 4GB. The only exception I can think of was doing some silly data manipulation, e.g. doing the initial build of a property graph of the entire Boston area transit system. I bet some high end games or video/photo editing software would use more than 4GB. Point is, those are all pretty niche situations, I'd bet the majority of memory usage on an average person's computer comes from browser processes, few hundred MB each if that and office applications, also a few hundred MB. Those processes add up though, so having more ram is usually a really good thing even if no processes uses even close to 4GB.

I also challenge the need in server loads. I'd bet the vast majority of applications never use 4GB either on the app server or the database server. Most of what gets discussed here on HN are large high scalability applications that you wouldn't host on ARM cores anyway. We often forget that the vast majority of website are tiny and low traffic.
Drupal and eZpublish did adopt Symfony, and TYPO3 built their own modern framework (Flow3). Out of these, Drupal and TYPO3 Neos also went with my Create.js library for inline editing.

So yeah, there is some precedent at popular CMSs using a modern framework on server, client, or both. We'll see when and if WordPress follows the example...