skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. And as a side note, it brings me back to the days where my student house would come together to try and finish a torpedo keg. We always failed our mission. But I believe we came out the other end closer friends
Thanks for the info, there's a lot of old information around.

The Wikipedia page seems to indicate you (as Red Hat) have no further objections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing_and_Open_S... - I guess this is wrong.

and the OSI minutes page seems to indicate the TrueCrypt license was going to be rejected (maybe I'm misreading this): http://opensource.org/minutes20061213 - but this is from 2006.
There actually are still suggested tags. The field shows up between "Tags" and "Comments" if the link has been tagged before.
Yes, you would have to assume a 90 day guarantee, similar to the classic recruiting model. One of the issues with charging an individual is that they often don't have $25k in extra cash flow. That would require a payment plan of sorts. In any case, I appreciate the feedback.
> If the bytecode generated by the AS compiler doesn't match what a JS VM can execute, then, since the AS bytecode will necessarily mimic features available in the language (and the languages are similar), why can't we translate the AS bytecode into JS bytecode?

That's essentially what Shumway does. Unless things have significantly changed over the last year when I last looked at it, Shumway's AVM2 implementation is a JIT that compiles ActionScript to JavaScript (and thereby produces JS bytecode by going through "eval"). The tricky thing is that, because of extra features that ActionScript has that JS doesn't (namespaces, most notably) it has to speculate and recompile as needed to get good performance. So Shumway isn't an ahead-of-time static JIT, but it is a dynamically recompiling JIT.
Can you point to an article that explains this better? Because if not, I call shenanigans.
One possible advantage is it enables legacy Flash content to work on devices without Flash support like Android and iOS.

Also I guess Mozilla would rather trust themselves with security than a third party with a pretty bad track record in that department.
Accumulation of technical debt on large ruby projects due to dynamic typing
Google App Engine 1.8.6 released
I do believe f.lux also can increase (blue-shift) the color balance on your screen during the day; my setting goes up to 6500K. Not sure if that's higher than the normal color temperature though.

I'm not sure if it's light intensity or color, myself. I do know that Philips is doing a lot of research in the area. If you have a Philips light that can change color (or can get one), turn it up to bright blue in the morning, and a pleasant / warm red in the evening. That should help.

I for one wouldn't mind a shifting color setup at home. Maybe I'll buy myself one of those lights sometime. Right now I mainly have reddish lights (woo, Lidl), but also because I mainly have lights on in the evening. And I don't generally have issues waking up in the morning. At least not once I'm out of bed, :p.
There's plenty of fully clothed porn out there. They're even tags on some porn sites.
I didn't consider it relevant since it is ORed

"Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title."
I've found this chart handy for setting the right effort on those days where a treadmill is my only viable option.
http://www.hillrunner.com/training/tmillchart.php
It is if you jailbreak.
I think the difference here is what you're describing is a group of beer nerds who happen to work together (Russian River in Chicago, that takes effort) vs a culture of slamming miller lite all day long while "working"
Sure, it's not necessarily sexist (although it may happen to appeal to more women than men in job adverts).

But, alcohol and soda are not on a par - only one impairs your ability to think, act and discuss properly[1].

[1] yeah yeah tolerances, but ultimately it's wearing down peoples inhibitions - we're definitely more likely to be rude (or accidentally rude) when drunk.
When I started running, I didn't have the discipline to keep pace. So my splits were like 9...9:30...10:15...10:30.

But developing discipline to know your own body and abilities might just be the most important part of training. Hopefully this helps you be more aware, not less.

(FWIW, after 8 months of training, I've learned to run miles within 10 seconds of each other, without a metronome.)
Monochloramines in Tap Water
The Guardian still depends on advertising and senior leadership runs in elite circles and is subject to political influence.
Be aware that the project is untouched for 3 years and in no way production-ready.

That said, I've seen Ola speak about Ioke at a conference and found many aspects of it very intriguing. Every programming language nerd should at least read the very extensive guide: https://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide
And also take a huge risk of damaging itself in the process while pretending that the author is motivated by libertarian motives.

This is a conspiracy theory.
The New Bebo
Dumb question: does changing the image on the screen actually change the output of blue light? I was kind of under the impression it was a result of the light source.

For example I think neon light is actually greenish and it is just the human eye that adjusts the colors back to normal. But I don't think one could make neon light behave like another type of light simply by painting it with some color.
Maybe we can channel Potter Stweart into an algorithm somehow?
I'm also having the same error
Ahh, a couple of lat longs and Google Street View at my command.. that was a fun bit of procrastination!
It's not as bad as you think. I work at a place with a fridge full of craft beers but the culture is really in place that we do beers late Friday afternoons for a time when the company can all hangout and talk.

I've also worked at a place full of Russians where my boss would randomly show up at 11am and ask if I wanted to help drink cognac with him.
Would you also like to install a camera in my bedroom?
What a great legacy to share. Thanks for sharing.
Great, another nannying article that says their way is best and all other ways are poison. Throw in a few links to inflammatory articles to "back up" their claim too.

Nope, absolutely no chance at all that an office full of mature adults can enjoy a beer here or there throughout the week without someone getting sexually harassed and their life ruined.
Beer is the new ping pong.
Many modern displays have color temperature controls, so you can lower it at night. The blue light setting comes close to the same effect, AFAIK.
A friend of mine would stand on the tube and attempt to remain upright whilst holding onto nothing at all, which I suppose might be good for legs, balance etc. He was into Yoga.
RELEASE NOTES

Python and PHP: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNot...

Java: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForJavaRel...

Go: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForGoRelea...
We're all human and we all mess things up. Most people most of the time are fine people. That's not really the question: the question is about costs and benefits when things go wrong.

I'm a mature, responsible, smart, amazing, blahblahblah person much of the time. And then other times I'm not, and my failures are largely non-malicious -- just stupid. I'd guess the same is true of all of us.
Twetiquette
> Is the subtext here about hostile frat culture, or, worse, about harassment? That's what I think it is.

Of course this is it. I'm teetotal and I have never found it alarming that my fellow hackers love a beer. There are too many aggressive proselytiser factions in the tech community. Why can't we accept that we are all different and make allowances for that. Of course as a white, British, heterosexual, able-bodied, 20-something male, my opinion is given a -∞ weighting.
will check that alternative, thanks for the tip!
Would it, though? C and C++ introduce a lot of complexity in the compilation stage that are hard to hide without leaking much.

You have to import the headers, using include guards if your "script" spans multiple files. Any external headers have to be in the header search path, libraries have to be explicitly linked and also be in the linker path, you have to have a makefile or similar in order to manage the compilation complexity.

If you are using, say, python, all you have to do is add the shebang, "import" the desired packages and you are good to go. One has to install the eggs, packages, or whatever the name is beforehand, but after that you can just use them.
As long as it's good beer, not the wishy washy stuff.

I've worked in offices where there's been alcohol in the fridge at times, it was always for a Friday and only acceptable after 4pm (with a finish at around 6pm most people aren't going past one beer). It's not an essential, and I don't think a company should provide it as a perk, why not pay for your team to hit a bar once every now and again, get out of the office.
Beer doesn't rape people. People do.

I think if somebody wants to have beer in their office, they should be free to do so. If they want to smoke in their office, the same (not sure if this is still legal, though) - I just would like to know in advance, because I wouldn't like to work there. But other people might.

Also, this seems to suggest beer leads to rape/harassment. So as an implication, rape/harassment in bars are fine, just not in the office? Doesn't make much sense imo.
Web 2.0 in Latin America: Why we blew it and what we can do to fix it
Hard to run a neat tool like f.lux when you design for the web. Reason being that I need to "see" the web like my clients and their customers do. Same reason I don't run ad-blockers, or many browser add-ons that modify the browsing experience.

I found when using it for personal use, there are times when the time of day, doesn't align with my energy levels and I ended up disabling it enough that it became a nuisance.
Just a heads up: f.lux is a great tool, but remember to turn it off during video games. Your experience with some games can be affected by the temperature of your screen. For me, that was definitely true when playing left4dead2.
Long-line Loiter Personnel Retrieval System: Triaxial Acceleration Tests
A Ghost starter theme using SASS and Susy
Show HN: Send Coal to Congress
Seems like we were having this same problem with email spam, and Bayesian-based learning filters revolutionized the spam filtering landscape. Has anyone tried throwing computer learning at this problem?

We as humans can readily classify images into three vague categories: clean, questionable, and pornographic. The problem of classification is not only one of determining which bucket an image falls into but also one of determining where the boundaries between buckets are. Is a topless woman pornographic? A topless man? A painting of a topless woman created centuries ago by a well-recognized artist? A painting of a topless woman done yesterday by a relatively unknown artist? An infant being bathed? A woman breastfeeding her baby? Reasonable people may disagree on which bucket these examples fall in.

So what if I create three filter sets: restrictive, moderate, and permissive, and then categorize 1,000 sample images as one of those three categories for each filter set (restrictive could be equal to moderate but filter questionable images as well as pornographic ones).

Assuming that the learning algorithm was programmed to look at a sufficiently large number of image attributes, this approach should easily be capable of creating the most robust (and learning!) filter to date.

Has anyone done this?
They deserve to be congratulated for coming up with a alternative to Street View.

That said, this product is all over the place. It seems to be more of a city guide than a street-view alternative. Even in that area, there's so much happening on the screen that it's a painful mess to navigate. The useful portion (the draggable view) itself is a tiny portion of the screen, so after a few attempts to navigate through the city, I gave up.
Yes, I'm from Copenhagen and I grabbed Copenhagen's latitude and longitude from Wikipedia and rounded to 4 decimals. Perhaps I, too, should take a look in Street View…

Ah, it's the Town Hall Square. :)
> Einzelunternehmer

is not actually a legal form. It only means that you are a single entrepreneur/founder.

> Gewerbeschein

is not required in all cases, especially not for IT people. The final decision is with the tax administration. Your tax accountant can help you there. The general consensus is that if you can avoid it and be a regular freelancer, do so. In pretty much any case you need it if you form a UG or GmbH.

Bookkeeping regulations depend partially on how much income you have. If you have less than 17 500 Euros income a year you can actually be VAT exempt which removes the need for a Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung, but on the other end of the spectrum, you can have the full bookkeeping requirement similar the one that a GmbH has for a GbR if the GbR earns too much.
Those are good points.

One of the main reasons why mediocre recruiters don't get to know the candidate is that they are completely focused on the job to fill. They need to know you only as much as it would take them to sell it to you.

An agent would get paid no matter what company he ends up placing you at, so there is a much higher incentive to understand what you really want to do.

I also think there is a lack of objective information on how a company is doing. They pump out information on how they are "crushing it" and how everything is going great. And Glassdoor is usually filled with bitter employees with an ax to grind.
So some thorough checking through backchannels would be incredibly helpful. Not to say you couldn't do it, but as a recruiter I have never seen a candidate do it.
[1] Mood and cognitive performance improved by a small amount of alcohol given with a lunchtime meal.
Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake
Interesting to see new entrants to the church market. I built a similar product marketed specifically to churches - https://simpledonation.com

Here are some of the things I've learned:

Building the technology is the easy part. Stripe/Balanced (and all the other payments APIs) have made it easy to do a payment startup.

Customer acquisition and sales is the hard part.

1) Decisions are made by committee and for normal sized churches (< 500 attendance) the decision maker is not on staff. Therefore repeatable, cost-effective customer acquisition is really, really hard. Only a few channels are available.

2) The buyers are generally not business thinkers. I've tested different sales pitches, asking "would you rather have a service grow your top line by 10% OR cut costs by 15%?" Most say "cut costs" which is actually a net loss. Meaning: sales is consultative and educational and you have to sell it to over and over to every person on the committee.

3) Churches have a tough time justifying $50/mo for a SaaS service. The margins are too thin to make a lot of money in transaction rev. e.g. I processed $30k last month and made ~$300. You need a ton of volume for the math to make sense.

There are churches like Newspring (hi Joshua!) that are run differently and understand the values of technology. Most of the 300,000 evangelical churches in the US are not like that.
The office I work in has beer and I often forget we even have it. There's no pressure at all to drink it and I've never once seen somebody drunk (or even nearly so) in the office.

And we don't have bottles. We have a keg.

Honestly, the free soda is a much more legitimate issue than the free beer. The beer has caused no problems and I don't know of anybody who overconsumes it. The soda, though, is unhealthy and far too easy to overconsume. I've been guilty of that myself.
Devs don't need beer, they need coffee, :D

On a more serious note, I don't get the point of this post.

Beer and pizza being listed in job adverts? Yeah, that's a sign that the job itself isn't actually attractive enough to draw people in. Second, I for one wouldn't want to work anywhere that had a continuous supply of beer and pizza. Maybe as a friday afternoon event.

Beer and sexism? I don't see it. For one, women drink beer too. Although to be honest, not everyone's into beer; "drinks" would be a better term. Good wine, for example.

Beer and immature, juvenile 'frat boy' behaviour? Only if you're working with immature, juvenile frat boys. We have beer at the office (I work offsite though, curse you consultancy!), but nobody drinks during the week days, and most people just want to go home at 5 on fridays. Maybe they have a beer at 4. But most just want to go home to their families and pasttimes.

It really depends on a lot of factors, and whether your job is a place where you go to work, or something that doubles as your entire social life. or something.

If people, as hinted at in the article, drink tons of beer during their working hours, then those people have a problem, imho. Who here does? Also, does the author have experience working in a place that serves beer during working hours? Or people that become complete tards when they've had a couple?
A few points:

1. Dying != dead

2. In addition to being maintainer of Rubinius, Brian Shirai is the creator of RubySpec. To me, Rubinius X is more a forward-looking extension of RubySpec then it is something about building support for Rubinius-the-project. As RubySpec sought to create and concretize agreement on what Ruby is (which was important to making Ruby-the-language something more than MRI-the-implementation), Rubinius X is an (opinionated) effort to establish a consensus on where Ruby-the-language is going and how it is going to address the aspects of Ruby that are limiting its adoption.

3. I'm not at all surprised that the fact that Engine Yard, historically one of the biggest corporate players in the Ruby world and who until fairly recently was paying core developers for both JRuby and Rubinius is now not directly sponsoring either would be a source of soul searching and consideration of the future, both of the Rubinius and Ruby. I'd be rather more surprised if it wasn't.
No, this cannot happen unless their FAQ's are explicitly lying.
> I can't imagine this creating a problem.

Are you serious?

Talk to just about any attorney, and it won't take him or her more than a minute to rattle off a laundry list of scenarios that could literally turn your business upside down in an instant. Your question, "Is the subtext here about hostile frat culture, or, worse, about harassment?" suggests that you have some idea of what can go wrong but frankly, a hostile work environment and harassment claims are just the tip of the iceberg.

If you think defenses like "nobody seemed drunk", "nobody was drinking whole bottles", "we always drank responsibly" or "it was Friday" are going to protect you, you're wrong. The involvement of any amount of alcohol in a work-related "incident" will leave your company vulnerable.
What inspired loss of trust in the man who oversaw the nation's nuclear arsenal?
How I Built a Fully Automated Life Blogging Setup for Myself
This. There is certainly going to be a lot of noise when they read applications and watch peoples' pitches, and they definitely have far from having 0 false negatives --- that goes for both the selection and interview round. Just push forward even if YC doesn't pan out.
Part 3 of Fear 2 Puff Puff and Away. 
A couple of guys playing Fear 2 jut for the giggles. While drunk
What this page needs is a big "Download" link.
You can use APIs like these to do nude detection - https://www.mashape.com/search?query=nude
My LG TV has an ambient light sensor which will adjust the brightness of the TV. One issue is that when the TV first turns on the default (or prior) brightness is often brighter than the sensor detects. Seconds after powering on, the TV will darken which if you hadn't seen the brighter version would seem normal (guests have asked if the TV is broken after witnessing this)

At night (up with a sick kid) the feature is great and you couldn't imagine watching TV at night without it.
For a project designed to reduce eyestrain, a white website with light gray text is pretty hard on the eyes.
That sounds interesting. Although unscrupulous agents would try to lowball you on your current salary so that they get a bigger cut.
The point is that there is a long list of variables more important to get right than the decision to have beer at the office, and getting those variables set correctly would be MUCH more significant than the Beer variable. So just eliminate the variable altogether and save yourself the trouble.

That seems to be the point here. Forget about beer in the office and focus on the things that really matter.
I mentioned the wine thing because I wonder how much of this is about the alcohol, and how much is about self-consciously avoiding the "aesthetic" (such as it is) of the frat house. You specifically mention glasses of beer from a tap, and I wonder why.

It seems like it shouldn't matter if the beers are fancy stuff from Whole Foods (which is what happens here), or crappy stuff from a tap. But I guess it does.
Obviously, not many people working on the same site, but many people working on their individual sites. You have this amazing platform and just because of a simple but show-stopping bug like this, I (and probably many others) can't use it. I'd fork it and change that but I'm not happy maintaining my own fork. Allowing individual config files for articles is really important for companies, especially for documentation archives. I occasionally have a few thousand articles in the same directory, it wouldn't be maintainable to put all the metadata from those (for some files, it's half a megabyte of metadata I'm talking about) into a single file. Not to mention all the authors, trying to navigate through a single file and getting frustrated.
Warren Buffet: Debt Politics
You can apparently convert debit card transactions to ACH transfers: http://www.digitaltransactions.net/news/story/3518
It makes more sense once you realize things like Tor were created specifically for the USG intelligence community[1]. Bitcoin could, for example, be used to trade money between drug traffickers and the CIA, whilst allowing DEA to track the funds around the world. Fun!

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/no-conspiracy-the...
f.lux is great, but I really really really wish it would allow custom control of the timing instead of pegging to sunset. I don't want my screen going red at 4:30 pm in the winter eight or more hours before bed. 10 pm would be about right. f.lux can be manually controlled, but that's much less useful since I'll never remember to turn it back to red at the times I want. "Disable for an hour" is useful once, and really tedious to repeat for six hours.

And in this update: "Movie mode ... lasts 2½ hours." Seriously? Why in the world not prompt for a time duration, or use a dropdown or flyout menu for various 30 minute intervals?
Exactly, with a colossal difference in working environment.
MapBox is a ridiculous joke until they start supporting building numbers.

(Yes, they know of this limitation, but they deliberately cripple their product because of 'typographical clarity' or somesuch bullshit.)
I'm definitely in the minority here but I just don't see how "GoDaddy is a horrible company run by horrible people selling horrible products." I dealt with GoDaddy in the past and have an active account with them. I think that their prices are reasonable and their customer service is good enough – at least for me. I do find that navigating through their website is a pain and definitely not designed for a non-technical person, but that alone doesn’t make it horrible.
Yes it does. Your screen, presuming it's LED, is white light being filtered through colored gates (pixels). It is... easy to tune the colors of those gates...