skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully over time the system could also optimise retention, if it can correlate being assigned certain tasks often with quitting. You could also have employees fill out satisfaction surveys and weight efficiency with enjoyment, perhaps better employees could be rewarded with more weight given to enjoyment.

Naturally there's going to be more variance in employee performance on some tasks rather than others. For example being a cashier during a quiet time will have less variance than toilet cleaning. A workaround might be to pay a bonus for good performance on high variance tasks.
This is what websites want you to think.

Do it badly -> annoy users -> no more laws that protect users.
Evolutionary architecture and emergent design
It isn't that women are more worthy: I shouldn't get any more than a man does, yet.. i shouldn't get less or passed over because I'm female. It happens, though. But my rights aren't more important than someone elses and if I absolutely had to, I'll pass on a right or two if it means that people are fed (within some reason, obviously, and facts to show me why I'm losing).

If there is a structural solution that is actually doable, by all means, please share. But until then, any pieces that are solvable we should, by all means, solve. Not because one group is more important, but because we shouldn't make people suffer or be discriminated against.
Yes, but that doesn't mean you can say "no other editor can do this".

Even Eclipse allows you to do this.
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Do we know that this isn't a recent phenomenon?
I suspect that it might be new, along with methane potholes showing up in Siberia.

I think we know that there have been bouts of global warming that was preceded by release of methane into the atmosphere, followed by 6 to 9 degrees of warming over a long period of time. It fucked with the ecosystem but mammals managed to survive at least two of them.

This appears to be a man-made beginning to one of these warming periods, though it's happening at a much faster rate than ever by orders of magnitude.

http://www.wunderground.com/climate/PETM.asp

So, I think what's scary is that this looks like a massive global extinction event that hasn't happened in 25 ~ 50 million years, and it's starting now, and it's happening faster than it ever has. I dunno, doesn't that scare you a little?

It looks like if we're not unlucky we'll manage to survive (mammals have done it before). Probably scariest is the political turmoil that will result. That's the part that will affect us in our lifetime.
Bot that downloads music from Ektoplazm and uploads it as YouTube videos
I exactly had the same idea...
I would also add that this thing is going to be useless anyway because not all the websites are going to implement it. So you will have this header + the traditional blocker...

It's totally unrelated but something I would really like to have right now would be a header with the average connection bandwidth (or just thresholds). This could be really useful to reduce the amount of data sent if the connection is really bad.
You can't identify minors because this isn't just a feature for minors but, e.g., for companies or public terminals as well. Of course it depends on the websites to deal with it. But, e.g., most popular porn sites actually do care about stuff like this.

There is no UI in Firefox because Firefox uses the operating systems parental control features to enable/disable it. And those features should have a UI within the system. That's why it is only implemented for OS X and Windows at the moment.
I agree completely. I liked legos as a kid, and cars and stuff, but i was keenly aware that these were 'boy toys'. Changes in advertising and presentation are needed: 'girlified' legos always turned me off (really, the boys are manning spaceships and the girls are shopping?), but I'd have liked a mix of male and female characters doing fun stuff. Neutral.

It gets more intense than just the color changes in toys: Last Christmas gifts I bought my niece and nephew, there were a lot of toys in various price ranges for my nephew, all of which were actual playable toys and selection of types of toys. For my niece, however, mostly dolls, and many of the cheaper toys weren't useful by themselves - they were all accessories for the dolls.
No, it's not common. Most popular projects are normally hosted on GitHub and managed with OPAM[1]. Also you can checkout some interesting projects here: <https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml/>

[1]: http://opam.ocaml.org
I was expecting it to merely be a graphical version of "dialog". I was pleasantly surprised!
Here's a matrix of the 6 big TV channels. Top left is the national broadcast (of the public broadcaster, NHK), the others are local commercial Tokyo broadcasts. The earthquake was initially not estimated to be big enough to affect Tokyo so Tokyo stations didn't automatically broadcast the initial alert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrAwvJLKxo
There is enough landlocked ice to raise sea level by 80 meters or so.

Here's a projection that claims it'll rise 2.5 meters by 2040.

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/07/more-than-25m-sea-le...
For me personally, the sweet spot between readability and compactness would be one of the first examples:

for(var i = 0; i <= 100; i++){
var out = ''
if (i % 3 == 0) out += 'fizz'
if (i % 5 == 0) out += 'buzz'
if (out.length == 0) out = i
console.log(out)
}
The money used to pay salaries, rents, equipment etc. is definitely negligible when compared to the vast buckets of cash just sitting around on Irish and other obscure bank accounts.

Shit, it'd be really interesting to see what would happen if MS/AAPL got the possibility to transfer their entire overseas cash into the US without taxes. Probably 100B$ could provide a massive growth...
The "implicit feature" is all the other kids and adults around any girls, who consciously or otherwise suggest that they shouldn't be playing with Lego/Meccano etc.

My daughter's only 15 months old - and already I can see other parents treating her differently from the boys. If she's in a crowd of children, she'll get given dolls instead of building blocks.

Obviously I do what I can to counteract this, but she's not always with me. If toys like this encourage other parents to let my daughter play at engineering, I'm all for them.
I'm a Freelance webdev living in Amsterdam for my whole live (27 years).

Worked for a few successful start-ups that moved on to become big players in their industry.
As said, most software development is web/app based (startups). E-Commerce and mobile to be specific.

That said there is ample opportunity for Java/C++ engineers. These trades are often sparse here and I always see a lot of Vacancies in that area.

If you are unsure, check out some dutch vacancy sites. E.g [1] (I have no idea why they won't translate their site, most employers value English speaking devs).
Companies I've worked at are always mixed ethnically. I've worked with devs from Ukraine, Romania, Britain etc.
More and more companies are flying over people from other parts of Europe.
System engineers are always welcomed as well. Even in web dev where it looks like there is a lot of saturation, highly experienced people are always in demand. Even in PHP I often get messaged for jobs primarily for Symfony2 experience.

Overall though you will probably find the pay to be not so great compared to The Valley and for example London..
I would advice you to proceed cautiously and start sending in your open resumé or applying to some jobs through the web and get a feel at least.

[1] www.itjobboard.nl
Becoming less (a poem)
So what is the advantage and benefit over SVG with embedded PNG?

Regarding logos: most corporate logos use even less colors. The reason behind is a follows: a corporate logo works well displayed in its full bright, but also works well as a small icon printed in black and white. Yes in the corporate world, people still print and many still print in black and white to save costs. Here you can see how good logo design works, how a good logo works in is full bright and also very small: http://responsivelogos.co.uk/
You also want to reduce the number of colors, because normally those colors are special colors from standardized color palettes like Pantone. In offset printing for advertisement material, those colors are not mixed on spot, but special colors and they are expansive. For that reason in good logo design you try to stick with 1 color besides black and white, or a maximum of 2.
This is actually a large part of why ES5 added these things, to enable Caja and the like.
Revisiting Common Subexpression Elimination in Guile
Can these mesh networks be easily joined with other mesh networks to build a global mesh?
Lego used to market its product as unisex[1], but has changed to be more gendered over the years. I assume market research indicated that this would result in greater profits.
[1] http://i.imgur.com/xwAsW56.jpg
Programming with Managed Time (essay + videos)
This could be because, robots don't have ego or feel proud in giving an order., they don't have emotions too. So for human this is just a message received to act upon. than the 'order' given by a human in a tone which varies depending on his emotions. For instance if someone gives an order in an angry tone, it could be humiliating to his subordinate., so let these robots give orders in a rude tone and see the consequences for yourself :)
Right Object.keys(foo) is better.
> As opposed to what?

As opposed to clear, well defined, and fair rules. Rather than bureaucratic misery designed to annoy people.

> Cars are weapons. The only reason people don't respect it as such is a cultural mishap in a way cars were introduced into society.

Axes are weapons. The only reason people don't respect it as such is a cultural mishap in a way axes were introduced into society.

Your sentence had essentially zero semantic meaning, you can replace "car" with virtually anything without changing the meaning.
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Women are far better complainers than men, it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint to maximize resources from the traditional role bread winner when gathering resources was a priority. That's why no amount of diversity programs are going to satisfy this group and men should learn to deal with this. The exceptions to the notion that men dominate society (like Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton) prove that there are no roadblocks specifically preventing women from achieving the highest positions of power and meritocracy is enough to allow you to be a reasonable success in your career.
I would imagine the newspaper you refer to is not regarded as a serious newspaper, but I am not too familiar with the French publications. Surely there are other ones you could trust them to browse.

Which one were you referring to again?
> This is mostly a sysadmin/devops issue, since all languages have the same issue.

You're kidding right? I thought that whole "devops" movement (call it what you like) was to get rid of the attitude of "other people's problem".

I live in environments that are (for the most part) regulated and demand by law that there is a strict separation between the people running and developing software, often open to interpretation is the 3rd role of people configuring the software.

The problem is that "I solve it..." just doesn't work. Either people solve it by working cooperatively together or it simply won't ever be deployed.

There's no such thing as a sysadmin problem, devops problem, developer problem. (No go downvote me for the tone of the next sentence) -- For me it's either get your ass moving, stand up, walk over to people and talk to them or get lost!
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Your link have nothing to do with toys. TV is a completely passive medium, that you can only watch, and over which you have no influence.

The fact that Baby Einstein DVDs don't work (worse, they are harmful) tells you nothing about whether engineering toys help or not.
Ahhh, sorry John, I didn't want to put words in your mouth, but I wrote that post on my phone, so I went with a shorter version of you without the caveats / conditions that you mentioned. My bad...
I exactly had the same idea... I would also add that this thing is going to be useless anyway because not all the websites are going to implement it. So you will have this header + the traditional blocker...

It's not useless, since it allows the site to avoid being blocked by hiding the "bad" content. Ideally blockers would be smart enough to recognize and block only the "bad" DOM elements, but they usually just block the whole page, if not the whole site.
Can we please stop talking about the Linux desktop?
Yep, here's the paper: http://www.acsac.org/2012/openconf/modules/request.php?modul...

It was presented at ACSAC 2012.
Your last paragraph is what I can't understand. Ignoring OS X for now (wouldn't know a thing about that):

Parental control in Windows just lets me set time limits/limits on what programs/games I can run as far as I know (just double checked microsoft.com and that's what they list as well). Given that and my understanding of the Fx feature means that Fx understands that this is a machine with parental controls enabled and _shares that with the world_.

That is nonsense. It's crap. The world cannot (as I stated before) decide what is okay and what not. Going with your porn example (I .. kinda expected that): I'd be entirely fine with a 16yo kid to look at porn. I might not want that very same kid to use the computer around 2am in the night. For the latter I can use parental control features. You (and Mozilla) force your (weird, from this pov) moral/set of values on me. Enabling parental control does NOT mean that I want the world to know about it. It also doesn't imply that porn isn't okay. On the other hand, maybe I would put the NRA website on the list of things I don't want to see in my household. No one can decide what is okay or not - except for the parent/admin.

"There is no UI in Firefox, because Firefox uses the OS parental control features to enable/disable it" is missing the point. Unless I fail to understand what this does I cannot use the parental controls without Firefox/Mozilla abusing that flag and asking the YouPorn administrators for parental support.

This is a misfeature and at best useless, although I'd lean towards harmful and wrong.
"I have seen no data to backup this claim which would override my personal experience"

There have been attempts at measuring the effect of type systems, see for example this excellent presentation for some references: http://www.slideshare.net/Felienne/putting-the-science-in-co.... One of the studies mentioned here does claim that, other things being equal, static typing helps find bugs quicker.
Ask HN: What to read?
Hello all. I've recently taken up an urge to read more on world affairs. Apart from the usual newspapers ({The} New York{er} Times, for example), what are some good sites to subscribe to?

Thank you very much
It's not that simplistic, data from MOOCs shows that short MOOCs (3-4 weeks) do better than long MOOCs (> 4 weeks), probably it's because the attention wains and there need to be other incentives for people to continue.
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FORTH has one serious problem. Like your friend said, "Not everyone can handle" it. In organizations that hire programmers based on buzzword compliance and cost, it's only natural all FORTH code would be rewritten in something more... popular. It's true FORTH successes are most visible in not very visible niches. There was a time every Sun and Apple computer came with a FORTH interpreter in ROM and most SPARC-based servers probably still do.

It is a beautiful language, if you can handle it.
Black hole information paradox
I wouldn't want to be in that pool when a crack opens up..
Is having pastel coloured building blocks really going to help here?

Serious question.

In an attempt to reduce sexism in STEM, women have come up with sexist engineering toys. Goldie Blox has cute little animal character pieces, and now with Roominate, "[once] the building is built, they can decorate it with the included paper and other embellishments and use the motor to add electrical appliances". Both of them come in colours that are distinctly girly.
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That is absolutely meaningless. What is bad content?
The header doesn't tell what the client considers 'bad' or not 'safe', it's a bool.

Given that, I see these possible outcomes

- the client's admin might not care about this site at all (effort to hide stuff would be wasted?)

- the client's admin might consider content 'unsafe' that seems fine/okay to the site operator => Blocklist, failed to archive what you suggest

- the client's admin might consider content 'safe' that the site now refuses to share => Curse site and Mozilla, switch browsers and/or consider that site broken and the operators morons (similar to 'breaks zoom on mobile devices' today, for example)
"Women are far better complainers than men"

Why thank you drcross for giving us a demonstration of why women are going to need a little more encouragement than men to get into tech...

"The exceptions to the notion that men dominate society (like Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton) prove that there are no roadblocks specifically preventing women from achieving the highest positions of power and meritocracy"

Yes, and the fact that the current president is black is proof that there's no racial discrimination roadblocks in the US. Hey, do you want to buy a bridge? I have one I'm trying to sell, runs from NYC to Brooklyn, you'll make a killing on the tolls.
Is this satire? The cliche of women being naggers being explained as an evolutionary trait sounds like introductory biology passed through a filter of 50 year old sitcoms and bad stand up comedy.
Staying sane while managing multiple projects
Hehe.minimize cost extends profit margin..
Im myself before stuck in no end project.reason is they want to follow old procedure.for me,i find hard for gov to changed from cash basis accounting to accrual accounting,the old accountant consultant also jerk...suggest nonsense module.
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There is js-git: https://github.com/creationix/js-git
I use http://getprismatic.com/ to find something to read. It basically crawls the articles on your social feeds (Facebook and Twitter) and combines them with your interests, and then creates your personalised feed of articles.

In your case, you can start with http://getprismatic.com/topic/International+Relations and check the resources of the articles to find good sites to subscribe to.
NSFW is just another undefined concept. It depends on your work, on your culture/upbringing and the society you live in.

If I stumble upon pictures of tits because someone posted a link to a yellow press newspaper site or a random celebrity scandal, I .. misclicked because that wouldn't interest me in the slightest. But it wouldn't be unsafe, not even for work. On the other hand, I wouldn't exactly want to end up on a nazi propaganda page (even if I'm merely looking at current splitter groups/facts around news reports about these sort of braindead idiots). I would feel very bad about leaving a trace like that - even if I don't think I'd have to face any sort of consequences.

Point being: Safe™ is undefined, for minors or employers. You can try to find a GCD, a common global set - and you'll fail/end up with a balance act between false positives and misses.
The Web is about statelessness and hyperlinking, so I'll note that:

1) Javascript breaks stateless linking.

2) Mobile versions and browser detection breaks stateless linking.

3) Censorship headers like Prefer:Safe, and censorship in general, breaks stateless linking.

And the list goes on. Some state and inability to link is inevitable, but this is not.

Mozilla: please get back on track for a strong/stateless and cite-able web. Headers are not the place to build a censorship "UX."

Also, "safety"? That's not helping. Almost no one uses NetNanny, or similar software and, while I'd like to think we've grown as a species, even if we haven't, it doesn't make sense to force something most Web surfers have already rejected back down their throats. (And it is forcing them, even if it's optional. The social implications of even "optional" headers will be with us for a very long time.)

A browser especially should strive to be neutral, unless you want to start getting requests from governments and industry to block sites directly in the browser. Google handles a million or more every day and they are just and index list... You can't expect a different fate without discarding neutrality as a core principal.

Cite-ability requires availability, and censorship - the Web-equivalent of a frontal lobotomy - contradicts the very essence of your product. I'm starting to feel ashamed to be using a browser made by an organization that doesn't understand that.
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It's fascinating how this is literally out of science fiction.

The short story "WHILE-U-WAIT" by Edward Wellen (from 1978) describes a world where offering this kind of detective work service is made possible by technological data collection and filtering advances.

When I first read the story sometime in mid 90's it still felt too far off, but over the past 5 years it has become not only reality, but apparently also a competitive sport for would-be forensics hobbyists.
Pascal family of languages have a special place on my heart.
You're right. I apologize. Both to you, for getting heated, and to Maciej, for misrepresenting his actions in this matter. The misrepresentation was accidental, but it happened nonetheless. My comments were also extremely disrespectful and totally uncalled for. I'm truly sorry.
Hiring a contractor is a good idea, but make sure they are hired with the potential to become a technical cofounder.

My suggestion would be to hire someone who can rewrite the PHP code into something more maintainable like Javascript, Ruby, or Python. And make sure they have a plan for scalable infrastructure (either via a PaaS like Heroku/App Engine or if they have the chops, a real DevOps infrastructure).
In which case the browser support and whole article is useless and nothing new for that kind of weird setup.

Although I'd recommend being a responsible admin/parent in that case instead and, with the _correct_ infrastructure for this scenario already in place, define filters for things you don't like or white lists for things that are okay for your network, instead of begging the internet to correctly guess your moral boundaries.
Depends on the age of the kid and price of the item. By the time they are able to take advantage of sensors, LEDs, motors and resistor, they are fully able not to harm themselves with it. So it boils down to how expensive stuff you buy.

Even younger kids do not have to be very closely supervised when working with real tools if you remove dangerous ones. Three years old can safely play with few screwdrivers, pliers and cardboard box without close supervision.
Show HN: Can I entertain you?
Nice features:

http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2013/Oct-2013-10-05.wha...

Type inference:

http://nimrod-by-example.github.io/variables/type_casting_in...

Quick introduction for C programmers:

https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/wiki/Nimrod-for-C-programmers
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Summer of Code on Emacs
Your anonymous posts to Secret aren't anonymous after all
sure. but having several layers of "defense" is still a good idea
This is just preparing us for the post terminator world :)