skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but not in the way I meant. The way I meant is that you have actual coding abilities in the CSS, because "more power is better". I now understand how that is not true, how it is generally better to be parsimonious with the power in your language (just enough to get the job done), and if you can avoid (convenient) Turing Completeness it's usually a good idea in a declarative UI language. But you can still do forward-declaration non-code replacements without opening the door to Turing-chaos.
I'm one of those people that don't see a problem. I don't care what branch work happened on. I care whether it was merged or not. If I'm missing something, could someone correct me? My responses would be as follows:

> A) I need to know which branch ab3e2afd was committed to know whether to include it in the change control review for the upcoming release;

Why? Is there more to it than you need to know whether it is going in this release, and whether it went in the last release?

> B) I need to know which change is the first change in the release branch because I'd like to start a new topic branch with that as my starting point so that I'll be as current as possible and still know that I can do a clean merge into master and release later;

You need the earliest on the release branch that has not also been on the master branch.

> C)I need to know where topic branch started so that I can gather all the patches up together and send them to a colleague for review.

You need to send them all the commits on the topic branch that aren't merged elsewhere.

git has nice syntax for specifying ranges of commits of these forms.
"If you change the flow of the river on your property such that it affects mine, then yes you have aggressed against me (it is easier to see in the reverse, it is clearly an aggression against me if you flood my land even if you poor the water on your own land)."

Once you accept this, things start getting very complicated. For example, if your factory spews carcinogens into air I breath, it follows that your factor is an act of aggression a la the flooding of the river. Now substitute carcinogens with any pollutant, (perhaps even noise pollution, or visual pollution (eg. I had a nice view before you built that ugly building there) ) and it can quickly get out of hand. The line must be drawn somewhere, and the place that the somewhere is drawn is kind of arbitrary. Very intelligent people can disagree whether or not the line ought to include greenhouse gases.

Btw. I fully agree with the river example.

I completely disagree with your second example though. Off in the real world, its very easy to leverage your wealth to extract unfair agreements from people. The 'all the food in the whole world example is silly', but history is full of examples of people hoarding commodities that are necessary for survival and then exploiting that hoard for ridiculous enrichment. I think at some point, people a right to do something about those sorts of hoarders.
Infants must be fed and cared for in several ways, necessarily using the resources and time of others. Therefore, within your framework, they have no right to life. Care to rework it a bit?
Maybe the same people who named a JS minifier "Closure" and a web browser "Chrome".
And, from the Macrothink paper, it looks like it's not so much "open an inbound connection through the firewall" as "trick the firewall into not scanning the payload". Not relevant for, say, home routers that don't do scanning in the first place.
More discussion on this at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443719
To the point that it does not make users any more vulnerable to intrusive government actions, as you put it -- in practice, that's not going to be true.

Let's say right now Agent Bob or RIAA layer Cindy decides they want to know everyone in the country who has a copy of a file. There's no practical way for them to do that. But now, they can upload target.iso to dropbox, see that it uploads instantly, and all they have to do is get a court order to compel Dropbox to tell them all the other users who have that file.

Every user that has that file is now exposed. Dropbox is now a single point of failure for every user's privacy, and vulnerable to attacks from any legal court order -- and we've seen what can happen with the abuse of prosecutorial and judicial power. Copyright infringement's the obvious case, but when you start to consider how this ability to fish for files could be abused, and how tempting it'll be for people try to abuse it, it seems more serious than I think you're considering.
There's Google/Yahoo Finance and many other sites for that ;)
It seemed to me that the entire point of this post was to explain how the other opinion is flawed.

It showed a concrete benefit to the Mercurial workflow (or a concrete disadvantage to the Git one, if you prefer).

"Well that's just your opinion" isn't a valid argument against a real, tangible advantage like this. There may be reasons why the Git users prefer their method, and those are the valid arguments.
Makes it easier to see spammers, I noticed this morning.
What did you not like about Grails?

FWIW, I've been using Grails extensively for the past year or so, and have absolutely loved the experience.
What's CpE?
or point it to an error page with your own ads :)
Or you could just read the press release from Gartner here : https://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1629214

The blog 'author' literally added nothing to it, which is probably why he botched all the links.

For what it's worth, I hope Gartner's wrong. Applications are already so saturated with gamification that I've found it to be more a turn off at this stage.

Make your product compelling, not compulsive.
I used to pop Rolaids for heartburn like crazy. I did this for years, until I was actually developing a toxic reaction to the Rolaids and I began trying other ways to control my heartburn.

I finally discovered that sugar (and alcohol) were my biggest contributors. So for me, sugar is definitely toxic. Now that I limit my sugar, I go weeks without heartburn, and when I do get it, it's usually because I had some beer or wine the previous day.

Based on this experience, I was interested that he talked about the fructose being removed by the liver (as alcohol is). I probably have some liver issue. This article has led me to a new avenue of research. In the meantime, I am a believer in limiting sugar intake.
It is pretty clear, that when people are discussing places in gmail and chat etc. Google will be able to offer google-direct travel offerings pertaining to their discussions.

Further, they could offer full trip scheduling suite in which you could schedule multi-traveller trips where everyone's calendars are shared and you can see what dates best work, attache each separate ticket to each persons google checkout account/card yet have one person able to plan for the group.
With a few exceptions, pointers returned by methods in Objective-C are assumed to be autoreleased. That means their reference count will be decremented at the end of the event loop.

But if OP is expecting a lifetime of learning, he might want to push a new autorelease pool for each iteration.
Well, technically Asteroids was always played on an oscilloscope, of course.
The Making of the Corporate Athlete [pdf]
I've only ever used SCSS, mostly cause it was the "official" version when I first used it. I also think that SASS files look weird to me...for whatever that's worth. SCSS eing a superset of CSS is huge too, IMO, as one of the bigger push-backs I get from lots of people on SASS is it's "another language to learn" and you don't get any benefit unless you convert everything. That goes away with SCSS.
Hum, you could as well have said:"he's an internet entrepreneur, and internet is choke full of illegal content, so he shouldn't complain".
Maybe sugar is toxic. I don't know (and there seem to be some pretty reasonable opinions both ways). However, there is a line in the article that really stands out to me:

"If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them."

I can't tell if this is the author of the article extrapolating sugar's toxicity to explain the root of all ills, or whether Lustig makes that assertion. Either way, there doesn't seem to be anything more than postulation on that front. I'm hoping the purported science behind this theory is actually sound and not just fluff so that we get into arguments about sugar based on incorrect assumptions.
TLDR; name.com will insert a page under your domain, against your will, that may or may not have illegal material on it. If it does, YOU ARE LIABLE! Fucking ridiculous.

Wouldn't creating a wildcard subdomain prevent it from hitting one of their parked pages?
> "True rights require no infringement on others. You simply have them, without requiring labor, money, or time from others."

Infants must be fed and cared for in several ways, necessarily using the resources and time of others. Therefore, within your framework, they have no right to life.
Almost a dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441553
I suppose that's better than snackified innovation.
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Why does wine brand popularity not follow a power law distribution?
Short blog article posing that exact question. The article is otherwise devoid of facts or hypothesis, but I'm very much interested in hearing HN's thoughts, since it's a very interesting question.
It's a very short blog article, otherwise devoid of facts or hypothesis, but I'm very much interested in hearing HN's thoughts, since it's a very interesting question.
This is bona fide blogspam. Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2432838
The real article is linked at the bottom: http://dailyartifacts.com/walmarts-185-billon-dollar-mistake

Interesting one-two quote:

"What was the result of Project Impact? - $1.85 billion in potential revenue lost; [...] Customer satisfaction "soared" (i.e. went up)"

If your customers said they wanted you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?

If your store is an unpleasant place to shop, customers are going to tell you they don't like spending time and money there. Blindly follow that advice, and you'll close your outlet entirely.

On the other hand, if you stand to make more money by making people unhappy, maybe your business isn't the net gain to humanity that you wish it was. It's a real ethical issue. I'm not sure I even want to be in charge of an operation like that.
If you build something great, it doesn't matter where you live.
But as always, correlation != causation.

In his books, Gary Taubes makes an argument that the causal relationship is reversed. It's not that eating too much causes your body to store the excess as fat. Rather it's that your body is storing necessary energy as fat before your body can use it, so you need to eat more to make up the deficit.
The next item on the list suggests he/she bought a house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Go to 57:00 and you should get to the bit where he explains why Fructose is a poison. Loses a bit in translation without the hour leading up to it, (which is absolutely fascinating).

However, that should cover your TL;DR.

Even shorter version: Fructose can only be processed by the liver. That means, by definition it is a poison.
Most of this article is pretty straightforward: eat right, get some exercise, sleep sufficiently, meditate and make time for your friends/family. The real gem here is the last page about Spiritual Capacity. It almost left me in tears. If you've ever felt a sense of being completely overwhelmed and lost, wondering why you're doing your startup / working for Big Corp, you will connect and empathize with the last character in this story. It's a wakeup call to make sure you do what you love and tie it with some inner purpose.
Do you mean dynamically typed, or really weakly typed?

(K&R C is weakly typed for example.)
I'm curious if the difference is due more to the food or to the break. Would taking a break without eating have a similar effect?
Found this on the site, thought it was rather interesting:

The Evolution of Blenders User Interface [PDF]
http://download.blender.org/documentation/bc2008/evolution_o...
They might be getting a disproportional amount of publicity compared to much larger more complex projects, in your opinion, but that doesn't negate the fact that it is still open source.
It seems to me they had two choices with the Honeycomb code: release something sub par or wait. And it seems like they landed on the side of quality over speed.

Does that decision benefit their partners and hurt others? Yes. And if you want to argue holding the code back was a business move and not a quality issue, that's fair, but it's the one card they can play to ensure high-quality devices in the market.

As an Android user, I say let them keep it.
Don't even need to do that, a simple BIOS update can update the microcode on most semi-recent Intels.

EDIT: I'd assume other architectures as well, Intels are the only ones I know about, however.
Google never had any qualms with releasing phone-centric Android code that anyone could squeeze onto a tablet. Why not release a tablet-centric version that anyone could attempt to squeeze onto a phone?

I am fairly sure they did have qualms [1], and that is exactly why Google is doing this now.

1: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil...
Web development is already a field full of these things:

So it's your first web page, eh? Do you know HTML? No? Do you know CSS and JavaScript? No? Okay, the first step is to figure out how CPanel and PuTTY work ... what? What do you mean Microsoft Word isn't a real text editor? I edited my whole thesis on it. IDE? Isn't that like a hard drive? WTF?
Actually, you've plotted two data points here. That doesn't tell you much.

How do you know it doesn't go back to showing irrelevant results on the 28th?
I have both zipcar and city car share memberships. I find both to be horrendously expensive and foolish to participate in if you need a car more than once a week, or for extended hours.

For example, last month I use CCC 3 times and my bill was $200.

I used zipcar a number of times, and each time each use was nearly $100.

One month, I used CCC a lot - and took a weekend trip including using their coupons for 200 miles (even stacked them) and my bill that month was $700

I have been severely disappointed with both services and as I had a goal of not having a car while living in san francisco, I am now getting another car because the use of these services is far more expensive than having a cheap car.
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The world is changing at a rapid pace, more now than ever before and with it our cultures and traditions. Globalisation is now visible on every corner making some places look identical wherever you are in the world. If we continue to stuff our high streets and shopping malls with global brands and consume only universal products it will become more difficult to differentiate between our neighboring countries or continents. It’s the local brands that contribute to each country and its image.
It's not clear to me what Gawker Media was thinking with this redesign. I now see a page with two scroll bars, one being the main one and then a secondary scroll bar with a collection of random topics. I go to Gizmodo and I see the main articles being about air traffic controllers falling asleep and something about Libyan rebels fighting Qaddafi (why would I go to Gizmodo for this news?)

I understand the desire to move away from the existing format that most blogs use, but Gawker has taken a huge step backward here.
Forget what the traffic measurements are, I personally have stopped going to their sites and so have a few others I know.
Wine popularity absolutely does follow a power law distribution. The leading brands are ones like Yellowtail, Woodbridge, Beringer, Cavit, and Sutter Home.
Ask HN: Help! I can't choose startup accelerators
I was accepted to a startup accelerator recently. I also applied to another accelerator which I won't hear from for a little while. The accelerator I was accepted to needs to know if I'll be participating. I would very much prefer to do the program which I haven't found out about for intangible reasons, but don't want to be in a position where I lose out completely.

What should I do? Are there negotiating tactics or suggestions I could use to get early acceptance, or at least know where they are in considering us? I can't delay the program I'm accepted to much longer.

I've intentionally kept this vague and haven't disclosed the programs. Both accelerators are more or less equitable. It's not YC vs. some new, inexperienced clone.
You can set it up such that the PHP app uses up all the available connection to the database and you can't connect unless you stop the PHP app (which people may notice).
Sprinting gives a rush of endorphins and hgh. Sprinting is anaerobic exercise for the heart, and jogging is more aerobic. However, both are important. Sprinting not only involves power, but technique and arms, it yields a different physique by using faster twitch muscles and requires flexibility. Jogging is more harmful to the body when one gets addicted to constantly pushing and playing with the pain threshold, or ignoring it, which happens when schedules and distances are embraced by ego.

I am inclined to think we're built to go for a walk to a hunting ground, sprint and throw an arrow, and walk home with a carcass on our backs, sleep while the women cooks and disects its organs, then eat it. Jogging serves no purpose other than to save time. If we're jogging a lot, we haven't positioned our tribe properly. What animal would you pursue jogging? Would you take your army out jogging? Would you rather jog or ride a horse into war?
I think because that information could have been easily found on the web (lmgtfy)
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1. Gourmaide - http://www.gourmaide.com - iPad recipe app that aims to be different by rethinking the way recipes are presented in the tablet era.

2. The Daily Dealist - http://www.thedailydealist.com - A social deal aggregator site that's gaining some early traction.

3. Bouncy Tags - http://www.bouncytags.com - Some would say it's from a bygone era of start pages but I find it quite helpful. Add bookmarks by tags and access them from anywhere (even mobile). Links that you use more frequently gain prominence over time. Use invite code "letmein" here: http://www.bouncytags.com/signup
it's 2am, high wind, tower starts to sway back and forth and you can feel it

fire breaks out on 60th floor

both happened to me. not fun. never again. interesting experience to have at least once though. :)
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One of the biggest problems to create something with an outside team is the culture, maybe they just don't understand the importance of X or Y aspect you are trying to explain, but in the specific case of Mexico this breach is almost non-existent due the proximity of the two nations.
yeah that was part of it
Here are a few examples of where it's nice to have that extra information:

- "Show me all commits by Jimmy, but don't bother with those he made on the i18n branch."

- "Did Sally make this change on the 3.1 branch and then backport it to 3.0, or did she start on 3.0 and then merge forward into 3.1?"

- "Show me all the changesets Steve has made on the 'stable' branch, so I can make sure he's only putting bugfixes there and not sneaking in new features."
It's not so much that BBM is cheaper than texting, but rather that BBM is the best messaging client I've used. Sure, there are alternatives, but they don't work as well. Yes, BBM is the reason I stay with blackberry, and unless my friends ditch it, I will continue to use it.
How does it compare to the commercial competitors (Maya, 3DS Max, Softimage) in terms of features & usability?
Or a Chinese farmer for that matter (though this one deals with protein rather than sugar):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China-Oxford-Cornell_Study_on_D...
But Google has released the code to partners. Motorola has shipped the Xoom. Acer is releasing a tablet in a couple of weeks. HTC and Samsung are also releasing devices in the next few months.

If the code is good enough to go in production devices, why isn't it good enough to be released to the public?
Shouldn't, or doesn't? Because in many if not most fields, great work has not been randomly distributed. There are almost always geographic clusters. If you want to do great work, it really helps to be around other people working on similar things. The hard part is not infrastructure but community. (Which is why we've always paid a lot of attention to community at YC.)
The big flaw in this study is that while the judges may not know anything about the cases coming up, their clerks do and the clerks are the ones who actually determine the schedule.

Afternoon cases are almost always easier cases because afternoons are largely reserved for actual work: trial/pre-trial hearings, legal research, or paperwork generated by the morning workload. Thus, the clerks always schedule the easiest cases for the afternoon to minimize interference with the important stuff.
This is a touchy area because you don't want to make it seem like your are threatening or pressuring the startup accelerator you are vying for. I guess I'd compare this to job negotiation, but probably less flexible. Either way, definitely make it clear that you have options because investors love social proof (whether they'd admit it or not).
I'd rather call it unfinished than subpar. But taht cannot be the just fication to not release it especially if you are in the open source domain? That is where you solicit early feedback, allow people to see and play with the code which it is still baking.

To me it looks like they chose to be a little protective of their ideas, features etc in honeycomb. Nothing necessarily bad with it. AAPL and MSFT do it all the time but what is sad is that they do it while posing as a good citizen in open source world.
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The comments on the original article do suggest another variable. The schedule may not be randomly arranged. The judges or the court clerks could actively arrange for easy cases earlier and more diffficult or complicated cases later. IOW, the variables may not be independent.

Also it's worth pointing out that this was a study on Israeli judges. American legal precedents and opinions and scheduling norms may not apply.
> even though there are plenty of altenatives on other platforms.

I would argue that this is a problem, not a solution. Plenty of alternatives, all incompatible, none of which are bundled with any phone, and none of which work (or work well) on Blackberry.
I've never been in to the idea of celebrity. However connecting people with previous comments on other stories is helpful. Also sometimes it is nice to attempt to follow someone who's previous comments you've found helpful.
He's not so much saying that sugar in general is killing us. He's arguing that the way we're consuming it now (both volume and generally isolated from fiber/other nutrients) is what's killing us.
Thanks. I wonder that too! I am not a fan of recruiters at all, so I have a massive bias there I'm afraid, but it seems that all the companies I want to work for (i.e. midsize, startup or post-startup, cool work for hip clients) eschew recruiters completely and only advertise directly.

I just find it SO annoying when searching for companies that they're all "leading <city> digital agency" and I have no idea who that actually is. Same gripe for "competitive salary"!

I'm only familiar with tech jobs, but experiences of friends in other industries seem to tell the same story - i.e. a carpet-bombing approach to any poor candidate who will listen!