skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a company which uses hg exclusively. I think it's a great version control system, but it suffers from an annoying implementation problem which gets in the way of our workflow.

When an hg pull is performed the pulling repository must let the other repo know about the state of each of it's branches. This includes closed branches.

In addition, hg uses HTTP as it's network protocol. I think it transmits it's branch info as part of the headers in a GET request. The result is that once you have a certain number of branches in your repo the pulls fail because there isn't enough room in the headers to transmit the state of the repo.

We are heavy users of branches for features/bugfixes as this helps us to improve quality control. This hg shortfall means we have to rethink our souce control procedures, we only learned about this problem when we encountered it - several thousand changesets into using hg. Apparently a fix is several months away from being in an hg release.

hg is great, but the above problem + the mutable changesets offered by git now has me leaning more towards the git camp.
Unfortunately I suspect the error bars are so large and the rate of change so (usually) small that you'd either wind up just getting

(a) noise or

(b) whatever result you want to get.
People need to understand that MIT and most other top tier schools have insanely amazing need-based financial aid programs. If you really can't afford it, don't worry, you won't have to. Yes, you'll accumulate some debt, but it's more like 16,000 instead of 200,000 (at least in my case). Plus, again in my case, it's interest-free for as long as you're in school and 9 months after you leave.

So yes, I strongly advice any high school student from any economic background to apply.

Edit: changed "keeled" to "need" in first sentence; damn phone auto-complete!
I don't know if I'm trying to become very rich - but I'm definitely trying to get my project funded! Let's be honest - trying to drum up a discussion about the process is an attempt to get through the process. How meta!
The framework was created by the firm that wants to partner with us. Sorry if that wasn't clear from the original post.
I moved to Pittsburgh from DC and can confirm it is indeed a great place to start something for all the reasons you mentioned. There is a pretty active startup scene in Pittsburgh, as others have mentioned, the main negative is getting VC funding. There are lots of incubators, accelerators and seed funds here, but if you are looking for raise many millions you'll probably have to go to the valley. I was not looking for this so it's been great for me!
Anyone know other examples of senses messing with each other?
Minority Report was one of my favorite movies, precisely because it's liberal use of attainable sci-fi, stuff which was being researched and thought to be attainable en masse in 5-10 years (like e-ink, gesture based interfaces, etc...)

In many ways, I think a really well written sci-fi book, and especially a movie, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. In which case, the movie would be making a proposition rather than a prediction :)
Although Starve Ups has been around for several years and seems to enjoy bucketloads of success with the start ups that it takes under its wing, I'd never heard of the organisation. I'm wondering why Starve Ups is not getting similar amounts of press coverage as YCombinator and TechStars.
While the report doesn't provide much detail on the methodology, I'd suggest taking small variations with a grain of salt. There are quite a few criteria they use which have nothing to do with democracy. Some if their criteria actually go against democratic principles. For instance:

Do ethnic, religious and other minorities have a reasonable degree of autonomy and voice in the political process?

In a democracy, the majority may freely impose their will on minorities. That's what a democracy is all about.

Women in parliament % of members of parliament who are women

It doesn't make you less of a democracy if your voters hate women.

Is there an effective system of checks and balances on the exercise of government authority?

I.e., is there a non-democratic means of making sure 2 wolves and 1 sheep don't vote on dinner? Seems non-democratic to me.

Many of the criteria are just people's preferences, e.g. what percentage of the population cares enough about politics to read about it every day or join a political party.

http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf
Coincidentally, all the points equally apply to Emacs. Well, except the last one, I guess.
this is a bad story that seethes with bias for the record labels. i have been using google music since i/o and i am very impressed. it works well and i will continue to use it.
Interesting discussion (I wrote the reputation algorithm for http://letslunch.com). My main concern with computing online reputation is that you miss the 95% of the people who don't see Twitter as a goal. Is a Senior Vice-President at Apple influential? Klout would say no (no tweets). LetsLunch would say yes :-)
the fact that this link has been posted by Mashape's founder just makes the whole thing even more ambiguous.
"Being at the whim of another company potentially places you in a very compromising position. I wouldn't do it."

This was one of my concerns that I did not elaborate on. Our growth could be limited by the partnership.

"Chances are that he just wants to be involved -- so offer him some compensation in exchange for networking on your behalf, or serving on the board."

I suspect you're right on this account. This sounds like a reasonable offer.
This was on reddit the other day direct with a link to youtube, this feels like blogspam to me cashing in on hunch adds no value and shows a tiny player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0 Direct Link
Wouldn't speculation driven volatility be automatically solved as the number of participants and size of the market goes up?
Free storage? You could store a gazillion word processing and spreadsheet documents on a normal hard drive (and back them up on Dropbox if necessary). Awesome software? Hardly (and I've used them for years before I switched back to desktop programs). The word processor still has bugs that should have been weeded out years ago.

So the question is relevant: Why not just use LibreOffice?
I'm wondering what these folks are getting in return -- the people you are asking for help from (permission to make announcements and so on). Maybe there is something in it for them and maybe you aren't getting that across very well. You have stated you will make no profit from it. Lots of not-for-profit projects are promoted with a combination of desperation/begging and high-horse lecturing ("this is the RIGHT thing to do!" kind of spiel). I've spent plenty of time doing volunteer work and did a fair amount of reading on the topic and what not. Even if you don't expect to turn a profit personally, what value are you bringing to the table to hook potential supporters? Because begging and lecturing typically don't accomplish much.
Oh fuck, Calicanis is on the bitcoin-promotion train now.

Now here's a note to the other bitcoin article-spammers. Watch Calcianis and learn. He's done everything right for memetically engineering the kind of article that gets upvoted.

1. He's asked a provocative question, the kind which makes people want to argue with it ("Why no, I'd say that such-and-such is the most dangerous open source project ever").

2. He's used attention-grabbing words like "dangerous" and geek-friendly terms like "open source".

3. And almost the entire article is made up of point-form lists. Everybody loves point-form lists.
I interpreted 'logging in or performing some other action' as 'we do not want to count users as active when they stop using Facebook without logging out'
Article III, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution is not exactly "recent" and if you want explicit examplea of Congress removing appellate jurisdiction for a specific law you need look no further than Ex parte McCardle (1868).
Whoops, my bad. I didn't know!

Definitely could use help/speakers/sponsors. Will ping you about it.
We have seen this movie before
I don't believe you in the slightest. The people who wrote the bill in question either didn't think of what happens to Google, or they want it to happen to Google, or they consider it something like "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs".
Biohazard-zone.net - Girl and Dog Lost in the Forest Joke
Rich people would never want to live in Pittsburgh for many reasons, including that the culture of the place is in some ways morally opposed to the concept of rich people, the infrastructure is poor, the weather is always terrible, there is never any sun, and the food is terrible (often self-righteously so).

In other words, the cost of living is low because rent is low because there's no demand because no one wants to live here.

On top of all that, SV already exists, so if you were going to start a startup, there would be no reason not to start it there. And, once you exited there, you would have no reason to leave, and especially not in favor of Pittsburgh, of all places.

Thus, good investors, also known as angels, will never cluster here.

More on-topic, it seems like the CMU fund is going to have a committee of bureaucrats decide who to fund. Why would that ever be a good idea? I graduated from CMU and work there now, and if I started a startup and were offered money by said fund, I would reject it. They'd want me to go to an 'OFEF business workshop.'
tl;dr: the JSON specification accepts two obscure Unicode codepoints in string literals that the JS specification doesn't. eval() may fail on valid JSON. Workaround: escape those codepoints.

Plus sensationalistic title and pedantic introduction.
How does any non-corporate website stay legal in this case? It looks like you can't link to something not under your control without a substantial risk of committing a crime. Without "blogrolls" it's hard to find related blogs. Without links to actual news articles, it's hard to write commentary worth reading. If some copyright troll can link to Most Sacred and Holy "IP" in the comments, you can't really have comments on articles.

This particular bill seems like an attempt to unring the Internet bill, to stuff the genie of disintermediation back in the bottle, to put gatekeepers/editors back in place.
It also allows you to incentivize his participation with compensation. If you really want him to network for you, make his equity based on that.

I would also take it as a compliment. It sounds like he just wants a way to participate.
I think it's a great article.
"In the United States, residential rental buildings are depreciable over a 27.5 year or 40 year life, other buildings over a 39 or 40 year life, and land improvements over a 15 or 20 year life, all using the straight line method."

Basically the only thing that will appreciate when owning a house is the land it sits on. A really nice house in a crappy area is going to lose value until the demand for the location starts going up again.
1. Why so angry?
2. Calacanis is how my name is spelled.
3. It's just one person's opinion--but a well informed one.

Why not spend your time reading the piece and pushing the discussion forward based on merit?

best j
Except that with the proliferation of laws in recent decades, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" has become a sick joke. It is literally impossible for someone to know all the laws they could be breaking. See for example Harvey Silverglate's recent book, Three Felonies a Day.

Also, apparently ignorance of the law is perfectly acceptable if you are a cop or DA, http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/02/ignorance-of-the-law-i...
I am but a humble network engineer and mostly unfamiliar with EVM. I'd love if you could expand on its importance in this scenario.
Sad that there are about twice as many authoritarian regimes as there are full democracies.
When they started pushing Unix on us in 2nd year CS, I hated VIM with a burning passion. After a little while of using it though, I can say my typing efficiency is far, far, higher than it was before, and I can "flow" better since I don't have to interrupt my stream-of-consciousness with a mouse movement. I wouldn't use anything else nowadays.
I love vim, I use it daily, but always for quick text editing. For real coding I need an IDE (netbeans). I never understood how people can code without debugging, profiling, code exploring. I'll probably get voted down, but, what Vim saves me, I wasted it on debugging. So I don't see any advantage using it as my primary editor.
There are so many good, well supported and easy to use PHP frameworks out there, I really can't see a good reason to take them up on this deal. A bit of hosting isn't worth being locked in like that.
I am a great writer, yes. :-)

Seriously, let's break this down:

a) I hear about a trend

b) I read everything I can find about it

c) I have two full-time analysts read everything on it and talk to 10 people.

d) I have 30+ producers of my show do research

e) I host a podcast with the lead developers

f) I read a ton of comments and listen to the feedback on the show

g) I write a piece two weeks later after taking it all in.

Yep, I just did 100+ hours of research on the top and put out a link-baiting piece. :-)
I chose it because I am under the impression that it is more ergonomic than Emacs and mainstream text editing environments. I learnt the basics of Emacs before I learnt vi/m.
Since the author didn't bring this up, I think that the biggest technical problem with bitcoin is that it takes 10 minutes to verify a transaction. It can't be used in real stores until someone figures out a way to get that down to under a minute.
I can assure you that this fund will be an awesome opportunity for recent grads.

Over the past three years, I've served on the University's Board of Trustees as its first ever Young Alumni Trustee. I spoke to Jonathan Kaplan and Rick McCullough (vp of research for cmu). I will personally be very involved in making sure it's maximizing it's potential. Everybody has a clear vision on this initiative.

I was born in nyc and grew up in sf and never left Pittsburgh since attending CMU as a freshman in 1998. I started running my company, College Prowler, full-time, the day after graduating with my bachelors in 2002.

Pittsburgh is HOT right now. And, I can assure you that Carnegie Mellon has more momentum than ever before.

Feel free to reach out to me with ideas, thoughts, questions - Luke @ collegeprowler.com.
People accept checks..

edit:
When someone sends you a transaction, it registers more or less immediately. It is only the confirmations in the blockchain (that happen every ~10 minutes) that give you confidence that the coins were not double spent.
A small detail I found interesting while watching Minority Report recently: among all the futuristic innovations displayed and mentioned in this article, when it began to rain, people still opened up traditional black umbrellas.
Completely unrelated to this site, but did anyone else panic and think their monitor was covered in smudges while reading this site? Worst background ever: http://launch.is/storage/launch_bg.jpg
I think the point just wooshed over your head.
Checks have legal penalties for passing fakes. Not so for bitcoin.
The word mediocre is subjective and this just devolves into an ontological or semantic argument surrounding the meaning of mediocre. What’s mediocre to you may very well not be to lots and lots of other people. Or—if you prefer—in the form of an aphorism: ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.’
You don’t use the definition of “democracy” most people use. That’s ok, an acknowledgment that more than your definition of democracy exists would be nice, though.

My perception is that “democracy” is most often used to refer to democracy (following your definition), rule of law and human rights. Those three things contradict each other sometimes, all “democracies” have compromises to deal with those contradictions. (Protection of minorities and separation of powers are seen by pretty much everyone as essential features of democracies.)

(Your point about checks and balances seems non-sensical, though. Checks and balances are not essential democratic features following your definition – they are more in the rule of law camp – but it strikes me as wrong to claim that they contradict democratic principles. You point about wolves concerns protection of minorities and checks and balances certainly don’t do that. The president and the legislative are both elected, judges are sometimes, too [checks and balances certainly don’t demand that judges not be elected, so you can’t blame it on checks and balances when judges are not elected], so I don’t really see how checks and balances are undemocratic.)
You lost me on the front page. I'm not going to sign in with my twitter even out of curiosity, so perhaps you should make the first impression more compelling.
The formatting choices were jarring, though I wholeheartedly agree with the large bolded words in the last paragraph.
Outside of members of the bitcoin project, Jason is probably the most qualified to write a bitcoin article. As he states above, he definetly did the research.
If you're left wanting a high-level technical explanation, the Wikipedia page seems to be a decent one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Technology

(Answered some fairly obvious questions I was left with after reading like "how do they aim to stop someone from spending the same coin everywhere and then disappearing before anyone else notices?")
Except copyright infringement is a civil matter. Drug usage is (unfortunately) a criminal offense. I'm not aware of any precedent that would make it illegal (in a criminal sense) for one to do something which might cause a third party to sue.

Then again, IANAL.
"Completely unrelated". Yep, it sure is.
I think you are being unreasonably hard on Pittsburgh. Recently it has become a great place to live. Areas like Shadyside are thriving with young people and great new restaurants and bars are opening every month.

Pittsburgh knows how it has and continues to benefit from the legacy of the enormously rich people it has produced over the years. I have never personally felt that the city is morally opposed to the concept of rich people.
Bitcoins breach the divide between the physical and digital worlds, and it seems that when that happens the old guard throws a fit (cf. digital music/games).
I'm sure you've put time into reading about BitCoin but it's difficult to take a "piece" seriously when the grammatical and mechanical errors in your writing are abundant. Additionally, beginning a "piece" with a vapid 6 point list.

Also not to mention the comment stacking with "bradpineau". Whatevs, I guess I'm just feeding the shark. Please flag this submission to anyone who get here - it's obvious social media spam.
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Autodesk Animator (MSDOS paint and animation package) source code available
a.k.a. best background ever
The article was pretty good, but the title was definitely sensationalist. We don't take kindly to that around here. I almost didn't read it because of the title alone.
Sure thing. Do you think it's a copy issue, or that the app isn't explained too well?
Exoskeleton lets UC Berkeley grad take a huge step
I was really just commenting on the technical side. From a technical standpoint bitcoins are far more convenient than checks; which have been successful by any measure.

There is no reason there couldn't be a law that says "it is illegal to attempt to defraud merchants by trying to double spend bitcoin."

From a technical standpoint, if you send me a payment and I have no reason to mistrust you (similar to my accepting a check for payment), seeing the payment show up in my account immediately is pretty satisfactory.

Further if it becomes a problem, services similar to clearcoin could pop up; allowing users to 'store' coins in a trusted third party, like a generalized escrow-service that companies could trust.

So unlike clearcoin which has coins transfered per-transaction, they might offer a service where you can just store your coins there, and business will trust unconfirmed transactions from clearcoin; thus they wouldn't have to trust you.

Really though, I doubt it will become any more of a problem than bad checks are.
To respond to your points in reverse order (ignoring "3" which isn't actually a point):

Firstly, there's really no need to sign things with your name. Your name is at the top, it doesn't need to be at the bottom too.

2. Sorry. Many letters. Small font. Light grey text. Calacanis. Got it now.

But (1) is a good question. I'm not angry, but this "bitcoin" meme does annoy me. Why? Because it's one of those viruses that can be really dangerous to social news ecosystem. Much like those parasites that burrow into the brain and take over the host's motor functions to spread itself more easily, everybody who gets bitten by the meme (ie winds up with a few bitcoins of their own) suddenly has an incentive to start spreading the bitcoin meme as far and as wide as possible to drive up the value in the (imho extremely forlorn) hope that someday it will become truly widespread. Since it only takes a few well-timed votes to push something to the front page of HN, this makes HN fertile ground for being manipulated by this kind of thing.

So I approach bitcoin advocates the same way I approach folks selling Amway or religious missionaries.
Two types of "business analysis" every business must do
My only gripe is it's quite difficult to find a way to transfer real-currency to BTC easily, and fast. I have to pay $25 - $50 for a bank transfer if I only want to get 10 BTC?

It was easy and useful to use PayPal, until everyone started getting banned.
Was that typed on an iPhone, or is "woodshed over your head" some expression with which I was not previously familiar?
Why are Black Boxes so Hard to Reuse? (OOPSLA ’94)
What data does LetsLunch use that allows it to score 95% of people?

On Twitter, if you are the Senior VP at Apple and---hypothetically---you only have 50 followers but they are all movers and shakers, then Twitter analysis should be able to determine that you are influential.

I guess your concern is that there might be many influential people who aren't even on Twitter, or don't have 50 influential followers on Twitter. What is your proposed solution to the problem? Your "How It Works" page (http://letslunch.com/site/page?view=how-it-works) says that you pull signal from LinkedIn and, optionally, Twitter and Hacker News. You arrange lunch dates, collect post-lunch feedback, and then tune people's reputation based upon the feedback.

What about the 99.99% of people who don't use LetsLunch? And why is a single lunch date enough to be able to determine someone's influence?
We're not in it just for the hosting, but for the networking and the advice. The framework is an extension of and takes a lot of queues from Zend.
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I am not disputing Flexner's report at all. I am asking Logjams to provide me with a list of reforms, private and governmental.
Spielberg tried very hard to create a believable near future. He invited a collection of futurists to brainstorm ideas and implemented those ideas in the film.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/spielberg.html?pg=1...
Two other international rankings with annual revisions that have been going on for a while are produced by nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations.

1) The Freedom House rankings of countries by freedom (both political and economic):

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15

2) The Transparency International rankings of perceived public corruption:

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/...

(Both these websites use more of Flash Player than I would if I were running a website; sorry about that.)
I'm pretty sure Puppet uses Fabric for its fundamental foundational layer. I want to get around to integrating it into my workflow - right now I just a lot of custom Fabric w/ rsync.