skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, preserve-3D is not yet supported in IE11, even after the Windows 8.1 update. AFAIK there is no clear ETA on when preserve-3d support will land in Internet Explorer. My best guess would be in IE12.

That being said, Famo.us currently works best on mobile devices, which nets you all of the iOS ecosystem and large portions of the Android ecosystem. Is it everyone? No. Is it a big market? Yes. Will it get bigger? Yes.

(disclaimer: I work at famo.us)
> It was a scheduled job that went a bit wrong, says Bo Djurberg, manager at Telia

from http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18915221.ab (via google translate)
It looks like from our end that there was a large trans-atlantic issue which affected a lot of the connectivity between the US and EU and other providers were affected.

In our case we had to route around Telia which seemed to be the link that was having the most issues and we're getting more info from them to see what happened and when it will be safe to add them back into the mix.

Thanks,
Moisey
Cofounder DigitalOcean
yup, more a flickr for video. agree
They also disclose units shipped (1.15MM in 2011, 2.32MM in 2012 and 3.85MM in 2013).

A simple revenue/units calculation would imply that revenue per unit is increasing ($205 in 2011, $227 in 2012, $256 in 2013).

This is a primitive analysis for a number of reasons, but it suggests that pricing pressure is not the issue. The MD&A, on page 64, also states that higher product costs were the primary reason for the gross margin decreases in 2012 and 2013, and that there was a 14% increase in average selling price in 2012.
> Similarly, a downloadable e-book does not transmogrify from "useful technical information" to "disguised advertisement" simply by living in an undated PDF document behind a paywall.

Well, if its a behind a paywall, its probably not a very good advertisement. But I was discussing, at any rate, the difference between factors impacting the utility of a particular piece of writing as useful technical information for the reader vs. those affecting its utility as a advertising for the creator/publisher -- those two roles can coexist in the same piece of writing at the same time (they don't require anything to "transmogrify" from one thing to another to change between them), they are utilities related to different interests that different parties have with regard to the material, not to inherent differences in what the material is.

Concealing the date can simultaneously make the piece of writing more useful to you as an ad, while making it less useful to the reader as technical information.
Care to elaborate on specifics?
I had expected them to list Google Glass under competition.
> 3. Appoint [Google executive chairman] Eric Schmidt CEO of America.

F that, I say. Schmidt would be colluding with Merkel, Cameron, and Abe to keep income taxes high.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/technology/engineers-alleg...
You do a great job, and you always help in IRC :) thanks for puphpet
I surely agree with most of what's posted there - a majority of it is straightforward common sense that's barely even specific to management.

"Don't procrastinate, communicate clearly" are to management what "eat less, exercise" is to losing weight or "only buy things you need, spend less than you earn" is to saving money.

The problem isn't managers that they haven't read this compilation of checklists or its equivalent in any of the thousands of management books out there.

The problem is the brokenness of management as a role in general.

Too many organizations are stuck in an broken structure which makes management the most direct if not only way to advance in terms of status, pay, autonomy or all three.

The end result are incompetent managers who need to be taught common sense or unhappy ones who are far better suited to other roles, but recognize them as dead-ends.

If becoming a manager stops being desirable for all the wrong reasons you won't have to remind your new, inexperienced managers not to be lazy or not to manage by intimidation.
Divide is joining Google
I know little of the device or the company, but perhaps someone can help inform me and others. Is GoPro a single product company, with expected growth and decline curves of Iomega or Palm? Or is it divested across wearables or some other sector?
In the interest of total disclosure, this is not my project and I am not in any way involved with Bounden. I just found it interesting and passed it along.

I hope that's not bad form; if it is, I'm genuinely sorry for the error.
Yeah I seem to remember just being able to push directly?
You might have tried the search box at the bottom of this page, it would have found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297750 and some others that didn't attract many comments.
The article mentioned the drone ships will be piloted remotely.
Another one: you guys are using a DV certificate, which is really less than ideal for an app like this, that needs to be trusted by its users.
I've found its common in a new manager to assume that their people want the same things they want. Happens in relationships too, people act in a way they want to be treated, not in the way the other person wants to be treated.
There is a fascinating (if somewhat dry) book about the emergence of shipping containers and the freight industry called 'The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger' I enjoyed it. http://www.amazon.com/The-Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller/dp/...
And, with a ship unattended, there is nobody to impede your progress as you carve through the side of the ship and start offloading prize cargo.
We are currently working on an official QuerySet-like python library here at Elasticsearch:

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-dsl-py
From a low base?
Hmm, but also nothing stopping pirates from looting cargo.

Then again, they could just be floating fortresses. Perhaps if it takes long enough to steal cargo aerial support could intervene.
Productivity has absolutely nothing to do with how hard you work. Productivity refers to the value you produce. Also, in cases where a person is free to leave the job there is no such thing as underpaid. If the person is underpaid he should leave the job and join somewhere else, if he cant get a better pay it means he is getting paid what he is worth unfortunately for him that is far too less than what it takes to live a good life.

Employers which are corporations in which you and me could be investors have no right to waste our money one some else. Their only responsibility is to deliver returns on our investments by hiring the cheapest possible labor while generating maximum possible value.

If there are poor people around us who need help, it is the responsibility of the society and not of corporations. I would help a poor kid get education by spending my money on him but I will not let a company I am invested in to waste my money on such kind of nonsense.
Happy to hear! There are various ways - no matter if you're a developer or not, we're happy if you want to contribute (if you want to contact us for details, see http://hood.ie/#about ). There's also the opportunity of sponsoring (http://hood.ie/sponsoring.html) which is also possible for individuals. And you can of course always help us by spreading the word about Hoodie if you like it, perhaps giving a talk about it, writing a plugin if you want to extend Hoodie's core features (https://github.com/espy/hoodie-plugin-tutorial) or giving us feedback.
1. I can see text after 15 seconds. I though it was broken (Chrome, Mac OS X)
2. Too much text.
Hey gildas, I answered a similar question here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7765731
Is anyone else encountering large lagtime problems with scrolling? Also, the scroll-bar is non-functional. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41231461/455436902/fff.w...
just 2 years 2 months and 22 days after the latest main release!
6 Things That Will Kill Your Call Center in 2014
We have compiled a list of 6 things that have no business on your call floor anymore.
Hm. And then down YoY in Q1 earnings (from $255M last year to $236 this year). Did they saturate their market already?
I didn't, but it could also give way to a new breed of piracy by:
- circumventing the auto-pilot's security
- boarding the ship and hijacking cargo (no one to stop you)
That's likely the print (as in physical print) date.
Especially in some of the more heated discussions, it's very common to see a jessamyn comment like "Removed a few comments. This is a sensitive topic. Please take it to MetaTalk if you need to."

In my opinion, this is one of the major reasons why MeFi is such a pleasant community compared to something like Reddit. Because the mods don't let discussions spiral out into people yelling at each other, and because drama can be dealt with on a separate subsite, it truly feels like a community of mature adults. (For the most part.)
What others said (operate in US = must obey US laws0 AND the fact that they can freeze out any bank out of the US financial industry.
Average income or wages for janitors are available. The rates are considerably below those of software developers and other technical IT staff. There are exceptions to averages, but it's absolutely fair to say that the typical janitor is making far less than the typical software developer.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Building-and-Grounds-Cleaning/Janitor...

2012 median pay: $22,320 per year / $10.73 per hour
I use Greasemonkey scripts on both HN and Mefi to help keep track of ongoing conversations.

HN: hn_unread by Jens Wille
http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/124778
(also a Chrome extension, if you search for hn_unread)

Mefi: MetaFilter Scroll Tag by Plutor
http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/23270

Greatly improves my user experience on both sites. I suppose this kind of thing isn't built into the sites themselves because of concern about the extra server or client storage needed. Super useful though.
So in automated vehicles industry it looks like shipping jobs are the first ones to go. Ships definitely has less navigation complexity than terrain vehicles and longer response times than cars, so deployment and operations of the captain-less ships could be less riskier. If I were working as a crew member its time to jump the shipping!

EDIT: I take my words back. The jobs are not going anywhere because of this :
"The International Transport Workers’ Federation, the union representing about 600,000 of the world’s more than 1 million seafarers, is opposed."
Grids for web layouts with no gutters: simpler, more practical and more flexible
If you use "common size financial statements" technique (e.g. in income statement everything is sized as a percentage of revenue), you will see that COGS ("cost of revenue" in their statements) as a share of revenue grew: 47.7% in 2011, 56.8% in 2012, 63.3% in 2013. That was partially offset by a growth in sales, marketing, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) that was slower than growth in revenue.
Biicode: Code reuse made simple
The scrollbar doesn't even let me drag it.
can we talk about tech here?
That's probably the day the article will appear in the print. It's very common practice among websites of print publications, so that there's no discrepancy in dates between the online and print editions.
I'm not sure it's a "win". The reality is that this will quickly drive business away from one of Switzerland's largest banks. As a result, the Swiss will start going back to their old policies and their cooperation in recent years will cease. It is for this reason that they have only brought civil charges in the past.

Eric Holder appears to be out of his depth on this one. All this did was reopen one of the world's largest tax havens.
<boring>

The area of deflection would likely be very large and gravity would still be normal to the surface of the water, so no, you probably wouldn't be able to tell. You might perhaps notice the horizon being closer.

</boring>
Some people still do z80 development. The community around TI graphing calculators has lots of people still doing wild stuff in z80 assembly. It's a fun platform.
I think this is a really good point, but it is also necessary to think about software caused errors. It only takes one error to make a disaster!
It's still the case. For example, there's no way to set a rounding mode that applies to operations with primitive floats and doubles.
Contour camera performed fine when it was at its peak. But Go-Pro's marketing was just leagues ahead.
Tokyo Reverse [video]
I got my foot in the door doing QA for a tech company, and then transitioned into Product Management (which I've been doing for about 8 years). If you really shine in QA then you'll probably find some doors open up for you too.
Yes, the goal is similar - to provide a nice API without limiting any of the possibilities. It's much less restrictive (doesn't whitelist parameters) and tries not to force you to learn both Elasticsearch's query language and a DSL on top of by staying close to the original api.

It's currently work in progress but you can already see in tests some of the features like chainable API, composing queries and filters and aggregations:

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-dsl-py/blob/m...

I try to work closely with the fine people at Mozilla currently maintaining ElasticUtils to make sure there is a nice migration path and I don't miss anything obvious. Any feedback would be more than welcome (github, twitter, email, irc #elasticsearch-py, carrier pigeon, ...)!
Sports-camera company GoPro is officially going public
I imagine that some sort of radio beacon receiver can be attached to these drone ships and with enough of them traveling the seas, it might actually increase the chances of finding survivors.
I know, the irony is rather hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4iyU2a0ivI
Could benefit from new logo design
Only geeks really use NoScript. Or people who know geeks that put NoScript on their computer. NoScript breaks many non-geek websites as it is, and they have to have geek skill to fix those breakages.
The maintenance crew is still needed to keep the engines running. It's just that it can be piloted remotely. This, however, is nothing new technologically speaking. We could very well take away pilots from commercial airliners but it will never happen, or not soon enough. Because a human in control gives a nice illusion of safety.

When it comes to freighters, the cost of a captain or even a crew is negligible. It pales in comparison to the cost of the ship and the goods it carries. Also, insurance companies would not go down well with this.
While you can deploy it with a simple web server, it may not always be the best scaling solution. Consider a website built with true "built" static sites, which do not load any javascript. They make only one request to the web server where as jr makes two on the initial load (and again on each page, though cache helps here significantly).
Hi Yipit folks! It's Alec, from the Seattle Django group. We also developed something like this internally at Nimia due to the exact same use case: needing to access certain types of queries that didn't fit for haystack. Looks like we should have open sourced it so we could have collaborated.
Would there be any documentation of how to integrate this to Phonegap / Cordova?
I find it unlikely labour costs make much of a difference compared to cargo being delayed on slow ships.

I would be more along the lines of, labour free ships don't go on strike/have HR incidents and delay cargo.
Of course there's a way to steal the ship. You do it with a keyboard rather than a gun.
TicketMaster/LiveNation have gone a long way towards increasing the legitimacy of secondary marker buying and selling. Their TM+ product allows buying secondary tickets directly from the event page on TicketMaster/LiveNation, selecting seats from the seat map, and as you suggested, reissues the tickets with new barcodes while invalidating the old ones.

It's a mistake for anyone to assume that there are scalpers (brokers), and there are fans, and they are always separate. Many, many fans buy more tickets than they plan on using and sell on the secondary market. There are also those who buy tickets and find later they can't attend, so need to offload the tickets to recoup from investment. Assuming only brokers resell tickets completely ignores the reality of the situation.

Brokers play an important role in secondary markets by spreading risk (as you mentioned), while also adding a level of professionalism to the entire secondary market. There's numerous metrics tracked by the exchanges they sell on that greatly penalize problems and bad behavior. It's in everyone's best interest if they plan to continue to use the system in the future to by a god actor.

The venues and distributors know what to do to really hurt the vendors, which is to accurately price the inventory from the start. This is a hard problem though, so it's not fully implemented. Some distributors
undoubtedly retain inventory to sell on the secondary markets for higher profit. That said, even if the tickets were priced perfectly on the primary market (TM/LN/AXS, etc), there would still be a secondary market, because the prices are not static over time. Values would fluctuate over time, which still allows for speculation purchasing.
Whoa! I totally didn't know about this subsite. This is great.
Two problems with the site that I can think of:

(1) It's somehow 14 years old and this article is #1 on HN, but somehow I've never heard of it.

(2) I haven't been able to figure out what the site actually is, or what it does. I looked at the FAQ and the orientation page on the wiki, but I still have no idea what I want to accomplish by going to the site.
IIT Bombay's CS101 course and its unique experience
I have taken this course in IIT Bombay.

Prof. Phatak is not a typical academician. But yet he is an amazing teacher. This course is mandatory for all students from all branches of engineering. Around 2000 students from IIT Bombay take this course in a the convocation hall ( May be they are split in 2 halves). Students across all economic background and regional areas are present in this class. For example there are many students coming from such backward areas that they have not really used internet at all or do not have an email address. Some of the students do not understand English at all. Some students got admission because of affirmative action of the government while not having sufficient marks.

Prof. Phatak takes this class with the help of 80 Teaching assistants. For those who do not understand English he takes additional classes in the night in other languages.

I think even within the institute this course is like a MOOC. It will be interesting to see how it works out on edX.
More powerful Bitcoin conversion options for merchants
Also Gittip: https://www.gittip.com/hoodiehq/ <3 :)
You may be interested to learn of their planned "comeback"!

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/gopro-sets-ipo-contour-plots-co...
Or we could look to Marx, who predicted exactly this state of affairs succinctly by showing that, at the most basic, there are three traditional ways to increase competitive advantage:

1. Work more intensely over the course of a fixed working day (eg. the 8 hours most people normally work in the United States)

2. Work longer hours thereby generating more surplus value while only being paid for a smaller proportion of your overall work. Today, this typically involves creating a culture that incentivizes overwork and disincentivizes the normal working day.

3. Revolutionize the means of production thereby gaining an ephemeral advantage over the competition. Think the Japanese in the 80s with just-in-time production which allowed them to dominate the automotive industry. Automating work would also fall under this category. Notice this can require (1) or (2) as a pre-requisite to such innovation.

Under this analysis being busy would be a natural byproduct of the reigning economic ordering of society.
Aside from maybe lost comms, I don't see much of a difference between captaining a ship locally versus remotely.
Piloted remotely means there's a way to subvert the remote control. No need to even board the ship until it's safely in harbour.
Crummy article, but the real issue is that California is getting increasingly fed up with a huge chunk of the US which is simultaneously A) happy to take California's revenue and B) beat California up about it.

If you're going to ask to borrow money from your neighbor, you should at least be polite to him.
Haha. Definitely can relate to some screenshots looking a little too LSD inspired, but I must say I appreciate having strings stand out separately. For one, I know right away if I have too many hardcoded strings dispersed throughout the code. And it also helps to catch quote closing, although basic syntax checker would also do that.
The last time I tried to find an office building in Berlin, Google Maps sent me to a primary school.

House in London? House in Sussex.

Google Maps doesn't work all that well outside the US in my experience.
Contour went out of business in the middle of last year but they were bought over and they are back in business this year.
There's nothing wrong with sharing interesting things about a project that belongs to somebody else.
And then they charge you US $25 per year or $5 per month for maps!!!!

I'll stick with Co-pilot and Navigon. At least when you get the maps they are yours forever.
Is the logo related in any way to the game(s) Marathon?
What If a Self-Driving Car Gets a Ticket?
Or even just cover them with cameras on the outside. When something interesting happens, like a ship passing by or a human being waving their arms in the waves, it will alert somebody who can take a closer look and possibly alert the coast guard/navy.
I hadn't seen that, and that does make things more clear. It's not clear from just using the website that the recommendation engine is the focus.
Many larger ports require larger ships to use a pilot who is familiar with the port near the coast. See for example http://www.mpa.gov.sg/sites/port_and_shipping/port/pilotage_..., http://www.pla.co.uk/Pilotage/About-the-PLA-s-Pilotage-Servi..., or http://www.loodswezen.nl/en/home/1593/

That system could stay as-is if the normal crew would be automated away.