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> As far as I know "Scotch" and "Cognac" are only protected in the EU.

That's an interesting thought. I'm aware of France fighting misuse of its wine appellations overseas but I don't know about the rest. They're pretty aggressive, though.

> In any case, the parent claims that Frank-Lin Distillers just uses pure ethanol to produce all of it's products. Given things such as bourbon permit the addition of "neutral grain spirits" those products make sense.

The "bourbon" label is protected in the United States: you need to use certain ingredients to make bourbon, or rye, or tennessee whiskey, or whatever. With bourbon, for example, an ethanol distilled all the way up to azeotrope wouldn't be legal in the United States. The limit you can use is 160 proof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_whiskey#Legal_requireme...

In the parent's defense, "flavored ethanol" isn't a bad way of describing a lot of vodkas. Some of the better vodkas come out of industrial continuous distillation. The parent is just overstating his case, and in a small way, missing the point. A lot of that cheap stuff would be BETTER if it were pure ethanol and an additive...
JSON API to guess a user's name and company from just an email address
Just curious, how much you'd pay for the 3d printed parts?
I'd be more inclined to blame damage during handling, but only because I cannot think of an alternate explanation. There is no constant refreshing of data that happens with a disk drive (to my knowledge) such that a drive being left plugged in should be more reliable than one on the shelf.

I would be happy to be instructed here, though.
GitLab CEO here. I personally don't like this workflow since you lose the history of what you did tested and it someone cherry-pick/referenced or merged code it will give problems. But some organizations prefer this workflow and if everyone is aware that they should not reference code it feature branches it can work. The linear history is certainly nice. The rebase just before merge is a bit of work. In GitLab Enterprise Edition there is an option to do this automatically when pressing the merge button.
And React Canvas: https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas
One month ago, when I posted this story [1] based on concerns emanating from the FEE, ACLU, and EFF [2], among others, this is what you said: "the source of these recommendations is a judicial conference of federal judges, not the FBI" so that the title of my submission was changed [1]. And a variety of comments joined in mocking the issue. Now that Google says the same in no uncertain terms, have you changed opinion?

The title of my (then) submission was changed to the rather innocuous-sounding "U.S. judges propose updating warrants for Tor, remote searches". My submission title indicated it was a massive loophole that the US government wanted in order to undermine the current limits on their powers.

The ACLU and EFF have expressed deep concern about theses changes. "The ACLU’s comments are particularly compelling as they provide technical detail on how the rule change could play out and undermine substantive rights, including the Fourth Amendment. For those of you who are concerned about how using Tor, or other anonymizing proxies, could expose innocent bystanders, please invest some time in reading their comments (see e.g., pp. 14-15 of the ACLU’s comments). The discussion on ycombinator focuses on the text of the rules as opposed to the potential impact in application of the proposed change." [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918265

[2] http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/RulesAndPolicies/rules/2014...

[3] http://fee.org/freeman/detail/youll-never-guess-whos-trying-...
The specific scenario is unlikely, but hiding file and folder names is definitely a great feature. A lot can be inferred from file and folder names in industrial espionage scenarios.
Wire transfers always seem to take so long. How long do they take for you?
This sounds great...

...in the next release of npm, npm 3, deduping will be the default during the install process: modules will be lifted as far up the filesystem as possible without creating issues between conflicting modules.

To me, what's missing (and maybe this is more of a browserify transform than an npm thing) is a module that steps through all the require()s and replaces as many as it can with code to pull resources from cdnjs (or wherever). Many people wouldn't want to use that, but it would be a good option for others.
Stop. You're devaluing yourself. Every step you take past those barriers, you're both throwing yourself under the bus, and showing others that your time and effort is worth less. Something you'll come to believe more and more, feeding the cycle.

It's unsustainable, on loan from your future, and soon you'll stop being able to even meet the payments on the interest. Burning out is nothing compared to the sudden stop at the end, and that elusive 'almost there' Is. Not. True.

Whatever consequences you imagine lie before you if you don't stop, simply ponder what a death in your immediate family would do to that prioritisation. It /is/ negotiable, and if it isn't then you're not working for/with the right people anyway. If that's the case you're being treated as a disposable commodity. If you're replaceable, fungible, then you're a cost to be minimised, like a printer cartridge they try squeeze the last out of.

Self isn't something you get back easily (or at all) once traded away. Just don't.
This project will probably get outdated by windows 11 or 12, it will lose support and become legacy ...

I don't see why people should spend money auditing it, instead of building maintainable alternatives
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> So first things first, I need a domain name right?

NO! I was guilty of this exact thing, and I still am to some extent. I'm finding that this is exactly the wrong approach. The first thing you need to do is to find someone who cares - find a potential user. Email that person. Tweet at someone who might think this is cool. Write a blog post about your idea - writing encourages critical thinking. Survey your friends to see if they'd like it. Find that group of people somewhere and talk to them somehow. Do they get excited? Are they interested? Do they want something else? Could you turn /that/ into an idea? This isn't the simplest process in the world, but it's damn useful.

This has multiple merits: a) You get immediate feedback on whether your idea is worth something. Most of them probably won't be, and that's okay. But you nip your "shiny things" in the bud this way. b) It gives you other, maybe related, maybe better ideas - helps you refine it. c) You get a potential userbase sooner rather than later, which is a great motivator. Hearing people like your thing is AWESOME. They'll also bug you about updates and stop you from focusing on ultimately inconsequential shit like your editor settings or what your logo should be.

Then sleep on it. Read a book about it. See what others have done. Is it still worth it? After you answer that, now it's time to finally build a prototype, maybe. And setting a goal for user interaction is very helpful - sometimes you can go on a rut where you spend months not shipping anything tangible but trudging through bugs and whatever. This leads to a tunnel of despair where you get no positive external reinforcement ("good job") which leads to burnout. This happened to me and it sucks big time, kills all of your energy and hope. So it's helpful to focus, at least initially, on small, shippable increments.

Ideas should gel over time. The chances any one of us has a perfect idea on the first shot is miniscule. If you have an idea, firing up your editor and starting to build it is the worst thing you could do in terms of time efficiency. Hope this helps, and good luck!
That's basically how things are where I am. We have a group of ~20-25 developers and everyone reports to one of 4 managers (who are also technical, but that's neither here nor there).

Every project in the group has a tech lead, who may be one of those 4 manager or it might be someone else that's relatively senior. That tech lead is in charge of the folks under them for the purposes of that project.

Any given developer might be working on a single project or sharing time between a few, so they'll have their manager and 1 or more tech leads.
Not sure why you're being downvoted.

The last 2 jobs have been "We're flat here. No team leaders, senior or junior devs." but there are clearly people that take on more responsibility and are more experienced than others.
Morning yoga is the thing that enables me to work as a coder. And swims also. If my body is stiff, so is my brain and my ability to code properly.

Also daily meditation. 20 minutes a day does wonders to shutting down the mind and seeing things from a completely new angle.

I would say taking care of your health is the number one priority any coder (or human) should have. The amount of hours sitting in front of the computer just get ineffective at some point, for me it is around 4-6 hours a day, then I just don't crank anymore good code and I have to call it a day and do something else.

We should embrace this kind of relaxed work ethics more, than the forced 8-10 hours a day which are killing people (literally, through stress) in the long run.
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Someone should run an n-body simulation of the solar system and this star backwards in time to see if it had any perturbative effects on us. What if this star was responsible for ripping Pluto away from a planet or sending Phobos down into the inner solar system to be captured by Mars?
I'm concerned that it can't be truly double-blind. Any high-profile work can become well-known within the rather small academic community, and a reviewer may know the identities of the author(s) regardless.

Going through the motions and pretending that this is truly double-blind may introduce even more peculiar biases than existed if they had merely chosen to make it single-blind.
Could it also be that a slight adjustment in any area indirectly triggers adjustments in areas that are related to depression? It seems like even a small difference in the balance of all the complicated systems in the brain could potentially have a large effect on overall well-being. Placebo might kick it into the right behavior but the small change might be what allows the placebo to work...? Maybe that's all a placebo is in the first place, I'm not well read on that.
FWIW, I haven't resorted to drugs simply because I've avoided drugs my entire life for anything psychosomatic. I guess one extreme is the whole "deal with it" approach (which is obviously insufficient) or the "there's a drug for everything" (which is pretty bad and carries terrible consequences). Haven't found a middle-ground…

"Focus" is an alluring yet elusive thing for me… :\
We're working to update our docs as quickly as possible, so transaction stuff will be there soon. As for checks, we're not planning on supporting check deposit via API initially. There are a few reasons:

1. Remote Check Deposit is a protected technology owned by Mitek and/or USAA, and we're limited in how we can use it.

2. Checks are a huge fraud vector, so we're going to be careful about how we support them.

3. Checks are literally the worst payment mechanism ever invented and we would love to see them die in a fire. So we're going to discourage their use as much as possible while providing better, easier to use payment mechanisms.

That having been said, you will be able to deposit checks into SEED, just not via API for now.
I image reviewers would typically know who the author is, or be able to discover it quickly, if they are in fact familiar enough with the field to meaningfully review the work. Similarly, authors can often guess who reviewers are based on the nature of the review. I don't think a double-blind strategy really addresses the problems with modern peer review.
I don't know what you think you're accomplishing by saying "nuh uh" like this. You've done it a few times, and I don't understand, in any of these cases, why you think anyone would think you'd say otherwise.

If you'd care to elaborate beyond, "nuh uh", I'm sure we'd all be glad to hear it.
First off put the thought that the law makes sense out of your mind. It doesn't.

Basically the outline of the suit is going to be "You always wanted to fire me because I'm black/Latino/gay/old/fat/thin/sick/whatever, so you tried to pretend I was doing a bad job. But then when it became clear I was such a good employee you couldn't do that you pretended it was an economic decision."

Now, this may or may not fly in court, but from the company's perspective it's a crap shoot, since you never know what a jury is going to do. They'll settle if they can. Which means lots of people will sue just looking for free money, even if they know it's all bullshit.
The drivers will never be fixed. Chrome doesn't trust them. It's not in their interest to fix them since sales are determined by performance not by security.
What are people's production experiences with this? I've written half baked implementations of so many of these ideas that I'd love to not have to own any longer.
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What do you mean by unnecessary canvas operations? I'm genuinely curious, as I'm very interested in elm (and FRP in general), just could not find the time yet to do anything with it.
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> then that means the document did in fact exist at the time

I was thinking of a way to prove too that I certified that document, to tie it back to my identity.
Nearly 14,000 years (Voyager 1 is moving at 3.6 AU per year).
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That's very interesting. It's not moving with the background stars. However it could still be a camera artifact - see how there's a 'trail' behind Pluto's disc? In frames 4-7, the object you've identified is in the same position relative to the trail (off to the right if you are following a line outwards from Pluto along the trail).

I made an image to show what I mean. See frames 4-7; it's not an exact match but maybe it's a clue: http://i.imgur.com/TADflVd.jpg
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I am CS student approaching graduation and I would love to work in Silicon Valley and get inspired by the environment and the energy there is around. So I wanted to ask you how to best achieve this goal of mine.
I will be getting my MSc in CS in Italy in April and in May I will be defending my MSc thesis in the US (kind of a double degree), so I thought I'd stay a week in San Francisco to do some interviews with startups. I know H-1B visas are only issued once every year and there's only a limited amount, so how those hiring international usually work? Also, when is the best time to apply for open positions if I will be in SF in the second week of May?
Thank you in advance for any help!
> What people really want is some kind of transparent encrypted filesystem.

Isn't that the promise of FileVault on a Mac? Is that not under discussion here because it's not good, or because it's not cross-platform? (In other words, should I not trust FileVault?)
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We were looking to use something like MightyCall but then we found TalkDesk. The problem is that TalkDesk is pretty darn expensive compared with Mightycall but the latter doesn't have SugarCRM integration.

Any suggestions here? Your feedback is appreciated!
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> "1.by Picasa you mean google-picasa?"

Yes, that Picasa.
If you want to work in a more structured environment, look for larger engineering organizations born in the last 20th century. There are tradeoffs, of course.
I couldn't get this to work and some googling seems to suggest that --enable-precise-memory-info is no longer an option?
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Are these arms too human-like for you?

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Truecrypt also offers a container filesystem, which is what I used to use. It's cross platform and it always served me well. It would create a virtual disk drive with the contents being stored in the encrypted container file.
The bank fees are separate and on top of PayPal's, moving money to/from PayPal can only be done through their website instead of PayPal's and they collect their fees that way.
Double-digit performance for a bunch a little files probably. It is less than 5% when compared against concatenated CSS and JavaScript, image sprites, and domain sharding. Its great that HTTP2 saves a build step but it is hardly going to make the web a lot faster.
Two kids can share the same Minecraft play area in two different tablets/PCs. One runs a local server, which the other connects to. State is saved between build sessions.

I'm getting reports of a Bacon City and a Cake City being built connected by a railroad ;-)
>The best available evidence appears to show that there is more serotonin being released and used during depressive episodes, not less, the authors say.

During my brief stint on an SSRI I felt as numb as I ever had in the depths of depression, maybe even moreso - enough that I wasn't worried about how numb I was. I stopped taking them because of that, it felt backwards to me as well.
Yesterday somebody said they wanted to start such a company in the Bay Area https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9060067
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Do you have any source to say Truecrypt becomes outdated? The last I checked, it was working just fine in Windows 8.

I don't think anything would be _drastically_ changing in Windows 11 and 12.
I am bipolar, adhd, add, whatever. "Stop being depressed" definitely doesn't work, but I dont really believe descriping mind altering drugs is the solution either. Especially to little kids as they are doing these days.

There are better ways. Drugs only block the problem, but there are methods to overcome this dis-ease.

Believe me when I say I have been there. About 15 years depressed, always full of energy, but very difficult to concentrate it on any one thing. At some point self medicated for years with natural remedies, but ultimately only got addicted and had to let go of it completely, which vas very difficult and dont recommend to anyone.

Only thing truly that has helped me is meditation and yoga. Those two. They require no drugs, only discipline. Through this practice I am now able to focus, I am now able to relax, let go.

I believe ADHD is a condition which rises from the fact that our society and systems have become ever more complex, while our methods of working have not been adapted to this, and we are trying to cope with old methods of just "grunting it" through, when we need more of just letting go, relaxing, stopping and letting our systems be at ease.

Just to offer an alternative view on this condition, from someone who has suffered with this for the better part of my life and finally realized how to cope with it. It requires work, yes, but all good things in life do.

The medical companies know how easy it is just to sell some drugs and make a buck, and get people addicted.. so we are being bombed with false information also, which makes this very difficult, but I would recommend yoga & meditation & mindfulness to anybody who is suffering from this.
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It's a bit disappointing that they went to the trouble of building a radio into it and didn't just connect it to the NIST atomic clock radio time signal WWVB.
The HN community is a bit unusual in that they're willing to consider programmers with no degree. But you should really just put in the extra 2 years, transfer to a state school and get a BS. It will pay off in the long run for your career. For most employers you would be at a big disadvantage having only an AS. Also keeps your options open for returning to grad school.
When I review a double-blind paper, I consider it part of my duty as a reviewer to avoid figuring out who wrote the paper. Sometimes I will accidentally figure it out when I look at related papers, in order to better understand the contribution. But even when I realize "Oh, right, it's probably the same group," there's still some unknowns in who, exactly, the authors are, and their order. (In my area, mostly computer science systems, author order roughly maps to amount of contribution.)

I'm usually a sub-reviewer, not usually on the program committee. And some of the conferences I review for are general enough that I may get papers in my general area, but not my current focus. So it may not make as much of a difference for the program committee of a tightly focused conference, but it may for all other cases.
People have already spent the money to audit it, back before development was officially discontinued. What do you expect them to do with the money? Return it to the people who donated?
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Wire transfers should be instantaneous. ACH transfers take 2-5 days.
Oh man, what a leading question! Try "Essentials of Metaheuristics" of course. :-)
Even international wire transfers? Eg US to another country.
>> "Having a parent call in to complain about feedback an employee receives..."

Wait, seriously? What!!?
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