skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regretable case of different name for same functionality. May indeed be misleading if you switch back-and-forth between SCMs.

hg pull == git fetch

git pull == { hg pull; hg merge; }
Here's what I got:

How should I start my essay? I don't know if it's
appropriate to their needs and wants of their customers
and their needs and wants of their customers and their
needs and wants of their customers and their needs and
wants of their customers and their needs and wants of
their customers and their needs and wants of their
customers and their needs and wants of their customers
and their needs and wants of their customers and their
needs and wants of their customers and their needs and
wants of their customers and their needs and wants of
their customers and their needs and wants of their
customers and their needs and wants of their customers
...

It's still going.

I assume you're basically using Google as a Markovian text generator? You might want to put some state detection in there and choose other than the first alternative sometimes.
What hard evidence is there that the public spending cuts led to the riots?
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Identify them and then what? If you haven't got any witnesses to accompany the photo, it is useless as evidence. Running around masked with a cardboard box full of stuff is not a crime by itself.
Was there not something similar after the Vancouver riots? There were misgivings expressed: http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/world/on-the-dangers-of-crowd.... Was is successful?
sockpuppets? Flagged.
Not only the assembly language but also the organization of a whole x86 based computer architecture, including memory buses and interrupt controllers and whatnot. I've spent weeks reading these things and trying to figure out how a modern operating system is built with the hardware at hand.

Every piece of hardware should have a manual like this!
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I've read it and I don't seem to recall any normative sections defining "Web Application" :)
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I'm on a pretty slow connection here, so If I want to try identify some rioters, I need to sit and wait for a whole page to load with the new image? I could do that once, maybe twice before getting bored.

Why not just follow the "old school" method and just make a page full of faces, like the newspapers are doing. There is nothing new or innovative about this site, if anything it's backwards!
(Evil) Samsung copied the iPad already back in 2006
That's one way people make money with FLOSS. They use the FLOSS code to promote their business. That's why they give it away for free.
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#TwitterADay365: Putting a vivid, singular identity on a few Twitter handles
I don't know about this site, but the photos in the UK newspapers are released by the police - so they are probably linked to evidence on that person. So if you could identify someone the police would just have to find them.
Bread and circuses didn't work for the Roman Empire either you know.

Phones are not equivalent to:

- medical care

- education

- housing

- sufficient wealth to have children

- healthy food

- self-respect
That's a resource distribution issue

My favorite new politically correct euphemism for the motivation for theft.

Are you really claiming these riots aren't linked to the massive cuts to public services that happened during the last year?

No. But it seems like a leap of reasoning. Was Anders Brevik's rampage "linked" to an influx of immigrants into Norway? Again, a bit of a leap. In both cases I'd be more inclined to believe that the people involved lack sufficient mental health.

But sure, perhaps the daughters of millionaires, school staff, graphic designers, Olympic ambassadors, and law students who have faced the courts already are suffering at the hands of cuts. That's for the sociologists and rehabilitation officers to figure out in the months to come.
Writing it. Lots of it. Assembly is not a language that you can grok by looking at it. Use the official Intel manuals for reference. There are lots and lots of deprecated/incomplete/incorrect assembly language references out there.

I got my black belt in assembly by writing a 1 kilobyte software synth for a 4k intro that was never finished (but the synth was playable). That was one cool project!
I upvote this because RVM caused me more pain than salvation.
I regret the time wasted for RVM. Thanks for this vamsee!
A lack of mental health is exacerbated by the cuts to social services.

If mental health services were provided to the lower classes AT ALL we would not have these issues.

As it is the majority of the underclass suffers from multiple mental disorders and they cannot get treatment. Mental health treatment is very expensive and is not covered by the government.
But this approach scales at a much faster rate. Simply adding a fifth word throws even a billion-per-second attack out into hundreds-of-years territory.
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what you just said basically:
if ms implemented it, its wrong etc we all know that

if google does the same, it must have been done better and therefore its ok

the point tho: the design is broken security wise. google, ms, apple, whoever else implements it, its going to be exploited, heavily specially as soon as chrome becomes n#1 browser (which will happen no matter what - certainly the no-opt-out install with a zillion of popular apps helps with that)
Actually it's Bernie Sanders, and rather than use the money to fund research, it would set prizes and buy patents to release to the public domain.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/bernie-sanders-trie...
Hi

I work on behalf of 123-reg.

We are working on changing this in future control panel updates.

Regards,

Ricky
Use of rubber bullets was authorised after the police finally got their act together. I don't think it was a worthy desire to avoid escalation that prevented their use earlier on .. more lack of organisation.

Do you have a source for that? Everything I've read suggested the police were only considering rubber bullets or water cannons as a last resort.
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Actually it is better for security.
Welcome to Silicon Valley! You should come hang out: http://www.hackersandfounders.com/

Introduce yourself, remind me of this post, and I'll buy you a beer. We should be having an event in Berkeley in mid September.
Why so?

You don't have access to outside APIs with NaCL.
It's designed to vest at the same rate that the employee adds value. For the sake of simplicity it's almost always set up to be four years with a one year cliff.

i.e. at month 11, the employee has no options, at the end of month 12 they have 25% of their options and then from there on in the options vest at the end of each month so that at month 18 they have 37.5% of their options. At the end of 4 years they have the right to buy all their options.

It can vary depending on the employee and what they negotiate upfront but unless they are bringing something that is of particular one-off value (a rolodex of clients for instance) there are not many reasons to change the standard 4+1 format.
Dude, Laura love it tonight when you showed it to her at http://www.hackersandfounders.com/ tonight. Kudos. :)
Kate really combines all the good KDE features, in particular its usage of Kparts is excellent. You get complete shell integration, tabs, snippets, loads of plugins, split-views, highlighting etc.
The most feature complete editor after emacs, probably.
Switch Back to Your Old Facebook Chat with Google Chrome Extension
Facebook, the most popular social networking platform, surprises its fans with one or the other feature. But as Google+ came into picture, Facebook has become all the more attentive and has introduced a new Chat Sidebar feature along with Video calling feature .
I didn't take the quote out of context any more than you did in the grandparent!

I definitely have a problem with the Government restricting the flow of that information; but that doesn't mean that the flow itself isn't problematic at times.
A quick google search reveals that this is very old news.

[12 Jan 2009] http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5isNavMO9o...
This is the most dangerous use of technology these days: Incrimination. I've been campaigning to have this site shut down in various places.

All it takes is incorrect information, a bad photo or a grudge and the world comes down for an innocent person. On the hand of the guilty people, it shows nothing of what they have done, merely a snapshot in time.

Also, if the database is hacked or leaked in any way, a lot of people are going to suffer from vigilante attacks.

This is simply NOT A GOOD THING.

Also it's technically 100% ILLEGAL as they do not have a data controller and are not registered with the ICO. This IS vigilante justice by idiots.

And after all, the politicians gave a clear message with the expense scandals, News Corp scandals and cuts that it's ok to loot and pillage...
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Reminds me to Minority Report.
Really. I'd like to express something without beeing rude, because it's a waste of energy.

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<emotion date="2011-08-12">
<intensity value="0.5" confidence="1.0"/>
<category set="everydayEmotions" name="boredom" confidence="0.1"/>
</emotion>

<emotion date="2011-08-12"
<friendliness value="-0.5"/>
<arousal value="very high"/>
<valence value="negative"/>
<rejecting value="3.0"/>
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</emotionml>

I'm sorry if my emotion doesn't validate for you, but it validates for me ;)
Use paragraphs.
It doesn't work. I have a 2m x 1m whiteboard in my room that sometimes gets littered with reminders about stuff. I've quickly learned to ignore it completely. I often end up rewriting those reminders closer together in a corner, when I need to free up some whiteboard space to do self-brainstorming or design something.
But the combinatorial explosion starts putting that out of reach fairly quickly.

Let's say you're restricting yourself to a dictionary of only 2000 common words.

A single word, up against a 1000-tries-per-second attack, would therefore fall within 2 seconds. Clearly bad. Adding a second word gives 2000^2 combinations to test against, which would require about an hour. Still not good. A third word, pushing that up to 2000^3, takes us to about three months, which is probably acceptable in many cases. The fourth word, at 2000^4 combinations, gets us to 500 years, which is well beyond what most people are ever going to need for a web-based password.

Now, if you want to bring this into the realm of passwords in other contexts, which can perhaps be brute-forced with several-billion-tries-per-second attacks, this approach still works: you just need to add an extra word or two. At 2,000,000,000 per second the four word combination might only take a couple of hours, but a fifth word takes that up to half a year, and a sixth out to the thousand years mark, whilst still falling easily within the standard 7±1 memory limit and being much much much easier to remember than m(yV7&NlxAIZNx3>&@p&8/kX.
Scala, Kotlin, Ceylon... let's start by being honest [Rant]
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You can tell Bundler to install to a relative path by default by putting the following in ~/.bundle/config:

---
BUNDLE_PATH: vendor/bundle

In that way, you need only run the standard "bundle" or "bundle install" instead of setting up an alias.
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Are you going on the joy ride? Are you seriously planning your honey moon trip to some rich and exclusive place?
Everything else aside, I love how the library to complement NaCl is called Pepper.
By horse-charging and kettling peaceful protestors, the UK police have been doing their best to blur the distinction, trying to meet every protest as if it were a riot, and perhaps turn it into one.
Absolutely agree. Why would I sign up without having first seen how it could benefit my life?
Ask HN: How do I get my girlfriend to see the beauty of computer science?
My girlfriend works in the arts and has never had any experience with computer science or dated an engineer before. Recently she said that it's impossible for her to understand the mechanics of programming and therefore she finds what is "under the hood" of her iPhone or browser completely uninteresting. We have all had moments where we found an algorithm or piece of code beautiful in implementation, but what is a good way to express to a non-technical person the delight of something so abstruse?

I once had an introductory CS professor who was particularly good at this, but at least he had the benefit of requiring us to complete assignments!
I certainly didn't know it existed until now (though I was aware of the book in no-trees-were-harmed form) and we are currently assessing our ongoing needs regarding version control (it works, but we really need to move onto something more modern at some point soon), so they've at least bought a little mindshare here, and I doubt we are at all unique in that regard.

It'll be interesting to see how this works out for them if we get a follow-up article further down the line.
Some numbers for uk

http://kijamedia.com/2011/08/uk-mobile-phone-ownership-by-br...

Anecdotal

http://urbanmashup.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/the-london-riots...
Ask HN: Help, I think Amazon is stealing my ebook
I was recently pointed to a copy of my free ebook being sold on Amazon for the Kindle. I sent a DMCA takedown notice 5 business days ago and haven't heard anything back.

When I first saw it, I noticed that it was being sold by "Amazon Digital Services"..which I thought was really fishy - like someone trying to pass themselves off as Amazon. Now that I've done more research though, it seems like this actually is Amazon.

If you open the book on the website and you look at the very top, you'll see the original CC Non-Commercial license.

What should I do?
I didn't read it, no. But looking at the website and the actual Firefox app right now, version numbers are still a big part of the picture. A release cycle doesn't become more rapid just because they're using major version numbers in place of minor ones. I get and support the idea behind a rapid release mechanism instead of holding back a release in order to wait on incomplete features, but still this version number thing seems like a stunt to me that has little to do with the actual release policy.
Facebook, Twitter, and BlackBerry respond to proposed social network ban in UK
I think you're fighting an uphill battle getting her to appreciate the end result (e.g. the code), but most artists can appreciate the value of the creation process itself.

So maybe focus on the craftsmanship and exploration by drawing comparisons to something like woodworking or sculpture or print making.
Really great idea. I checked out the ToC before ordering and I like the way it offers a comparison of the major existing version control systems and then includes in the comparison at the end the new version control system. So basically it's useful to anyone who is thinking about moving to a new VCS and "happens to mention" the author's VCS. I'd pay for that any day, but instead I'll just recommend the book to everybody I know... which is probably what they want...
Bandwidth consumed must be one of their traffic metrics.

or

That's what you get when you give an 8-core, 16 GB RAM box to your interns.
On what basis is that "very easy"? Four words from 1600 is 1600^4 permutations, which would take over 200 years to test at a 1000/second attack.

Sure, if we're talking about a different type of password, and 2-billion-tries-per-second attacks, it'll fall in about an hour, but simply pushing that out to six words from that dictionary will still stymie that level of attack for a couple of hundred years. The size of the dictionary is much less important than the length of phrase you generate from it.
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Yeah, I've been dreaming about too for some time. It's one of my motivations to learn information design - in hope that one day I'll put a big dashboard on the wall that will update TODOs and graph data I want to track and get feedback on (like my spendings).
It's just a quick and dirty hack at the moment. :)

Thanks for your suggestion though!
Maybe they rejected it because a plugin could (easily?) be written for it?
Can anyone explain the infinity sign? I can follow all of the other shapes.
For me to care in the slightest they need to "fire back" with a feature that lets me easily completely ignore games as is promised with Google's implementation.
I enjoyed the practical approach. I started off with 8086 in the Microprocessor lab, played with motor Rotations- Serial port and parallel port communication, keyboard interfacing, DOS Interrupts,LED interfacing etc. It was the most amazing time of my career. I fell in love with microprocessors.
The point is that this approach pushes brute-force guesses out into territory that makes it unlikely anyone will crack it even if they know exactly what scheme you're using.

People seem to be massively underestimating just how long it would take to brute-force four dictionary words in a row.
Oh, that underclass. Thought you meant the looters:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8696977/London-...

But yes, I agree with you.
Quite the conspiracy theory you're building there.
> each fallout is a dream that died

Don't think like that. Consider them lessons learned. People learn how not to run businesses all the time.
My text editor of choice for many years.
We thought about it briefly, but it doesn't really fit Nat's preferred way of working with CSS. Might try something like this in the future though.
Let's say the dictionary only has 1000 words in it. A phrase of four words in a row from that is still 1,000,000,000,000 possibilities, which is going to take you significantly more than a few minutes to work through at 1000 tries per second.
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The key use I see for patents is as a demonstrable unit of innovation. I can justify my team's innovation by using number of patents as a proxy to senior managers. "They are smart, motivated people who we can't afford to lose to a competitor on the basis of a pay rise. Look at all their patents!"

Secrecy without patents is fine. I find it hard to believe that any invention will not be re-invented within 20 years, even if there is no cross-contamination of ideas or any reverse engineering.
Would be great if you guys would report back with a ROI type report on this pr stunt. Wish you all the best!
We've written our CSS and JavaScript to have a bunch of reusable components, so often we can deploy new features without changing our static assets at all (we reuse classes for components that are already in use elsewhere on the site). I can see how for heavier JS sites this wouldn't be worthwhile though.
I assume you've contacted Amazon? Have they responded? A little more info would be useful...
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And yet the point is moot because no one is going to use a password like "Av#12GH".
None of the research has been about open programming environments. The article quotes two studies that did not study open programming environments, and the rest is opinion and speculation, albeit from some respected people.

So when they say "If you are just getting into some work and a phone goes off in the back ground it ruins what you are concentrating on" they are talking about a room full of people who answer phones as part of their business.

My most successful project was done in an "open" office, with the five programmers' desks arranged in a circle, facing out. We could all concentrate when required, but we could communicate immediately when there was a problem. Sometimes an interruption was annoying. Most of the time the communication paid of hugely. I think programmers are good at judging when to bug another programmer. That said, we had an awesome team.

In my experience, a bunch of programmers in offices is a great way to get lots of the wrong thing done. It may be because when I've been in this situation, the team was not as experiences as the team above. Or it may be that offices kill communication, discourage bouncing ideas around, and encourage "going dark".

When I hear of open offices that didn't work, there's usually more shit policy coming down from management and being imposed than just the open office.

That's the most important thing: What does the team want?
I'm now busy until the end of the year, probably longer.

Always interested in getting to know people working in similar areas, though.
may be he works in the open space office.
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I believe this is what's generally called a "wall of text". The lack of paragraphs drastically reduces my willingness to read it.
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I think you're missing the point. Rebasing work you haven't pushed disentangles your work from the remote branch.

Here are some advantages:

1. Work you happened to do after a merge doesn't spuriously appear to depend on that merge.

2. You can do conflict resolution incrementally during the rebasing process (commit-by-commit instead resolving a merge conflict all at once).

3. Linearizing more of your history improves the precision of git bisect. You're much more likely to have the result of a bisect point to a simple commit rather than a complex merge when there are fewer merges.

The two major disadvantages I see are:

1. Pulling and rebasing is more complex than pulling and merging (more steps and more decisions).

2. You have to be careful not to rebase a branch you have "published".
For what it's worth, it's not Amazon, but a highly scammy-seeming Amazon merchant: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/at-a-glance.html?ie=UTF... ("Amazon Digital Services, Inc. US")

It's hard to believe Amazon lets merchants have "Amazon" in their name, but there it is.

If you don't get a reply from someone at AZ in a timely manner, I imagine you could go ahead and file a DMCA takedown as the copyright owner. They're making your copyrighted material available for download without your permission— This is exactly what it's for.
I see that you've released the book using the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" license, so it looks like Amazon is clearly in error here. Have you contacted them according to the instructions here? http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/102-5493...

There's a telephone number there-- I imagine you should be able to get this cleared up quickly.
It's two squares, each with three rounded corners and one point, rotated +/- 45 degrees to point at each other.
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Looks like an interesting book. Were you taken to another page when clicking "Request a book"? For me, the page was reloaded and my answers to questions 1-8 were deselected.
You missed this part: "One of her co-accused, Alexander Elliot-Joahill, is from a deprived area of south-east London"

Also, anecdotes aren't data.
Isn't that the second half of that sentence?
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