skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With "100% time" you certainly cannot legally do this. I can't go to work and devote some time to some side project using my company's resources and while getting paid to be doing other work. Sure, I could put in "100% time" into doing it, but it would be illegal.

You missed his point.

His 100% time is not like the 80% expanded. It's like the 20% expanded.

I.e instead of something like Google paying him to devote 20% to extra stuff he likes, he choose to work 100% of his time in stuff he likes, and pay himself with that.
If you already work 50 hours a week, I am sure they will happily allow additional 10 hours for your hobbies :-)
By default, no. But you can easily enable it. At least for mail/calendar/contacts.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/yahoo-mail-makes-https...
Congrats and Thank You! I just purchased the book, and look forward to reading it. As a young software engineer, I enjoy reading books like this to get many different points of view that I can learn from.

In relation to the comments about the price--I think it is reasonable. It really depends on how much you think you can get out of this book, or a book like this.
Actually when you apply the correlation between rising income levels and lowering reproduction rates to the projections of rising incomes of those who are now poor and reproducing at (relatively) high rates, global population is expected to start falling in as little as 20 years (admittedly this is a political topic and these is a wide range of projections available, including many who foresee an increase to 15 or 20 billion in 100 years).

Either way, what's causing infertility is quite obvious - economic prosperity does.
> Of course he would. Big corporations can buy things and sell things, but they can't legally send out men with guns and dogs to simply take what they decide they need.

Well, sure, because we have a government to stop them.
And without the referral link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002STNBRK
He'll know? Hell no!
Which is caramel, presumably
So what part of this is censorship? The iPhone's not preventing you from spelling those words correctly, is it?
I needed to organize. Customization and tags.. thank you.

I really couldn't wait for Github to develop Gist more features than a VCS notepad.
OK, I learned this in A level (high school) chemistry, but I can't seem to find a wikipedia article about it.

They use clay beads, which are an aluminium mesh with H and OH groups weakly bonded to it (a weak ionic bond like this is called a "Ligand bond"[1]).

Firstly, it filters out bacteria and "bits" because of the porosity of the mesh (works like pushing current through a complicated network).

However, additionally it filters out non-H-or-OH ions from the water, which have a stronger Ligand bond with the Al mesh. (Obviously you eventually run out of H and OH ions in the network, as they're all replaced, which is when you need to change your filter.)

As such, we used clay-filtered tap water as 'distilled' water in all our experiments, because the worst it contains is bacteria and dissolved salts. I can't speak for the Coca Cola though, that's weird. I'm sure organic molecules would be small enough to get between the beads but too heavy/not ionic enough to bond to the mesh, or something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand
Most of the time, but you're stuck with GLSL 1.40 while the rest is enjoying 3.30
> Coca-cola could not care less if the General got the coke or not[...]

Well from the OP:
"A practical consequence of White Coke was circumvention of the red tape imposed by the Soviet occupation authorities. While cargo shipments transiting the Soviet occupation zone in Austria normally took weeks to clear with the authorities, Coca-Cola supplies passing through the zone on their way back and forth between the Lambach plant and the Vienna warehouse were never stopped."

Would not say, that it didn't make sense economically to produce these 50 cases...
I thought it was about coke, which is normally white, as far as I know. (No personal experience.)
Google Has Discovered A Massive New Revenue Driver
So they should invest in Google apps or Apple? The first leak from Snowden showed every top company is helping NSA and by law ordered to lie. The whole thing sucks for US tech ..
As someone who is genuinely interested. Can you point to any examples of a socialist society? If no, can you explain how such a society might come to exist?
Would you edit a large legacy system full of the most horrendous spaghetti code, written in a language the best experts only slightly understand, doing many jobs that aren't documented anywhere which all depend on each other? A system with no tests whatsoever?

Oh, and you have to do it in production, and it's a critical system where people die if you get it wrong.
not to mention his salary, too
UK has a 'digital skills gap' says technology firms
true. kissing in the rain and then check your mobile if you picture u taken is ok for facebook, well that's depressing.
I strongly distrust this study because of participant "self-selection bias". 80% of approached subjects declined to participate in the tests. There is too much probability, that those people who experience onset of dementia would decide to not participate in such study, especially now, when privacy is getting NSA-ed and all data about you is going to affect your google search, targeting, re-targeting and your insurance rate
> If nature is so great, why do I have -2 vision and bad teeth?

One could argue that your diet and lifestyle could've caused that, and it's hard to counter. (I have -4 vision, by the way.) I don't think medde's comment adds much to the discussion, but I can see the point about our inability to “understand nature”. We don't know what we don't know.
I've not had an exit (threading that needle with a small software product business seems to be particularly challenging), but I hope I've been able to accomplish something similar in terms of searching for the next best thing. I think I've found it, but only time will tell; at the very least, I feel like I've found something like a "life's work" worth thinking about in those terms, so that's something...

Thanks for sharing! :-)
(this reply is for jschulenklopper too)

Certainly, it was provocative of me to imply it was that simple : when you have to deal with processes at this scale, you can't do it without any sandboxing if you want to avoid users messing with one another.

It's still the basic scheme, though : when you rent dynos, you actually rent processes. That's the heroku business model (with all the deployment sugar on top of it, of course), and I'm always surprised people are ok to pay that much to rent processes.

Of course, one could argue you can spawn multiple processes in a dyno. But 1. thoses processes have to consume very low memory because of low memory limits of dynos and 2. this could lead to boot up nightmare.

Before the "rap-genuis-gate", the company I worked for then had scalability issues with heroku, being the later described router random timeout problem. Our dyno costs were already very high, even when using hirefire, so adding more dynos sounds not a good option.

We tried to replace thin with unicorn, which was later the proposed solution from heroku. But even with two unicorn workers, we reached memory limits. Even worse : when dyno booted unicorn master process, it considered itself ready, while unicorn was still spawning its children, so it ends up with more failed requests.

Bottom line is : using (and paying for) a heroku dyno is basically the same as using a process on a dedicated server. That may not be a problem, provided heroku clients are aware of that, and are not sold dynos as if it was what we all know as virtual servers.
God forbid I should get a few cents for recommending a good book to a community I participate in.
A lot of older games would map the numbers 2/4/6/8 as aliases for the arrow keys, so it'd work regardless of what position the numlock was in. Seems to have gotten less common.
When I clicked reply to this comment I was doing so using the Swifty! It really is robust but when I tried the system you outlined, it was working may be one out of every 10 times I tried it; at which point I had to ask for help to get into my machine. Which is like security fail on my part :-)
Google Said to Discuss Own Web TV Service With Media
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention environmental causes. It's been known for a while that almost all water involved in human activities is polluted and contain residues of pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides and other things. It's been shown that they mess with fish sexual functions, and they are strongly suspected as a cause for the decline of human male fertility.

http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2013/05/22/study-chemical-blen...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090118200636.ht...
Why Video is The Fasted Growing Online Advertising Platform
The best techniques I'm aware of are either a benevolent monarch -- which is ostensibly great until the benevolent monarch dies or is killed -- or by dividing the state against itself in a structured way.
Have IP location statistics?
Do you mean like this (http://www.shrinivasagro.com/whitecoal.html)?
As an aside, what is the 'vastly superior' FOSS alternative to Sharepoint? I've looked at Alfresco, but it was a pain to install and configure.

Also, it doesn't seem to be 'true' FOSS because we get access to dirty HEAD code and not the code they use for the 'enterprise' version.

They further refuse to commit the name 'stable' to any of the community versions.
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Hi,
First off - really like your website. I check it out every day, several times a day! Love it.
One enhancement request - would it be possible for you to have the links open in another window ... what i mean is ...target="_blank"?
Many thanks
Gerard L
devsda0@gmail.com
Pepsi made a clear cola in the early 90's called Crystal Pepsi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi

Here's an old pic of me drinking it. (and eating a turkey leg).

http://i.imgur.com/T1rZc39.jpg
Have a look at Alfresco.

Also, see my question to parent.
Wow, I went to bed not expecting much of a response but you guys have come up with some excellent solutions, I'm getting round to specific answers as quickly as I can!

I'm clearly missing something obvious, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to edit and update my original question; can someone put me out of my misery? :-)
3D Printing Creates Unique Exoskeleton For Broken Bones
My experience is limited, but the source control aspect of TFS seems really crude compared to git. Branching is about as hard as an old-school Perforce or CVS repository, but without the flexibility in managing your local changes that those systems allow. It only lets you keep one changeset active at a time, which can be hacked around using shelvesets, but not without occasional hiccups (TF Power Tools are often the only way to recover your work after particular kinds of operations).

I've found that every workflow I can come up with is "wrong" in some way, but none of the documentation tells me what the "right" way is. Git may have been in a similar place when it was first released, but nowadays there are plenty of good tutorials that walk you through the way to think about it.

The GUI is clunky and requires lots of clicks to perform routine tasks. For example, to view a file's history, you need to open each changeset individually and diff the file in each one. The command line is no better, and makes heavy use of the "observe something to initialize it" anti-pattern.

The main draw seems to be its integration with issue tracking, unit tests, code reviews and project management. It's trying to be a one-stop shop for everything, but the problem is that each feature has a better stand-alone equivalent. So you either lose the synergy of having one tool for everything, or you sacrifice the features that you really want from your favorite source repository, code review tool, diff utility and bug trackers.

This has become quite a rant, but I'd really like to hear a good explanation for some of these things, or at least somebody to tell me what I'm doing wrong. The worst is when somebody knowingly says "come on, it's not that bad" without actually offering a more functional workflow.
Are you managing a business or are you starting something? If you're managing a business, ring the cash register and we'll all thank you for getting a jump on the inevitable. If you think you're starting something, roll the dice. The manager will cash out shortly.

From another comment: "Growth is important, but n times no revenue is still zero. Revenue should be our most important metric, and growth should be second to that."

If your goal is revenue, and you have no revenue, you've done something wrong. But not everyone's goal is revenue. If it were, the open source community would be a graveyard of used-up ideas and remixes.

Revenue is great for companies, but useless for tools. Tools don't need revenue, and if you're building tools, don't try to get paid. People buy hammers, but the inventor of the hammer isn't getting rich. Doesn't mean people don't want hammers.

Revenue should be the most important metric for people who want to make money. That's inarguable. Are you one of those people? There's nothing wrong with it, but that doesn't make it a meaningless question. Answer truthfully, and your path (lower-case p) is illuminated.
Vimwiki/vimwiki
Species were going extinct long before humans. The biosphere adapted just fine.

Humans aren't magically bad, and what we do isn't automatically terrible for everything. It's possible for us to understand what we're doing.
I disagree, I won this argument a long time ago.
Personally I like this, but there might a problem for fundraising that when you start any kind of monetizing, you have metrics on that regard, and people can analyze them. So when you're kinda-monetizing your metrics might seem low and not attractive as a business.

Sometimes is "easier" raise funding when you don't have numbers but just a dream eg. pre-lauch / pre-monetization.
It was an engineering feat. VAJ was a Smalltalk engine that ran both Smalltalk and Java.
> While I'm not claiming that the US is currently close to totalitarianism

A useful line of thought: what would it take for you to say that it was?
"the trade-off between profits & growth"

There is a financial metric I frequently calculate for private equity firms called zero growth return which allows one to partially disentangle the steady-state business's working capital requirements from investment. The value in figuring it out is knowing, as a manager, how much capital you have to "play" with for capital investment purposes, whether that be servers or devs.
Counting Servers is Hard
Weren't the kibbutz in early Israel essentially socialist (or even possibly communist)? It doesn't seem hard to come up with functioning examples at a small scale (families, groups of families, etc.) with high group-cohesiveness and shared identity. It seems to break down at the nation-state scale, except perhaps during wartime or other emergency. It's interesting to think about whether socialism works in a society with extreme abundance ("post-scarcity"), at least for certain kinds of assets -- I could see cheaply-made material goods being essentially distributed in a socialist way while services performed by humans and "status" goods were highly capitalist.
Is there evidence that the NRA used or uses the Anti-Saloon League for inspiration? Or are the League's methods better suited for offence?
While I certainly agree with your suggestion that there might be self-selection bias in play (as commented on in the article), to suggest that the subjects were concerned about the NSA or Google is ridiculous. The study was undertaken between 1984 and 1994. Google didn't exist and the vast majority of the population had no internet access. The idea of electronic data privacy had probably not even occurred to most approached. I would be surprised if more than a handful of those approached (all aged above 65 in 1994) even owned a computer.

Please don't hijack every comment thread with irrelevent complaints about the NSA.
Why are you spelling it like that?
Movie Trailer About WikiLeaks/Julian Assange - The Fifth Estate
EBay Inc metrics (ebay.com/PayPal) [pdf]
A tall black russian tops off a black russian with coke, so maybe that is what was ordered (or what the drunk bartender heard).
I have to agree with this sentiment all throughout my studies of comp sci i felt the amount of study required was very small to that of other science or really any degrees.

After being a developer for almost a decade in various roles ive found the thing that i enjoy most is the learning new domain knowledge at each business. Sure ive picked up a lot of new tech knowledge along the way but the thing that takes the most time is always business knowledge, needs, usability, and industry domain knowledge.

Further to that many universities have started adding tech study to the courses. I guess they got one too many requests for managers who knew sql spreadsheets?
Vodka is white? I thought it was transparent.

(I've only ever seen the drink on TV, so I really don't know.)
The challenge of geocoding Indian addresses
Slides of a talk given by @darksmo of @nestoria at London's #geomob on 11 July 2013
Facial Recognition Payments Set To Launch In Helsinki
New 3D Manufacturing Process — Materialising Micro Lattice Structures
Dita von Teese Launches Von Follies 2013 Lingerie Collection
New Von Follies 2013 edition that was launched recently completed already popular line with fantastic pieces. Again, vintage and retro allure is the main detail in Dita von Teese lingerie and if you are the lover of pin up lingerie you will simply fall in love with this collection.
Families are socialist. So are some small native tribes.

Large scale socialism by force tends to be a bit dystopian, though. They don't build walls to keep people out of socialist states.
And only when they need to make eggs, as the article says. What most people don't know is that mosquitoes mostly survive on flower pollen.
So does Google Glass have a back door?
Has anyone pondered about Google Glass having a back door.
Is Gittip any different than Flattr? Other than being explicitly linked to Open Source?
How we’ve responded to BeachMint’s most recent demands
Realistically I'd have to consider myself pretty close to an expert in TFS, although I'm sure there's a ton I don't know about it.

Overall, TFS, as a source control system, is pretty decent, definitely in the top few of the best source control systems out there. However, it has a lot of downsides. It's a serious pain to administrate, and an even bigger pain to initially set up. It has a huge number of "quirks" that are really just misfeatures or defects for most users. For example, binary files are exclusive checkout by default (meaning only one workspace can have a specific binary file editable at any given time) which seems like a good idea naively but tends to bite you in the ass almost always in any real-world example. And most TF admins aren't smart enough to know how to change the setting for it, as far as I've seen anyway. Also, access control is like pulling teeth, you'd think it should be easy-peasy given that it's all GUI based and what-not but it's crazy. Similarly, things like triggers can work in completely non-intuitive ways that are really easy for, say, a moderately trained dev who's trying to be a part-time admin to screw up in ways that impact a huge amount of people very quickly (which I've seen happen routinely).

There are some nifty features, like shelvesets, and it supports a reasonable branching model with a reasonably decent merging system, though if you use it long enough you'll probably eventually run into one or another nightmare scenario that takes a long time to figure out.

For most projects I wouldn't recommend it over, say, git + github/gitlab or other free source control options. The one advantage that TFS has is that it's far more capable of handling extremely large code bases (e.g. hundreds of gigabytes of data, millions of files) as long as it's configured well, whereas git will pretty much just choke.

Also, the Visual Studio integration of TFS is pretty good, so if you use that as your primary IDE TFS will have a moderate advantage in ease of use. Of course all of this scales to how skilled you are with using source control at a low level anyway. If you're a dev who has zero interest in learning anything more than "checkout/checkin" and you hope that merges and branching and whatnot are handled by people who are not you then TFS is pretty much right at your level, it's definitely super easy to use for those common cases.
> No, I don't need to work for a big company, ever. I haven't yet

Yeah, I felt the same way about learning computer science fundamentals as an experienced developer, until I actually did.
Of course I started behaving more carefully around him, and a little more carefully in general.

This, I believe, is the wrong way to go about it. To me this seems like some sort of culture clash and in my opinion staying silent is the wrong way to go about this.

If I notice someone getting offended by my profanity I just tell them that they were not the target of that profanity and that I have no 'beef' with them. I haven't ever met anyone with whom this was a problem. I usually make a pretty good case for open communication, depending on sobriety of course. ;)

I believe the onus is entirely on the guy who is trying to be charming (if that's what we're talking about, as opposed to simple catcalling sorts of harassment) to notice when the object of his wit does not reciprocate with a smile and a kind word and to move the fuck on before his behavior gets creepy. I suppose I'm agreeing with you, as not smiling is a pretty clear form of communication - no rings or shirts or pepper spray are required.

I think the point of the "getting hit on all the time sucks"-argument for anti-discrimination rules was that even if all the guys who hit on a girl stop it after (instantly) seeing that she isn't interested it would still be a lot of input which "sucks". So the case many people skeptic of anti-discriminatory rules saw was that a girl gets hit on all the time and even if they all do so in a civil manner, the one unlucky guy who represents the 'final straw' to that girl then gets kicked out. The examples I put up for showing that you're not interesting were aimed at communicating that before you get hit on. A rough analogue for this might be a spam filter - You don't have to manually decide whether or not something is spam by reading it, you don't have to read it in the first place. :P

Harassment is obviously a reason to warn somebody or - if they repeatedly harass someone - kick them out of the event. That said, I think 'catcalling' is very nuanced, couples or people who know each other for $random_reason can catcall each other in play and fun, you can also do it in a sarcastic/parodic fashion etc. The only thing I'd generalize about catcalling is that you probably shouldn't do it to someone you don't know (and of course not to someone of whom you know that they don't like it).

But in general I think pretty much everything I said here can be succinctly shortened to "Be merry, have fun and if you feel there's a problem - talk about it - just don't do it behind someone's back."
The paradox of choice.
Matt Cutts: Link Building Is Not Illegal (or Inherently Bad)
Huh. Odd that he reckons IJKL would be better for vim keys considering you'd have to use the same finger for up and down, while using HJKL you can use different fingers for up and down as well as left and right.
> ... vi's {H J K L} is still pretty good, but better is {I J K L}...

You've got some nerve, guy.
QT+Go can prove to be an awesome combination. Really hope you release a preview soon.
Indeed, that's another overstatement in the article:

Calling this kind of embedding "steganographic", although the malicious code appears clear text within the image raw data.
How many different combinations of technologies to get the same website?