skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope this helps, then:

git tag -a tagname

git push --tags

git checkout tagname

http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html

BTW, it's also worth noting that hg can have tag merge conflicts (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts), which is just weird.

For anyone looking to learn more about git, I haven't found a better resource than this talk: (video) http://blip.tv/file/4094854 (slides) http://www.slideshare.net/chacon/getting-git

That said, I migrated from hg to git, and I love them both way more than svn.
Where does a fresh college grad get savings from? Who is going to hire him to consult?

The reality is, most college grads are coming out with 5 or 6 figure student loan debt. Repayment starts within 6 months. You NEED to find a job to start repaying that. If you decide to go the full entrepreneurial route and end up missing even one payment, then you can go into immediate default and fines will be added, and your credit score will be impacted. If and when your entrepreneurial venture fizzles (as most do), you will have a tough time finding a job outside the startup community, because your low credit score and possible wage garnishment issues is a red flag to the pinheads in Human Resources.

This is reality, and I think kids in their 20's who go the startup route straight from college should be made aware of the risks.
It is weird the sites design, maybe it's one of the reasons they are going out of business, people arriving there from a search engine may not find it much of a reputable journal at first glance.
There are industries - alcohol, cigarettes, gambling - whose products can have a major negative impact on the lives of people. So major that most societies have created strict regulations and a system of abuse prevention and treatment to protect people. To some small extent the same applies to gaming. We have, for instance, laws that prohibit resellers from selling violent games to minors. Do you then think it's so improbable that societies in the future treat the addictiveness of gaming as the addictiveness of alcohol or cigarettes? I can, for example, imagine a future where game boxes have bright and imposing stickers about the dangers of excessive gaming.

So what I am saying is that the industry must keep having serious discussions about the ethical, social and psychological implications of gaming - otherwise populists and crooks will set the tone and agenda.
Where do savings come from if not from a job?
Yeah, from my (freleancing) perspective it's a mirror image. Either a race to the bottom on odesk, or "payable in equity, ninja rockstar you take one for the team and are 40h/w on location needed". I could use a site that has reasonable remote contract offers (btw if you're looking for a Python contractor, contact me, see my profile for the details).
If it was up to me I'd slip it in at the top between the search and the tweets. Conceptually it is also where it belongs: the list of tweets is arrange chronologically with the latest at the top. Trending topics are all about the moment. They belong at the top.

When you're in the middle of your tweets you are focused on moving upwards in the list and forwards in time towards the latest events. It is distracting to have the here-and-now intrude - you are still in the past. However if you make your way to the top you have read all the tweets and are conceptually right-up-to-date - what better time to see what else is happening in the world in the here-and now. Plus if you've run out of tweets you'd be much more likely to have a look at what else is going on.
I'm honestly not sure if I should apply for YC or not. I'm having no problem meeting people and (presumably) raising money or revenue (although I haven't asked for a check yet from either).

If I were doing a consumer service, it'd be a no brainer. However, I'm working on infrastructure/security technology, although with some cool demos, and I'm not sure if being a YC startup would help in getting meetings with fortune 50 CIOs or various defense/government agencies.
> Programming is not like playing a musical instrument, it is not something that you have to have a genetic disposition for.

As someone who is stumbling through the basics of programming and learning guitar, I can tell you that the secret to success in both is practice and putting in the time. There are very few activities that you cannot become good at with sufficient time and resources.
Good luck! I know things are rough now, but it will get better. It can be tough feeling like the whole world is succeeding but yourself, but dont let the FUD associated with that get you down.

And if you do start another venture in the future, this experience can be an asset, and one day you will look back on this as a trial you had to go through
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yep, they can deploy via any modern web server but you're right I don't really have any control over that. I don't see the difference to PHP though, you still need to install PHP modules, additional php libraries (via PEAR maybe), set permissions etc.
If future societies treat so-called game addiction like they treated alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, they would have learned nothing from the past. Not only would there be a backlash against it and further disregard for the law, but if it becomes illegal to be gaming or sell games, this will create a new criminal class.
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Venezuela should take a similar route. Didn't they learn from Britain as to what happens when you splurge your oil revenues in your own country.
The article was quite good until it started making comparisons of Catholics and Protestants to Apple collecting 30% for all sales through their store.

It's like the author just gave up and couldn't figure out a way to end the article.
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> and they will work everywhere with no problems

It's deliciously ironic that they do not display properly for me in your post (Chrome on Windows here).
I thought I was being totally clear, but seeing your comment and its upvotes, apparently not. What exactly did your "but" refer to? I think we're in complete agreement...

(I was trying to say: here's an example where properly using a fast-for-few-elements "toy" algorithm can improve real-world performance on a "serious" problem like sorting a big chunk of data. So big-O is not everything.)
Huh?

I haven't used winamp in about 10 years - but originally it was a very nice little audio-player, and iirc skinnable from day 1. Whatever bad they may have done to it must have happened after the skin-support.

Edit: I'd also appreciate if people who disagree with my questions would respond rather than downvote.
Google [online dating]. That's why I say they're very good at SEO.

As to why they have that ranking? Well, they do linkbait so well that almost isn't fair to call it linkbait any more. They also do other things. One particular tactic which used to be quite popular in dating is viral quizzes.

http://www.okcupid.com/the-death-test

They have toned down the aggressiveness of that tactic in recent years, probably after a different site got torched for it. (Plus you don't have to be quite so aggressive after you've already won -- then you can use self-reinforcing authority and translate your commanding market position into, e.g., a competitive moat like their blog posts.)

They also execute very, very well. For example, it's easy to say "Viral apps win" and it is hard to be Zynga. Similarly, it is easy to say "Get more links and you'll win" and it's hard to top OKCupid's execution on that -- most individual tactics I've seen them try have execution in the top 1%. They're #1 with a bullet at linkbait. Those quizzes are better than 99% of quizzes. Their use of the product to support the SEO is better than 99% of startups. (Humming a few bars: OKCupid has rabid fans amongst folks whose dating behavior results in banhammers at other dating sites, and they leverage that to the hilt.)
Granted, but sometimes the impression that comes off to a young kid may be akin to that of Lebron/Kobe telling innercity kids that they should study and go to college because not everyone can make it to the NBA. Stuff like that falls on deaf ears, because the only thing that the kids take away is "this guy with a high school degree gets millions for dribbling a ball and that means I can too".

Perhaps YC should focus more on attracting guys in their 30's or 40's? You'll end up with candidates who are more grounded and who will have a better idea of the risks they are entering into. They might also come up with better business and consumer solutions than the youths that typically apply. It might be worth trying out, even just as an experiment,to have one of your funding rounds be set aside exclusively for those who are 30+
> The article provides no evidence to support the conclusion...

+1

I also agree that success of the platform was the driving factor in attracting developers. In fact I think some pundits put way too much weight in the argument about attracting developers. If people use it, they will come.

> they set themselves up as a final arbiter of what kind of software is even allowed to run on iOS

Personally I think this policy is part of the successful formula. The ugly truth is this is the right decision fr most people. Building trust in the platform by the users is FAR more important than the philosophical objections by a few developers and users.

As for competing browsers it's a little more complicated than that:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/will-firefox-mobile-ever-...

I'm not sure than stance is still correct either.

Technically Google Voice wasn't banned either. It was just held in limbo with no decision. The end result is basically the same however.

I for one am waiting to see what happens with the Kindle. I think it's now so influential that Apple would be idiots to kick it off. If they don't it'll lead to confusion about their policy. If they do it'll be the first competitive advantage Android tablets will have (IMHO).

Lastly when it comes to App Store rejection, in spite of Apple's nebulous rules it really is a case of "you'll know it when you see it" 99% of the time (if not more).

There seems to be a trend for some people to create apps that were never going to get rejected, submit them, get rejected and then immediately come to places like this to complain about how they've been victimized, which of course gets a certain level of support from the Apple haters irrespective of the merits.

It's almost like the blog post complaining about rejection is written before the app is submitted.
They link seems to be down. Anyone has a transcript?
I have my own webserver on a micro Amazon instance. It seems it's dying under hackernews pressure :/
Any suggestion on something I could do? It's a wordpress blog on apache.
It's not just FoxNews:
http://www.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&topic=t&...
The thing is, there has to be some genetic/early developmental disposition. I "got" programming the first time I tried. 5 years on I'm still fumbling my way through beginner guitar.
When even Steve Jobs has to make concessions, you know carriers are still too powerful...
Hg seems to have evolved several vaguely similar but isolated optional features (named branches, local branches, bookmarks, patch queues) which I guess means they haven't arrived at one everybody's happy with. Some people even prefer to keep hg branches in cloned repos, which sounds very painful. Git handles all those use cases by binding a ref to a commit and calling it a branch (even stashes are stored as branches, just more difficult to push).
I wonder how long it takes for organized crime to get involved with this.

ps: for me nyt only displays correctly with adblock disabled
My first programming experience was with a guess the number program that I partly got from a magazine which came with a free copy of Delphi 3.

I didn't understand enough to do anything but use integers though, so all the cheat codes I put into it was numerical.

Thanks for the memories.
Either

a) Throw more resources at it. I am not sure how it is done, but cloud can scale on demand from what I know.

b) If not using already, use some static page serving plugin for Wordpress, like WP Super Cache or other. This should reduce some load.
Wow, I scanned through some other Tony's posts. This guy is really condescending and rude :

"Java guys, please do yourself a favour and at least understand the shitty language that you hold so dear"
Options:

Install a caching plugin for Wordpress.

Copy the output of Wordpress for that blog post to a static .html file and use mod_rewrite to point requests for the post to that file.

Turn off plugins you don't need.

Install a reverse proxy cache (such as Varnish) in front of Wordpress.
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I think Sony wants this list to be absurdly long, because they plan to use these IPs to "prove" the distribution of the key, according to this reddit comment:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/fxkkv/sony_to_track_...

"If you read the legal ruling, it's very clear that this judge's ruling is being done so that any information found is designated as Attorneys Eyes Only, meaning that it is restricted to anything relevant to the case (and specific matter being challenged) at hand is disclosed, and anything else summarily forgotten. Hell, the document makes clear that this information is for jurisdictional discovery only, which determines whether or not Geohot can be tried in California."

"Relevant case law allows Sony to subpoena records to determine jurisdiction. They can subpoena Geohot's host because it's pertinent to whether or not his hack had an impact in California, and that the distribution of the key took place. They're allowed to subpoena his tweets to see how many people in California read them. The same goes for the other handful of companies they've subpoenaed."

This won't stop me from boycotting Sony from now on, though. I was actually planning to buy a PS3 to play blu-rays and maybe start playing video games again. No more.
I could go for a simpsons themed one.
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This section of the site however doesn't seem to get many visits (around 10% of users visiting the main site), and those that do visit tend not to go beyond the first page of the gallery (again, around 10%).

Any feedback on how I might be able to improve the site would be much appreciated.

Thanks
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I have chaching enable. It's apache that is dying.
Does anyone know how to transform a t1.micro instance in something bigger or how to throw more resources?
You could host your blog on Amazon S3. Unless there's a really compelling reason why you need to dynamically generate your blog on every request, serve it up as a static website. That way you can use your micro instance to do the generation and push it up to S3 which frees it up to do whatever other tasks you want while S3 does the serving.
What's remarkable about (non-retrospective) "best paper" awards is how poorly they stand up to time. It would be very interesting to add citation counts to get a crude indication of how good people are at identifying significant (or even just popular) work in their fields.
I'll add a really low-tech solution: add the text in a toplevel comment.
I believe the poster meant "Command-X" on a file, not on text. In all other graphical shells, if I wish to move a file from one place to another, I do not have to have two separate windows open. Maybe Apple doesn't view this as a problem, but if you come from an OS that permits it, you miss it under OSX.

It is especially weird given that CMD-c/CMD-v does work in Finder, just not CMD-x. That leads me to believe that it was intentionally omitted for some bizarre reason.
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Yup, handy of them to label that functionality, eh?
Not counting 7 years of GWBASIC on MSDOS, my first experience was with LOGO in class II. REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1] for making a circle, nostalgic. :)

EDIT: Downloaded BASIC from http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/recompiler/... and now writing some silly codes.
"The iPod started the digital revolution"

I suppose next you'll be telling me Apple invented the helicopter, and next week will be increasing the chocolate ration.
Counter data-point here: I just let my last.fm subscription lapse and switched to rdio because of on demand music even though its "related music" throws up a lot more crap than last.fm does.
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I'd like to show you some graphs. I'm going to use link shorteners because they're very very long ugly urls.

Homicides per 10,000 people, 1983 to 2003:

http://bit.ly/hmivsb

http://bit.ly/gOATzm

Starting in 2004, the government prohibited release of the figures.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35766.htm#econ

About 25% of the country lives in abject poverty, despite the fact that the country is doing over $10 billion in profits on $30 billion of revenues for oil.

Before I analyze, let me lay my cards on the table here philosophically - I'm a classical liberal, but I'm kind of flexible in my positions - I think a diverse set of governments across the world is good, and then let people vote with their feet. Different structures work for different people - I wouldn't want to live in Norway's system, but I think Norway's system is awesome for most Norwegians.

Now, let's talk about Venezuela. I think Venezuela is one of the most criminally misgoverned places on the whole planet. There's more violent deaths in Caracas in any given month than Baghdad. Baghdad, dude.

This is my beef with the sort of government Venezuela has - I think it's very conducive to degenerating into rule-by-bandit, which is what they have. (I'm in Vietnam, which is also under rule-by-bandit)

The biggest argument against Venezuela's sort of government isn't necessarily abstract philosophy - it's that it doesn't really work well in the real world. I think Venezuela is criminally misgoverned and in desperate need of change.

You and I are probably very, very far apart in political philosophies, but I wanted to write this anyways.

I'm kind of vaguely of the belief that capitalism + strong welfare state can work for some people, especially with a population that has similar goals and unified culture. There's downsides to it, but there's downsides to everything. But I'm pretty damn sure that the Venezuelan model leads to rule-by-bandit, leaving many people impoverished, and explosive growth in crime and violence and unrest. I don't know 100% what my goal here is with this comment - I guess just to put some numbers and views on the table. I think the Venezuelan model is a disaster for Venezuelans, and indeed, the whole world. I think everyone should work together against governments like Venezuela, North Korea, Libya, places like that, even if you'd like to live somewhere like Scandinavia. Venezuela ain't no Scandinavia.
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Find the line which says KeepAlive and turn it off.

Out of the box, the configs which ship with Apache on e.g. Ubuntu are virtually engineered to fail if your blog ever gets a traffic spike.
What is your worker configuration for Apache? You can make it much hardier with some tweaking, or you can get even more robust by switching to nginx, or you can hit lightspeed by putting Varnish in front of it (listed in ascending order of complexity)
While I am trying to cope with load,
I copied ans pasted it here:
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It's nice to see a professor be so devoted! At which university do you teach?
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Important to note is that this is a rather limited list of conferences, so the resulting list of most influential universities/companies doesn't really say anything about their total output. For example, software engineering conferences are completely lacking (ICSE/ASE/FSE/etc.) as well as programming languages (POPL/PLDI/etc.)
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What determines influence?
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This is a follow up from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279619

The feedback has been awesome and I generally tried to improve things based on what people complained about and what mixpanel told me.

Now I'm posting here again in hopes of finding out what sort of an effect on searches there is if people can see what the person before them searched and if sharing the link is more valuable if it says what somebody searched for to get a particular image.
I am a masters student in an developing economy, who will soon join a PhD program in US, and I will do that after rejecting an analyst position at major banking firm.

For me, PhD makes sense because it would give me 4-5 tension free years of research with my PI worrying about the grants while I worry about science. Sure, job prospects might not be great for saturated market in US and Europe, but I hope I will be able to get a academia job back home or some place nearby.

I think system needs an overhaul to create jobs, and first step should be to decouple teaching from research. As there are only so many teaching jobs a university can provide, why not create independent labs? Max Plank institutes seem a fine model to me.
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Just to share my experience http://collaborable.com/blog/betahacks-launched-in-12-hours

Used a lot of patterns I had laying around, like the Disqus + jQuery ajax hackery, and obviously some design cues from my original blog.

The first thing I thought someone might say is "omg that's like venture hacks", and to immediately say that they were an inspiration.
This will probably be much like the Ubuntu "buttons on the left" event. Lots of whining before the change, and not a peep afterwards.
I liked the linked article by Katz (http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html) better; previous discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122106).
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playing a music instrument, e.g. guitar, does require a lot of muscle memory, which takes a lot of time to develop.

apart from mental abilities, programming requires typing skills.

it's easier to learn how to pick at a keyboard effectively than how to pick at a fingerboard effectively. Keep practising the guitar.
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