skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if this was an out of line assessment of the jury selection, or an actual description of what happened during deliberation...

The six-woman, two-man jury deliberated for part of three days before returning its verdict. During that time, the jury requested additional paper and pens and better lunch, as well as a copy of the sketches of them done by a courtroom artist.

As for the lawyers in the class; if a jury starts showing signs that they're overall uninterested in the trial (i.e.: asking for their courtroom portraits), what can litigators do to combat this? Is the only course to appeal for the case to be dismissed? Does it get retried if the jury is found to be negligent?
Hiring a designer is so much different than hiring a software engineer. And the process of designing should be the least of your worries.

Design is an artistically creative process. Takes talent, I wouldn't hire a designer if I don't perceive the work they've made as beautiful.

But hiring an engineer, there are certain things you can overlook in favour of their capacity to actually build something. I can overlook their code quality, but only because we have a boarding process in which one of the things we make sure a new engineer understands is our quality standard in writing code, the systems we use to enforce that standard from code reviews to pre-commit hooks and lint checking.

An engineer has the capacity to adapt to these changes of both quality and process.

IMHO, you can't teach a designer who isn't talented how to make beautiful things. Albeit beauty is subjective, but there's still a common ground upon which the majority will perceive this piece of art work as beautiful.
Foundation's enough of a standard that you don't have to worry about that. It'll be around indefinitely and won't get abandoned like some hobbyist project or superseded by Bootstrap.
Me too, I've been an Audible subscriber since 2002.

Lately I've been grabbing a couple of the Great Courses (or Modern Scholar) series a month. Between 15-22 hours of classes per audiobook at $11 a piece is pretty good deal.
Oh, I thought that was the crash button.
don't bother. anyone who equates competence at picking up women with misogyny is incapable of being helped. their views are too old-fashioned.
These guys are serious hustlers. Worked with them on a hack at StartupBus earlier this year and was very impressed. Get'm.
Avalanche model
Is there someway to do standalone installs as well? It seems like that might be against Google's motives in getting everyone to use Chrome as a browser, but it would make it easier to distribute applications in a "traditional" manner.

Plus, it would be nice to have dedicated icons, etc...
He had a very expansive interview in The Guardian recently, it was very good to read to get a sense of his character.
Spectrogram shows dialup modem handshake sounds
Been meaning to check out Fastmail, even more reason to now.
Doesn't have to be the judge. Did you read interviews from members of the jury? They were like "yeah, apple is awesome and even though there were prior art, it was on different device so yeah, apple is awesome and all their claims are valid, let's make samsung pay a billion dollar".
Cool @paf31, please let me know how it goes!
This series is great but I wish it had the number for each part of the series somewhere in the URL. Or perhaps a sidebar (ruining a really clean site) with the series listed in order.

Of course, my best recourse is to read each one as soon as the announcement shows up in my e-mail client's inbox!
Do you know of a document explaining the most important ideas in these chess engines? I know about alphabeta search and the like, but I'm wondering what the secret sauces in the recent best chess engines are.
Looks like a poorly coded markov bot wrote it
Yup. I'd say if you're capable of doing both, do both. But if not, focus on being the best programmer you can be. It's the foundation for everything else.
It would either stagnate or go in the opposite direction.. and we don't need another WMP.
Temptation at Work
This is a full blown game - awesome.
" Have a fixed schedule during the day where for a certain number of hours, everyone is required to be in the open plan area."

You make it sound like solitary confinement cells around an exercise yard.
Apple got a presidential pardon for its IP transgressions vis-à-vis Samsung. That's what makes this seem unfair.

http://www.ustr.gov/sites/default/files/08032013%20Letter_1....
Open Source Implementation of the Two-Man Rule in Go
Step 1. Insert backdoor
Steal these freelance business ideas
Bitcoin allows capital flight out of sovereign states that would otherwise not allow it; if it is never used for any other purpose, it is more historically impacting and meaningful then the Segway.

This article is like a Segway: It is quite smug, and it falls a bit short of useful.
But isn't that what the TNW post is?
This thread was in the top 5 on the homepage just minutes ago, and now it's plummeting like nothing I've ever seen before. Cases of heavy handed moderation like these make me doubt the integrity of this forum.
Http://support.Microsoft.com/ is down
http://support.microsoft.com/ is down! Freak out!
How plain, old WiFi will revolutionize the cellular industry
Upvoted for "strategery" :)
RMS just has a workflow, developed probably sometime in the late 80's and nearly only involving emacs. He also uses a Lemote Yeeloong (which can barely run ancient versions of IceCat), and runs it in a tty most of the time with just emacs.
rate limiting would increase it's usefulness
One thing that I like about Knockout is that you can easily drop it into a legacy site, allowing you to have some pages that use it and others that don't. Forgive my naivete, but is this something that is easy to do with Ember or Angular as well?
Open Source Clojure Cookbook Book
> The Senate was never meant to be a democratically elected body.

This is true only for very bizarre definitions of "never".

> Until the enactment of the 17th Amendment in 1913 Senators where picked by the States.

That's pretty good evidence that from 1913 on, the Senate was meant to be a democratically elected body.
Why I invested in FP complete
Do you really need to verify email addresses on the newsletter-signup form? Are you seeing abuse where a bad person signs up someone else?
Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real OS.
Thanks, I was curious what the vulnerability was about since the email contained no details.
My aim is to reduce downloads to mobile users but allow tabs and laptop/desktop users with bandwidth to get the full show.
I am not convinced by the advantages of the web gui for deployment against our good old fabric/buildbot/deploy, does someone has a feedback with that tool ?

Anyway, I am always very happy to see OSS projects like that making a living of paid services (or the opposite, whatever ;) ).
Don't worry about reading lots of chess books and learning all the theory or openings (other than the basics, that is). The main things you should do are:

1] Develop a good thought process and general approach to the game. NM Dan Heisman has an excellent series of articles ('The Thinking Cap', 'Novice Nook' and others). Find his stuff and study it well.

2] Tactics, tactics, tactics! chesstempo.com is my favourite place for tactics problems. Make an account there and play regularly; you'll see a huge and rapid improvement in your game. There are many great books that cover this ground as well.

3] Play regularly at reasonably slow time controls (necessary to utilize and internalize the proper thought process), mainly against players who are slightly better than you are. FICS or ICC are great places to play online (humans, unlike chess engines, will not allow you to take back your mistakes, which tends to focus the mind!).

4] Analyze your games. Ideally you'll have a stronger human to help you with this, otherwise get a strong chess engine. Identify your major tactical blunders and remember the patterns so you can avoid making the same mistakes in future.

5] Go through annotated games of the strongest grandmasters. There are lots of collections available. Good ones for starters are Morphy, Marshall, Spielmann, Alekhine, Tal and Kasparov (highly tactical players).

6] You can also find GM games where one player resigned. Take the winning side and finish the game against a chess engine on its highest strength. See if you can convert the win.

7] Now you can read a bit more about strategy, openings, etc. Try to play openings that lead to open, tactical positions (forget about whatever the latest fashions amongst grandmasters are). Excellent choices are the various gambits, and ancient openings like the Spanish, Italian, etc.

Good luck and have fun!
FOSSpatents is not a legitimate source of news on patent cases. The writer was revealed to be a paid shill available to the highest bidder during the Google v. Oracle trial when the judge forced Oracle to admit supporting his site as a false front.
If you're looking for another place to buy bitcoin, I've had good luck both buying and selling on http://localbitcoins.com/. Not as convenient as Coinbase though.
I noticed a pattern with your post:

"you should not be at all surprised that a summer associate billed against a matter"

"you should probably not be using a large, full-service law firm"

"you should find a new firm"

I think a lot of what SimpleLegal is trying to do is eliminate a lot of these information-dependent "shoulds", and replace them with simple clarity instead.
Non-French doesn't mean American.

I mean, do you believe the case would be different if the blogger was, say, Italian?
Anyone here remember zephyrgram instances back in the 90s?

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/doc/izephyr/html/node3...
> What do people recommend for functionality similar to Interchange on a Bootstrap 3 site?

Why not just use Interchange itself?
We give prospective candidates a take-home programming project that should take 3-5 hours and is clearly not something we could use in production. We think that's a fair compromise.
seems like azure is down as other microsoft sites are having issues
Strategy refers to overarching objectives that will direct the larger part of your moves throughout the game.

IE - Knowing your opponent is aggressive with their queen and having plans in place to quickly neutralize her,
or being good at manipulating your opponents pieces util it gets to a point where you can gain a strong advantage by castling.

All these objectives form the basis of what you're trying to accomplish with the ideal being that successfully executing your major objectives will gain you victory.

Tactics refers to how well one reacts to and overcomes changes on the board.

IE - Based on the current board layout you notice that a certain move(s) will heavily fortify a section of the board that you previously were not focused on, or seeing your opponent set up for a particular pattern of play you feint a reaction only to hit them somewhere else.

As a tactical player he focuses more on evolving his strategy(larger objectives) to fit the board rather than trying to manipulate the board to fit his strategy more so than the average chess player.
A colleague reverse engineered Azure Mobile services, written in Node, to find out how it works. He blogged about it here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2013/07/26/azure-mobil...
> Citation?

Well, it's sure as hell not window.set_timeout, window.clear_interval, window.on_load, etc.
I miss Groklaw. The site owner used to recruit volunteers from the readers to go to the courtroom and write up accounts of the proceedings every day. It was more up to date and informative than the supposedly professional media outlets.
I read this argument a lot, but closed offices work easily with a chat room. We have an IRC channel (and we create separate channels when we need specific group chats). No one feels alone, communication is instant.
Krener is a hustla all the way
Outlook.com DNS records disappeared
:-(
something went wrong
Sorry, we can't get that information right now. Please try again later. If the problem continues, contact your helpdesk<p>---<p>dig outlook.com<p>; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> outlook.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 62938
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0<p>;; QUESTION SECTION:
;outlook.com.	IN	A<p>;; Query time: 33 msec
;; SERVER: 10.51.20.100#53(10.51.20.100)
;; WHEN: Fri Nov 22 09:37:02 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 29
Jack Dorsey/Elon Musk : You guys are my HERO
massive internal DNS issues. source: unverified.

As always, the Office365 portal reports all systems are go. Can confirm Lync and Exchange online seem to be down.
Twenty Huge Trends That Will Dominate America's Future
I'm curious as to why Zepto support was removed. Zurb was pretty big on it for Foundation 3. Smaller size than jQuery, faster load time on mobile, etc. Any ideas why this was scratched?
The real news here is that App.net finally has an Android app.
The chip in the Pi was used because the guy that started the project works for Broadcom.
There were some definite compatibility issues we ran into and while jQuery 2 isn't perfect, it's pretty good, good enough we felt confident switching back from Zepto. Nothing against Zepto, just pragmatism.
Hammerhead, a better way to navigate while cycling
Chrome zoomed in at 125% is enough to break the layout on the getting started page, which is a little worrying.
unreal, i was editing a document, when it bombed on me, guess i should been editing locally!
Is there some way I can view my own ruby project with this? like by pointing it at my github repo url/ssh url?
Jack of all trades. PHP/HTML/CSS. I knew my way around it. I've done plenty of .NET back in my teens too. Just saying, entry level jobs pay more.
Helvetica The Perfume: The Scent of Nothing
Congrats! I was an AirPair expert a while back and had a great experience. Providing a marketplace like this is a fantastic idea and i'm happy they're getting some industry backing!
Definitely not supposed to, we're pushing a fix for that. Bit of a rush on the marketing site for launch...
This actually isn't a cloud-based IDE, it's a Chrome App and runs completely locally and offline, editing a project on the local file system. You won't need to log into anything or store your code on anyone else's servers, though there is git integration.
Azure is working fine, in my region!
That is, my web applications are still running.
Um most debuggers allow you set variables and execute a loop n times
LG Smart TVs logs USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
In addition to all the siblings' points, it does look like we're going to be able to have Firefox and Chrome compatible apps someday (I can't find a link right now, but it's been a secondary goal for both teams, Mozilla especially as they define APIs for Firefox OS that will be compatible with the open (but with permissions) web). Hopefully the teams keep working on this.
Just to add a few:

- They work offline, like native apps, but are cross-platform, like web apps.

- You can develop and distribute them without running your own server infrastructure (the Chrome store will distribute them and the run locally).

- They work on ChromeOS
Sacmarketi : wella, osis, tigi kozmetik saç bakım ürünleri satışı
AVG PrivacyFix changes Facebook settings for you.
I don't see why this is specific to Open Source. Android does all the same stuff iOS does. WebKit was a senseless clone of stuff already handled well by Gecko. How many Javascript interprers do we need in this life? What's the point of clang again when we have gcc and icc and msvc?

People work on what they want to work on, based on the products that they want (or that they think someone else might want to buy). Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're wrong.

Sometimes they troll. RMS isn't known for that (at all), but... if you did want to troll the free software nuts, WYSIWYG emacs certainly has to be up there on the list of flameworthy titles...
I should have been a bit more specific, Microsoft could have used any language to build the TypeScript compiler.

They took however the best solution by bootstraping it in JavaScript and using node for the process.

Just correct me if I am wrong.
Suggestion:

JavaScript.
I agree that they are different, however it sounds like I'm not communicating my idea correctly.

I'm very much NOT interested in code quality from an engineer. I very much AM interested in how an engineer thinks and approaches solving a problem.

One way to start that conversation is to have a code portfolio that they can talk to. Why did you do this? What were thinking about when you did that? Did you start writing some code then refactor? Did you think about the problem for 3 days before you started writing? Do you diagram on paper? Did you model the data structures before you modeled the application itself?

These are the sorts of questions I'm interested in when I hire someone; They're also the sorts of questions I want someone who is hiring me to be interested in.

Using your words:

To me, writing code is an artistically creative process as well, which takes talent. I wouldn't hire an engineer if I don't perceive their thinking as beautiful

The process for creativity doesn't change just because the expression changes. Compare the process of writing code with that of painting and you'll find a lot more similarities than differences.

PG even wrote a book about it.
You can do a lot more than that even. With a high margin SaaS product, you can make a LOT of money by just being smart about your pricing and pricing model, and learning how to be okay at marketing. Many products have tiny operating costs, often hosting for less than $100/mo. There is a lot of opportunity out there, and VC money seems more unnecessary every day.
I especially loved their status page during the outage:

current health
CRM	No issues
Exchange	No issues
Identity Service	No issues
Lync	No issues
Office 365 Portal	No issues
Office Subscription	No issues
Rights Management Service	No issues
SharePoint	No issues
It is, if you Google hard enough ;-)
This is how my company works - we have our open office, with our "cubes" out amongst everyone else, but we have tiny little work rooms with TVs and adapters, and the ability to close a door (well it's a glass door but still), and work.

And no one's ever told me I can't work in one of them all day if I wanted to (I don't). I bet there'd be a discussion if I moved into one permanently, or even for more than a straight few days, but for now at least, we have the best of both worlds.
What Screens Want - Some thoughts on digital canvases
That's now how investing works. What you're asking for is a "gamble" with no guarantee of a return on investment. Ideas are everywhere, ideas are endless. Some of the greatest "ideas" make no profit because there's no market for them, consumers don't care for it's implementation, or the team doesn't work well together. So many things have to go just right for an "idea" to become a business. Sometimes you have a great idea, great implimentation, great team, and it all still fails. Investors want you to have already gone and proven you're not a gamble by at least building a minimum viable product, have some sort of team already assembled and working, and have started making some kind of revenue or growth in users. If you have nothing then you're the type of investment that's really a gamble.

Winamp has a return on investment (a slow one but still a return), your ideas on the other hand are a gamble. I don't mean to discourage you I just want to save you some time. Also asking random people to invest in your ideas is also illegal. You have to have a pre-existing relationship with someone /or/ join a community like AngleList to solicit investment. Angel investors also must have an income over a certain amount of money. Some of these laws may change in the near future with crowd funding becoming so popular but in the mean time be careful.
An employee at the Microsoft Store support line said that they were undergoing a system update. I wonder if that is connected. Either way, bad choice of a date for a system update considering the official Xbox One launch tonight.
http://www.omniref.com/?q=fuzzy_match

doesnt take me to http://rubygems.org/gems/fuzzy_match
Status console is also down http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/
Just use http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mail.google.com
I have no problem accessing Outlook.com, Office 365, Skydrive, or any other Microsoft website. The problem many be regional...or it may be with your ISP.
The worst is when, not only are you surrounded by private conversation, but forced to listen to godawful music blasting at full volume from the office stereo.
Why then saying important things is much harder than writing a letter? And why it's easier to read hard things than keep up with the person that talks about them?
It's up for me just 13 minutes after the post.
Even non-lethal chemical weapons? /pedant

I'm not arguing for or against patents (personally, I think they're an abomination), only against 'group think' from people choosing a 'team' and then using propaganda to reinforce their positions.
Spotify raises $250 million, reports WSJ, valuing the company at $4 billion
It looks like a lot of their other services are down too.

Edit: Also, the Xbox One is launching tonight so if their Live servers are down...it won't be pretty.
It seems all the tech companies in Japan (or at least in Tokyo) still all use open plan spaces for engineers.

Does anyone know of any companies in Japan that offer their engineers private office spaces?
I've been working with Ember for a while now, and I love it. Convention over configuration is a big deal, and the Ember team has done it right. I think if you like Rails then you'll like Ember.
Feds: Silk Road kingpin ordered six murders to protect his Internet drug empire
There's a lot more than one person complaining on twitter. I've seen reports from New Zealand, Kansas, my linode in Dallas, Oregon, etc.
Awesome! Did not know about MHL. Looks like that is used by the Roku Streaming Stick too.
I think you should definitely mention that in the campaign as well. Going to keep an eye on this and the stretch goals. Thank you!
Looks correct to me and makes the most sense to build the tools in the language TypeScript compiles to. On another note, it would appear they will be adding TypeScript support in the beta[1], which makes me very happy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6777360
world server down
Down when accessing from Central FL (SouthEast US).
It'll be interesting to find out the root cause, assuming it ever comes out. Malice or stupidity? Did someone do an oops within the Outlook team (or some other team), or are they under attack?
> “It’s just this gratifying thing that you know you can do,” she said. “You have no control of whether a guy is great or a jerk and at the end of the experience, even if no one reads it, you feel like you have gotten back at the guy. You have taken a bit of control."

I'm not sure how this is going to end well for anyone.

Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5524674 (7 months ago)
Thanks.

Not only do law firms have trouble collecting 100% of billed, they aren't able to bill 100% of their standard rates. [0]

The same partner that made the talking/billing comment believes that part of the problem is the amount of time between receiving the service and paying for the service.

Our legal billing API should help fix that problem, too.

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