skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think EDGAR is outsourced. I think EDGAR is a project run by the SEC. There appears to be a separate company called EDGAR Online which is all about taking data from the SEC's EDGAR and making it more palatable for institutional investors. The only outsourced component here is the EDGAR Dissemination System (the subscription push feed of EDGAR filings), but that is outsourced to a company called Attain, LLC.
Typically, you'd get an consulting agreement with the company, learn what problems they have, and then create some kind of solution.

Otherwise, if you're building enterprise software, you can offer to build the software for free for your first customer, and use them as your reference customer. The problem with this approach is that you can end up building something that's too customized to their specific needs.
When Law Enforcement Agencies ignore the very law they are supposed to enforce they simply become a'put people into prisons' organization. This is the real reason why you don't want them to have wide reaching powers, there is only a fine line between LEA and criminal activity.

We will see if James Comey will shed as many tears about this as he is spending on Apple's encryption.
As a SDK developer for Sprout, it is indeed a daring move, we're all very proud :)
I love programming. I'm 40 now and have been doing it since high school. I program for my day job and I program on the weekend for iPad and iPhones.

For people who don't like programming, like this ridiculous blog post, please spare us your dislike and find something else you enjoy.

I never have any of the problems that some other programmers have... it's because they are doing a job that really doesn't suit their personality.

Being emotional when it comes to programming? That's a huge red flag. Computers are not emotional. Users getting you down? Learn to deal with ridiculous user requests.

Casting about for blame? Look in the mirror.
Apple VP Greg Joswiak on iPhone 6 Plus Sales, iOS 8 Bugs
As a POC I wrote a rudimentary PHP-to-Lua converter to test this [1] (very limited in features). It performed very well.

1 - https://github.com/cretz/meh
This seems like an easy problem to fix. There should be a quiet period between market close and after-market open when all documents are released, so that everyone has a chance to see and process the documents.
Breakthrough in molecular electronics paves way for DNA-based computer circuits
A Day with Project Ara, Google's Modular Phone
15,000 pound fighting robots
Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data
Google's working on a nanoparticle-covered pill that can detect cancer
Nice point :-) I'm an author on Themeforest and I can understand what you mean. Many templates may share a similar layout but look and feel, available layout options, available features, ready designed pages and code behind them, varies a lot. My goal with uPanel is to provide an admin template which can be used on open source projects, too ;-)
Yes I am very cynical. Good catch.

The rest of your response is static and not applicable. You don't have information to back up your response, plus it's wrong.
Not sure if this will work, but this is how you'd select based on an attribute: $("[(click)]")
Android's base source is released under Apache 2. Is that not free as in freedom? Cyanogen Mod (among many other distros of Android) would not exist if it wasn't.
It's only win-win if no heads roll, as the parent proposed.
Very cool. I made a multiplayer version of Conway's Game of Life a few months ago, and it is fascinating to see how much our versions differ.

I dig how you are using "war" as not just a metaphor, but a game concept.
Inside the ICE Code Editor with Chris Strom (dartlang)
I understand. Is it because its so bad? or its not useful?
"You've described a multi-master system"

No, I haven't, unless you'd say it was already a multi-master system because it allows non-masters to continue without the master being present. What I'm suggesting is just a master being smart enough to recover its own state from where it had been replicated before. How is that even controversial? In what possible use case is it preferable to discard readily available data without an explicit user request to do so?

"Feel free to submit a pull request fixing any and all deficiencies you've found."

Give me some reason to believe it won't be torpedoed by the next bad decision or failure of diligence that comes to light, and I might. Acknowledging that this needs to be fixed would help.
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse 1 of 1 – investment or a toy for the rich
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According to the WSJ article on this, the current price is around $1500 per month. [1]

Also, note that you are paying to receive an electronic feed of a company's public SEC filings, which include filings detailing purchase and sale of stock by the company's employees, which are called "insiders" in this context.

The phrase "insider data" conjures images of insider trading, which relies on trading on material non-public information, and something quite different.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/articles/fast-traders-are-getting-data... (paywall, Google the title to bypass)
Not really sure why this article from May is suddenly relevant on hn, but anyway:

While gerrymandering does help explain the GOP's outsized representation in the House relative to their national vote share, the increasing dominance of the Democratic vote in large cities is probably more significant[1]. Essentially, if you wanted GOP representation in the House to mirror their national vote share, you'd be forced to draw some pretty nonsensical districts that sliced up urban centers so they could be mixed with the outlying (and sometimes way outlying) suburbs. Getting 90%+ of the vote in ward after ward of Chicago doesn't help your guy in Deerfield when he loses by 2%.

[1] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/upshot/why-democrats-ca...
My Mental Health Story
the only thing most people most of the time mean when they set up wi-fi is that they want to be able to connect their ipads and chromebooks to the internet at home.

IMSI catchers intercept signals broadcasted from radios that commonly transit across public property. my point was that we routinely consider things other than protocol specs in determining whether and when signals should be collected.
I also don't think we should frame discussions in terms of crimes, criminals and justice. It's more like corporately sponsored regulatory code, code violators, and punishment if you're poor or a minority.
I didn't mean to imply the title was bad in any way - it just has that look (like the famed penguin diagram :) Personally, I think it's a triumph of alliteration, especially as it made sense.

And thanks for the direct link to the IJN. I really love that format, and will definitely run it on my machine!
Wow, I'm amazed this happens in modern USA. Such methods reminds of KGB in Soviet Russia or Stasi in East Germany, where agents were often "employed" as cleaners, housekeepers, electricians, doormen etc. Looks like the whole warrant system is broken and often used only to cover up the "parallel constructions", in other words, some kind of PR stuff.
If someone from Poynt is on, what are the features that make this better than competing products? I've used Shopify for doing some PoS setups, but I'm having a hard time looking at where Poynt fits in. Other than being cheaper, it lacks some of the things that make Shopify great, namely cash handling and connecting to a back office system.
Sure. But as a product or idea, do you see a need for it.
I Love this project!
So excited to see this! Great job guys!
It is too expensive I agree..but the technology would set some new standards.
Most web development/back-end-services/java jobs are technically linux development if C# jobs are windows development right?
because there is no Netflix for Youtube...
I think I have numbers from 0-100 in a dozen languages so I'll include the missing ones. I'll see if can find the 100 most common nouns.

Any other suggestions?
Why Does Los Angeles Attract So Many Cults?
"Yeah that's great and all but I've tried that. 3 litter boxes. All cleaned twice a day, and he still shits on the carpet 2 feet away from the box. Lid on, lid off, big sidewalls, different cat litter. I've tried it all. The little shit just likes shitting on carpet I guess. And putting the fear of god into him does nothing."
How to Cure an Expectation Hangover
The point would be to enforce the openness of changes to the source. If you go in and add some things, change the design etc. and pass it off as your own, someone can take the changes you've made and do the same. Not only that, but you're required, not just encouraged, to make public any changes, which may or may not be improvements.
Regardless of the fact that it turned out to be completely wrong, and was simply a Terence Faulkner detector?

Good job detecting old conservative men who lived the bulk of their lives pre-internet before an anti-caps convention was commonplace.
So, as your link mentions...why not just use GPL?

It's good enough for Linux.
I agree in that I would rather not give my name and email before even starting the demo. I did take the demo though by quickly putting in fake information. I'd suggest to allow the user to go through the first step or two in the demo first, and then ask for the name and email as part of the demo to demonstrate the personalization capabilities.
... that wanting to deliver security fixes faster than upstream is bad?
Why research feels really hard at first
Probably because the midterm elections are 5 days away.
> Find-Package

> Install-Package

Dashes and uppercase...what terrible names. Is the windows shell case sensitive (I seem to recall it is but it may have changed)? We've been designing command line interfaces for over half a century now, this is just lazy. Shells are not magically exempt from UI best practices just because they're not graphical.
Everything you think you know about the news is probably wrong = statistics
I'm flagging this submission because it's behind a pay/register/wall.
I can also passively collect plenty of WEP traffic being broadcasted over public property and decrypt it on my computer (but I don't).

Mozilla's not aiming to do anything remotely as invasive as that, but I still don't find "anything that can be picked up passively from public property is fair game" a very compelling ethical standard, especially for an organization like Mozilla.
Strava raises $18.5M, wants to build Facebook for athletes
From a quick scan I could not find the author discussing it, but I found it amusing that the response rates did not increase as the bid-to-ask ratio increased past 1.1. I think this is because a job which advertises pay significantly more than what the engineer's preferred salary is signals that the job could be out of their league.
As a third year PhD student, I can only approve everything the author wrote.
If they conducted a de facto search of the room then they broke the law, no matter what they called it. They could have dressed as plumbers, maids or pizza delivery men - that doesn't change the fact that they conducted a search without a warrant.
Twitter partners with IBM to push social data
I appreciate the seriously of Y Combinator,
but I dislike an article like that, first the title:
'We make mistakes'

While I found the rejection a good and sincere email, I'm trying to figure out the role of this article
No brainer about a few things. No matter what anyone says, unless a recruiter gives you the following information, I am not interested:

- Salary Range. yes, a range. don't give me crap like "market rate" and "depends on experience". That's the same as saying "we won't tell you". It is understood that not everyone can negotiate the same amount of money but the range is crucial to know. For example, if I want to get paid 150K base salary and the range says 100-120K, I am not going to be bothered any further.

- Name of the client/company: Please don't play games with this one. Either you tell me the name or I am out. I don't wanna hear "Fortune 500 client with great benefits". really ?

- What are they looking for? Ok this one is subjective and sometimes difficult for a recruiter to explain. Totally understood. But please work with the hiring manager on understanding their requirement more. I blame hiring managers more on this one. I have got calls saying "we need an excellent C++ developer but donno any further details". Umm no.

- Location: Where will I need to be ? If you don't know, then I am not going to guess. I cannot move to Austin from New York (well I can't)
Only when I know these things at a minimum from a recruiter, they will get my attention.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with Internet Explorer?
We're building a web application and are finding out all browsers behave normally, but IE. Internet Explorer refuses to open our pages.

Using Fiddler, we see we receive a perfectly valid HTTP request, and answer a proper HTTP response with a valid HTML page.

Nonetheless, IE (11) keeps answering "This page can't be displayed".

How did you deal with this? Do you still test and support IE?
I wish that subscription window happened near the end, not at the beginning when I'm reading the first paragraph--that's just distracting.
This is fixing the wrong problem. The issue is not the rate at which people are getting information; it is the rate at which people are using the information which creates the volatility.

My solution is as follows. When someone places a market order, the order is not cancelable and his funds or security goes into escrow. Then he must wait for a amount of time, selected at random from some distribution by the market. For example, he might have to wait 5 minutes; or wait 2 hours. At that point, the transaction occurs. The market will clear all transactions before it closes. The idea is to significantly reduce the advantage people might gain from rapid transactions. To discourage breaking transactions into many microtransactions for purposes of gaming the distribution, we might also introduce a small per-transaction tax.
Urban Digitization and the Pulse of Cities
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It's not case sensitive in terms of execution, this is just how they are stylized: "Verb-Noun" is the standard format for PowerShell commands (or "cmdlets", to use their terminology).
I felt like it was. Things like the gentoo-on-windows project were new and lively, and that company that was backing it was getting a bigger and bigger set of packages in their repo.
Its getting like the early 2000s on /. around here. What happened to modern elastic hosting stuff?
Not really. I subscribe to multiple channels on YouTube, which has provided plenty of extra subscriptions based on the home page "What to watch" and the sidebar related videos.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/sports/ as well
I'm not sure what the actual network topology is supposed to be nor do I really understand their data replication methods across these storage pods, but they can always use an Infiniband to ethernet bridge / gateway and that'd centralize the conversion to the egress side of their switches without mucking up overhead locally. Not like you can stick an F5 load balancer right on top of a Mellanox switch and expect it to be hunky dorey, but there's lots of cheap options to be explored is all I'm saying.
Considering the increased scrutiny behind authenticity of crowdfunding (e.g. Anonbox), and given the anonymity of the campaign owner, this seems like an accident waiting to happen.
It definitely does help that we have a younger demographic. That being said our oldest colleague is in his 50's with kids, and we had 3 new fathers in their 30s as well so it's definitely doable.

We also structured the days pretty well so although everyone on the team has different hours normally, they were willing to put up with a strict schedule we put together for the them during that week.
> the only thing most people most of the time mean when they set up wi-fi is that they want to be able to connect their ipads and chromebooks to the internet at home.

These are not the people I'm arguing against, and I mentioned that in my first post. People should definitely be educated about the privacy consequences of their equipment. I'm arguing against people who do know that an SSID broadcast is a public radio signal they themselves transmit, and are still arguing that other parties (Google, Mozilla) should be responsible for their privacy regarding that signal instead of themselves.

> my point was that we routinely consider things other than protocol specs in determining whether and when signals should be collected.

A radio signal that is explicitly meant to be public should be public information. A radio signal that is meant to private, but can be made public by exploitation or specialized instrumentation should not be public information almost all of the time. If the meant-to-be-public signal can be collected en masse by an app such as Mozilla's, then there's really no way people should feel any expectation of privacy in this regard.
I actually emailed open@duckduckgo.com and got a real quick response. There is an issue open on Github now that I am following through with. Thanks for checking. If you're interested the Goodie is this one:

https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/blob/mas...
Really neat. Reminded me of the D&D downward projecting map setups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGPV4-e3JI
likely because it could be a hosted application. If he were to choose the GPL then someone could make modifications and host them as a competitive advantage without sharing the modifications to their users.
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Have you ever used Powershell? All Powershell cmdlets are named in that way, and you also can create aliases.
It would be nice to see an architecture diagram, or just a list of the planned components and their responsibilities.
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Well, Rails was talked about plenty back in the day (with its fair share of expletives), and it's proved to be anything but a children's toy.

Regarding Closure and its libraries, my impressions are that it gives tremendous maintainability and structure when you have a large team and a long-term project, but there's still a lot of boilerplate when you need things like a simple data binding. Having searched around, I've found that Angular (1.2) provides a good balance between structured, easy-to-find-things code, and fewer keystrokes to iterate fast on features. I wish React were like that, but the lack of best practices in the Flux architecture makes it hard to know where to put things - I found I was constantly worrying about shooting myself in the foot when I made architectural decisions in React.

I do think that Angular's going to get a Python-like version split, and it's refreshing that plenty of people are still writing Python 2 libraries... because I'm not leaving Angular 1.2 any time soon!
>I strongly believe infinite scrolling creates more problems than it solves //

It sure does when it's used inappropriately. But can you imagine Pinterest, say, without it?

Sure it sacrifices findability or reproducibility of a view in exchange for discoverability and presentation of new content but that sacrifice works - and IMO it can work for an archive.

Provided items of content can be found, can be tagged by users (bookmarks anyone?) then if you're targetting the presentation of continuously updated content sources infinite scroll is fine IMO.

Do you have a problem with HN because one can't link to a specific view of a list of stories? Or with Google because SERPs change? Or with your favourite blog because the front-page updates with each new post?
This isn't about about omniscience (not omnipotence BTW). This is about a far lower standard of basic diligence, expected and met by most people who work on data-storage systems. If you're given some data to store, and there's an obvious way to retain/recover that data despite and intervening failure, then failing to do that is a betrayal of the most basic trust people put in data-storage systems. Congratulations, you've implemented the distributed-system equivalent of linking fsck to mkfs. Well done. Go pat yourself on the back for conforming to your specification.
fines? do you get fines as a regular citizen if you lie with premeditation to a judge or do you get jail time? plus government officials should be held to a higher standard -> higher penalties than regular citizens imho
Windows has an app store already. I don't know if it works with the command-line tool, but if not, I'm sure they will be tied together eventually. Ubuntu has an app store as well.
Yes, hard to believe by looking out at my parking lot and what I notice on the freeway, but pickups are about an eighth of the market, according to this: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html

It's amazing that a "cross-over" is considered a truck, when there's practically nothing in common. At least the SUV shares the same chassis as a truck in most cases.

Going back to Jobs point, I would be interested in some historical numbers. The truck's healthy market share might just be due to the popularity of the SUV.
I never understood why this is an acceptable thing to do. It's democracy except you get to pick who votes for you and who doesn't, so, it's actually not.
Looks like something from The Restrictive Sections of Hogwarts School Library.

I hope it doesn't scream when I open it? :-)
This looks cool, but I can't see why contributors should assign you copyright so you can sell proprietary versions of VirtKick. Very few free software projects have copyright assignment requirements (GNU being a notable exception).
I don't think you'll like my answer, but I think it was Schneier who said that it's not necessarily any one thing: it's having easy access to a bunch of different things, together.
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Posts like this are mostly useless beyond a couple of minutes of their posting, as the issue is often resolved quickly. They might even be irrelevant to you if you are in a different geographic locations. So why bother? There's Twitter for this kind of ephemeral stuff.
> A lot of gaming is phone/tablet rather than a PC.

You can take my ability to dissipate over a half kilowatt from my cold dead hands. Some games will always be better on PC because they can make use of the power.