skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure that's true. The conclusion is that the statute "was intended and understood only to prohibit manufacturer-owned dealerships when, unlike Tesla, the manufacturer already had an affiliated dealer or dealers in Massachusetts." I think there would have to be a third-party Tesla franchisee in Massachusetts before the AG could sue on their behalf.
As a bike commuter, I'm a bit ambivalent about this - even assuming 100% compliance, will this cause more accidents than it fixes, as cars in narrow roads drift into lefthand lane to ensure keeping 3' away from a cyclist?
I was going to make this same comment as a joke, but if you read his reply to the decision, it's totally accurate. He would totally implement email in systemd if it meant Fedora would boot faster. He just decided that getting rid of email altogether would be even faster than that, and falling short of his campaign to "modernize" the distro, decided he'd find new ways around the body that makes these decisions.

https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
Utah has had this law for some time now, but it's rarely (if ever?) enforced, unfortunately.
The Danger of Back to School
Ah, that makes sense. I was just showing that job post to my coworker...it has everything I keep saying I would offer if I ran a company, like remote work and unlimited vacation. I like the API call to apply for the job, too!
Yes, Feedly. Works great on web and Android, decently customizable. I don't pay for Pro, the free version has been enough.
How we filter information about IT products
And have some way for drivers to know the exact distance between their car and cyclists.
Drivers can slow down behind the cyclist voluntarily to stay safe, or the cyclist can claim the lane to essentially force drivers behind to slow down and follow or pass when clear.
I certainly take your point; that would be awesome. And thanks for the iOS information!

It was more confused by the original article though; he seemed to be suggesting that you would click on a particular UI component first: Want to open an webpage? Go to the home screen, then say "Web Browser", then click on the browser bar, then say 'The Economist'.

But why touch on small areas of the screen at all, if Siri is just a button-hold away and takes you right there? I think the take-home message is that many of those UI components could go away - we don't need a browser bar, we don't need a home screen, if we choose to use voice instead.
The article misses the fact that the notifications all have a CTA "slide to view" but have no affordance to dismiss. I don't have an iPhone so I don't know how to dismiss those messages without viewing the app. My Android, though, always has slide-to-dismiss and click-to-view.

How many of these 40% CTR are from viewers who are frustrated that they can't figure out how to dismiss the message without clicking-through?
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The article says that no one is going to bother enforcing this new law.

Instead of waiting for law enforcement to care, the best thing you can do as a cyclist is give $25 to the MIT Press and read Effective Cycling. John Forester is an engineer with decades of cycling experience.

"Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles"

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Cycling-John-Forester/dp/026...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_cycling
The real reason why Y Combinator is dominating the world of startups
Birth Control: A Twenty-Something’s Best Asset Class
Misfit Flash
> Sometimes they solve problems completely differently than you imagined and that’s ok

sometimes this is okay, sometimes this isn't okay.

i've seen situations where there is a clear and coherent specification (use django, make a web app, have it call these APIs) to be implemented and the remote contractor completely deviated from it without telling anyone, wasting 2 weeks of time (delivered ruby, not a web app, using different APIs). this was done under questionable-at-best circumstances, saying one thing, and doing another, shirking responsbility for things that didn't tickle the guy's fancy, etc.

as a manager you need to be able to terminate and cut sunk costs or one person can derail an entire project. toxic people who say one thing and do another rely on the inability of management to make decisions like that.
On a related note, we are hiring a front end engineer to work on Ubuntu phone and desktop. Stack is Qt,QML, JS and possibly some html5. Could work for a QML dev or a web dev who wants to learn Qt. London based position - email me at jouni.helminen@canonical.com
According to the article, drivers can pass within 3' if they slow down to a reasonable speed. I'm sure news reporters will be on right top of this little detail during their next-to-busy-road reports.
A different answer: I don't use an RSS reader per se, but I use the rss-to-nntp gateway that gwene.org [0] is. It's hosted by the same guy behind the well-known gmane.org.

I then use the Thunderbird built-in NNTP reader to get all my feeds.

I think this is a good way to do it, because it means we could gather all RSS-retrieving capabilities for common sites and share the items much more efficiently than having everyone poll on all servers. When you think of it, a Network News Transfer Protocol seems to be a good solution for propagating sites updates.

It also means that I don't get to share my "seen/flagged" status across devices, which is good: I have taken this occasion to follow less and less sites, and live more outside of the feeds than inside them.

Note: the web reader of gwene.org (read.gwene.org) seems to be outdated; if you point your news reader at news.gwene.org you will get all the latest entries.

[0] http://gwene.org/
Before iPhone 6 Launch Apple Has 40% of US Smartphone Market
12 feet wide seems to be the standard for interstates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane#Lane_width), where there are no bikes. Surface roads tend to vary quite a bit.
Except Boeing is not the "least risky" option, because their vehicle hasn't even been tested. "Least risky" doesn't just mean the company record. The CST-100 is a brand new vehicle, and Boeing's oh so famous "track record" doesn't apply. Not to mention the rocket it is designed for (Blue Origin BE-3) has also yet to be tested. Doesn't look like a low risk combination to me.

Ironically, the Falcon 9 and the Dragon are indeed the "least risky" choice here, by a huge margin.
That reasoning will be held to be not dicta on the standing issue of private dealers, but would probably be relitigated if the AG sued :)

This is because the legal conclusion (under the heading "Conclusion") is limited to the dealers and their private right of action, and thus, only the reasoning that applied to that is considered stare decisis.

BUt otherwise, you may end up right. Courts tend to be finicky about this stuff, depending on circumstances.
Ask HN: Quit my job. Company coming after me
I moved my family from Denver to the Bay Area to work for a medical device startup. The pay was very good. After about 4 months, I decided to part ways with them for personal reasons.

The timing was unfortunate as I quit the day after I received a performance award. I did finish up a major project before I quit though.

The day I announced my intention to quit, my manager asked me to reconsider my decision. After I stuck to my decision, he had the VP of HR talk to me. This was when things became a little unsettling. HR manager advised that I pack my belongings and leave the building before either VP A or VP B found out about my decision to leave. I was also told that I would not find any positions in the Medical Device Industry in the Bay Area. Towards the end of our conversation, HR lady mentioned that her mental state was transitioning towards anger. Due to these comments, I thought it best to leave the premises as soon as possible. I cleaned out my desk (on a friday), stayed for a few more hours, transitioned everything that I could think of to other co-workers, turned over my keys and left.

I later found out from another pretty reliable source that the company has decided to make life as difficult for me as possible. Other employees have been questioned of their interactions with me after I quit.

1. I need to discuss the issue with a good attorney if possible. I am really new to this area and don't have any contacts. References are appreciated.

2. I was asked to return a 100% of my sign-on bonus. I am willing to return it. However, about 30-40% of that was withheld for tax purposes. Do I give them the entire amount and claim the taxed amount from IRS?

3. I know that most of the issues here would probably be best discussed with an attorney. However, I would appreciate HN advise as well.
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P4, as much as there are aspects of it I hate, handles the situation where you have binary files in the repo much better than most source code control systems do... especially git which sucks at that[1]. Game companies tend to have potentially quite large (by SCCS standards) binary assets mixed in with the code or even when they are cleanly separated, they like to have the standardization of everyone using the same version control system instead of having something separate for the artists.

([1] Predictably someone will probably want to respond to this with some link that shows a complicated and non-intuitive way in which you can get git to be halfway reasonable with handling binary files, though this will just prove my point more than disprove it, when compared to P4 which just handles binary files great out of the box with no thinking or planning required).
Contd..
4. Lesson learned: The conversation with HR didn't turn out the way I expected. Although I was asked by the HR manager to turn in my resignation, I was unsettled enough by the order to leave that I forgot to give my resignation in writing. I was actually willing to do stay around a even a month for them until they hired a replacement and I had mentioned that to my manager. Not in writing though. Just a note for others. This gave them enough ammo to call a few recruiters and tell them that I quit without even a 2 week notice (Recruiters being who they are immediately called me and told me about other companies that are hiring). Also, my leaving did make life easier for the other developers for a little while.

5. Stay tuned! Not sure what will come out of this, but don't want to go bankrupt or spend a considerable amount of time and resources in court for sure. I'd consider it a win if I can just write a check for the sign-on bonus minus the tax deduction and both parties forget about it. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
Been using Firefox mobile for four months now, and forcefully removed both chrome and the vulnerable browser from my device about one month in. Slight battery drain issues, but those are almost all solved in recent releases. Definitely give it a try.
http://krillapps.com/feedy/
Leading tech investors warn of bubble risk 'unprecedented since 99'
It's the "replacement principle". Alice and Bob are co-founders. Bob gets hit by a bus and goes on disability for N months; he's out of the picture. The company must now replace Bob. Does it have the resources to do that?

If the bus hits Bob during the first two months, Alice and Bob are probably the only employees. Risk is still very high. Bob must be replaced with another co-founder, who will demand the usual amount of co-founder equity: 50%. The co-founder shouldn't settle for 25% of the company. (For that matter, neither should Alice.) Bob needs to get nothing. That's why there needs to be a one-year cliff.

The same logic applies if the bus hits Bob in month 13. If Bob disappears with 50% of the equity, there just won't be enough equity left to exchange for the employees that haven't been hired yet. You can only give away half the company so many times. However, by month 13 the company has hopefully learned something, built something, gotten some traction, so risk is lower. Perhaps a few more employees have been hired. The company can now afford to give Bob 25%, plus 2% per month.

The vesting timeframe is based on the typical time required for the founders to distribute their equity among a group of early-stage employees. It makes intuitive sense: To insure against the loss of any one person, the company recruits more and more people and shares the risk, and the reward, among them all. Eventually the company is sufficiently distributed that it can withstand even the loss of a co-founder.

But it doesn't happen overnight. As Spolsky says, it will take roughly a year to hire every round of employees. Hiring is hard, growing a functional organization is hard, and these things can only happen on human timescales: Months and years, not hours and days.

After the first four years, Bob's share will have been diluted by grants to investors and early-stage employees, and the company will have a track record and a trajectory, which mitigates risk. At that point, future success won't depend on keeping Bob from packing up his full share and moving to Costa Rica.
Let me go out and just say this, because it needs to be said. If my son (and yes I do have one) was in some sort of trouble, or danger, or perhaps taken from me for whatever reason, and by someone I don't trust to take care of him... Then you can bet your bones I'll "abuse" my "privileged position" in order to rectify the situation and bring him home safely.

Not because I'm some sort of abusive father, or asshole that wants to stalk people. But because I want to protect my son. There you go, a perfectly valid and simple reason for a normal, non-abusive person to break rules in order to do good.
currently, the only way to achieve this is through a dkim-proxy or an experimental filter in OpenSMTPD-extras.

we have recently finished an API for implementing filters and we're working on stabilizing the interface before making it public.
Thank you! I'm really looking forward to following online!
Hey! We're planning on adding environments (everything that uses \begin and \end) sometime soon. There's a couple github issues touching on this point; if you want to know how development's going, you can follow one of the issues.
Department of Labor Investigating Early Release of U.S. Producer-Price Index
> employee's individual income tax goes to paying for infrastructure and service that that employee utilise

With all due respect, that is nonsense. There is nothing magic about the tax dollars I pay to enforce that they go to the things I use. It's all one big bucket of money.

Case in point: The social security surplus the U.S. ran when the baby boomers were young will be really useful as the baby boomer start retiring. That money ended up being spent just like any other tax dollars.

I agree with your point about tax loopholes being easier for large actors to take advantage of. That seems like a good case for simplifying tax codes, though, not a case for adding even more regulations that rich corporations will inevitably circumvent.

And don't get me started on VAT. That stuff is just a big loophole from the get-go (arbitrary tax rates based on arbitrary categorizations, etc.).
My take: because of the ambiguities in the language and difficulty in enforcement, this law accomplishes very little except to make car v. cycle resentment that much stronger.
Sharing a unified front end across multiple Rails projects
Its interesting that the first picture on the story shows a violation even though there's way more than 3 feet of separation - my understanding is you're not allowed to cross a double yellow line to maintain the distance,
LaGrange is right about one thing: your description of the children as "his own" is unwarranted.

Let's assume, though it's not stated outright, that the kids are biologically theirs. The story uses the word "girlfriend". So they weren't married. So legally, the kids were actually hers; he has no leg to stand on.

If you'd said "their kids" I wouldn't have objected -- maybe LaGrange wouldn't either -- but there's no way it's right to refer to these kids as "his".
The common trope when it comes to associating leashes and marriage is wives having their husbands on leashes (and googling bears this out). If you think that the statement in that post was actually meant to refer to something other than the common trope, I'd be curious why.

If you do think it refers to the common trope, I'm curious why you think "my" versus "a" makes a difference.

Regardless, the point of the quote marks in that parenthetical was to denote common tropes that appear in his comment, not to use his exact language. I'm sorry that their usage was confusing.
I don't think you can say that about all governments. Maybe your government is that way, I don't know...
I thought there was a scheme afoot to import the dragonfly mail agent into freebsd, but I'm not up on the current status.
Boeing, SpaceX win NASA spaceflight contracts
"The CHP says it's prepared to enforce the law but is not gearing up for any big crackdown and ticket-writing campaign to catch motorists a few inches inside the three-foot space."

"It's a great educational tool for people to share the road," Prinz said, "but the law will only be as effective as people allow it to be."

For some reason article does not give me confidence that law will be enforced.
One year is good enough for 25% of the equity. A one year commitment is pretty minimal, and you certainly have not earned the full stake yet.
tt-rss. Works great on my PC but I never found a good solution for reading it on mobile.
I don't think the Netherlands has any such law, and if we do no one cares.

There's basically one simple law that the US should copy: if you hit a weaker road user, be it a cyclist, pedestrian or anything else, with your car, you are completely liable unless there's proven utterly reckless behavior by the other party.
Interesting article by the guy who clearly have been there...
Is that even feasible? Round here that would result in no cyclist being passed...ever.
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Until you have a handle on that, perhaps you should just leave a bunch of extra space.
Probably not, since they weren't married.
I use a combination of Google's Newsstand and Feedly. My must-read subscriptions go to Feedly. Basically blogs of people who I want to follow, some sources related to my local area etc. Others like The Verge, Techcrunch etc. go to Newsstand.
>Is it me, or is the benefit of that extremely small? I can move my finger and tap the 'Instagram' icon quicker than I can say "Instagram".

That's because you're picturing it as the slow clunky voice detection we have today. Imagine just picking up your phone and saying naturally: "untog's instagram" and it loads up, no touching no prompting.
When is the best time of day to submit to Reddit?
Really? What's the sum total value of all lobby sign-in books in the entire world? (And who even takes them that seriously?) I'm all for creative destruction, but what next, a webapp to replace writing contents descriptions on boxes while moving? SaaS to replace little "sign here" stickers on the boss's documents? A social network to replace writing graffiti on bathroom stalls? Parts of the article make the company sound like they're reading 1984 as a guidebook. #cantbelieveitsnottheonion
this old [2000] piece from joel spolsky on picking a growth model and sticking to it is still a good read:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html
perhaps, what I'm saying is cheap money is unlikely to stop for years to come
Dustin is right: a truly pleasant user experience would necessary involve continuous listening (without hotword à la OK Google), as well as leveraging the user context much more than what Siri or Google Now do today. See for instance the vision depicted in the movie Her [1].

Beyond Google or Apple, a few startups (like us at wit.ai) are hard at work designing building blocks to help developers solve these problems.

[1] https://wit.ai/blog/2014/02/24/her-the-movie
What the hell? "The kids" are suddenly now "his kids"? And the woman is described as "his girlfriend", meaning they weren't married, meaning even if he's the biological father, he has no rights to them. If he's not going to take on the responsibilities of getting married, he's in no position to complain when she leaves!

-- Anyway, I didn't say his used of "bitch" proved anything. But I've seen enough people in abusive relationships to know that it's a clue. The fact that he would illegally (and surely, contrary to company policy) abuse his position as an AT&T employee to stalk her further clarifies the picture.
Accurate and fast facial recognition (combined with cheap public cameras and abundant cheap storage) is one of the few technologies that makes me truly dread possibility. I don't want to live in a world where all travel outside of my house can be reconstructed and scrutinized at a later date, even if the only party with that ability is the government.
At this range, the estimate can be wildly inaccurate. For example, there may be a maximum distance imposed, say 60 miles at about $120 http://orangecountylyftcoupons.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/how-...
The idea of containerization is older than Google. You can take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system%E2%80%93level_...

Companies such as Microsoft and VMware who are leaders in the Windows application virtualization sector (via App-V and ThinApp) don't have complete solutions in this space.

Their solutions do a lot of tricks to simulate a container (e.g: user mode hooking, filtering drivers) while Docker uses kernel extensions.
Dancers work on Wall Street?
Is religious conversion really a fundamental right, or can we ban it?
> It doesn't help that even the "smart" money has no where to go that will provide significant returns [1].

This is an inaccurate understanding of what is taking place.

It's not that there are no asset classes capable of delivering "significant" returns today; heck, the S&P 500 has nearly doubled in the past four years. It's that to get returns, investors have been forced to pay significant premiums and take on greater risk.

That said, the money that is pouring into startups (through venture funds, super angel funds and individual angels) is not money that was previously being invested in Treasuries. The startup bubble is being fueled by the public equities bubble, which is a rising tide that has lifted a lot of boats.
Thats a whos who of the startup world which is fantastic. I hope you can motivate students in not only on just the web side to change the world. Sort of a great way to teach future entrepreneurs the requirements, structure and path of a successful startup.
Show HN: Kikagram
Yes, I believe that a cash tip is not included in the data. But compared to other TMZ news we figured it 'could' be interesting.
Why it seems that Donald Trump is always bankrupt
Why your JavaScript tracking leaks data
The analogy of "death by 1000 paper cuts" is really nice. The only problem is that "paper cuts" make part of everybody's life, you cannot avoid them. Anyway if you don't focus on them they will heal fast and make you stronger.
Startups aren't meant to let one spend time with his family.

It's also quite common that first 4-12 months in a new company (startup or not) are much more demanding than ongoing work (due to ramp up).
> "...what kind of engineer would be willing..."
The kind that ends up on a layoff list when the inevitable
slowdown occurs. This is a zero-glory, zero-thanks task, with plenty of risk.

> "...support huge/complex codebases like web-browsers
> across platform versions..."
What could go wrong ?
Inoreader as well. Hands down the best of the bunch which emerged after Google Reader was closed.