skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the tiles first rolled out with Facebook etc a little while back I thought it was going to feel cheap or annoying, but I haven't really noticed. Because of that, I'm not really sure how this is going to generate much revenue either. The go away so quickly after a few minutes of browsing that I almost feel like at some point they'll need to start mixing in a couple ad tiles on each view to generate any meaningful revenue.
'Apparently'.

It isn't the indictment that causes financial institutions to collapse, it is the exodus of clients.

For this 'death blow indictment' theory to hold water you'd have to assert that many more people would stop dealing with these firms if indicted than have left them after hearing about these alleged misdeeds for years from the media.

Yes, Arthur Andersen collapsed but their charges were a big surprise and hinted at something much bigger.
I can see why a publicly traded company wants to avoid a trial though, defendants are always perceived to be guilty of something. A trial for a company even when factually innocent can damage a company's reputation. Just a well-timed indictment could sink some companies.
Meh. Mozilla has to do this because they have become fat and bloated thanks to Google money. They should go back to their roots and shrink back down to the scrappy little organization that depended on its users for donations and promotion. That Mozilla would never have turned to adware.
The problem is not that the company would go bankrupt if charges were filed, in fact the author argues that it would be less costly for the companies to go to court. The problem is that the company's officers and employees would lose their jobs, and likely become unemployable at their previous level. Because of this personal cost to the officers and employees, settlement becomes their only viable option.
Maybe that's the case but I literally never look at maps except when I'm actually trying to go somewhere. Google maps have the arrive / leave by input that helps with your situation though.
Switching from pedestrian to car require to many actions and is not obvious.
You can add live events at limelight.seatgeek.com, but it's more geared towards smaller bands.
We wanted National Health Service. We didn't get that. We got mandated insurance. No wonder nobody's happy about it.
How our org is set up for DevOps
It was much faster than python.

smirk
I often want to take routes immediately - can we have a "now" option?
As most people, I'm not a big fan of Ads, but in this case I'm making an exception, provided it helps Mozilla diversify its source of incomes (at least a bit), I'm all for it.
https://citymapper.com/ is down. Google Maps is up. I don't think I can say "Bye, Google Maps" just yet...
Nobody knows what Google Now is. It's hidden away in the Google Search app in iOS (who uses the Google Search app? Nobody I know. You search in a browser.), accessible only if you happen to know to swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Because that's a really obvious place for a mapping app to be.
Unfortunately, that Mozilla would, in all likelihood, have long since sunk without trace.

Not that I like this development, but I think it basically is what it is, in the absence of a genuine alternative.

(edit after 25 mins: actually, someone mentioned Iceweasel and Icecat up the page a way, neither of which I thought of - I guess there are genuine alternatives after all.)
What about this is so bad to begin with? It looks like this is standard industry practice now?
But when one person steals a car, you don't send their spouse and kids to jail with them. Right?
So we're talking about cases like threatening the world financial system, polluting the whole gulf of mexico, helping the sudanese government while the're committing an actual genocide.. and you're saying the legal system shouldn't act because what if some CxO who profitted from those actions loses their job? Am I misreading you?
Good to know, thanks for the update! I'll take a look on it soon.
Using IFTTT strikes me as a bit of a security risk or am I missing something?
Crypto-economics: Beyond Bitcoin – An Intro Course on Gibbon.co
Michael, let me ask two predictable questions.

1. When do you expect to complete the 3rd edition? Seeing as the book is being heavily reworked and knowing your attention to detail, I guess the answer is "when it's ready".

2. Will the Rails version be fixed at 4.1?
Show HN: LuaJIT FFI binding to libuv with coroutines
Show HN: Gridpaste – A tool to paste and share intuitive geometry on the plane
This is a good question. I work with Openstack and was clueless about a lot of enterprise networking concepts .. e.g. vlans, GRE tunnels, VPN, etc. I have also looked into courses but haven't found something that fits my needs (focus on knowledge instead of a cert). Instead of buying networking gear, you might be able to use some Cisco emulation software. I've heard that is sufficient for the first level of cert. Unfortunately, it seems you can only get access to the software by taking an official course. I've watched a bunch of cert related videos on Youtube and those have helped me.
Fun, Challenging, NEED TO HAVE, iOS Puzzle Game
Facebook has several formal and informal training opportunities available for engineers (and all employees, really).

There's Bootcamp, primarily for New Hires, but which anyone can go to if they like. I teach a class there about how our Traffic management works - load balancers, and so forth.

There's also classes about learning to program on iOS or Android (those are generally a week long), or on Haskell or C++ or D (these are generally a few hours a week for a few weeks), and smaller ad-hoc 1-4 hour classes on things like the data pipeline tools, debugging and performance tools, and so forth.

There are also ad-hoc "Tech Talks" which just discuss general topics without a specific "learning" focus.

And then there are non-technology but career-oriented courses about time management, technical leadership, managing your manager, how to give good feedback, how to have difficult conversations, and so forth.
It's interesting to see this on HN. I came across one of these when randomly wandering a residential street in Toronto, and was thoroughly intrigued as I looked up the website on my phone. I didn't end up taking any of the books, but it did seem to be pretty well-stocked.
Is there a way to legally get PacketTracer without going through a course? I looked and have had no luck so far :(
>"not enough people went to jail"

This would be addressed if individuals were charged criminally, but the prosecutors seem to prefer charging the corporations, then negotiating a settlement, over prosecuting individuals. Charging corporations with criminal actions never made much sense to me, but it seems that the point the author is making is that prosecutors prefer these 'quick wins' to going after corporations with civil lawsuits, or individuals with any charges at all.
I'd at least like to pretend that I'm not giving Google any more data.
And your same indignant stance will get largely ignored by me, because it ignores a core fact: The US doesn't have imminent jurisdiction over you. You likely aren't ever going to run for political office in the United States. The US probably doesn't share data with local Japanese law enforcement.

In short, the practical threat is much lower for you than it is for an American. The CIA spied on the Intelligence committee charged with the agency's oversight. The NSA and CIA and FBI all likely have dossiers on every state and federal politician in the country. That means a heck of a lot more than them doing legit SIGINT on adversaries across the world.

And frankly, even if I completely agree with you, we're still talking about the U.S. Constitution being blatantly ignored. I know canonical legal documents of a country aren't as big a thing in other places, but here, it tends to mean something.
Maybe but a search engine provides a service for no cost (except sometimes your privacy), an ad is there to sell you a product.
I would recommend downloading the code and building from source on your own hardware or an EC2 instance (a medium sized instance should be good enough).

Stellard repository: https://github.com/stellar/stellard
You can follow this wiki for build instructions: https://wiki.stellar.org/Building_Stellard

Some people may have had luck with Vagrant or Docker, but since I have not I can't vouch for those methods.
I don't mind it. I think it helps me do my job.

This is the first job I've worked that the company had a sales team. One of my jobs is developing solutions for the sales team. Being able to overhear their interactions with customers is invaluable to understanding the types of technology solutions they need.

That being said, right now our two engineers sit in the middle of sales guy crossfire. 3 sales guys in front of me, 2 behind me, all talking in my direction. That's not ideal, and we're going to change that soon.

It's also helpful if you consider a programmer at a startup to be more than a programmer. Sure, I don't sit and code for 8 hours a day, but I'm also a product guy, marketing guy, growth guy, business dev idea guy, etc. That's what I love about startups. Sure, I get to work on cool coding work, but I also get to contribute and shape almost all the other things that I do, and I can do that better by being exposed to all sides of the business in the open plan.

Now, as we grow we plan on separating off engineering teams so they can focus, but at an early stage startup being in the heart of everything is invaluable.
What would a UK flag look like without Scotland?
It works for the rest of society to remove criminals.

Does it really? I thought enacting more extreme sentencing didn't actually lead to having lower crime.
Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
I looks great so far, I'm really excited about the extended auth section. Have you ever given any thought to adding a section on working with/building APIs?
I'm not sure that it is as bad as you think. The market vacuum created by the company's missing presence would be filled by a competitor, who would then need to hire staff. It's a strong incentive to make sure that you're involved with a company who conducts all of their business legitimately.
Firefox chased me away a long time ago with the way their bug reports are (not) handled. While I won't deny they're still a net force for good on the web, if I had been donating to them even with that in mind, this action would have caused me to stop.

With any possible objective definition, Firefox is now adware.
The power of free design: why you should do pro-bono work (sometimes)
Police raid gamer's office while he was live-streaming
Oculus has sold like 100K headsets at most. They raised 75M in funding then got bought for $2B. Definitely not profitable if you consider money invested to profit made.

Another metric might be burn rate to income. 100000 units x $350 = $35M, so maybe to this point they haven't spend that $35M. Something feels off about this. Oh right, cost of devices. So it's burn rate to profit. 100000 units x $50 = $5M. They may have spent less than $5M so far, but I'd be surprised.
I expect the full 3rd edition draft will be released within a couple of weeks. I hope to make a full launch (with screencasts) some time in October or November.

I expect to use Rails 4.1 unless 4.2 is out of beta in time to use for the screencasts. I've compartmentalized the version-specific material, though, so I'm cautiously optimistic that I can swap in new Rails versions (even in the screencasts) as they're released.
Pyonkee (Scratch on iPad)
Shark Punch is an example compelling game design using this type of tech. Hahaha.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/10/shark-punch-oculu...
London artist hacks Google Glass to share artistic process
> If it doesn't get it from the users (like it never was)

But early Mozilla was supported by its users, through donations of both code and money. Volunteers also spearheaded the hugely successful "get Firefox" campaign. Thanks to Google money, Mozilla can now afford to pay top dollar for engineers and prime office space on the Embarcaderro. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but I sometimes wonder if it may have made Mozilla a less focused and user-centric organization than it used to be.
How many units are we talking about here? 10? 100? 1000? 10000?

I doubt it's more than a couple hundred. That's a lot of people who can't find good housing for sure, but I doubt it's enough to have any real impact on the price of rental housing in the city.
Nice feedback about your experience and thank you for it. Are you guys stop your app ? or is still live ?
How is that bullshit? You've got a page of your commonly-visited sites that would be empty if not pre-populated. Mozilla has offered up a balanced way to pre-populate it: put popular sites up for free and offer a handful of spots to other people who will pay for it.

I've got a Samsung SMART TV that comes with something called "Smart Hub". In the same way as Mozilla they've pre-populated a number of applications that could be useful. This means that Netflix and Youtube are now a single click away for me and usable as soon as the TV is powered on. If they hadn't pre-populated something in the Smart Hub, I'd have to dig through the catalog for to find the apps I want to use, and I'd be staring at an empty screen trying to figure out what I need to do on that page, which is probably the same sort of experience that new users might feel trying to navigate the web.

Defaults help you get started fast, and having "something" rather than "nothing" doesn't automatically mean "cluttered".
If more users donated to Mozilla, Mozilla wouldn't need to find other sources of money (primarily Google).

Honest question: have you donated to Mozilla? And do you use Firefox? (If the answer to both of those is not 'yes', it's hard to claim that they should abandon their primary source of funding and rely solely on user support.)
I've seen these in St.Petersburg, Russia ~month ago.
No, I didn't. There are IT shift workers too.

The post I was replying to said they thought Computer and Math workers would be more night owls. Something that is really just based on the mothers basement late at night stereotype of those called geeks.

I was saying that IT workers just aren't that different than everyone else.
Life beyond Distributed Transactions (2007) [pdf]
I am just getting to the root of the issue. This article reeks of political bias and motivation. This article isn't really talking about that. I tend to look at things in grand contexts and I can't ignore that aspect of this article.
"Hail to the Chief" comes to mind as used for setting scenes in America in many movies. Usually scenes having to do with the character playing the president, but in a lot movies that is the main time they need to say 'hey this america people'
Agreed, the only thing that's been done sort of well is full body controls in MS Kinect. But it's only really the dancing games that I've found compelling. Most gamers would rather just play with a controller for most game genres they already enjoy.
Or that settling out of court shouldn't be an option. Since if it is, everyone will take it and the system will attempt to corrupt itself.
I think Mozilla could have tried the Wikimedia way.
No, cavitation does not mean "bubble of air". It means "bubble of vacuum". Well, not really, of course, but rather "a bubble of the vapor of the given liquid, at the liquid's vapor pressure (whatever that is at the given temperature)" which is the closest thing you get to a vacuum when you forcefully move some liquid around so vigorously that it separates from your apparatus.
Memoization is one the most useful things I learned about in Common Lisp. Glad to see it in D.

It allows the program to have recursive algorithms with the performance of optimized for loops.
Multi-process Firefox is codenamed "Electrolysis" or e10s and is already available in nightly builds. https://nightly.mozilla.org/ You can set it to make every tab its own process, or explicitly ask for an e10s window. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Enabling_Electrolysis
What a terrible, terrible article. Why is this blog-able information, there is nothing substantial here. Everything is future possibilities and no concrete details.

There have been many people working on similar projects to this in academia and otherwise. "Identifying the proteins that modify p53" is incredibly easy with the database information in Medline and doesn't require a "Watson" to do so. That being said, finding connections within medical literature could be interesting, but only if it is combined with other public databases that describe protein interactions and gene information. This blog post could be much more detailed in this sense.
btw why HN is downvoting my post?

> Adware, or advertising-supported software, is any software package which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author.
That Mozilla could not make Firefox compete against Apple's Safari, Opera's and Google's Blink, and Microsoft's IE.
All that while developing a mobile OS, creating a new browser engine, mantaining Thunderbird, creating a marketplace, improving web standards, rolling out Mozilla Persona, teaching how to code the web to everyone…
AirEnergy 3D – A 3D printed, opensource, mobile wind turbine
just to clarify, you are insisting we follw up with a phone call reiterating what we just had said in the email?

i understand how it can differeniate you from the 100+ emails they recieve everyday but what benefits does it have by immediately follow up? i tend to give them 1-3 days to read + respond before a follow up
So rare to hear about this kind of thing so "present tense"

And is it just me or is it just a little bit funny to hear about an ALS patient getting frozen cryogenically right as the ice bucket challenge sweeps the globe... I dare say he's truly taken the ultimate ice bucket challenge!
Rudder: An etcd backed overlay network for containers
GOG add DRM-free video with optional HTML streaming to their service
I (hopefully) assume this will get removed in Iceweasel and Icecat.
That appears to be several things:

1) True.

2) Consistent with statements made by Google.

3) Quickly mitigated by Google when it began encrypting traffic between data centers.
Wola, didn't know about this feature of Google. Creepy.
I'm reaaaally getting tired of IBM's PR department plastering Watson press releases all over the place in the guise of "news". Especially when "Watson" is more of a brand name, and there's next to no evidence that whatever "it" is is actually better or more cost-effective than off-the-shelf techniques (let alone the frontier of research) at any particular machine learning application.

"Ford sees broader role for Taurus in aiding transportation networks of the future!" Of course they do.
Citymapper is okay, it sometimes screws up with its notifications feature though. I live in London and have it set to notify me if my "favourited" tube lines are suffering problems.

A signal failure happened earlier this week on my line and I received no notification of it, only finding out when I got to the station.

It's probably an issues to do with Androids background notification system or something, but I dunno
Change has been deployed
Only two weeks? Splendid, I start reading through the draft right now.
My personal opinion is that it does not make much sense to lay criminal charges against a corporation, especially if what "The Economist" is describing is true. I would prefer that the individuals (such as the CxO) responsible for crimes be charged with any relevant civil or criminal laws, and that the corporation only be charged with civil suits.

The problem described here appears to be that no one is truly representing the interests of the shareholders, who are absorbing the losses; one of the questions the author(s) present(s) is whether it is even possible for any employee or officer of the corporation to represent the shareholders' interests if there is a conflict.
How is IFTTT going to make money?
You can install an extension that replaces GIFs with gfycat videos. Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gfycat-compan... or Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autogfy-automatic-...
You mean like this?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_...

It doesn't mean I don't understand you and don't agree with you, but you have to bear in mind that Wikipedia doesn't have competitors while Firefox has, a lot of them. And they don't need money, they don't need to display you advertising: because they ARE advertising (well, kind of, but not too far away in the Google and Opera case).
I don't think the donations could support mozilla today. I mean look at Wikipedia: how many people it employs, how many pageviews it gets, how drastic its donation drives are and it's not doing amazingly well financially.

And "get firefox" is part of the reasons the google thing worked - it increased the userbase drastically. But it never was a viable way to make money.
Nice Try....

As someone who works in the biological sciences and who has played around with various machine learning algorithms (ann, k-nn) this sounds like an advertising gimmick. I am all for using computers to process and analyze data, but frankly machine learning has not reached a point yet where algorithms can "identify" new hypotheses by sifting through the scientific literature.
If settling shouldn't be an option, and indictment is unthinkable, what's that leave for enforcement?

I'm unhappy with the settlements and would have liked to see a big trial, it would have resulted in much bigger fines IMO for these deplorable actions. But that takes a lot more money from the government side. I wonder how the article author feels about "more federal spending".
And I totally understand all of that. But if your mapping data comes from Google Maps (which it seems to), and your normal map interaction design is superior (which it seems to be), then why not let everyone use the map features, and roll out things like real-time transit data to cities as you can?
This IS totally decentralized contracting built into the blockchain :). The link above is to a specification that allows everyone can create contracts in a consistent manner. It's independent of the company, Blocksign, who offers packaged a way for consumers to do it, but any developer (or determined consumer) can use the specification to create contracts themselves that will be compatible with any other system created with the same specification.
A short, inflammatory comment like yours will probably attract downvotes because it doesn't offer much to the conversation other than offering a starting point for a flamewar.
I'd rather like to see a progress bar for donations (just like on Wikipedia, reddit and Kickstarter) and I wouldn't mind if it was boldly integrated into the user interface (for example next to the address bar). Advertisement does not feel right for a company like Mozilla.
It isn't adware anyway.

1. It shows ads only to a small fraction of new users and for a limited period of time.
2. It uses ads to provide a revenue diversity. Ads are just a new revenue source. Not the only one.
Well, that's odd. They have the wrapped characters in Mac Chrome for me, but not in FF.

Another comment says change deployed but they're still off in Chrome on Mac (even with a forced/shift reload): http://imgur.com/IIaUiav
I didn't know who he was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(cypherpunk)

"Hal Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) was a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmerman. In his early career, he is credited as lead developer on several console games"

"In January 2009, Finney was the Bitcoin network's first recipient transaction."
The sound of the Beethoven piece is amazing.
Checkout Waze. It calculates time off your current route.