skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The result is a bad first impression for new mail-ees."

What's a "new mail-ee"? I hope it's not a spam target.

Sending HTML email is what gives a bad impression. If you want to send an HTML document, or an image or PDF file, send an attachment. If it's HTML, then, in the unlikely event I want to see it, it'll open in my browser, and this ridiculous hack won't be required.
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Just as a caveat - I know Anne. I'm also a lady, so, some of the sexism arguments both do and don't ring true.

I'm not sure what I think. I've drunk alcohol in the office that had beer as a way of thinking through a problem. It worked. I also know a few engineers and other tech people who are alcoholics, and have admitted to me they spent serious time (and still do) in AA. I'm not sure the continual serving beer at pretty much every tech event I've ever been to is good for their careers. I'm 90% sure theire are events where they just bow out of because of temptation reasons (not every event, but still) I personally wouldn't mind a dry event just for calorie count/i don't need it reasons on occasion.

I also know that other countries drinking during the day is much more normal (an example here :http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-04... ) I also think other countries have very different feelings towards alcohol. The US still has some puritan motifs in its alcohol culture.

Finally, the one thing that does bother me - beer in tech companies usually means they want you to be there 24/7. Fine, ok - but you can do business elsewhere. For all you know interacting with some bartender may help you - and it isn't going to happen if your work life is also your social life, as implied by the kegs.
We haven't monetized yet. I'd prefer to do a subscription plan with some pro features for workgroups. We're not comfortable with things like ads or selling data, and don't think that's a good long-term solution.

Suggestions are always welcome!
Do these come from the same place as the arsenic fueled bacteria?
I think it has made a difference for me. Since I started using it I've noticed that I don't have major trouble getting to sleep if I've just finished working on my laptop, which can be a problem for me.

Also, I have been turning the brightness right down on most of my non-flux devices (including my TV) because the light is harsh.
What sort of amber glasses? I've heard great feedback about Gunnar Optiks, though I've never tried them myself (for more than 30 seconds) and they're not very cheap. http://www.gunnars.com/

Disclaimer: I have met people from Gunnar a few times and I know one of their marketing agencies very well - but have never been paid by Gunnar for anything :)
They open source a lot of their software. Check out tilemill:

https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/
Surely you mean aoeu@gmail.com?
Not to mention, strings are immutable in Python.
Christmas has come early!
I really like the resources that ThoughtWorks lays out on their CI page -- down at the bottom they have some whitepapers on the topic that are certainly worth a peek --

http://showcase.thoughtworks.com/continuous-integration
Well, 90% of startups fail. So, it would seem the mostly likely early proxy predictor of startup failure, would be making a startup.
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It was I, N Bourbaki, working with Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Grothendiek, and the sender of dreams, from our aecret Atlantis undersea fortress.
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Jellyfish are taking over the seas, and it might be too late to stop them.
Shrimp, crab, lobster: shudder. They are bugs!!!! (cue mental shrieking) I can handle eating processed crab for some reason I cannot understand. But to watch somebody breaking down and eating a lobster at the table is almost more than I can take.

Probably the thing that wigs me out with insects is the thought of eating their guts - digestive track and such. I know it is irrational, but there it is. Just the general ooze that is inside them - ughh. On the other hand, the idea of eating a tiny steak taken from the leg of a grasshopper seems perfectly fine and palatable to me. Eating a lobster claw? Not so much. I know none of that is rational.
Sujan, thanks for the feedback. I know that the typeface is pretty thin... I've received the feedback from others as well. I have a retina display, so it looks better to me. I'm in the process of reviewing my typeface options. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evzc2hoW-qg&feature=player_de...)
Thank you for the explanation. I guess my previous thought was made under the assumption that this was not some sort of law enforcement honeypot. If in fact they are just listening for your username/password on the server, there ain't no way around it.
How do you program that sort of thing?

Do you have to tell it what shapes/colors to look for? Or do a combination of overall image similar combined with localized image similarity and portion by portion image comparison?
I have to say that I prefer the warmer color tones regardless of daytime and lighting, which is why I have f.lux always set to 5000K - unless I need accurate colors - and even warmer during the dark hours.

Otherwise and without f.lux I tend to get occasional headaches and my eyes fatigue after long days spent at the computer.
> Similar things could be said about healthcare system. In fact, probably every successful government-run system is based on belief of participants that it should be egalitarian (and yes, they do exist).

Markets are not a god, an oracle, or a panacea. Markets don't work quite like they should in healthcare.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/why-markets-cant...

Use the right tool for the job. Egalitarian systems work great in some contexts (lifeboat) and not so well in others. (The New England town commons.)
Oh f*ck. I feel the pressure.
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Client side testable code is one of the pinnacle of AngularJS.

Reuseable declarative UI's through Directives, reuseable business logic throug Services and view models (controllers) having only knowledge of views is a really good for maintainablity of a complex javascript app. AngualrJS can beat any framework out there (Backbone, Ember, etc.) when it comes to having testable & manageable code.

If your product is going to be complex, AngularJS is a no-brainer deal.
My wife and I read a book a few years ago: "Man Eating Bugs", a travelogue of insect cuisine in many different lands.

It was quite fascinating. Children in Mexico would pick up a stink bug and eat it raw, a sour-crunchy snack. In Southeast Asia there's a large beetle about the size of a Snickers bar that in fact tastes like a Snickers bar. In Africa some folks like to eat large termites, a high protein food source. In Australia, there's a type of grub that lives in the roots of certain bushes that aborigines will cut open and eat. In Japan there are some "interesting" dishes.

I've tried grasshoppers, sold in tiny packets, salted and spiced to the point where you only taste the spice and salt. Bear Ghrylls demonstrated eating ants as a survival technique (remove the head first).

Insects are superior to meat in many ways--low fat, high quality protein and other nutrients, low on the food chain so they contain fewer toxins which tend to accumulate in herbivores and even more in carnivores.

You can harvest grasshoppers in the wild using nets. Just be careful that they haven't been chewing on poison ivy or other toxic plants which may do you harm.

I've long had it in mind to start an insect food business and this article was rather inspiring. This guy just started a cockroach farm and is making money.

It may sound disgusting to us squeamish Westerners, yet think about the notion of eating a pig or a cow, higher mammals which are fairly intelligent, creatures who exhibit emotions, who dream, who are evolutionarily our second cousins when compared to insects.

Just don't eat dragonflies (a popular skewered dish in a part of Indonesia). They keep down the mosquito population.
> I psychologically associate roaches with disease. Crickets are just another insect.

To my generation, not just another insect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cricket_in_Times_Square
What's next? EXAMPLE.COM becomes an actual site?
I cannot watch TV with any sort of motion smoothing enabled. When watching other people's TV's I usually offer to "fix" the image, but in the end most prefer it enabled.
If you designated the input type as email, at least the browser could then take over the responsibility, not necessarily of the validation, but possibly of the suggestion that you might have mistyped or have an invalid email address. Surely that's preferable to every site writing their own code. Browsers should be web helpers!
You misunderstand it. All of those things listed are "subject to the conditions and requirements of this title." The next few sections are about conditions and requirements. That's the important part.
this is from 2006?
This is a straw man argument, and the type that can only appeal to a company wanting to make poor, ill-informed risk management decisions.

No business can eliminate all risk, but some risks are unnecessary and easily eliminated. Serving alcohol to employees creates a significant amount of potential legal liability (it could literally bankrupt your company) but it is hard to reasonably and objectively argue that the potential liabilities are outweighed by any of the potential benefits.
Less entropy means less secure. However the method in the comic is not pick a passphrase. It is pick 4 random words(hopefully with the help of a computer with a good source of randomness, so they are really random). This is because phrases have semantic meaning and reduced entropy. Also people tend to pick phrases that are common enough to be found on the internet somewhere like movie quotes, book quotes and thus are likely to be in an attackers dictionary. So four random words not a phrase has better entropy than a passphrase, and is less likely to appear in a dictionary attack than a phrase.
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I can see there being a liability to the firm if someone leaves the office drunk and wraps their car around a tree. Maybe that's why "Beer at the office" seems to have less resistance in NYC? Maybe it's also the high price of alcohol here too?

For better or worse, if I want to grab a beer with a co-worker to talk about something informal, there's something to be said for doing it out of the building. Of course it helps that there are half a dozen spots within 2 blocks.
> Would you also like to install a camera in my bedroom?

Why bother, when you could just use the NSA one?
This is aweasome
I worked for a company based in Germany, and when I'd go visit I remember the big bottles of beer in the cafeteria. I think the whole time I was there I witnessed maybe 2-3 people ever drink a beer outside of the Wednesday weisswurst lunch day (You want to talk about workplace culture being oppressive try to eat that awful stuff). It wasn't especially prohibited, it just didn't seem like anyone did it. Now, the minute we were off work, I could find half the company at the same bar in the city having a great time together nearly every day of the week.
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This was my first thought. With a good training set and a savvy algo I believe machine learning can be good with images, and theres an unprecedented amount of training sets out there to be scraped...
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Partly that may be because they can (in theory) work closer to the true customer, rather than having an additional contract/specification-based interface to getting things made. When you don't find out for six months that you completely misunderstood the client's needs, it's hard to build good stuff -- frustrating for the client, and for the developers.

If, however, you ARE your own client, such as writing research code or simulation/test code, you likely have a clearer idea of what needs to be done.
FWIW packages sent to member offices get scanned by a mail processing center off site, I'm not sure if they'd actually deliver the coal on to the office or not =P.
Personally, I agree. I'm a huge fan of beer. I think a better point though in the context of startups is who are you not getting to work there by embracing the culture? Is it worth it?
I have an account with webfaction and my mysql DB was using more than 256 mb of memory. I immediately got an email saying that I need to lower the usage or upgrade to higher plan.

I was thinking of my next step when I got an email next day that my account has been upgraded to 512 mb memory plan at no cost.

Definitely made the right move by moving from hostgator to webfaction.
It is possible high accuracy if you use machine learning and a sufficiently large training set. That said said even humans sometimes don't agree is something is porn or not.
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I'm struggling enough with my weight. Give me a free ice cream culture and I'll be 150 kilos in no time! But seriously, I think this is a good idea as long as there are healthy alternatives.
Yeah, I think the term for this workflow is Continuous Delivery, as in Jez Humble and David Farley's book: http://martinfowler.com/books/continuousDelivery.html
upvote for ice cream. or anything else
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https://github.com/mapbox/

"156 public repos"
In that same line of thinking, who gets the email @test.com?
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I met this guy in Sligo, Ireland, in 2000 and he invited me back to his place for a get-together with his friends. A lot of his friends were on the Dole. We were walking around his neighborhood, and he pointed to one house and said that guy was a millionaire. All the houses were of the same general appearance and the same size.
Excellent feedback. This is exactly what I've done and it does work. Now I just need to get them to stick around and actually use the thing.
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But... by buying coal, you're supporting their interests. Much of congress has an incentive to blow up Appalachia.
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This reads even better as a "how to be a more insightful and incisive thinker and presenter", and anyone who just wants to use this excellent advice for interviews is missing the point!
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What strikes me about this blog post is it's not actually making a point using supporting evidence. They don't even have any negative experiences to even use as example. This person just doesn't want beer in their (or others') workplace.

I agree with all the author's points. But I have worked several places with not only beer, but liquor on hand. Nobody got drunk, nobody acted like an asshat (more than they were sober). They were responsible.

Is that going to be the case all the time? Probably not. But then again, some workplaces are always just more shitty to work in than others, and when you encounter it you decide if you need to move on or not. It's unlikely that beer would be the single motivator driving you to that decision.
My office had an ice cream freezer during the summer and it was a huge hit. Someone even set up a Twitter account that people could follow to know when it was restocked.
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Finally, the one thing that does bother me - beer in tech companies usually means they want you to be there 24/7. Fine, ok - but you can do business elsewhere. For all you know interacting with some bartender may help you - and it isn't going to happen if your work life is also your social life, as implied by the kegs.

This is very true, and includes other benefits too. Dinner is a cheap price for a few hours of developer time. Laundry service? Much cheaper than a few hours of developer time. Package delivery at the office? Again much cheaper...
Yep and they sent out these paper invoices and gave people credit when they registered. So much profit they could afford to not get paid in many cases once they started to charge for the domains. I also remember (as I'm sure you) some billings going out with ads for branded tshirts with their name on it and some other swag.
This is what Google is doing.

$4.9 billion of sales occur in the UK, which is 10% of global revenue. However, only $29 million of corporation tax is payable to the UK - that's 0.3% - because Google lies and says that UK sales are actually Irish sales.

This deception occurs because basically 99.9% of the work is done in the UK, but the final signature on the sales contract is made in Ireland. This is from a Google whistleblower who was featured in the UK press.

Of course, the Irish subsidiary doesn't pay low corporate taxes on all this revenue, because it happens to have HUGE expenses in the form of intellectual property royalty payments, which need to be made to Google Bermuda (or whatever other tax haven they are using to hold the IP).

So really, Ireland is getting shafted too, just like the UK.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux

"Lux isn't your ordinary brightness app. It intelligently adjusts the brightness of your display based on the environment you're in. If you step into a dimly lit room, Lux will automatically lower the brightness of your display to make it not only comfortable to read, but to also preserve battery power."

Fantastically wonderful app.
Incredible story, unfortunately debugging is not that exiting any more..
As a rule of thumb, English text has about one bit per character of entropy. [0, 1] Since we're going with averages, let's say 5 letters + a space for each word. So you need a 7- or 8-word sentence, with normal capitalization and punctuation, to get 42 bits of entropy. And of course it shouldn't be a well-known phrase like "I've got a bad feeling about this!"

[0] The original http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/refs/shannon_51.pdf

[1] and some evidence that it's still correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
It's been present in the last three places I've worked. At one, it was definitely the "after 4 on Fridays" type of thing (115 person company at the time), at another it was the "start at lunch and go till the end of the day" type (8 employees, bad work environment outside of the beer), and at the last, it was pretty much in the fridge and the same regular group would grab one at 3 or 4 every few days or so.
The new Apple slogan should be:

"Made in China. Designed in California. Taxed in Bermuda."
Everyone is different here. I used to work in Paris periodically, and it did work well there. People never got drunk, but frequently had wine for lunch. Then I worked in Australia. You knew better than to try and get a serious question answered on a Friday afternoon.

I personally find that I get tired with alcohol, and while my creativity may go up, my focus goes down. As such, I don't like alcohol at lunch, but that's a personal choice.
//This function has a 96% accuracy

public boolean yc_acceptance(String application){

return false;

}

Still, applying though.
I signed up as a worker on MT a few years ago just for kicks. Let's just say that labeling adult images got old real fast.

Only interesting tasks were the psychology ones, but they got boring too (think Daniel Kahnemans experiments repeated ad nauseum).

How people last on MT longer than a month is something that I
I've been working in a small IT company in Stuttgart for the last five years and I have exactly the same problem. I'm looking forward to the days when we will start to see some exciting IT start-ups near Stuttgart - if they are ever to come =)
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I don't remember where I read this, but someone once recommended having a bot that posts the image to 4chan b feed and monitor the views and replies. Since porn images on b usually had somewhat predictable replies, it would be a good way to augment another technique and prevent false positives. Funny idea, but not really sure how viable.
> The only thing better would be some screenshots as to how this actually appears in various versions of Outlook, Thunderbird, GMail, etc.

Sure thing!

http://imgur.com/a/C7XIX

Outlook 2010, Apple Mail 6, Thunderbird and iOS 6. Any other's you're interested in?

(Tip: Litmus is a terrific tool for email testing. Not affiliated, just a happy customer)
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Woops--yeah, that's pretty bad. Somehow this one made it through testing. Fixing!
How This Internet Pioneer Built A Billion Dollar Company (Spoiler: He Winged It)
I have no suggestions on sites that should be added… I don't really follow that space.
No, a conspiracy theory would be that this accusation is coming from a government-shill so as to deter further usage of BitCoin.

What else can the g-men really do... now is a good time considering after SR and all.
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My biggest problem is knowing whether an idea is worth spending time or even possible. Or just parts of it. There is no place to throw in questions like:

"I need this in my database but im pretty sure it won't scale, will it?

"I wrote this small gadget to solve a very specific problem that I use quite often, does anyone else have that problem?"

"I'm using library X, how would I subclass Y to allow path prefixes?"
...none of which would seem to apply. What's the prior art? It's defiantly non-obvious or someone would have done it decades ago - color screens have been around for a long time.

If you were thinking of something else, I kindly ask you to make a point, instead of asking me to prove a negative.
Sweet! Cheers to full-time computer use for the next 40 years.
> in that they come to your home through the mail.

Says who? Who says they couldn't send a package to a friends house, or a workplace?
I think people need to say "this is fine for one organization, but not for another". Or one person and not another. One houseplant and not another.

American society is overly fond of one size fits all rules - that on one hand end up with adults being treated like children, and the dumbing down of culture and a restricting oeveryone's rights to protect the few from bad decisions - and on the other hand end up with overwatered cacti and tons of other kinds of shoddy work practices, and resulting products, because of a culture of not thinking just following the rules.

Neither of these problems are overwhelming - but fighting back with a realistic view of the world is simple, and effective at avoiding a whole mess of problems.
My thanks as well. I had the same confusion, it's curious that they left out this detail from the blog post.
There is Desired State Configuration (DSC) in Windows 2012+ (native in 2012 R2+), we are using it here at Stack Exchange and just deployed an entire data center via DSC. I highly suggest checking it out...think puppet on windows without ruby and with powershell. It is v1 and providers for smaller stuff are still coming, but we're already open sourcing the modules we're creating as we go: https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC
A really classy startup would stock wine, or perhaps a collection of single malt whiskeys.