skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do compete with Google Map tiles. And so far that seems to be their biggest factor of financial income, at least looking from the outside.
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You can't even assign by index with strings

str[0] = ... will trigger an exception
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking. Just the presence of a small bottle fridge says to me - "We're a relaxed and fun place to work. We take your mental wellbeing seriously and don't mind you unwinding a little on a sunny friday afternoon."

Whereas a keg just says "Drink up, there's plenty more".

Either way, I think that having beer in the office is less of a perk and more of a culture indicator. In one easy move you've made the company looked relaxed and friendly. You don't even have to be drinking the beer regularly, just have it available for special occasions or somesuch.
As a kid I remember these numbers we would call up and hear a bunch of other kids faintly having conversations in the background (and you could join in). Was many years ago perhaps someone else could fill in the details if they remember exactly.
Slight correction needed to the article: Mexico left the NANP in the late 90s and has adopted its own country code and dialing plan. It hasn't changed much since but you do need to use 011 and whatever code it is now to dial there.
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Timid people get overrun by dominant people, and the kind of aspie cluelessness that runs through so many programmers (and I have no problem with that). So timid programmers often wind up unhappy and unwilling to talk about being unhappy, and the value of their ideas and opinions is lost. That's a loss to the team.

Boring people? Hell, I just don't want to work with them. If I have a say in hiring someone I'm going to spend hours a day around, I'm going to do my best to make sure it's someone I find entertaining.
Show/Ask HN: Mu6.me, like Imgur for Audio
http://mu6.me/

I have no involvement in this whatsoever but a non-English speaking friend asked me to get some feedback from the HN community.

He wanted a really hassle free way to let his friends share music they'd created or discovered with as little impediments as possible, much in the same was as Imgur has done for images.

He built the site entirely by himself in his spare time from nothing to averaging 65k views per month, over 82k uploads in the last year and 630k plays. The site's most popular in Taiwan but has a large global userbase too.

The situation now is that he's not looking to do it fulltime but feels it has gotten to the point where it has too much traction to close.

What would you do if it were your side project? Would anyone purchase the site? Are the copyright issues insurmountable? I pass on your thoughts, thanks in advance.
Ask HN: Should I tell my boss/employer I have depression?
I have depression and will be looking for jobs soon. I wanted to see HN's thoughts on what would be the right etiquette here.
This is what Shumway does, it has both an Interpreter and a JIT.
Clickable: http://mu6.me/
Here I thought I was looking in the wrong places for the new settings. Thanks for the heads up.
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Spam? Not from us. We hate it too
Heck, at least half the people on HN won't get why coal was chosen. Perhaps an answer as to "Why coal?" would be appropriate on the home page.

Also, there is no call to action (or it's not clear enough). I clicked through to the cart and it gives me a three-step explanation but no links or buttons that say "Click me to get started". I was on the cart page and, at the bottom, it just says "It appears that your cart is currently empty!" This could be massively improved if you just sit your mom (or someone non technical) down at a computer and watch what they click while trying to accomplish a given tasks (or just exploring).
this is what i did my final image processing project on in college. it was fun to sit in front of a room of people with loads of porn on the projector.

bottom line: you can't do this with any acceptable level of accuracy.
Oh, sure. We're a pretty friendly and helpful community, but I think the analogy holds. ;)
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Not for hiring, but for working alongside with.
It wouldn't solve the entire problem, but you could look for the watermarks that major porn networks stamp on their images.
Careful adherence to a well-vetted plan is a good way to get to the moon and back.
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The Navy was originally interested in techniques for decentralized communication between ships in a fleet, in such a way that the flagship would be unidentifiable. There are lots of applications for such a network that different government organizations would be interested in; The Government isn't a monolithic entity.
I think a big cultural indicator might be advertising your beer fridge on the job posting. Having beer in the fridge and being cool with people having one on a late Friday afternoon is one thing, making it one of your selling points is another.
I may be wrong but I think that this is actually spawning a subprocess and thus is not an exact translation of the python example.

This bash script rewritten in python should be something like this:

import subprocess, sys

inp = open(sys.argv[1], 'r')
out = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')

sys.exit(subprocess.call('sort', stdin=inp, stdout=out, stderr=sys.stderr))

(I don't know why but it seems that the performance of this version are worse than the original proposed example with writelines/readlines)
Wat.

People take their singularity BS way too seriously.
Cut the HealthCare.gov people some slack
I'm personally not a fan of beer at the office as a regular thing, just because I think it's one more amenity to get employees to spend longer hours at the office.

But that said, there was usually beer where I last worked, and in no way was it "a recipe for mixed signals, disagreements, misunderstandings."

It basically served as a way for devs to unwind at the end of the day (after 7pm) being social with each other, while they played video games or board games or watched movies on the conference room projector. Especially on Fridays.

It had nothing to do with a frat culture, I never saw drinking during the day, and I never heard of anyone getting drunk. It was no different from cheesecake in the fridge, or pizza in the fridge, or wine, or soda.
I'm sure RedTube and Smith & Wesson would disagree with you regarding your examples.
> Sending HTML email is what gives a bad impression.

A/B tests or GTFO.
Well... "Seph is a language experiment for the slightly crazy lunatic" (README)

I respect his way of openly experimenting with such things. They are a great read, if only just for inspiration.
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So then give it to the people you are interviewing before you interview them. You don't need a middle man.
The technology is patent-pending, so I suspect they want f.lux as widely used as possible so they can license the patent to device makers for a lot of money once they are well-known enough.
They most certainly do. I got a quote from Google for commercial maps use a few weeks ago. 17.5k/yr an up. Mapbox seems like a good alternative for serious web mapping. Google Maps is still pretty week in B2B type mapping though. Esri is the real competitor here.
There’s no reason to have beer. On tap. In your business.

Reasons #1 through #999: I'd like to have a beer.

Why do freedom of choice and personal responsibility never factor into these types of blog posts? This entire thing reads "I don't want beer, so you can't have beer."

I was fixing some bugs last night. And I was drinking a pint of Wall's End[1] at the same time. I felt zero effects from the alcohol (it's a 4.8% session brown ale), the bugs got fixed, and the sun rose in the east this morning.

[1] http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30076/89553
If you're in Minneapolis / St. Paul, and you like brown ales, get some of this.
Any other viewpoints?
For a PDF version of the lecture, see here: http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/2cultures/Rede-lecture-2...

This is quite a gem. I'm surprised I haven't seen it before.
True, but is still requires jumping back and forth.
Also, pandodaily.com/2013/10/16/gertrude-opens-its-private-artist-salons-to-the-world-as-art-shifts-toward-experiences/
The one trait I've noticed about these articles is the applicant must have a significant amount of planning.

It doesn't sound like YC is something that you wake up on Monday and say, "I'm going to live in California for 3 months on savings without a reliable source of income and hope I can turn my idea into a business."
Without the bluish light keeping me stimulated and awake I get tired more quickly. Once I'm tired enough, I just go to sleep.
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The big innovation here, it seems, is pricing. Square Cash transfers are free.

In Canada, the email/Interac bank transfers that are so prevalent here still cost $1.50 charge per transaction.
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Friends, coworkers, and acquaintances. People whom you know how they work in different situations. I don't think resumes or karma points replace that.
They have a list of all the questions you can go through, no sign in required. Not sure what you're talking about.

http://www.interviewcake.com/all-questions
Both of the previous companies I worked at had unlimited access to alcohol. The startup had a kegerator, while the bigger company had an empty desk filled entirely with liquor bottles on my floor. The only drinking that really happened was on Fridays. Very rarely did anyone have a drink during normal working hours, unless we were in the office late at night and it was crunch time. It was just taboo.

(Not writing this in defense of alcohol at the office. Personally, I like it. But I can see the other side as well.)
Using /b/ as an unpaid mechanical Turk alternative sounds intriguing yet profoundly disturbing.

Imagine being able to fire off a dozen /b/tards bots at the website or target of your choice.
There is nothing you don't know about Bitcoin - everything is public and open source. However, you may not know who uses Bitcoin and how.

Whether Bitcoin is or is not a natsec honeypoint can not affect any of Bitcoin properties, therefore this question is meaningless.
Life isn't a race.
It may hurt in the short term, but it seems to me the value Ireland gains as a country from these companies is rather thin.
Not sure if you're trolling...

Sex is not fine in the workplace thus porn is not fine.

What's wrong with guns at the office? So long as you are complying with all laws I don't see the problem.

What's wrong with coworkers being friends and hanging out for a bit after work on a Friday?
The site have an invalid certificate?
As someone who does not get why coal was chosen, I was hoping you would explain why coal was chosen in lieu of waiting for the website to update.
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Just saying "machine learning" is not very useful here. What machine learning techniques work well in this case and what are the major pitfalls?

Then you can convince me that a "sufficiently large training set" exists and is smaller than "all the images on the internet".
but we shouldn't. we need to be more vocal - fighting the 20-something fratboy beer drinking image of 'web developer' is something that needs to be done. I strongly suspect that perhaps outside a few square blocks of san francisco, non-beer-obsessed 30-something+ non fratboys (and girls) are actually the norm for web/software development, but we don't fit the techporn myth.
Yes and no. In my situation (OP), I had about a month to find a place for my wife to live in NYC (until I got there after YC), find a place for our team to live in SF, and find someone to rent the place we owned in the DC area. And it all worked out. Sometimes the time constraints can be a good thing.
Manager has already full support for UK VAT. Just enable VAT plugin for United Kingdom. You will get necessary tax codes and VAT return t(Io prepare your VAT.

Any chance you'd develop a generic VAT plugin? The requirements across Europe must be quite similar apart from rates, periods and invoice/receipts based calculation. I ask, because I doubt there'll be much impetus for you to develop an Irish VAT plugin, given the size of our population and there's no point in even trialling the software without it.

I created a request on your uservoice page, for what it's worth: http://manager.uservoice.com/forums/202564-plugin-ideas/sugg...
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I hear you - gym memberships are a great benefit because they save the employee money, and pay for themselves in better health.

Any perk that gives me time back is a good one, whether or not I invest the time in the office or elsewhere. I'd rather play with my kids than fold clothes.

Personally I find my productivity increases up to about 50 hours, and then drops slowly until about 60, when it falls off the cliff. Different people hit it at different times.
Flagged. Stop commanding people what to do, who are you anyway?
Go to hackathons, chat people up at bars, check out talks. Like passion tends to find like passion.

See what other people are working on, and if it looks fun join in. If you have your own project, pimp that. Maybe you'll join them or vice versa.

It's all basically just a pickup kickball game anyway, right? Have fun with it and don't be too serious.
> Like a lot of things, I think coffee is fine if you're adult about it. We've got quite a lot of coffee in our Chicago office...

(I'm sorry, did I misquote your misquote?) Just because some things aren't fine if you're adult about it, doesn't make all things inappropriate at the office.

Why would you have coffee in the office? What about all the people who can't drink coffee, because of their religious beliefs(Mormons), or because they have cardiovascular conditions which prevent them from intaking coffee?

> If their work is done (it has to be since you can't work after beer) why don't they go home to their family and kids?

It seems you have a very unhealthy relationship with beer. You seem to think that the only reason to drink beer is to get drunk. Are you really saying that it isn't possible to work after drinking one beer? And are you really saying that people who are parents shouldn't be wasting their time socializing with coworkers, and they need to just shuttle immediately from the office to their family once work is done?
I've seen this first hand exactly as you've described... timid being overrun by the dominant and the not so socially introspective programmer.
Here's a snippet from the carefree happy days of the previous century, before 9/11 and the New Earnestness --

Baumholder, Germany, 1986. The daily march to the motor pool. Yes, I was in the Army. A little later than usual for reasons no longer remembered. Early summer, it might have been 70-F, considered a heat wave back then. A local work crew was pouring new concrete to replace some crumbling pad. They were on break drinking beer, at 1030. To those of you who do not habla, that's 10:30 AM.

They did seem to work a little slowly compared to the crews I have observed since. But I've never used a stopwatch, so I could be wrong.
We do in fact translate AS (AVM2) bytecode into JS source. We can't target JS bytecode because we would like Shumway to run on every browser, not just Firefox. Maintaining one JS VM is a lot easier than dealing with two. Although it is fairly tricky to emulate AS features in JS, it's significantly easier than rewriting / maintaining a VM like Tamarin.
Isn't Obamacare supposed to cover mental health care? Seems like a solved problem.
Everybody's talking about it as though everyone goes on a raging bender at work every evening. It's as though offices offered free cake and you're all imagining meeting rooms full of rotund programmers stuffing half a bundt down their gullet.

If beer in an office is causing issues it's because someone doesn't know their limits, and that is an entirely individualized and likely very marginalized issue. The author's immediate correlation of beer and "frat culture" is easily the most sexist thing I've read this week, and the implication that "raging hormones and inexperience" combined with an occasional afternoon beer automatically means I become a raging pervert bent on harassing any woman in sight is ludicrous.
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9.999... reasons that .999... = 1
When people react with disgust to the idea of insect-based cuisine, I ask if they eat shrimp. They're not entirely different, both being arthropods.
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If what you said is true, why do many extremely large corporations serve beer at company events, and sometimes even stock it in the office?

Are their attorneys incompetent?
How Much Should Your Startup Spend on Managing Churn?
> A trend I've seen lately is scotch at work.

Watching Mad Men I always wondered whatever happened to strong beverages in the offices. Was it cultural? Have people decided that drinking during workday is faux pas? Was it some campaign against alcohol, similar to what happened to tobacco?
Well, thankfully that problem will soon be solved in England! The government has enacted a programme that should soon bear fruit, thanks to the introduction of "impact" and weighing publications in a new, innovative, carefully considered and consensual way. Soon, it will be the country of one culture (since only biased pundits would dare to say: the country of no culture), finally correcting the horrible mistakes of the past!
OP here. Not blog spam, just an introduction to the book (which you can access directly here: http://www.scribis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Scribi...)
Strangely enough, a lot of the most successful startups we've funded applied at the last minute. E.g. David Rusenko of Weebly told me he applied 30 min before the deadline.
Mock phone interviews trial - results are in
That is the point; it's all about color temperature, and not about brightness. If you feel like you're cooking your eyeballs, perhaps your screen brightness is just too high.
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There are many REITs traded on stock markets and included in broad total market funds including residential, commercial, retail, and industrial. E.g. AVB, VNO, EQR, SPG and many others.
My geek side really wants to run my own box but as I am currently paying $50 a year to host 4 websites, it's difficult to justify the electricity bill plus the cost of a static IP.
Not at all, we did the performance optimizations to make page loads faster for our users...the side effect is less load on our servers.

It's an awesome platform for us and we love it...you should choose whatever platform works for you.
The mapbox team is fantastic, this is totally great news for all of them, the mapping community, and map users. Can't wait to see what they come up with next
The easiest way to use GitHub on Mac.
Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference
I had an interesting question once: They gave me a whiteboard problem that I'd studied about a week ago.

So I told them. "Look, I did this problem on my own a little while ago." They chuckled and made it harder, which was fine. :-)
This sounds quite interesting. Is there any of the research of code base that you can share? Or otherwise any references about the standard approach which you would recommend?
Not big on my US history (not being from the US and all) but my guess is this is something to do with Roosevelt and the coal strike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Strike_of_1902
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If people harass you or treat you differently for not [drinking/eating/smoking/whatever personal choice] then you know who the assholes of the group are. Call them out.
That's great. Now, go to their homepage without being logged in and see if you can find a link anywhere to the all-questions page.
Maybe because different people react differently. That might be it.
No. Don't bring up any medical history or conditions. It sounds like you're implying this may affect your job performance and you want to be "nice" to your employer, but they don't have any right to this information. Just do your job to the best of your ability, and deal with the depression in a responsible way as it occurs. You are not a "bad person" for being depressed, just as a person who has an appendectomy or cancer is not a bad person for missing work because of their medical condition.

And, the employer may not like you bringing it up either - if they decide to fire/not hire you, then you have opened (a slight crack of) a door which might allow them to be easily sued, if they in any way they hint it was because of medical conditions. You will be being kind to them by not putting them in this tenuous legal position.
He's talking about the normal flow of the site (click the big blue button at the bottom of the first page, then the second page). This leads to a "Login with Github/Google/Facebook" prompt that can't be skipped. You can close it, but that doesn't get you anywhere.
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I've been wearing orange tinted safety glasses to reduce my exposure to blue light at night. Is there a good option that's more suited to wearing outside the home/hackerspace? Rose colored glasses, of course, but with better peripheral coverage?
Developing a strong AI which can do this without going insane itself is going to be the robo-pysche challenge of the future.
We had a non-neglible number or clients still running on PHP 4. =( It's a dilemma indeed, because upgrading all of the servers and software is bound to break a huge portion of the websites, many of which have been loyal clients for years. (But don't have the dev experience to fix things.) Not upgrading things leads to degrading service, and upgrading things leaves a lot of clients with broken websites.

Also: hacked WordPress sites. The bane of my existence. I must've dealt with several hundred of them in my time.
Okay. Now we have two opinions.
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I'm curious, is there a strong reason to chose AngularJS over other non JS frameworks. Say, Rails, Django, or one of the many other alternatives?

I realize this thread has me walking into the AngularJS den, but it is something i've been passively curious about.
It looks like how it lets you claim your money without your bank account details is by processing a refund. Don't know how they did it, but it's very cool.
That's fair. I have extensive A/B test results with tens of thousands of data points. I'm the only subject, though.
This hire is a more natural fit than most techies would think.

The genius of Jobs was that he understood better than others that personal tech had more to do with fashion industry than tech industry.

He run Apple as a fashion company: he set trends, introduced seasonal device colours and collections, presented them in fashion gala shows packed with industry press. He was a fashion dictator.

Most of their competition still doesn't get it, they still think they sell technology.

Apple builds great technology, but it sells hip and sexy.
Was discussing this in #node.js on freenode and someone suggested looking at Tern as well. It seems to be a bigger, though more powerful, library.

Blog post that was suggested: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/tern.html
https://github.com/twitter/
"100 public repos"

https://github.com/facebook
"95 public repos"

https://github.com/37signals
"44 public repos"

https://github.com/linkedin
"49 public repos"

https://github.com/soundcloud
"131 public repos"

These aren't "Open-Source companies". They contribute greatly to open source projects. But aren't themselves "Open-Source".
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