skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ehm, That's not a fair assessment. Git is as much immutable as fossil.

I'm not familiar with fossil, but in git if update my HEAD and the REMOTE head isn't a simple fast-forward I get an error. So while the repo's history isn't immutable, each individual commit (and its history) _is_ immutable (modulo sha1 hash collisions).

What is the value in having history be static? I find that rebase comes in handy as I'm working locally, commit an absurd number of commits in stream-of-programming style, and then go back and clean it up before pushing to the shared repo. What is the analogous workflow in fossil?
> if I turn out to metabolize SFA poorly

Is that a thing? Humans metabolizing Saturated Fats badly? I mean, I know of gall-bladder deterioration after maybe years of very-low-fat eating, but other than that. Would these people also weirdly burn their own body fat (saturated) "badly"? ;)
I might be missing something. But to my understanding I think it is correct. I didn't quite get what you exactly mean by that? Educate me please.

To explain myself, I meant that tests that were succeeding previously would have failed due to this issue if we had tests written for it. Does my statement not convey this?
> Only in some broken encryption schemes

RSA 1024 is a broken encryption scheme (2010). In Jan 2010 there was already the concern it was broken or quickly to be broken. http://arstechnica.com/security/2010/01/768-bit-rsa-cracked-...

in March 2010 http://www.techworld.com/news/security/rsa-1024-bit-private-...
And two Raspberry Pi computers are awaiting him on the ISS, running code written by British school children.
> As those who control we (white men) have the responsibility to fix the issue.

White men don't control anything , rich men who happened to be white do (in US). Making everything about race IS racist. The article is certainly racist.
There is a Planet Money podcast about the financials of ISIS. They did talk about how the oil is exported, but I don't remember if it included a specific price point.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/04/458524627/episo...
We can't afford to have that production rise (or current level of oil production). We will have to leave most oil in the ground to mitigate climate change.
This does not match any of the Saudi press statements on the oil situation. The Saudi position and their motivations have been consistent for months with thousands of articles documenting this. In summary, publicly, they are not reducing oil output because in the previous oil crisis, they cut production and suffered heavily vs those who did not. The private reason they are still pumping is that they intend to bankrupt/destroy the US Shale industry. They've done an excellent job at this. These articles with inside information never mention "climate change" or "renewables" as the reason for the situation.

Unless you can show sources showing the price change is because of climate change, this just a delusional conspiracy theory.
An alternative for transportation is actually starting to happen: self-driving vehicles. Recharging times don't matter when you have a fleet of self-driving electric Uber cars that can phase vehicles in and out of service automatically[1]. Plus, with fleets, you replace normal oil-consuming vehicles at a 2-to-1 rate. It's looking like peak oil will happen sooner than you think.

[1]: http://www.govtech.com/fs/perspectives/Ubers-Plan-for-Self-D...
> It makes exactly as much sense as when a manager decides not to hire a programmer, but instead buys himself a JavaScript book, because "how hard can this programming stuff be anyway?"

Hey, worked out splendidly for Derek Sivers!
If Saudi Arabia keeps up their "fire sale" there is little chance we will reach peak carbon in 2020.
This guide is all but ready for prime time. Make it go down, as it is a pile of bad habits. Sure, there are one or two good ideas, but nothing revolutionnary.
I can't think of why else they would drive down price? (I mean this in the non-rhetorical sense... I'm genuinely curious and haven't read a convincing explanation)
cost prohibitive? Some of the losses in in the hundred of thousands, almost millions of dollars. Sure it might not be worth Stripe or the Credit Card companies going after the fraudsters because they get the merchant to pay. But for IO Hawk to just leave it and not follow up seems like business suicide. Even if they did it just to tighten up procedures in future to prevent future fraud it would be worthwhile. Perhaps they were all posted to reshippers, then you would ban reshippers from being the delivery address, or you make suspect requests wait longer for delivery, not even formally telling them, just adding in a 30 day shipping delay or soemthing.
Every laptop vendor that sells re-branded / customized OEM laptops manages to stay 15-30% below the market rate of branded laptops.

I some how doubt small shops like PCSpecialist in the UK sell large volumes
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/lafiteII/
The ipad app paper could be used to create similar looking diagrams
That is based on the experience with a plugin I wrote before for another, classical PHP blog engine, serendipity.

It is basically the same method used for email spam filters (though that are not always bayes filters anymore). Users mark comments as spam or ham, and when a new comment arrives you look at the words in it, calculate their spamminness rating using the bayes algorithm, and can then predict whether a comment is spam or not.

In blogs that works great. Ursprung combines that with a honeypot, a field hidden with css in the comment form that if filled out will dismiss the comment.
I really like the idea behind Fossil ... but on the other hand, I want to bring all development together into one homogeneous interface: I want to do almost everything without leaving Sublime Text.

For that reason, I am experimenting with storing all my documentation (requirements, plans, task lists etc...) as text files in a git repository, using YAML when I need structure, and markdown when I need formatting or something richer.

To tie everything together, I maintain a diary, which consists of one text file per developer per sprint. This diary holds allocated jobs to do each sprint, together with a record of what was done each day.

Because all of my work information is available in the repository as text (markdown or YAML or JSON) - it means that I can automate my workflow in ways that would be much harder to achieve otherwise.

For example, I can extract appropriate git commit messages automatically from this diary, meaning that I have perfect traceability back to requirements on every commit. I can get my build to (optionally) commit changes automatically (rolling back if the build was not successful). I can even get it to (again optionally) make sure that all changes associated with a particular job are kept on a separate branch until that job is complete. In other words, I have lots of options when it comes to tying my workflow together with my CMS/VCS in an automated and scripted way.

And all because I am too lazy to open my web browser to look at JIRA or Trac (or whatever).

:-)
Thanks. The diagrams are hand-drawn and scanned :)
'fleet forever !

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dan-Dare-Spacefleet-Operations-Works...

Congratulations.
What is a startup?
I have always tried to avoid using functions in my bash scripts. That said, it's always nice to other people's bash programming techniques and style. This one had the biggest impact for me, although I can't imagine it's news to any of you on here: http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
Hackers Trace ISIS Twitter Accounts Back to UK Department of Work and Pensions
It also means that -- because my "tickets" and "requirements" documents are just bits of YAML with a particular structure -- I can store tickets, requirements and so on pretty much anywhere in the repository - either in their own directories, or interspersed with and embedded within the source code as comments -- sort of like a TODO but with super-powers.
>>> The model does break at a certain scale, but that is true for models without gravity too.

>> That's kind of deal breaker when it comes to gravity.

> What do you mean? All our models break at certain energy scales ...

I thought that by scale you meant size not energy and that theory breaks at larger distances (larger than typical distance for observable quantum effects). You can see how could I see this as a deal breaker for gravity that only over large distances is strong enough to be measurable).
Backend not in the programmatical sense. Blog engines like Wordpress, also Ghost, have a backend/admin area that is invisible to normal readers, where the blog owner or whoever is logged in with enough rights can write an entry or change the settings, stuff like that. This has nothing of that. The moment you are logged in, the entry editor get shown directly on the blog, settings that can be manipulated (which are very few so far, by design) are controlled next to their UI representation with now shown controls.
If you wanted to do "retail" level transactions like sending an email, you needed to know the path, like systemA!systemB!destinationsystem!user

Usenet systems had established neighbors communicating with UUCP and used a flooding algorithm to get messages to the entire network of systems. All built on top of these point-to-point links, could be done over the Internet (NNTP) but it wasn't required. This was a big enough thing that specialized modems for UUCP were popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit
> to cap climate change at 3 degrees (2 degrees isn't even feasible)[1][2]

Your [1] just means that to get under 2C we'll leave much of the currently known reserves unburned, which is feasible.
I just saw zeros in the tables.
Ask HN: Hey HN, I need your advice – 26 y/o visiting the US
Hello HN,
I am Michael, 26 y/o from Greece - a Marketing graduate from the Athens University of Economics and Business. I’ve been following HN for quite some time and I figured it would be a great place to seek advice for my current situation.

Right after graduating I had to leave Athens, where the most jobs are, and move back home (Chios, one of Aegean islands) because of family reasons. As a result, I wasn't able to turn my degree into a fulltime job. I did, however, get some relevant experience.

My first job was a content editor and social media manager for a greek poker news website for about a year. My next venture was managing a fitness equipment e-shop for about 2 years. It was a great experience for me, dabbling around in the real economy and trying to provide real value to customers and suppliers. Our cooperation went into a hiatus at the time I had to serve the greek army. After finishing my service I took up the post of a very successful Airbnb host for the summer. I was responsible for the daily management of 3 listings (check-ins, check-outs, cleaning schedule) as well as the pricing the days that were not yet booked.

I know this sounds like a boring cover letter, so I'll cut it short and explain where I stand now: I am currently a visitor in the US, living in Upstate NY. Is it viable for me to apply for a job under the H1B visa? What steps should I take? Where should I look at?

I'm a fluent English speaker and my skills include SPSS and SQL proficiency. Moreover, I am looking to learn Python and R in order to strengthen my data analytics skillset. I am mostly interested in digital marketing but I am willing to work in business analytics as well. I am also a sports fan and have a keen interest in the business side of sports, so utilising my skills (and obtaining new) in the sports industry would be great too.

I would truly appreciate your thoughts, either here or with an email at michael.lorenzos@gmail.com.

Thanks in advance!
As somebody in the same situation (same age, otherwise healthy, high cholesterol, regular exercise) my read is that trying to influence ldl in a meaningful way through diet alone is essentially pointless.

You can knock off a few points, and you can raise HDL a bit, but the likelihood of a dramatic reduction is essentially nil. Going right for the statins kind of makes sense beyond a certain point.

That said, I opted out. My gp showed me the risk in the calculator mentioned above and the difference statins made was not large enough for me to justify it.
At some point it will run out.
It could be you're missing the big picture.

Margin on a single transaction? >x%

Building out the already STUPENDOUS iTunes database of payment credentials?

Priceless.

Yes, low margin while you attack the beachhead. Once you secure that, and apply the 'We're Apple' reality distortion in order to wrangle standards that you control... Money magic happens.
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It's a consumer's obligation to follow the provider's ToS. If you don't agree to those ToS, don't use the service.
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Original statement:

> But lack of automated regression testing would have caught this issue.

Your question:

> To explain myself, I meant that tests that were succeeding previously would have failed due to this issue if we had tests written for it. Does my statement not convey this?

No. The sentence says that the lack (i.e. not having) tests would have caught the issue. If you remove 'But lack of', the sentence makes sense ;)
Seems to my like G-Pascal is more comparable to UCSD-Pascal, which also targets a VM. Turbo Pascal produced native binary code.
Step 1: Choose a better language. Almost anything will do.
An underpaid community college Instructor, who didn't have tenure, and was working as a landscaper during the summers, said,

"Students--please don't use clichés in your writing."

"Funnel your paragraphs."

"Students--just don't use clichés ever! Why use them? Even among yourselfs?"

"And don't use acronyms, unless your writing a technical paper, and it's absolutely necessary to the paper! Please?"

I just remembered his name--Dr. Roland? I was waiting for my girlfriend, and overheard his wishes while sitting on the floor outside his class. I could tell he was tired. I can still smell the carpet cleaner.
Ask HN: How young is too young to start a startup?
I'm a 17y working on what is a side project that a lot of people think could become something, I've even had a couple of people offer to invest, to which I have politely declined. I'm not about to take people's money if i'm still iffy about it. Now I know from a legal point of view, the number would be 18y.

But really how young is too young?
I'd really like of answers, so any and all answers are appreciated.
And BTW, that is something that Elasticsearch recommends you to do that manually in the current versions as well. Read this: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...
They are by far the best except for the Ministry of Freedom [0], which sell FSF-certified, but comparably slow laptops. And they admit that as I mentioned above.

Only after enough users is involved in freedom seeking, it can be possible to demand large companies to provide something we need. In my opinion, Purism do a lot in this direction.

[0] http://minifree.org/
How would you respond if a new hire just told you he decided to do a complete rewrite 2 weeks before demo instead of fixing (what they considered to be) a few knows issues?

I best 9 out of 10 - this would of ended up badly.
> Almost nobody uses just git -- they use github or gitlab.

Your points are made in a needlessly provocative manner.

Tons of people roll their own interfaces to their source control, and a lot of people benefit from somewhat centralized repositories. Not only is there room for both, but I don't see any data indicating how prevalent private, non-GitHub repositories are, or how those would even be counted accurately given the distributed model

Almost nobody? Very few people use Mercurial? Nowhere good? Hell-bent on killing? Few people use it? very sad self-fulfilling prophesy? Jeez, there's opinionated, then there's recklessly authoritative. Mercurial isn't as popular as git, but neither are dependent on GitHub/bitbucket for continued relevance.

To address your point more directly, I personally think that merging the concepts of versioned data and developer tasks makes for less flexibility; I prefer simple, pluggable, and modular to integrated when it comes to version control.
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Mostly it is KSA vs Iran/Russia. To some extent, this also kills shale and other alternative oil from North America, but Iran is their main political/military/religious rival in the region, and cheap oil ruins them -- eliminating competition from the US and Canada is just a commercial thing.
So it's not about "Hyperlinks don't come with a "this site is full of ads" marker". It's about you feeling entitled to other people's work for free, because... Oh yeah, because long time ago, the internet was not commercialized. Well, newsflash, it is now and those "rules" you talk about are no longer valid.

The fact that you made up a reason for your actions only shows that deep down, you know what you're doing is not right. Your mind just makes up justifications for it.
Pretty sure it's a later development of the same story. The first time was just the guy trying to clear his reputation.
I don't think your numbers are correct. My Core i7-4770K (4 cores) runs povray --benchmark faster than your 12 core Xeon:

Render Time:
Photon Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 1 seconds (1.256 seconds)
using 11 thread(s) with 1.456 CPU-seconds total
Radiosity Time: No radiosity
Trace Time: 0 hours 2 minutes 18 seconds (138.426 seconds)
using 8 thread(s) with 1099.214 CPU-seconds total

That's POV-Ray 3.7 with no architectural optimizations. I just apt-get installed it.

I would be very surprised if the Chromebook's 1.8GHz Cortex-A17 was only 3x slower. Googling around, I see people mentioning numbers like 10,000 CPU-seconds.
Somehow LDL-cholesterol has come up in this thread about inflammation.

The article here offers a highly speculative opinion regarding the role of inflammation across many diseases. The luminaries in cardiology cited in this article ran trials which many of us consider to show that, rather than inflammation being important, any reason to start statins is a good reason.

The genetic data currently supports very little role for inflammation in important diseases like coronary artery disease, whereas there is crystalline evidence supporting the connection between LDL-cholesterol levels and mortality. Interestingly, when genetics are invoked and mere epidemiology is reassessed, there is no clear atheroprotective role of HDL cholesterol.

The treatment of statins is very much like the treatment of vaccines: dismissed in a pseudo-intellectual manner by people who know a lot (just not about the subject at hand).
Michael Foale (dual American and British Citizen) was on the Internation Space Station in 2003. He still holds the cumulative-time-in-space record for a UK citizen. He was a NASA astronaut whilst on the ISS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foale
Proud to be British today. I think Space X are due to launch again soon, looking forward to seeing a successful dragon 9 landing.
So, what I took from the article is unsubstantive? That's a matter of opinion, I'm sure. If any American got offended with my comment maybe they should take it with the "journalist" who wrote the article.
I'm sure this law has been a source of heated debate.
New API on Mashape detects nudity in images, without reliance on skin tones
I actually found the article from Sam Newman went into greater depth: http://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/

Interesting to see this creates new problems, such as blocking calls to dependant services downstream, and what services you declare as critical or not. Also duplicate code is unavoidable. So if you're attempting this pattern, keep those things in mind since you will have limited technology choices.

Sound Cloud is using Scala here.
https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/building-products-at-...

Edit: Found their mention of technology
They need the money. Why would it be more complicated than that?
There seems to be sex divide coming in future social media.

And I can't blame them. Girls need some girl time, boys need some boy time.
So no redirects for anyone going to an old URL?
It would be very interesting to see whether it can use LIDAR to enhance the model of the road in order to detect passing places. And then use this data to know which of the vehicles should reverse because it is closer to a passing place. Bonus marks for working out that the driver of the other vehicle is dithering and whilst they might only be 50 yards from a passing place it will still be quicker to reverse 0.5 mile yourself.

Some of the autonomous vehicles could communicate to negotiate the behaviour I assume it would have to work without in order to deal with both non-autonomous vehicles and areas of no cell phone signal.

Other country hazards such as sheep, cattle, horses, deer, foxes, badgers and bunny rabbits create a complex set of responses. Sheep and horses might need to be approached slowly to encourage them out of the way. Rabbits you can often avoid by steering into their direction of travel because they'll go back the way they've come to escape the danger.
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Doctors absolutely do this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbidity_and_mortality_conf...
Call me new fashioned, but I want something backed up by science and research rather than, well, not...
I will look into it. I don't oversee yet how much work that would be, but to offer a real design selection and not just a design mechanism is something I wished for, this might be it. Thanks for the link.
Oh yes, we had: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2015/12/09/purism-partnership/
I use jquery to inject an entry div, then load React from there. I looked into ipywidgets, but it looks like that can only render one widget per cell. Jupyter Comm channels are used for communication with the kernel. Jupyter is an incredibly well-designed piece of software, which makes it pretty easy to extend the browser environment to do anything :)
We don't know how many people are using SSH git but you surely know they are much less than 3 million.

Have you heard about Dunning-Kruger effect?
I wouldn't say fame leading to riches is over. It just follows an extreme long tail curve where less than 10% of the ones who get fame get all the good money, and the other 90% get scraps. Come to think of it, that's just how most businesses are.
OP here (and new user).

Not sure what you mean.

While the framerate for the ClojureScript version was mistakenly capped at 30fps, if you look at the original numbers they had never hit that, which is why I hadn't noticed. A 30fps throttle is hardly your problem if you are hitting 5fps.

Even after upgrading ClojureScript to 1.7.170 there's only one result that could potentially have been affected - the one for 100 agents. Given all others were under 30fps, they wouldn't have been affected by the accidental throttling before the tweaks.

Cheers!
Also, some games are extremely visual and creative, like minecraft, others are more cinematic / on rails and those games in YT form tend to be excruciatingly boring.
If you want to use those sites you must allow their ads to load in your browser. It's in their terms of service. Do you block the ads while using the services or don't you?
International tribunals adjudicate disputes between states, not between a state and a person.
Why would you assume a market actor is being straightforward about their strategy, especially if others being aware of this strategy would put them at a disadvantage? Deception is a competitive strategy!