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It's HN.

It's easy to down-vote people who have dissenting opinions. Especially if the poster provides facts and evidence to support their opinions.

US politics is become even more of an echo chamber than ever. "My" side is on the side of light, goodness, and rationality. "Their" side is evil, sinister, and denies evidence.

The behavior on HN is just one side-effect of this.

God forbid we treat others with dignity... or assume that they're different, but honest and well-intentioned. Instead, it's better to treat them like scum, make all kinds of false accusations about them.

Not that I've seen a lot of that here.... /s

It's better to treat people well, even if you disagree with their position. It worked for a Daryl Davis:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-klu-klu...
Survival bias would be saying these companies started easily so it's easy, ignoring the failures. However I don't think that was the posters point. The point was nearly all the big companies started trying something modest that grew more than a grand plan to take over the world.
So basically the government should be able to accuse anyone of raping anyone, and they are guilty regardless of what the victims have to say about it?
When I saw the name, I thought it was a simcity game with git :P
everybody fails at something in life (if you don't, then you aren't reaching high enough). to teach (or demonstrate to) kids that the risk of failure means you should choose a different path is a terrible lesson.
Could it be confirmation bias? I'm sure there are many videos of people confident everyone will have a flying car, you just don't see them.
> the insignificance of this project is obvious to me

> comparable to reinventing a wheel

> many projects like this appear to get so much attention and end up on HN

> Can anyone share some insight here?

First the HN audience, its core is hackers and startups. These people have certain problems in common, and they are always on the lookout for ways to eliminate them. The hackers build things and the startup people do a lot of management and they are often one and the same.

Secondly good version control is hard to use across a project without swamping new arrivals or accidentally breaking something. Git isn't good enough, but it is what we have.

So like good hackers we take the first, see the second and try and produce something better. This is how we end up with lots of similar looking projects.

Because they are solving real problems being faced by HN users they get upvoted until the comments discover some fatal flaw (leaky? prevents key conflict resolution?).

This author reckons hes solved it, so he gives it the full treatment because it is worth a lot to have __actually__ solved it. If I could resolve git woes by handing a newbie a ten minute video I would be ecstatic.

Remember, it is important to reinvent the wheel [1] though don't waste time on these projects unless you can see a way through.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMyiLuKUwAA6l-V.jpg
The city is good but I can't get how people live there with such low salaries (20K-45K). This is in tech. I don't want to think about what people make in other areas (humanities?)...
Qué tal! ThoughtWorks recently opened an office in BCN. Feel free to reach out for more details.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/locations/barcelona
Asian nations have done drastically
worse to each other

Coincidentally, this is true of Africa as well: Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mobuto Sese Seko, Idi Amin, Samuel Doe, or the Tutsi/Hutu conflict were typically much more violent than almost all colonialist behaviour. (Naturally the natives have been colonialising and enslaving each other too.) It's good never to forget this.

That does not mean that colonialism was great, or that anybody wants it back. Hopefully humanity has evolved towards better ways of dealing with each other.
Let's remove "Trump" from the equation.

You're wondering if one country could invade a second country, for the purposes of invading a third countries embassy.

While that's physically possible, the international ramifications would be immense. It's one thing to bomb weddings in Yemen. It's an entirely different prospect to violate diplomatic immunity on an allies soil.
Yeah, some weeks between work, family time, and other commitments I'd be lucky to get 2-4 hours of free time all to myself.
People talk down things for all reasons, one of them being they legitimately such. Not everything is like this Jobs example (and in fact Jobs himself has earnestly talked down lots of stuff that he never changed course on).

In this case fuel cells seem to have the same issues they had 20+ years ago when they were touted as the feature.
Hardly a contrived scenario; I run into situations exactly like that at least once a week...
reddit is an awesome source of information if you subscribe to the good subreddits (i.e. not crowded ones like /r/pics or /r/worldnews). I’ve learnt a lot from /r/photography and got very good feedback when I posted some projects on /r/python or /r/clojure.
It's altitude and temperature dependent.
100 °C Which is normal hot air balloon temperature. If the outside temp is 27c that's 1-(300/370) or 19% lighter than air vs heliums 1-1/14 = 93% lighter than air. But you lift increases significantly with temperature. The downside is you end up spending fuel to add heat. But hot air balloons also have terrible insulation.

Further volume has great scaling if you save 93% with hydrogen having 4x the volume means being ~20% lighter than air provides the same lift.

Now yes scaling the airframe adds weight and drag as does the fuel to provide all that hot air. But you can also significantly past 100c before you encounter massive issues.
That's not really life or industry changing though.
It's fairly clear to me that it's the swedish government which should be accused of coercive control here.

If you want to try to convince me of your position feel free to explain what you mean in a less opaque way, rather than merely accusing me of harmful speech and implying something hard to understand.
The Fillon leaks were not from Wikileaks as far as I know.

Wikileaks Twitter shows that they linked to a search result for "Fillon" in their old releases, which they often do for current topics.
Really, the US started the war with Japan when Commodore Perry forced Japan, literally at gunpoint, to begin trading with the US in 1853.

The first Opium War had already happened, and the second was about to begin. If the Japanese were to maintain their autonomy and avoid the disastrous fate China suffered as a result of Anglo-Chinese trade, colonial expansion was their only realistic option.

When they attacked Pearl Harbor it was mostly out of desperation, because the oil embargo ordered by Roosevelt placed Japanese imperial operations in imminent jeopardy.

For a less US-centric perspective on the US/Japan war, Noam Chomsky's 1967 essay [0] is worth a read. He doesn't excuse their violence, but he does point out that it was more justifiable than other US violence in South East Asia.

[0] https://chomsky.info/196709__/
Yea, I'd like a little more detail on this point too.
ssh and a web browser. I know that's two.
I love the last picture on that page. Obviously this thing is nowhere near the spec required to run Windows 7 (I doubt it would even handle DOS) but it's fun to think about!
Actually we see them (or, well, read them), so much those predictions have become the pop culture laughing stocks of futurology -- "where's my driving cars and robot assistants?".

https://www.google.com/search?q=where%27s+my+flying+car&oq=w...
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technically speaking, how did you handle the replication across the network (nmap && scp?)?
>What are the revolutionary things that are starting right now that will be obvious in retrospect?

The decline of the middle class and a new developed world of low wage working slaves straight out of Dickens / Hugo?
Yeah, the impression I've got is that the schools are in a hopeless position. When students can't be controlled (from the synopsis of the amazon book - "Kids from the halls barged into classes all day"), and schools cant choose their students, the school is then at the mercy of its surroundings.
So you have to add “fs” or “filesystem“ to your search queries, or not even that if the rest of the query gives sufficient context.

Everyone makes name conflicts in independent domains to be a much bigger problem than they are in reality.

There’s Amazon rainforest, Amazon the ecommerce website, and Amazon the cloud company. How often do you have any problem differentiating between them?
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ChaCha20 would be the right choice here, not SPECK.
Nokia smartphones were already pretty big at the time iPhone was released, innovative thing was capacitive touch screen instead of resistive

so idea of smartphone was pretty safe bet, touchscreen was risky choice
Regarding the language, I don't think Catalan is much of an issue, to be honest. If you talk in Spanish, you get an answer in Spanish. I would say that the climate and the city are well worth it, but I am of course biased, since I live in Barcelona.
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> considering moving to Spain for non-career-related reasons

Which are? Genuinely interested why someone would consider taking a huge cut in salary.

Instead of moving now. Why not slash your current expenses to the bone? Save like crazy for a year, then move with a nice bank balance and ease yourself into the country without the stresses of quickly learning the language, making good friends, networking, etc.

Even better, with a healthy bank balance. You could find out what is missing from the tech scene and create a start-up to fill it.
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You could just make a new clean checkout in a different directory?
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This mind-set is depressing.

If you're accused, you're guilty. Damn the facts!

That's worked out well in the past. /s

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/kill-a-mockingbird-1...

One of my favorite quotes is from "A man for all seasons":

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

Denying the rule of law to "get" a bad person is called "lynching".
Go to your profile, and turn on [showdead] to see comments that have been killed. (Remember that the majority are killed by userflags).
Japan got a very good deal out of gunboat diplomacy, and its population was much better off for it, then and now.
Please don't.

We already have too few jobs, and too many American tourists ruining our home. You can be rich in the Silicon Valley, that's fine, but every time an aspy Californian techie moves here, all you people do is complain "this is better in amurika", "California is way better because of .."

Yes, we understand that AmuriKKKa is a wonderful land of opportunities.

Please stay there. Yankee, go home.
Ask HN: How do you manage your notes?
Do you have a specific framework / methodology for taking notes ?
Do you take notes at lectures ?
Do you ever review them ?
What tools do you use ?

Thanks
Go to job sites, search positions matching your skills and evaluate their quality and quantity

People might expect you to talk Catala in Barcelona but you should be able to get around with English and Spanish

Learning a language can be daunting at first but it gets there eventually
If I'm not mistaken, Google Site Search is targeted for shutdown by Apr 2018. They're probably refocusing their resources to other more lucrative product lines.
The initial release was in 1996; the vector graphics situation wasn't really the same back then.
So true.

And even if he wants to contribute in a field he's good at, like programming - creating your own project is often just an exercise in vanity, when you could do a lot more good, behind the scenes, as part of a larger group working on something more of value.
Giant tech companies basically use their own version control systems. Facebook uses something forked from Mercurial, I think, Google has a Perforce derived one, etc.

They basically take the approach presented here to 11.
Or the Rape of Nanking.
Show HN: Fixing Browser OAuth Problems (Safari, Chrome and Firefox)
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Pol Pot's regime flattened Cambodia

Pol Pot's weapons came from China and North Vietnam. Pol Pot sent Cambodian rice to China in exchange for weapons, knowing full well that not enough food would be left for the cambodian population.

Coincidentally, Pol Pot was politicised/radicalised in France by the French communist party, received ideological training in Moscow, Beijing and former Yugoslavia. I imagine that at least some of those who organised Pol Pot's take-over are still alive in in France, the former Soviet Union, China and former Yugoslavia, and could be brought to justice.
> Why bother when you can just drop some atomic bombs to test on them (to "make them surrender")?

Why the scare quotes? It is still debated, and the fanaticism of the Japanese resistance (for instance, in Okinawa) makes a fairly compelling case that a land-based invasion of Japan would be extremely costly for both the invaders and the civilian population.

> Or spray them with agent orange?

It's pretty terrible as a weapon of mass destruction. Don't you think that if the US had wanted to annihilate the population of North Vietnam, they would have employed something a bit more direct?

Comparatively, I don't see the general disregard for civilian casualties exhibited by the Saudis in their ongoing bombing campaign in Yemen as a sign that they intend to wipe out the population wholesale.

> Or just help Suharto get rid of some millions and let him do the footwork?

Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely not condoning the US foreign policy. But I don't see the US involvement in the mass killings conducted by Suharto as something racially motivated against Asians. It was a case of "the only good communist/leftist sympathizer is a dead one".
There is already a tfs file system for flash memory storage. It is prolific in feature phones and other embedded systems. Stands for tiny file system.
Good luck. There is long road ahead.

Both ZFS and Btrfs were initially developed by really high caliber people and experts with good track record. ZFS had five years for full time development until release, next five years to get close to the features and stability that ZFS has now. Btrfs started 10 years ago and it's still trying to catch up.
Unexpected shutdown would just use the features of a Journaling file system to recover the data. A hardware failure would be a Raid controller failure or malfunction or a hard drive / SSD failure .
Playing devil's advocate... what if I (as a man) consent to sex because she says she's on the pill? And then she's not?

In Canada, having sex without a condom is "sexual assault", and is criminal. Lying about birth control isn't a crime because (paraphrasing the judgement) "No physical or economic harm has been done".

18 years of paying child support apparently isn't "economic harm".
That's really offensive and stupid. As someone who has hired many Spanish people (in Ireland) all I can say is that this person is not typical in outlook or manners.
git remote remove origin

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Example? Their Trump stuff has been spot on.
Let's not forget Musk. He literally had a plan for Tesla and SpaceX while he was still working on Paypal.
I don't see much utility in this but I certainly don't restrict the toolset my developers use and would be perfectly fine with them using this on any of our machines, especially if it made their lives easier.
Yeah, I made an account a while ago with the intent to participate and realized I wasn't nearly technical enough to add any value yet, but back now that I'm farther along with my CS degree. For once I had some relevant info! Shitload of Reddit, though, and easy to spot certain patterns from a mile away, just funny to see it here.
Those Scandinavian school systems that have demonstrated good results (e.g. Finland in the PISA comparisons) have spent decades gradually de-emphasizing tests and grades.

So I think you're right that the American system should seek to have less tests and especially less standardized tests, instead relying more on the pedagogical expertise of teachers. That will be hard to accomplish because it would require somehow implementing another element of the Scandinavian system: teachers have both high competency requirements and high motivation for the field.
After a few games you kind of get the hang of the initial phase, and some techs are always decent to aim for at first, but the really tricky part is quickly assessing your starting conditions and​ adapting your goals from that.
> You can skin a cat in many ways. For one case where the architects of the genocide did not get away with it there are multiple where they did.

Of course. The US genocide of Native Americans did not lead to the Nuremberg trials.

> I am just pointing out that above is not a rebuttal of it.

It is about giving an example of what a policy of genocide lead by a technologically equivalent power looks like, and contrasting it with the actual behaviour of the US in the same area. Shoplifting and murder are both against the law, but there is a marked difference between the two.
1) this is nothing to do with Asange

2) You've said "If somebody is literally not being accused of something by the proposed victim and in fact is telling you that the police made up the charges then please listen to them." -- this is harmful bollocks. People who are the victims of abuse partners, especially in cases of coercive control, will not make police complaints or will not cooperate with police, even when the crimes they've been subjected to are horrific.
The message might be legitimate, but your phrasing needs work.
>That's because this fucking article is a puff piece trying to build a mountain out of a mole hill. Temple of the Dog was a blip on the radar but it didn't "PIONEER" anything music video wise, or even "supergroup" wise.

That. It's a mediocre video -- a bunch of guys performing on an outside location --, and we have seen such videos tons of times much before 1991.

On top of this, the video made absolutely no great impression. It isn't even that typical of the quintessential 90s video (if there such a thing even exists).
Who said that?

If there's an accusation of rape the state needs to investigate that, and if they think they have enough evidence they need to prosecute that.

When accused of rape most people cooperate with police. They do not skip bail and hide in a cupboard for many years.
https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko#kernel-api-and-abi-stabil...
> I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated.

And there as well, knowledgeable people don't always agree on things :)
Same here. The examples given are surely ambitious, but the intro had me thinking at the scale of "make accessible the sum total of human knowledge" (Wikipedia) or "create the everything store" (Amazon). Intro and conclusion though were great.
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Browse different files in the repository at that time, not just one file. Different files will have different styles, and awful ones at that.
Do you have any data to back this up? This doesn't seem to make sense as, for instance, if the situation you've described is true, the salaries after tax are even lower than in, for instance, Lithuania?
>But that doesn't prove those videos were better or more influential, just more popular and got more play on MTV.

Things become influential by exposure...
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If they knew, would they tell the New York Times?
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It's a short article, but while it takes some time to explain the various channel options, I think it would have been better to explain what the --classic switch does on the command line.
There is definitely something here; some pursuits feel like they come naturally (i.e. feel like they replenish rather than cost energy) while others are more of a chore that require a deliberate application of energy to perform. Perhaps some creative people have certain interests that are just so engaging they could spend most of their waking hours doing them, but that these activities are very specific.

My feeling has always been that the time component isn't the deciding factor. Of course you spend a significant number of hours every week doing non-work-related activities, but although the number of hours spent is identical, watching an enjoyable Netflix show isn't nearly as demanding as building a hydrofoil in your garage. At least that's the case for most people; maybe you are one of the few for whom building boats is a great passion and naturally spend your effort doing that.

I've always found that there are only a few weeks a year that I'll naturally be able to spend doing demanding creative labor outside of work. And at those times it'll be pretty specific, e.g. some programming project that for some reason seems unusually interesting. Apart from that, I can certainly turn off my other natural energy-replenishing interests for a while (reading, computer games, movies, conversations with friends, biking/working out), but it is not sustainable and will lead to burnout and depression if I ignore my body's signals and don't stop in time.

Eventually I've found that it's healthier to just acknowledge and be proud of my significant contributions in my full time-job, and consider this a human limitation. I don't think it's healthy or constructive to feel guilty about not being as energetic and capable as (a small number of famous) other people.
I know about what is going on because of teaching math in an adult basic education context (= literally primary-school math for adults who never graduated who are very far from high-school level). I also have known a guidance counselor in Baltimore public schools. The OP's article is very much spot-on as far as painting a picture of the worst-case-scenario of urban schools in the USA.

Using the word "spoon-feeding" implies that the students are coddled to the point that it hurts their development. What is actually happening is that the students have horrific home lives characterized by neglect, bad-influences, and utter chaos. Neglect is the opposite of "spoon-feeding". Students come to school with such deep unfillable needs that just keeping the classrooms from erupting into mayhem is an achievement in itself for the instructors.

... and to respond to the article you cite: I do not believe that the quality of the teachers, alone, can be blamed for the "achievement gap". The "Achievement Gap" is a deep systemic problem with multiple causes and horrific outcomes which beget yet more horrific outcomes like some kind of hellacious positive feedback loop.
Though in Trump's case it would be Trump bragging to Xi Jinping about all the great spies the US has and probably listing off their names.
If you've just had a child your best approach may be to just accept that for the next few years you don't have time for active production. Your active learning/production right now is learning how to raise a child.

Trust me on this one, you're not going to look back in a few years time and regret spending too much time watching your child growing up into an independent person.