skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good example would be 409A valuations[1], which set the price at which options can be granted. Sale of employee stock on a secondary market can dramatically raise the price at which the company has to grant future options, making it harder to hire, and hurting future employees.

While this might be ok in open markets with real competition, it's possible (and in fact common) for common stock in trending companies to be overvalued on secondary markets.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_section_4...
When launching LO Writer, one is presented with a virtual blank sheet of paper. The entire metaphor of the program is built around printing.

In any case, I have virtually no Libre Office experience, and I was able to generate dizzystar's test case in about 2 minutes. My apologies for leading us down this dead-end discussion. (The only confusing part was that you have to manually turn on headers & footers before you can click on them to edit.)

When it comes down to it, LO is probably not missing many features, but they haven't received the UI research/testing effort to make them accessible. The general look & feel is also 'old fashioned'.
I have always considered "RESTful" to be analagous to your "RESTish" meaning.

If I am 100% REST then I would say "I have a REST API". If, like most companies, I am not following all the REST conventions then I would say "RESTful" api.

The moaning about "RESTful has been hijacked by people who don't know REST" by the REST purists always struck me as strange when they could have made that simple distinction.
Uninstall Smarcha
Or, even older

$ibftc

$execute ibjob
Google researcher discloses zero-day exploit for Windows
Why? It seems to me that you aren't actually interested in discussing the merits, or lack there of in this particular case, you're just trying to elicit a negative response.
The odds of killing yourself with this type of project must be pretty high.
If you want to retrieve some data based on some parameters, you can just GET it and pass some query strings. You shouldn't need to care if the data comes from an executable file (which is usually does anyway) or someone typing it in on a terminal.
Can I please have a working bookmarks window or PgUp/PgDn keys that don't stop working randomly?!
I want to apologize for my earlier downvoted comment by saying that, I only said what anyone in a software organization would say. eg your boss.

If you dont know how to run DNS, then your the wrong guy to be running it.

Dont come out in public and whine about hackers. Its your job and yours alone to know how DNS works and what to do.

Its not even mildly interesting anymore than TCP/IP is interesting. So do your job.

Thats what my boss would tell me and thats what your boss should tell you.

Its not mean what Im saying. Its the truth.
I think you're wrong on a couple counts.

Freemium does work in the medium term if you can generate enough value in your networks and data as an asset to grow your valuation. You obviously do eventually need to stop recapitalizing and monetize at some point. I would argue that a lot of companies should do this a much earlier point in time, rather than growing without reasonable bounds.

A counterexample to you last point is being a startup founder. For these folks, until you prove your concept to investors and/or go cashflow positive, your salary is completely dependent on profit.
Forget Google Glass. These Are the Interfaces of the Future
They obviously chose the word "aping" for a reason, but it strikes me as a poor word choice here.

These aren't pocket calculators with "I-PHone" rubber-stamped on the cover.

From the article:

"Skeptics say the company produces low-price iPhone imitations with no significant software or hardware advantages."

So where are the disadvantages, other than the "they're copying Apple" problem?

I suspect that if they stay more or less on the right side of copyright/patent law in the west, they'll capitalize on the "lower price/equivalent hardware" combination that apparently even the skeptics mention. And with the capabilities to build the next big idea, all it really takes then is enough of a break from traditional company culture to let new, good ideas bubble up and/or be sought out (and hey look, the Xiaomi CEO seems to be going for that).
Flipkart does not _guarantee_ two day shipping, though. Or at least it didn't when I last used it. Amazon says they'll do it and that's worth more than some vague idea that it will probably make it.
Faye - A really cool pub/sub messaging system for node/ruby
Noting that the words "Forget Google Glass" are appearing with high frequency these days in the media.
Chairman's Forum: Elon Musk
I'm not a fan of XML, but I do like RDF, and unfortunately RDF/XML is the most common encoding format.
And, more importantly: the other way around.
FastMail always gets high marks from people who abstain from the Borg.
Don't Be Silly, The Entitlement State Won't Allow Bitcoin
I can't speak about the others. However, I feel that we have reached an unfortunate state in the industry when a sub-par technology starts to get picked up because of brand names, and not on inherent merits.
Short-staffed website swaps DOGS for DEVELOPERS
People are squishy
Probably mercury poisoning. It will make you as mad as a hatter. Symptoms include inability to rebase branches or rewrite history, choking on large repos, inability to do more than two-way merges, and clumsy handling of branches. Clean cup, move down, I guess.
I never got it, given that most browsers and email clients already provide readers.
I don't understand your confusion. If they want to keep their tax benefit, they pay for it by having reduced labor mobility. If they are okay with giving up their tax benefit, they get their labor mobility back.

Why should they have both, at the expense of others?
Good read, but I can't read the title without thinking of Dora from Finding Nemo.
Does Raspberry Ketones Work? – Just Another Scam?
Cool syfy story
> You have taken one book, but in most general cases foreign author books are quite expensive in India.

Books which are published in India are quite cheap(especially if they happen to be popular). Most of the pearson books are LPE(low price editions). Books from other publishers which are published here(marked for the Asian subcontinents) are cheap. Foreign books being cheap is the norm, not the other way round(unless they are imported).
There are a number of issues that I'd like to see bitbucket push on. [1], [2], [3], [4] to name a few. If they want to compete with github on features as well as pricing for private repos, they really need to address these things.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2184/support-cnames-...

[2] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6024/ability-to-igno...

[3] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2874/ability-to-sear...

[4] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4307/feature-request...
Come on, all of this is fairly obvious. Let's say you take a Nokia brick and want to put one touch screen instead of a display and an input panel. What do you do? Something that looks exactly like that. The screen gets larger, the buttons go down and everything else stays the same (yeah, pre-iPhone dumb phones had nice icons in a grid too, remember?).

I mean, you're not going to put the speakers behind, or put fragile sharp corners, or put the buttons on the middle of the screen, just because Apple did something similar!

This is fairly obvious stuff when developing a smart phone out of a dumb phone. Dumb phones looked alike too, just like fridges and microwaves look alike, and that's because these things just make sense.
Looks fine to me.

http://i.imgur.com/82cxpwA.png

http://i.imgur.com/PPDqyZw.png
I would hope so - I've never purchased a thing off twitter...
When I've helped rid people of their virus-infested Windows problem by installing Ubuntu, I rarely heard back from them. It really is easier to use and less error-prone in many respects.
This must be the worst news website in terms of usability
There's no benefit to using XSLT instead of just writing code to transform your data into another format.
This is about the visual aspect. The accusation is that Samsung deliberately mimicked the look of the iPhone at the time in a bid to cynically confuse consumers at point of sale. That they changed the interface of the OS too is a smoking gun. It's like copying someones homework, but just swapping a few key words and sentences and claiming the work was entirely your own. I agree the question should be asked, I don't necessarily agree with the way Apple chose to ask it, but that is neither here nor there. They feel aggrieved, they are legally entitled to pursue this how they see fit. The "its just a rounded rectangle" argument is reductio ad absurdum.
Massive salaries of GPs and associates.
Like disabling Tabs on Top?

Just as in Sublime Text (and even with a proper titlebar), I really dislike those Chrome-y tabs. They take too much real estate for my taste.

Lion scrollbars finally landed on Aurora and I was hoping to move back to Firefox again when it would land in Beta. The move towards consistency with the platform was very welcome around Fx4. Now, striving for uniformity, they make it feel foreign again.

Here's the agenda: Firefox as a brand has to grow and make a show of itself. Indeed the Chromification goes much deeper than simply tab looks: as the OS is relegated to a platform/hypervisor, the browser becomes an OS in itself, so that Firefox OS makes sense for people. They're moving to make phones, which will soon call for services (unless they plan to rely solely on third parties such as WhatsApp). Mozilla's product may increasingly end up looking like yet another vertically integrated software platform.
I can't speak for Sam, but two other issues in addition to tax and valuation are explicitly mentioned in the term sheet:

(1) Public reporting: Once the market for secondary sales gets to a certain point, the company is essentially public. As such, it has to register with the SEC and publicly disclose a whole bunch of information it'd rather not. This used to be triggered by having over 500 shareholders, although I believe the number has recently changed.

(2) Competitors: Stockholders have certain statutory information rights. Although you can limit those rights contractually, as a general matter, you don't want your competitors owning shares.
Mostly everything from Flipkart (and for that matter, it appears, from Amazon) can be bought cash-on-delivery.
I thought about fast mail, just don't want to pay for something I could do on my own
Prefer to work with Linux and stay away from Microsoft
> I do not intend to move for another 20-30 years regardless of work. I think people should take this view seriously... if you want to stay where you are for 30 years and are willing do that despite potentially limited career (and financial) opportunities...

Let's assume you're 30 by the time you're even ready to buy a house. At that point, in another 30 years there's a significant chance you'll be either dead or within 5-10 years of death. Essentially, what you're saying when you buy a house is that you don't intend to move ever again in your life. That's a pretty grave commitment.
The concept of putting URLs in the document is not just so that you can re-arrange them, it's so that you can use HATEOAS.

Example: think of posts here on HN. One thing a specific media format would include is a "reply" link, but on hellbanned posts that link would absent, so that state would be inaccessible to clients.

Or say you've used comments on your blog, so each post has a link to the list of comments about it. Now you switch to Disqus, and so you could change the URL to point to their comments pages instead, and a decent client would use it transparently (assuming good media types).

All of this is taken for granted and used a lot on the real RESTful space: the HTML Web.
This was a good article, and I think it's important to point out that it doesn't just give reasons why US schools don't use open source software, but that these reasons (especially 1. and 3.) also explain why US schools shouldn't use open source software.

Eventually I believe the economics will change, but we are not there yet. There may be special cases where talented individuals have donated their time to set up and maintain open source software in schools, but this is no more indicative of the true economics than if Microsoft had donated an entire computer lab for free. Rather than evangelize open source for all use cases, I think that we should render unto Microsoft what is Microsoft's.
TIL schools from countries like Dubai, Singapore and Indonesia also come under ICSE. I typed a few roll numbers and all schools came from foreign countries.
Same, I prefer either square tabs or trapezoidal ones with the just slightest of roundrect corners, like Chrome/ium.

FF's heavily rounded ones seem to waste too much space in the in-between areas.

Minor nitpick though, won't affect my use of it.
I only used Smalltalk at the university back in the day, before Java was born and it was a very nice experience.

All the talks about live editing is nothing more than recovering the workflows we already had in Smalltalk and Lisp machines.

If you destroy the environment, just restart not a big deal.

If you already saved the environment into the image, just rollback to the previous image snapshot, not a big deal specially nowadays that image based source control systems are available, like Monticello and Metacello.
How Google Helps Islamic Extremists
... that you know of.

I think the parent was asking a broader question, even including security issues that were brought up and fixed without being exploited.
Are you seriously saying they need to have a "cultural revolution"? are you ignorant? or is your humour just really bad taste?

What did they steal?

Why do Chinese care what western companies think? (They have the biggest market, not us).

Why do you think western companies don't steal?

Have you used MIUI? it isn't a copy, and it is innovative.
Sharefest HTML5 plugin-free P2P file sharing platfrom using WebRTC DataChannels
You may be waiting a while. This thread is reserved for griping about change, I-use-chrome and why-aren't-they-fixing-bug-x-instead posts.
How Timbuktu's manuscripts were smuggled to safety
Somewhat off topic but I just wanted to point out that American GDP has recovered and is now higher than before the recession. In fact it's higher than it's ever been. GDP per capita is higher than ever. We are, as a country, richer than we have ever been. But somehow funding for schools keeps dropping.
Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
There's an existing swarm of nice wallpapers my colleague has put up there: http://www.sharefest.me/stan17
>Flipkart has foreign investment via VCs for quite some time.

Because of this they had to separate Flipkart.com and their frontend operations (WS Retail).

The VC money is now invested in Flipkart.com which is a marketplace similar to Amazon India. But they are pretty well integrated with one of their sellers (WS Retail).
I don't know how the address is a issue. Care to explain?

30 day return policy? Check out flipkart.com, amongst others.
Buy a package at some web host where they have done the dirty work for you and you still own/control the data.
I’ve just revised the gist, in case anyone is interested. I decided to decouple the sync and async variants as I had done originally, so that it’s hopefully a little easier to follow and play with.
How about letting the user decide?

I find myself installing addons to cut or move parts of the UI back to where it was when I was used to it. Starting with the location bar ending with status bars. Additional fumbling around in the config became the normal thing to do after an major update...

I know it's nice if your are the developer and you can force stuff on your users because most of them can't do anything about it and will accept it in the end but remember one thing: you will cross a border for another part of your custormers and then somebody will come up with something new just because you forced us and then you'll lose customers.
I haven't read the paper, but I'm from Spain and I've seen several things that support the hypothesis.

1) Home ownership ties you to a geographical location. If you're renting you have more freedom to move, and increased mobility leads to less unemployment. This is the most obvious reason, but not the only one.

2) If mortgages take away a big enough portion of the paycheck, consumers have on average less money to spend in another things, and lack of demand can cripple the economy, while banks leech all the money ("extractive elites"). If rent was more prevalent, it would be easier to move to a more affordable house from time to time, driving down home prices (it would be kind of a "less captive" market; I'm not sure if that makes as much sense as I think).

3) The prevalence of mortgages gives employers a lot of leverage. If you're in serious debt, you're more likely to accept worse condition on your current job, because you can't afford to miss a payment (miss enough payments and you lose your house but keep your debt). Maybe it's a cultural thing, but this is a very real thing here in Spain. The effect is that employers can force worse conditions (especially lower salaries) on employees, which, again, creates a lack of demand because people don't have money to spend. Even worse, once you hit certain level of unemployment (which nevertheless was very high in Spain to begin with), it affects you even if you don't have a mortgage, because there is a huge amount of people willing to work for peanuts, driving salaries down for everyone and creating a feedback that reinforces the whole process.
There is a simple reason why I use COD. The payment gateway blows up a lot and you end up paying cash that never reaches the merchant, and have to wait days / weeks to get it back.
That is why bootstraping done properly is always done in stages.

You have a compiler that can only compile a specific subset and use that subset to write the real compiler. There are endless book examples how to do it.

Given who Go designers are, I think they don't have any issue keeping the C code around.
Why not set up a private bitbucket repo, and just always push your code to bitbucket when you're done working, and pull when you start?

It's a free offsite backup, and if you ever need to add another machine (or developer) to the project, your code is already sitting there on bitbucket. And you never need to worry about firewalls, NAT, one of the machines being off, whatever, because bitbucket is (almost) always up and accessible. And if you forget to push after working, or if bitbucket is down, you can still fall back to your existing workflow.

In addition, if you're doing anything web based, sooner or later you'll need to deploy to a sever out on the internets. Being able to pull from bitbucket makes deployment really easy, again without tinkering with firewall ports or anything.

It's not so much a question of "need" it's "why not do this thing which has some benefits, and no real downside?"
I can't speak for their dictionary, but KingSoft has an antivirus/internet security program which is nigh on impossible to uninstall, including extremely misleading messages on their uninstall screen.

I wouldn't touch any of their other stuff for that reason alone.
> I seem to recall an automobile developed in the 60s or 70s by another National Lab that siphoned off stored power from a flywheel (driven by a smaller motor).

One possibly feasible application that comes to mind are automotive turbo chargers. Compared with current approaches, a flywheel does not actually seem that convoluted.
I just make squishy robots. Problem solved.
Ask HN: Internship in Israel?
I'm an Israeli high school graduate and I'm looking for a short term internship in the coming months.
I'm doing C# development for the better part of 5 years now and am also proficient with Javascript and (to a degree) Haskell. I'm also interested in computer security. I'm eager to learn new stuff though so if you're a Ruby or Python or C shop I'm sure I can blend in.

If you work in an Israeli company or know someone who does and think you can handle an intern for circa 3 months I'd love it if you contact me (here or by mail if you prefer, michael.azarkevich@gmail.com).

A partial portfolio of my work can be found on my Github account:
https://github.com/MichaelAz

Cheers!
Lego Device Wall
Together with my little shy friend the Opera guy....

But no fear. Once they are out. New stuff will come up.
"has to" is a bit strong. The standard assumption is that pointer arguments should be set (or the function is documented otherwise), and the responsibility is left with the caller. It just bubbles out from there.
Why is this a matter for the executive branch?

Can someone with more knowledge of US politics explain?
Threat to Flipkart? I think yes, let flipkart create a good market for you and now come and rule. Smart Idea!
Give your sales pitch to anyone and everyone in your life you have easy access to. They may not be the most critical but it will get you more comfortable and will improve your flow. You'll find that by the 3rd time through you phrase things slightly more clearly and are less likely to ramble. I would not go to these guys and be making your pitch for the absolute first time. Even if you do great it could be better with just a little practice.

1. Basics: go over the benefits for them. Benefits... not features. They'll ask about features they need after you're done so focus on what your software can do for them, how it will help their business, etc.

2. No one is going to be able to answer this without a hell of a lot more details on your product. Best bet is to look into competitors and price around there. These are your first customers and this price isn't permanent (maybe for them but you can raise the price on anyone after) so don't worry about it too much.

3. The biggest thing is actually selling yourself. Your software is not perfect right now. It's not going to have all the features they want. So, with that in mind, you need to be confident enough about both your product and your personal ability to improve it to sell these guys on the FACT that you're going to solve their problems. Period.

4. a. I'd like to emphasize again that you should give this presentation as many times as you possibly can to people who "don't matter" before doing this first time pitch.
b. Relax. It's difficult to ignore how awesome it would be if you landed these guys but just keep it in the back of your head that you'll still be in a great place even if they pass. Managing your expectations this way will go a long way to help you keeping even keel, both in general and specifically in the presentation itself.

I'm sure plenty of people here can give you better input with more detail but if you'd like feel free to email me (info in profile) with more questions and/or more info on your product.

Good luck!
It's right there in the settings: (in Chrome)

Settings > Appearance > "Use system title bar and borders".

edit: clarified I meant Chrome.
Was there a specific moment in time where knew Parse was going to be huge, or did everything just evolve gradually to you?
Firefox will be less responsive than Chrome until the Electrolysis project makes some progress. FF runs everything in a single process, so a few heavy HTMl5 pages make the whole browser unresponsive.
The founders of Flipkart (Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal) used to work for Amazon. So, I think there's no doubt of where they got the business model for Flipkart from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipkart