skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be playing a devil's advocate here, but isn't our job as an employee to follow the direction and vision of the management? I am not asking you to sell your soul. It's just that sometimes in a career one might need to do work that one considers below his/her capability. My manager sometimes makes me fill up excel spreadsheets of who is working on what and for how many hours. It sucks, I hate it. But I have to do it.

I am not mocking your situation. If it's really bad for you, follow jblow's advice. But if it's a once in a while demotivation, swallow the pain and go on. You will reach greater heights and from there these menial times won't matter.

Just my two cents.
Dear HN,

What do you think about this theory?
Broadway Tower gets everywhere.
Kinda off-topic but, am I the only one who thought that background was moving?

Had to blink a couple of times to get used to.
Ronaldo Lemos Joins Mozilla Foundation Board
> This is not my experience at all. Maybe in Cali (I've only visited), but the rest of the US is not as cynical or distrustful as you make it out to be.

Likewise. I mean there are fearful, greedy and distrustful people everywhere. People are civil to you in America. You will eventually make friends if people want to be friends with you. It is a two-way street.
Then why didn't the invading Europeans die from new American diseases in equal proportions? Because old-world livestock lived closer to humans, in larger quantities, for longer, therefore giving Europeans many more diseases to become immune to.

Basically, Europeans had domesticated animals on a much larger scale than a few llamas a few places on the continent. It was deeply integral to the old-world way of life in a way that Native American culture didn't even come close.
"gifted" ..phew who told you so ?
To do it right you'd have to build the structure with reinforced concrete, able to withstand tonnes of soil while forming a desired shape. You can then decorate it from inside as you want, make an exact copy of Bilbo's house if that's your goal. Such a project would be quite expensive though and well beyond capacity of an amateur.
There is really no point in complaining about downvotes. Maybe someone misclicked.
This reminds me that there was a time when eBay had no organic search traffic. A few pages were indexed. About the same time eBay launched their API. An enterprising college student created a site from ebays API. Normally this wouldn't have been a big deal but the new site had static pages, easy for googlebots to crawl & pages with affiliate links. The site went from generating a few hundred dollars per month in affiliate commissions to millions. eBay clearly didn't care about SEO back then so it's a bit ironic to read this today.
I don't know much about the tests you took, but isn't it possible that you got better at taking the test, rather than the improvements being from Creatine itself?

Would it make sense to continue testing without using Creatine and see if your test results dropped?
>And currently, I basically never notice that level of BO during a 24 hour cycle. It just vanished.

Are you sure you just didn't get used to it? I had a friend that got into this and while he thought he smelled fine... no one else concurred except other people also living the same way.
Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters
Personally I thought it was rather awesome, and not at all depressing.

Though it does make me happy that my kid's a boy as I'm fairly certain I'd have issues living with someone that "girly", (and from the video she's not particularly extreme, but that would still be too much for me (As I stand today, I would of course just have to do some changing - and lots of tomboy lessons.)
For those wondering why the website isn't working, the URL is: http://www.johnknight-ea.com/home.html
Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 with Bing to help sell lower-cost devices
Nowadays Poland seems like any other European country (for me, being a tourist it does anyway).

And this article is referencing a time only around 25-30 years ago...
Except this isn't 3D modeling of huge areas. This is a drone that can navigate using no other sensors or input except for the Tango.

It's SLAM in a 3 dimensional space without the expensive and cumbersome lasers.
The biggest thing you can do is to align yourself as working together with your managers. You are not a code monkey.

What does this mean?

Well, if they assign you a vague task, you get clearer about it, you ask them why they want to do it, what the objective is. A lot of the time, you could be wrong, and with their objective it makes sense. A lot of the time you'll be right. The best way to show it is to mock it up, and explain your thinking on why it's wrong.

The biggest killer is when you feel like a code monkey, it's usually not the work.
how this will not create more divide in already divided society ?
Counter argument could be made that everyone starts at level zero and their environment/condition make them learn slow or fast. Just telling your kids that they are gifted won't make them gifted. I know hundred of cases where parents told their child since early childhood that they are special, they are gifted but eventually child failed, fall behind even behind those considered "slow"
All people commenting here that "they are gifted" should really take second look. Solving a math equation fast doesn't make you gifted. Life is far far complex than classroom maths. So STFU and have beer. Its friday !
Kids are smoking coffee grounds because of lack of drug education
What I was getting at is that in the Abrahamic tradition, while animals may sometimes be considered to have a form of soul, they are still kept very distinct from humans, who are considered made in gods own image. In some other cultures, such as Hinduism, although the form that a soul inhabits affects it, the soul itself can move from animal to human and back again over cycles of reincarnation, so there may be less resistance in those cultures to the idea that humans are part of a continuum rather than being a separate class of entity.
Treating like a physical injury is absolutely the right thing to do. I had a job that took me almost two years to recover from (while at the next one which was fantastic). I almost felt like I lost myself at other and wondered if I wanted to do tech at all. I now see it was just that one place.
Yeah the ride was pretty awesome. Until it broke. Spot on.

Then again I have a FIAT (Fix It Again Tony) with a MultiJet engine which has been hellishly expensive to keep alive so today's technology and quality standards are debatable.
You can do it! Keep learning and switch jobs as soon as you can. You don't have to switch to your dream job right away, just trade up a little at a time. You'll learn even faster at the next one.
Wait, how long have you been programming? 'cause this is essentially the job description of every programmer I know.
Out of curiosity, which comments did you interpret as negative? At the moment, I don’t see any that are distinctly negative, so I’m curious about how our perceptions differ.
Auction pages don't really belong in search results. IMO. I think they had this coming.
Possibly. Probably not. That'll only help if the tax debt is > 2 years old. Some of it might be. However, not filing on time will probably make the tax debt non-dischargable.

Since it seems the poster has income still, the bankruptcy court may or may not come up with a better plan for repayment than the IRS.

Anyway, tax attorney is the way to go here. But the system is set up such that if you can pay it, you probably will.
If any one is interested in a sort of guide on why or how, and what to expect when you stop using body soaps and shampoos...

It's also about all these products we buy because are told to, that are completely unnecessary. It's as if no one questions it,which I think is Weird

http://fritzw.com/2014/02/10/4-things-you-buy-that-are-ruini...
If this story piqued your interest in late Communist Poland, give Timothy Garton Ash a read.

His "The Polish Revolution" is a great in depth account of the 1980/81 Polish uprising, and "The Magic Lantern" is a romping retelling of the last few months of Communist rule.

Beautiful books.
It's hard for me to imagine that these people don't stink and that after
a workout, run or hike they don't smell "strongly"

My brother mentioned that his partner, who he'd recently separated from, almost never bathed and always smelled fine - even her armpits, and even after exercise. I saw her many times over the years they were together and never once did I notice any body odor, not even when hugging her hello or goodbye.

(I mention their recent breakup only because it made me believe him even more. He didn't have a vested interest in talking her up at that point!)

She was of European descent, by the way. I mention that because many Asians tend to have less body odor, for reasons that other responses have mentioned.

She was a vegetarian as well, though I'm not sure that's relevant.
1. If possible, use a whois privacy service that keeps your full name exposed and only hides your contact info. This removes much uncertainty about your actual ownership of the domain. Gandi.net does this. Internet.bs also has an option to do this, although I'm still not sure if I want to trust them at all. NameCheap and GoDaddy hide everything, as do most of the other similar services.

2. When you sign up with a whois privacy service, thoroughly test the email address that they put in the whois on your behalf. It should reliably forward all non-spam to your real email address, including ICANN notices and any email that you might need to check if you ever decide to transfer away.

Many registrars/webhosts are abysmal at managing their mail servers, so any mail that transits through them might go straight into your Spam folder or even disappear into thin air. Both Gandi.net and NameCheap are OK in this regard, though sometimes the emails are delayed by a few minutes. Avoid any company that puts more emphasis on webhosting than on domain registration.

3. Some registries hide your contact info by default, so there is no need for whois privacy. If you're okay with unusual TLDs, try finding out what their policies are and whether you meet their requirements.

For example, as a citizen of South Korea, I am able to register .kr domains without exposing my mailing address or phone number, but I can't hide my name and email address. Corporations, on the other hand, aren't allowed to hide their whois. Similar policies apply to .eu and a bunch of other European ccTLDs.
The mods could auto-flag this site and it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. As much of a space nerd as I admittedly am, these science-lite and content-free (and not typo-free) articles don't add anything to HN at all.
were those skulls on her shirt in the mosaic? An odd choice given the context.
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The future is changing fast, and so are privacy implications. I'm glad you've recognized this.

I see my friends post pictures of their babies/kids all the time on social media. It's their right, but what's to say in the future that the then-grown kids will want their pictures made public?
That page is commercial spam (or "veiled spam"). It serves no other purpose than to get a link to his own product site, no discussion, no nothing. Just: For the special price of 999 Euro you can get your own. How is that quality content?

Just for reference: metafilter bans self-links (ie links to content that the poster is involved with in any way) outright in posts to the main page. It's extremely unlikely that the poster has anything to do with the product in this post whatsoever. The fact that they're a member of fifteen years standing with only 15 posts to their name makes it even more unlikely.

I wouldn't argue that that this post deserves to rank highly in any search engine, but to downgrade the whole site because of it? Madness: It's a link to an interesting mathematical shape, with a bit on perfectly on topic discussion underneath which contains a few other relevant links. Best of the web? Probably not. Spammy? Hardly.

It is also spammy in that it doesn't nofollow external links on comments. Those links should have been nofollowed like 6 years ago. That they still aren't, is telling about MetaFilter's knowledge on SEO. You know that Google sees your site linking to bad sites, and what do you do? Complain about it? Fire people due to an update 2 years ago? Or do you simply take action to fix it?

Links to spam sites will be flagged & then squashed by the moderators in short order. Well moderated comments by an active user-base shouldn't be nofollow - they contain actual useful information that a search engine (like Google!) ought to find useful, if page-rank matters at all.

It's possible that metafilter might have a problem with links in old posts ending up pointing to domain squatter sites I suppose, but if this is a major problem then it ought to show up in metafilter's google webmaster tools.
The battle against self-xss
I just published the first revision of a arbitrary base conversion math library. I thought it would be interesting to add mathematical proof-styled comments to bridge the gap between formal mathematical notation and its technical implementation.

Although the comments are not proofs (mainly definitions), I am planing for tests to be commented with mathematical proofs.

If you enjoy this library, consider contributing by opening an issue, pull request, or comment.
Analyze the recipe when you bake a failure cake
> The ruby 2.1 behavior of serializing out as a Time but then parsing back in to a String anyway -- seems particularly sketchy, and ripe for roundtrip bugs where the string it gets turned into on parse isn't _quite_ the same one that was original before serialization. (Say, winds up with a different timezone or something).

It's not serializing it out as a time, but serializing it as an "implicit string" (a string with no quotes). When Psych goes to dump the string out, it checks to see if the string could be interpreted as something else. Since the string being dumped doesn't match a YAML timestamp, it doesn't add explicit quoting on the string.

Here's an example. From the blog post, they are doing this:

Psych.dump Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%6N %Z")

Output:

"--- 2014-05-23 15:42:29.882127 UTC\n...\n"

The `strftime` adds the string "UTC" to the timestamp. But "UTC" isn't part of the [yaml timestamp spec](http://yaml.org/type/timestamp.html). Since it doesn't match a YAML timestamp, Psych dumps it out as an implicit string.

If we change the `strftime` to produce a string that does look like a YAML timestamp like this:

Psych.dump Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%6N %z")

Output:

"--- '2014-05-23 15:46:31.197338 +0000'\n"

Then the output is quoted so that when we load it isn't ambiguous (quoted strings are always considered strings, and are never candidates for coercion). If we were to manually modify that YAML and remove the quotes, it is indeed converted to a Time object:

irb(main):012:0> Psych.load "--- '2014-05-23 15:46:31.197338 +0000'\n"
=> "2014-05-23 15:46:31.197338 +0000"
irb(main):013:0> Psych.load "--- 2014-05-23 15:46:31.197338 +0000\n"
=> 2014-05-23 08:46:31 -0700

The article says:

>The same would happen in Psych 2.0.5 if it were not for a new feature called Safe Load which was introduced after the recent Rails YAML deserialisation security vulnerabilities.

I have no idea where they got this. You have to explicitly call `safe_load`, and it doesn't sound like they're doing that. If your format the timestamp correctly in your YAML, it will happily deserialize as a Time object. :-/
I'd be worried about fools trying to steal my beer - can't see a locking mechanism on that picture. And no, I'm not joking - some retards once stole a whole fridge worth of beer from a friend's terrace.
I'm not even sure how that would work and it makes no sense at all.
Vimeo is trying to achieve just that.
Depending on location, ground temperature tends to stabilize once you get a few feet down. Here in the northeast United States, it's about 60 F year-round once you get 15 feet below the surface.

I worked for a company that was making direct-exchange geothermal heat pumps for homes - think about a big refrigerator whose coils are buried in the soil.
I saw those for the first time yesterday. Apparently some asshat has a patent on displaying an interstitial when the mouse moves above a certain x coordinate dressed up as "measuring exit intent"
Mental Illness Can Shorten Lives More Than Chain-Smoking
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You cannot quote me insulting you in any way, the closest you can get is the statement that a rational person can look at the pandering that happens from some men and conclude it isn't right either (yes, you are included in that group of 'some men').

It should also be noted that I'm not the one who is using diplomacy in their argument. My issue with you is the weak way in which you've pandered to feminists in general, while at the same time painting men and MRA as 'jerks'.

We are not jerks, nor is MRA about 'jerks'. It is unfortunate that you've chosen to buy that line, you should start being more proud of your gender.

If men and women are going to come to any sort of concensus on these sorts of issues, it's not going to happen by 1 side pandering to the other.
Also a larger production number. I didn't see it on the page but I think the phone version was limited to 200 or less or something.
I like to think of centrally planned economies (e.g. Warsaw Pact, pre-reform India or pre-reform China) as helium balloons held under water; all they need is to be released in order to fly up.

What I find extraordinarily sad is how many people still want to return to central planning. I think it's very attractive to the sort of Bright Young Thing who's never held a real job and dealt with real people, and who ends up living his life mooching off of those who have and do.
‘DIRTY WORK’ THEORY EXPLAINS SPERM AND EGGS
So that's why he was saying he's learning Romanian. Btw, watch out for Duolingo's Romanian course (should take half a year or so to be finished):

http://incubator.duolingo.com/courses/ro/en/status

Until then maybe Livemocha will do.
FYI PID was derived from watching humans, your use of the word "just" is inappropriate.
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> who cares if people are posting on Facebook and Twitter

It is the sheer volume of photos that I believe bothers a lot of people. "oversharing." You get sick of the same baby every single day. Also craving extreme volumes of attention makes you come off as narcissistic. A lot of the time those photos aren't for them, they are to present to others in order to gain attention.
One of your submissions is titled "Former spook on Reddit AMA". It links to a thread on Reddit that was created by a user named "Zen Pro".
They are not John Poindexter, they’re trying to sell advertising. But make no mistake about it – they are in the surveillance business; that is how they make money: they surveil people and use that to profit.

And so the effect is the same.

http://privacy-pc.com/news/changing-threats-to-privacy-moxie...
When You Don't Have Photoshop Access Check Out These 25 Web Apps
Photoshop is amazing when it comes to creating, editing and perfecting photography or making retouches or small changes.

However, Photoshop is not the cheapest, most portable or most comprehensive tool for image editing.

Therefore, we present to you 25 web based applications to help you take your photos to the next level.
Its equally weird that a large chunk of people employed to write software went to college and majored in things that require understanding and writing software.
Thanks. I fail at Internet today, I guess. :-)
This is something that certainly needs to exist, but I am exceptionally wary of it being helmed by weev.
The system is working perfectly, if you subscribe to the belief that you can own an idea. If an idea can be property, and you can control how your property is used and distributed just like any other property you own. I can not make a product, but simply licence it's use. A middle man is after all the bulk of capitalism. The patent trolls are a solid business model, and the system isn't broken. Again, this is only if you subscribe to the notion that an idea can be owned.

I don't think you can own an idea, actually I know you can't. But we create an artificial and abstract environment in order to put real world constraints on things that simply cannot be contained. It's why we get all these stupid laws, and why they don't work. They are trying to do the impossible.

A corporation is not a person, an idea is not property. But it will take a revolution to change that, and I'm too lazy to start it.
Depending on where you live, you might have to wait six months to a year to go on employment after you quit a job or are fired for cause, as opposed to being laid off.

Unemployment has also been severely cut, and the term severely shortened since the days of the 99ers. There's really not any government support other than unemployment available for able-bodied single people (they've even cut food stamps recently, which is one of the cruelest things you can do in a depressed economy.) Of course, if you become homeless the IRS will definitely leave you alone.
Except for the long hair, I was in a similar boat.

I found that Johnson's "No More Tears" baby shampoo is very effective and gentle and CHEAP. I don't have long hair but I just use that once or twice a week.

There are a lot of expensive shampoos that are equally gentle, but with those I think you're mostly paying for the brand name and the fragrances.
Which should i take, php or ruby on rails?
first- we(nigeria) have electricity problem, and besides i dnt have a pc, so i want to learn one of those language so i could churn out websites for clients faster, to be able afford a pc of my own. which one would you advice i go for? btw am at intermidiate at front-end development already. thanks
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It's no weirder than a large percentage of programmers holding degrees in computer science or computer engineering.