skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they may have that option in theory, it apparently isn't viable in practice:

Financial firms rarely survive being indicted on criminal charges. Few want to go the way of Drexel Burnham Lambert or E.F. Hutton. For their managers, the threat of personal criminal charges is career-ending ruin. Unsurprisingly, it is easier to empty their shareholders’ wallets. To anyone who asks, “Surely these big firms wouldn’t pay out if they knew they were innocent?”, the answer is: oddly enough, they might.

First, note "indicted" not "convicted". Second, note the difference between paying with someone else's money vs risking imprisonment/etc yourself (and no, our criminal courts don't have a zero false-positive rate).
Maybe we should use the dns servers for different services? I guess something like a mail record but with PICTURES instead of mail to point to you picture server
I suspect that renting out primary residences is more common in rural areas where someone would otherwise operate a B&B.
Google's innovations all come from entering new markets and competing with other businesses. GMail competed with HotMail and Yahoo!Mail, Maps competed against MapQuest, Chrome competed against Firefox and IE, Android competes against iOS. Offers competes against Groupon, Wallet competes against Paypal/Square/Stripe. Google products that have not had solid competition (Glass, Wave, Groups, Knol, GoogleBase) or that have competition but don't have the management buy-in and flexibility needed to win against that competition (Orkut, Video, Jaiku, Dodgeball, Buzz, Reader & Blogger in their later years) have not tended to do as well.

Google Search languished for many years (roughly 2004-2009) while Google invented all these other products. Then Bing launched in 2009, and there was a period of rapid innovation from 2009-2011 that gave us Search Options, one unified search across all corpora, 2 visual redesigns, realtime search, Instant, Authorship, Search Plus Your World, and Knowledge/Answer Cards. Then things slowed down again in 2012 when everyone realized Bing was a joke. I personally witnessed - to both my benefit and my detriment - both extremes I mentioned in my original post.
Yeah, the MDRV6 with Beyerdynamic Velour earcushions are my secret sauce for getting in the zone. The stock pleather earpads will give you "hot ears" that make long shifts uncomfortable.

If you keep going down the audiophile rabbit hole like I did, next up is a DAC or a tube amp. A good starter cheap one (sub $100) is the Qinpu:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TGDB9Q/
I remember when there was a hack to enable so when dragging windows the whole window contents would move instead of just a black and white outline. If the window was bigger than 1/4th of the screen it would lag to death but it was so cool.

Now we have live 60fps web page content relayouting when you resize the window, and people are saying computers are slower?
The browser is the common client app runtime that the JVM/Swing platform always wanted to be.

Native will always feel better, but the browser gives us a way to express cross platform designs much better/faster/cheaper than most native toolkits do, and far better than any cross platform toolkit that I've seen.

The tradeoff is performance in a big way.

Think of it this way, it's like the web is like OnLive or Galaki streaming to play a game and native is like playing a game on your local device. Streaming game performance is inherently worse, but at some point might be good enough/great for most people such that the investment in native games on local hardware no longer makes sense for certain games.

I think most people don't realize or think through the fact that they are making that performance tradeoff in exchange for other things.

Maybe people should have that discussion.
Uber and Lyft Have Become Indistinguishable Commodities
I also have the second edition and can't praise it enough. I have a computer science degree but never really applied it to actual development as I am a business analyst in my professional life. This book bridged the gap and I quickly became proficient enough in Rails to develop a side project.
I hate the popup in google maps when I search for a location. It takes up 1/3rd of the screen.
Maybe we could invent sight-cancelling glasses to go with the headphones?
How to use ruby's english and/or operators witho going nuts
Sadly no one's figured out how to adapt the DK1 mount to fit neatly on a DK2. I have a very nice holder printed off of Thingiverse, but it's a little tricky figuring out how exactly to get it onto the Oculus.

I really hope Oculus actually add some mounting threads or something to the front of the visor for this type of thing in the CV1.
btw, didn't the US pass a law to defund research on marijuana?
Medium’s CSS is actually pretty fucking good
> Instead of seeing blank tiles when a new Firefox user opens a new tab, Mozilla thought it would be best that they see “content.”

I don't care much about this sponsored tab fuss but that is some serious BS logic.

Feels like UX goes in circles. The web of the 90s was "Show as much content as possible". Google came around and it became "show only the absolutely crucial stuff". Then facebook came around and we're back to shoving as much crap down the monitors as possible.

Feels like we jump from one extreme to another all the time. And yet, the Google.com homepage remains clean and uncluttered (yes, there's more stuff than there used to, but its still 90% whitespace).

Take it this way: When you create a new folder, a file manager won't show the contents of other folders you often access just because it's "best that you see content". Or when you empty your inbox, gmail won't show some random popular emails. So on.

Showing popular sites is a good idea at its core but if you're on a fresh profile, well you're on a fresh profile. Make money off firefox of course, you need it, but "it's best you see content" is bullshit justification.
Well, maybe it's just seasonal affective disorder, or Portlanders being weird, but every programmer I've known who's been in the field longer than maybe 15 years is a little bonkers.

I wish there was a good study on mental health in aging programmers, to validate what has always been obvious from experience. We have a shelf life. This work is challenging and affects your brain chemistry if you spend your career constantly immersed in difficult programming tasks.
Good thing I have my own new tab page.
Hopefully this happens:

Google Now integration

Answer whether I need an umbrella today (will have to know where I work, when I go to work, lunch, home.)

Currently I can only build an alert on whether it'll rain tomorrow. I end up having to check Google Now, and sliding across the hours of the day to make a judgment about whether it's worth it or not to bring an umbrella.
So Firefox is now Adware?
They had a hacky demo of this at the Leap booth at Unite in Seattle last week. The Leap Motion was taped to the front of the Oculus, and you could (sort of) interact with a floating sphere. It's a neat idea, but the tech has a long way to go if that demo was anything to go by.

I am excited for the advancement of input relating to VR though.
Scaling a useful real-time transit app across cities isn't simple. Google Maps, after 10 years, now has GTFS for pretty much anywhere, but real-time data hasn't converged to a standard yet. Not to mention many systems that do publish GTFS don't have or don't publish real-time.
They can have the cake, but not eat it, no?

They don't have the option to enroll or not. They have to or they get penalized. The penalty is small; $95 per person, but this is really just another tax on a growing margin of society that can't shoulder more taxes.

The health care industry has already responded to the situation in a more sensible way. Many urgent care clinics have popped up in the last few years. They'll handle most run-of-the-mill health concerns for $100-$200 a visit. Many drugstore chains have started their own prescription clubs that cover a pretty wide range of common medications for very reasonable amounts.

If you're a healthy individual who visits the doctor twice a year and maybe you need a prescription or two, then it makes more sense to pay for your health care on an as-needed basis. You'll save more money. Obamacare didn't really solve the major issues with health insurance. They missed the mark because industry already stepped in to provide a solution. If they wanted to solve the problem vis-a-vis affordability for marginal workers, the solution would have been to make it free.

Just like with gay marriage and openly gay military members, we'll get there eventually, but people are still suffering because of the painfully incremental way legislature works.
Most employees and shareholders weren't involved in those crazy single-day trading blowups that lost billions either.
At the risk of Godwin, "Danzig ist Deutsch!"
“Wish we could say more”: Apple makes the September 9 event official
It would be interesting to compare to Ridescout, which seems like a more direct competitor than Google Maps.
We were also taught prolog, asm and (weirdly) pascal. We didn't manage to actually produce anything interesting in any of those. The Access CRUD apps and the little VB6 games were the only working software that came out of that two year class.
Ask HN: DaaS: Design as a service, what are your needs?
Hi, I'm in the process of starting offering for startups Design as a service, like Amazon's Mechanical Turk but for design, do you think it is a good idea?

It would work like this: You subscribe for a monthly fee (i.e. $229/month x 3 months) and you get graphic stuff done:

* Logotype (3-4 logo proposals)

* Website design (informative, static)

* Website hosting (1 year)

* Email accounts

* Business card design, email signature

* Photo retouching (i.e. enhance photos of your prototypes, hardware, or team photos)

* Video (animated style, or add that if you have something already done)

* PPT presentation help, and some assets

* UX feedback on your app/idea

* Infographic(s)

* Animated GIF of the app working /demo

My question is: Do you see yourself using it? How much are you willing to pay for 3 months? Are you willing to pay for more months?

Take into account that:

1.- You'll have to Wait in a queue (couple of days at most).

2.- Slots will be very limited at the beginning (5-6 startups at most), to ensure that quality will remain high, and to make wait times very short.

Comments very appreciated
I love it, its super odd and fun.
I'm all about Gametime.co for sports but looking forward to trying this for a concert.
It is a six-week program, although the last week or so is a bunch of teams pitching themselves to the new hires, and the new hires meeting with the teams they're choosing between.
> A closed-source integration service is not an open platform.

I believe that Github is exactly what the OP is complaining about.
> For users with existing tiles (History Tiles) in their new tab page, Firefox replaces the default screenshot with a better image. The Enhanced Tile is displayed only for sites that would have appeared on a user's new tab page based on their browsing history. The improved image is supplied by the site or partner and can include a logo plus a rollover image.[1]

This could very conceivably be used to display ads, e.g. Company X pays site Y to have an ad as part of site Y's tile.

[1]https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-sponsored-tiles-...
Very encouraging to see tests used more sparingly. I was a novice developer when I first tried this tutorial and found myself lost in the weeds when I tried to follow along with rspec. Understanding the difference between rspec and cucumber probably isn't critical at that point. The tutorial made a lot more sense to me after someone recommended ignoring the tests the first time through.
You say "miss the point," I say "read between the lines."

When they make specific recommendations at the end, those recommendations are: 1) let some cases go to trial 2) handle "most cases" of corporate wrongdoing in civil courts 3) cut down on the number of things that are illegal.

These are pretty weak recommendations to start with. And then you compare them against the examples they use at the beginning of the article. They paint these examples as massive overreach. The implication is that companies should be allowed to do more and punished less compared to now, when their examples are ones where companies did pretty awful things and then basically got away with it. The punishment was close to zero. Combined with the recommendation for more civil trials and they're basically saying that the government should cut back on investigating and punishing corporate crime, and that the victims should just sue directly. Nobody would recommend that for, say, a car thief, but a big company steals your house and suddenly you have to hire your own lawyer?

So, I agree with the idea that more of this stuff should be brought to trial. But I disagree that these settlements are "mind-boggling", and I disagree that the solution is to move more activity to civil courts.
Yes like I say, going 3 for 3 I was extraordinarily lucky and even then my total payout came to less than 1 year of my present salary. I'd laugh in the face of anyone now who offered me a pay-cut-for-equity deal.
And I hope we won't have it (although I know they are working on it and it's on the roadmap, so I have no illusion).

Given the number of tabs I have constantly open, I know that Chrome cannot handle it (I guess IE is the same here) and a multiprocess firefox won't either.
Ah, yeah, well, as long as Oracle is the steward of the most popular JVM I think we shouldn't let it run non-trusted code.

I was thinking more desktop (non-web) apps, really.
I agree that the UX of Google Maps isn't great, but one thing that might not be quite fair in the critique is the point about having to enter the origin destination. On mobile, I'd venture to guess that most of the time you simply want to get somewhere from where you are right now. So I personally don't see the origin destination as something that I need quickly accessible. I enter address, click when it auto-populates, and click to navigate. It's usually 2-3 steps for me on Android and I'm ready to go in 5 or so seconds.
The thing this article misses is that the companies push for these settlements. If anything you could make a case that the prosecutors have more leverage than they are using and getting smaller settlements than they could have in court. That the threat of damaging the economy from a negative market reaction to a large punishment has caused the justice system to go easy on companies.
I totally agree with chollida1. This is always the first tutorial I point people at.

Is it possible to add "overflow: scroll" to the code sample blocks' CSS? I get a few characters flow down to the next line which is a bit ugly. A couple of examples:

http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#code...

first code block here (with a wrapped "g"): http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#sec-...
That's what's needed - an iframe embed that detects and loads accordingly.

... but you couldn't embed that on Medium, anyway.
The only thing 'scary' that I can see about hubstaff is the screenshot stuff...do you guys use that? If so, how did that go over with the staff?
So you're buying the line that BoA or BNP Paribas would go into bankruptcy if charges were filed? Even the author knew he couldn't make that case and resorted to a weasel-worded implication.
>it doesn't work for most of the people who find themselves in prison

It works for the rest of society to remove criminals. Most criminals are not caught during their first crime. Does anyone have any research on how many crimes a criminal commits before s/he is caught, on average?
You can even compare web standards to the most ubiquitous formats used in the most ubiquitous desktop programs. MS Office formats still cause people problems when they try to open complex files in older versions of Office or compatible suites. Whereas if data is stored as JSON, you can be sure that anybody will be able to access the data correctly in any of the thousands of apps that handle JSON, and they'll be able to handle it indefinitely.
Citymappers founder, Azmat Yusuf, gave a talk at the Hacker News London meetup earlier this year and it was categorically one of our most popular talks in a long time. Unfortunately Azmat (very politely) requested that we not record his talk for our vimeo page (vimeo.com/hnlondon) which is a shame because it was incredibly insightful.

If you get the opportunity to attend a talk by Azmat or any of the team, take it. They are an exceptionally clever and humble bunch and I'm thoroughly enjoying being a witness to their growth and success.
I found that occasionally their Javascript won't load, at least in Firefox. Usually works after a reload or two.
How much government regulation, redistribution, and ownership is required before we call it socialism? I am not saying that socialism or mixed systems are bad, but I would like the system we are in to be accurately described.

It seems that many of the bad things which occur are ascribed to capitalism, when they should be attributed to the mixed (or socialist) economy we actually inhabit in the west.
Orfox: New Firefox-based Android Private/Secure Browser
Steve Ballmer’s Syllabus for Next Semester
Compared to how MH17 was reported in Russian media? I think the Iranian incident was pretty admirably covered by that standard.
One thing is certain, this could make for a very interesting Macy's Thanksgiving parade[1] :-)

[1] -- http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/jackjackjack-1409213501720.jpg
Car thieves have friends and family who will be hurt if the thief goes to prison, yet nobody says the thief should walk free because of that.
In a sense with its list of default search engines, it has always been adware.
As noted in the bug report, there are plenty of extensions if you want to change the New Tab page. Here's one you might like: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab/adcpijkmbe...
I think I have achieved the same easy of development of the very old FoxPro, that is, having one form for both create and edit an item, with the combination of Laravel and AngularJS.

But of course much more is needed. FoxPro is ancient, forgotten tech.
I'm a little skeptical- why can't core developers build contracting into the blockchain so that it is totally decentralized? I suppose my question is, why do we need a company, BlockSign in this case, to perform this function?
I'm not a nautical or aeronautical engineer, but wouldn't a sub-orbital spaceplane be faster and/or more practical? I'd also be concerned about the likeliness of running into things underwater, and not being able to see well.
There's definitely some inconsistency here.

An even larger issue is probably that the way Yelp calculates ratings for a business isn't a straight average, it involves a notion of a prior expectation. I'd go into more detail here but I'm struggling to find the (I think official?) URL talking about this.
Firefox costs money. If it doesn't get it from the users (like it never was) or from Google (like it could soon be), it needs to find some way to fund anyway. This kind of advertising worries me a little but I find it acceptable. If you disagree, please do so by donating and saying it out loud and calling everyone to do like you.
I've been a developing with leap for a while now and have been waiting for something like this to come out for me to justify buying an oculus.

Anyone know if Oculus or Leap developers are making any decent profit these days?
"Inferior" is a strong word, but coders who are not given time at work to improve their skills (this is usually the case) and who never code/read about coding outside of work stagnate. I've interviewed many people like this - decades of experience, impressive sounding resume - who couldn't do fizzBuzz.

I would prefer to hire someone who has work/life balance and codes for fun on their own time over someone who's strictly a 9-5 developer.
How do you create a Stellar node?
Dude, thats freakin' slick - I like it... Gonna go for the free trial.
Don't forget also the "circus" song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance_of_the_Gladiators

the "camping" song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_Banjos

the "end of the world" song: "O Fortuna" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana_(Orff)

the "nautical" song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sailor's_Hornpipe

the "Italian" song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella_Napoletana

the "morning" song: "Ranz des Vaches" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell_Overture

Just the first couple seconds of any of those songs are universally recognizable and commonly used to set scenes.

I wonder, is there a stereotypical "American" riff used in Chinese media? The beginning of "Yankee Doodle" or something?
Gee, I wonder why Poland and Lithuania might have wanted to join NATO in the first place. It's almost as if they didn't trust Russia! How dare they. Russia would never invade a neighboring country.
Weird. Those code blocks look fine locally, so that's a bug. Will fix ASAP.

UPDATE: They actually look fine in Chrome, but not in Firefox! I'm digging into it now.

UPDATE 2: Looks like it's working now
Like many things in the startup world, the investors are the men behind the curtain pulling the strings on these myths. They perpetuate this image that startups are staffed only by super tech geniuses and big companies are staffed only by incompetent, washed-up slackers who've given up on their dreams because they want to exploit the cheap, inexperienced labor pool of naive new college graduates who will work for something "cool" for almost no money. Once you grow up and get a wife, kids, and mortgage, it isn't so important to work for the "cool" kids anymore.

There is a great wealth of expertise and mentorship that is missing in the startup world because investors throw a bunch of college kids together, tell them they're the coolest guys around, and pay them a pittance. If investors were a little more willing to offer a real salary to a person with the self-respect to demand at least market rates and reasonable working hours, I think we'd all be in a better place.
Top 8 photo apps for the iPhotographer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210957
Yeah, this was probably the early version of leap. The new SDK came out this May and it's actually improved quite a bit since then.
Adam D'Angelo blog post: Scale and Quality at Quora
Sorry about that—I've changed the two largest GIFs to videos, and will make a few of the other ones videos as well.
Where'd "suicide" come from?
do you mean you run a convention and want to use them to sell the tickets? or just listed?

they don't seem to act as a retailer but more as an aggravation and tracking of secondary markets
Tools for API and Webhook Logging, Debugging, Monitoring and Documentation
I wrote a book in large part about how Harvard reacted to my student portal in 2003. (Not particularly well.)

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html
You could argue that the cash is still in the meaty part of the curve - much of Android's growth has come from smaller, lower-powered phones, and the biggest change in KitKat was reduced memory usage so that the latest Android features could fit on low-end phones that had previously been limited to Gingerbread.

I guess Nokia didn't figure on Google managing to fit an iPhone-like interface on commodity hardware.
Necessities for Scalable Cloud Native Applications
Chinese national, not an American citizen. Appears to have bypassed background checks and didn't have the proper clearance, apparently because everybody thought somebody else did it. One day unannounced he pays cash for a ticket to china, flies back with two laptops and hard drives, the work computers he left behind have been wiped. Fusion center tells DHS, but DHS sits on the info and doesn't tell the public. I am seeing a lot newsworthy here.