skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company[1] works in this space, building tools for artisan brewers, distillers, and coffee roasters. I know this market quite well!

This is a known practice, and one that a lot of people are unhappy about. We suspect that the TTB will be cracking down quite harshly on this in the near future; forcing a named distiller statement on the label.

That said... not all of the whiskey, rye, or bourbon that MGP produces is bad - some of its aged production is quite good, and companies like Angels Envy which further age it (basically double oak or quarter casking) can produce a unique and high quality product.

My problem with this is from the deception;
imagine if it turned out that Dogfish Head and Stone brewing were actually buying their beer from MillerCoors!
This is an unfair practice that puts actual craft distillers (some of my clients!) at a huge disadvantage. A named distillery requirement would go a long way to correcting this.

[1] www.Gastrograph.com
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I think he meant that the "brand" costs more, with no added value.

A better example is hotdog rolls. The supermarket brand is usually 20% less and literally sits next to the "name" brand in your area. The Bimbo/Weston/Freihoffers/etc hotdog rolls are literally the same thing, deliveried by the same guy and baked in the same place!

See: http://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our_brands/

Although, companies like Vlassic are now shipping pickled vegetables in jars that resemble mason jars to look like the more artisanal products.
If you just want to give it a try, the ones made by Uvex are pretty cheap and of good quality:
http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...
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Later on the article describes the project as being "adrift" with ill-defined requirements and scope. That will kill absolutely any project and is a completely separate problem from technology. Lockheed failed at the engagement level to define scope. Their development team didn't have a prayer.
The challenge is then you lose accountability, and the ability for people to work on what they are weak at.
I don't condone the mislabeling, where that's occurring, but I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to the outsourcing of the actual distillation process. It's basically chemistry, well suited to industrial process control, and heavily regulated for tax reasons. It sounds like MGP is typically doing quite a bit more than that, though.
Adblock Edge, since it doesn't contain the 'paid for exemptions' (aka ads).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

"Adblock Edge is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for blocking advertisements on the web. This fork will provide the same features as Adblock Plus 2.X and higher but without "acceptable ads" feature. Adblock Edge was primarily branched off from Adblock Plus 2.1.2 source code package "http://adblockplus.org/downloads/adblockplus-2.1.2-source.tg... created by Wladimir Palant."
That is a reason to oppose the NSA, not Facebook.
Cool. It's the gear I am waiting for.
It does feel shady, but on the other hand I can't really argue with their logic:

- ads are an important revenue stream on the web, so allow unintrusive/inoffensive ads by default

- to do this, companies need to agree to keep all ads under a certain URL pattern "unintrusive" by ABP's definition

- investigating and enforcing the nature of the ads in the whitelist costs money, so make this service free for "small to medium" businesses but charge large ones.

Companies may be hurt by people choosing to block ads, but they're not hurt by Adblock Plus offering them a chance to have their ads unblocked. And users aren't hurt either, as if they don't like the whitelisting they can simply turn it off. It seems to me that if you're ok with adblocking, there's no reason to protest ABP's whitelisting practices.
He was a paid user. Therefore, not a free service at this point.
This bit is amazing. I could have sworn this was in a game already.

https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/the-sounds-of-malloc#t=7:18

https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/the-sounds-of-malloc#t=8:40

https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/the-sounds-of-malloc#t=12:00
Best of luck to both founders, and this is great news for the Indian startup industry, but I am confused by this statement:

“We are not thinking about [an IPO]. We have not settled on a business model that we can take public,”

Shouldn't the business model be validated by your Series A or max B? Flipkart has taken multiple rounds in the past, and this one looks as large as a Series C.

Edit: Firms involved also sound like series C firms - Tiger Global, DST etc.
From the Green Giant website, "Premium Le Sueur® brand vegetables come from the birthplace of the Green Giant® brand—Le Sueur, Minnesota—where they’re grown in the rich, fertile soil of the Minnesota River Valley."

So, is Green Giant doing the same thing if the same farmer/field/canning facility supplies peas to generic/supermarket brands?
Production practice of Vodka matters less, because the point of vodka is "a flavorless spirit". If you're dealing with flavor vodka, your no longer dealing with a craft/artisan spirit anyway.
This happens in the private sector too. Sometimes consultants are hired to write the RFPs which, suprise surprise, they tend to win.
>>Perhaps most importantly, there's no failing fast. The private sector accepts the fact that many engineering projects will fail.[2] Good companies take care not to punish failure unreasonably. But in the public sector, failure is just license for those opposed to project to crow: "we shouldn't have been doing this anyway!" If you fail fast, it's easy to pin the blame on you.

This is not unreasonable. After all, projects in the private sector are funded by private funds. If you fail, you only waste your own money. Whereas public projects are funded by the taxpayer. When they fail, what's really happening is that taxpayer money is going into the pockets of some private company, but there's only a failed project to show for it. So yeah, of course the backlash is going to be much stronger.
Now that you mention it, yeah it is... It looks like a lot of the symbols and punctuation characters in Garamond Pro are slanted with no logical pattern or reason. Would drive me nuts if I were using it.

http://i.imgur.com/Cbd74Gq.png
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There's a setting in Adblock Plus that allows you to turn the "unintrusive ads" whitelist off. You don't need a separate add-on. I haven't felt the need to change the setting.
Everything you say is quite sensible. I mentioned privoxy here because obviously a large fraction of the HN audience would be comfortable setting it up.

It's worth at least knowing about because of its generality: it filters and transforms the incoming data before it gets to your browser, so it's irrelevant which browser you're using. It can run on your local machine or you can put it on a server and connect through an ssh tunnel, bypassing web filters and snooping (very good for frequent travelers). When used remotely it can compensate for slow local connections by, for example, compressing images.
There's nothing contradictory to the license, the license is interpreted by debian's legal and FTP Masters as only allowing distribution by the "PHP Group", any package using that license which is not from "PHP group" is thus "non-distributable".

The reality is that the PHP license is a license which exists solely for PHP itself and makes no sense whatsoever for projects which are not PHP, leaving them essentially license-less and thus "all rights reserved".
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It's amazing to me how consistently government IT projects fail and how widespread the problem is. A simple google teaches us that this has been and still is a consistent problem for quite a lot of countries. Some with an incredibly strong tech sector (the US is obviously a prime example). Surely there must be a way to organize/orchestrate government IT projects in a way that improves delivery and risk management. And...300 million USD?
Good question! Is Polymer required? Would a different framework but with the new Google UX/UI design be fine too?
Without a doubt, Adblock.
> I despise the trend of putting blue power indicators

Blue indicators should be deemed illegal. I had a laptop that had no less than 14 (fourteen) blue light sources on it. I had to unscrew the part and remove the LEDs.
Someone should go the other way in marketing and sell an ADM-labelled vodka, with the tag line: "If it's good for driving, it's good for drinking!"
>Just look at the artificial ecosystems we create - they aren't in and danger of collapsing

Have you seen what's been happening in California?

Do you not understand that areas without a reliable supply of water are literally uninhabitable? Or that observing your neighbour's green - or brown - lawn today says nothing about water availability two decades from now?

Ecosystems work until they don't. When they stop working, you are entirely screwed.

The point of thinking long-term is to avoid that outcome.

Saying 'Well it hasn't happened yet so it can't' is unscientific and entirely unrelated to how these things actually work.
No warning on rebasing or amending pushed changes make this pretty unhelpful.

Edit: Hang on it's worse then that, it just says 'always force push your changes' - wonderful, you might drop commits that were previously on the branch head that someone else has pushed. Hooray.
Government agencies about to be inundated with sales pitches from General Alexander's company in 3...2...1...

Same thing happened when Admiral Fallon retired and suddenly discovered his long hidden cyber security talent at NeuralIQ.

This is a way for these guys to use influence to sell things to agencies they used to run.
There are a lot of people that can't/won't jailbreak their devices to install f.lux on them. That's the market I'm thinking about.

But thanks for the links on the existing screen films. Didn't know this was a thing already.
The problem with the dividend is that it's immediately taxed. That said, if you take taxes aside, it's actually the same either way. This is the crux of the Modigliani Miller theory. [0]

An oversimplified way to look at it...
Let's say a company has 1 million share worth $100, $50 of which is sitting in cash, and wants to return half the value to the shareholders.

One way to do this is via a dividend. Each share is now worth $50, and each shareholder has $50 in cash. (No net gain or loss, but the shareholders can do what they want with the money - the capital is freed)

Alternatively, they can buy back 500,000 shares. Each of the remaining shares is worth the same amount, but $500K of new shares is released to new uses. Same net value as above. No new value is created or left behind, it's just the dividend gives a partial payment on each share, while the buyback gives a full payment on some of the shares.

What IBM does is borrow money rather than pay cash, because they can deduct the interest payments on the debt. (This violates one of the assumptions on the MM theorem)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theor...
Getting a Time Capsule is pretty convenient if you're a Mac user. That you can add USB drives to the Time Capsule also allows you to store extra discrete snapshots using other backup software like Crashplan.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Thinking it will turn out better is not a good justification of corruption, specially because in the end, it doesnt turn out better.
The lack of accountability and transparency in these kind of expenditures are common in all governments around the world and its the classic way to stiff taxpayers out of their money.
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Ya, I'd rather not give them money if their policy is to allow some ads if given $.
Because ramping up a huge staff to build a new project generally requires keeping them forever. It's much easier to request a budget for a project then it is to try to expand headcount of well-protected government jobs.
>'(a) obviously tailored to the capabilities of a single firm so there was no way to win unless you were them'

For what it's worth, this isn't necessarily corruption at work.

As I've related on HN before, the procurement arms of these agencies are often woefully unequipped for handling anything IT related. It's typically a process made for sourcing completely interchangeable, relatively simple supplies or services seeing terribly complex software or systems dumped into them - not 'shoe-horned' as that would imply an attempt at fitting - simply dumped so that requirements spill on the floor and everything gets jumbled up onto the existing conventions.

Given that, providing an agnostic SOW is a great way to end up with stuck with a lowball bid which makes the most self-serving, word-splitting assumptions possible to stick you with something utterly apart from what you need.

>'(b) so ridiculously vague or out of this world impossible ("We need you to basically rewrite GitHub for us and the budget is $30k") that it wasn't even worth the time.'

Related to what I said above - these requirements are not as hard and fast as they might seem. Writing a defensively worded response, getting your foot in the door to talk with the people who actual request and implement is not a terrible way to start doing real work.

>'Even now where I work, we have to deal with government agencies literally telling us they can't tell us any requirements at all because that would give us an advantage over other firms somehow.'

Right.

It's not unlike any sort of courtship, business or otherwise. You can't just ask outright, you have to make friends and hear the information gush over lunch or volunteer some no-fee consulting and take notes.

Big vendors and VARs have people who do this nearly full-time so it's certainly much harder for a small company, but not impossible.

>'We just have to pitch our product to them and hope that it fits, even though at this point in our development cycle we could (and really, want to) make adjustments, feature additions, etc. to fit them if we were allowed to.'

Something to be aware of, when dealing with a Lockheed terms like 'adjustments, feature additions' are euphemisms for 'one million dollars'. If you're pitching these possibilities and expecting/willing to make them to earn the business then it might pay to be explicit about it.
I don't see how "You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO" is ambiguous, legally or otherwise.

That said, this would probably be better served with an explicit public-domain declaration or equivalent (like the CC0 license).
Apparently it's currently no longer needed, but making sure and dealing with the legalities is a sufficient drag that it's easier to live with the renaming: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555935
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How do you differentiate yourself vs something like CampBX, and do you have plans to tackle the regulatory hurdles that they have faced?
What MGP/Green Giant are doing is just fine. I've no objection to that. The issue is the "craft distillers" passing off MGP's stuff as their own, claiming it's done with their own proprietary yeast blends and family recipes and whatnot.

Look, for example, at http://templetonrye.com/wp-content/themes/Templeton-Rye/docs... which is linked in the article.

> At Templeton Rye, we’re proud to say we use our own proprietary yeast culture propagated in-house and developed exclusively for whiskey production.

That's entirely deceptive. It's as if Whole Foods resold Green Giant products saying "grown with our family's heirloom seeds!"
This looks like something worth playing with. How does this overlay with other tools like Ghostery? Are there any other tools worth mentioning?
Google icons:

we will release these icons later this summer through our design guidelines available for use on Android and web:

-- http://youtu.be/isYZXwaP3Q4?t=12m21s

presumably soon there: https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html
This is business as usual in government contracting. The goal is not really to deliver working software - instead, it's multiple companies working together to figure out how they can maximally extract income from an entity with unfathomably deep pockets. It's layer upon layer of red tape sprinkled with the occasional sociopath just to spice things up.

The filthiest part is that nobody but the taxpayer is interested in things being more efficient. The government agencies don't really care because there is no real financial accountability. Besides, if they use up all their budgets, they just get to ask for more next year. And contractors generally have their profits limited to a percentage of the project cost, so their goal is to balloon the cost as large as possible.

For several years I worked on a very large government project. When you're sitting in a two-hour, 100 person, sprint review every two weeks and everyone is fucking off on their phones the whole time, it literally makes you question your sanity.
All of what you say is correct; but I think the answer is to look for ways to change the status quo. There are ways to do that, it just takes engagement and creative thinking.
A nicer name for the "empty quarter" would be Marlboro Country.
I remember Leopold from when they were out in A2. Good times.
Oh, I heard something like this on Reddit and I still got them confused because I started using "Adblock" instead of "Adblock Plus". Reading this today I realize that I should have been using "Plus".

I think I'm going to abandon both of them and try out some of the alternatives listed here (ublock, http switchboard).
They aren't is the problem.

Adblock Plus has created a group of 'guide lines', companies who agree to follow their guide lines will have their ad's hosted.

The problem is every company does not want to work directly the Adblock Plus. So a company (Pagefair) created adblock plus get around as a service, where if you work with them they get your ads around adblock by registering with Pagefair and adblock plus signing off on 99.5% of all all pagefair ads.

Basically adblock is attempting to create a standard for ads, or at least sells that they are. The problem is the volume of ads that PageFair hosts are beyond the review of single entity. There is no intensive to review these ads, as it would hurt their income AND require more labor (or at least require an analytic investment).

Ultimately all that Adblock Plus does is give Eyeo a monopoly on ads.
http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman

Good tool for adding lists to your hosts file.
My crappy ass landlord but a giant fucking light...

OMG these "security lights" are horrible! I love walking around the countryside at night, but you have to be careful where you look if you don't want to be completely blind the whole time. It seems like everyone in the country has to have this giant 200W halogen bonfire burning all night. So many nights I've been tempted to have a bit of fun with the rifle. "Oh did I wake you up? I guess a turn-about is fair play."

Around here it's the electric company's fault:

http://www.lacledeelectric.com/homesecurity.aspx

If I had any pull with the PUC I would stop that "un-metered" crap before I stopped Ameren from raising rates to pay for a new reactor. (Because why should our investors have to actually make an investment?) The whole "security" aspect of these lights seems like baloney anyway. If that's the purpose, why not get a reflector and point the damn things down at the ground?
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I would imagine a pretty decent one if you want any kind of precision when you're 10km up in the air. You need to take your own ground speed into consideration, as well as the windspeed as the bomb is going to be in free fall for around 3/4 of a minute.

Getting your ground speed would have been a real pain since you would have to have calculated it from your indicated air speed and guessed at the air density and winds aloft. Or you can time it by using fixed reference points below you... except those were being obscured and are still remarkably easy to get wrong when you're 10KM away.
Very cool idea. Although the recent oil and natural gas booms are fast transforming "The Empty Quarter" into "Extractopia" where oil, gas, logging, and mineral extraction, which are already the main industries, are going to become an increasingly important driver of overall North American economic growth.
It is a bit scary that an accurate description of reality could easily have been sourced from Dilbert.

The tough reality is that certain projects have a scope such that a small team could never reasonably be expected to capture the requirements of the project. Also, remember that large enterprise projects are generally built by people who are not users themselves. This is where the technology crowd often draws false conclusions, reflecting on projects of their own, where they have intimate knowledge of the problem space. There are likely very few forward-thinking engineers who also have visibility into the intricacies of the various SS systems. This is where the layers get piled on and the efficiency vanishes.
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When people close to me tell me they have nothing to hide I immediately bring up something embarrassing about them. Then ask them how they would feel if [colleague|student|boss] knew it.

Once people directly realize what it means to have no privacy they generally get the concept. It's just in the abstract that people have a hard time understanding it. Bring it hometo her in a very personal way, because that's what it's about.
I'm sorry, did you just say "proprietary algorithms" and bitcoin in the same page?

The bitcoin community has really changed in the last 3 years.
Interesting concept. How did you come up with your price points? I know you are using images, but I'd like to see more details about the weekly meal plans.
Your sort of talking about FFRDC's. Part of their role as a non-profit , non-government agency is to "Consult" with the government.

I worked at one for a while, we were held in very high regard amongst the Government. When they doled out new contracts they basically asked us our opinion for which company to choose, based on past performance. We would also review other contractors work and give it the thumbs up / thumbs down.

This was on a much smaller scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federally_funded_resear...
I am an android user, so only thing I can ask is: why another photo sharing app? Obviously you have the talent to create cool stuff, I would invest the time doing so. Sorry if I sounded like a jerk
That's skipping a few steps :) Debian patched out some artwork because it didn't follow their license requirements, and the patches to remove the artwork ended up violating the trademark license. The trademark owner then did what trademark owners are required to do.

As I stated above, the artwork is now free even by Debian guidelines, so the only thing holding back Debian there seems to be inertia.