skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I thought someone was asking Linus to do this.

But this comes up over and over and people should really start doing it! Especially on large and/or well known projects. This isn't just something that's useful to others but it can help you too! I'm a naturally long-winded person but the point isn't to write an essay, you just have to sum it up on line 1 give some context and details for the commit, then let us know who you are and how to get in touch.

Fortunately I've never had to revert Amy changes in my work (weird, right?) but if and when that day comes I'll be prepared. 99% of my work is done alone but I still write some decent commit messages. Who here remembers the date of your changes? Do you remember the exact state of the project at that time? Even if you remember that "well, the project was in X state Y commits ago" it'll only help you for about 5 commits max then you'll forget.

You need to know what you were doing and so do others. Even if you don't plan on working with others, I'd you're on GitHub with a public repo someone may unexpectedly like your project and want to see what's up with each commit. I recently had a project up on github that I thought was literally only useful for myself. It was a basic brochure style website for someone I made as a favor. Well it turns out someone here on HN wanted to learn to code, got in touch with me privately, then started exploring my github repos nth at guy actually used the stupid website I was building as a way to look at some code, tear it apart, and see how it worked. I was flattered and now I'm glad I write decent commit messages even if I'm only working with myself.

The point is, you'll never know when someone else or even yourself will need to look back at the logs and if the commit message is nothing but a date or something like "fixed the link" then you aren't reverting to a known past state - you're guessing.

I know a lot of Git newbies get scared after pressing return in the command line and nano or whatever built in text editor pops up. I didn't know how to end the commit message the first few times and save it or get back to the "normal" terminal so this may be part of why this happens but not a big part.

In any case, I feel strongly that this is an important thing that's overlooked and I'm glad it was brought up again. Hopefully people do it.
Opinion, not fact. It's not awkward to me. And we would be better off if we didn't worry about which word to use.
This is his message: "one of them is an interesting investment opportunity that we hope to participate in."

It's a tease. He is talking his book, himself, etc. Standard operating procedure for a VC.
Which leads me to ask, what does?

You answered your own question:

PayPal had to scramble at the last minute to deal with licensing issues right before its IPO, because it had ignored them up until then. This is well-documented.
Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining
So, do you not consume fruit anymore?
So, you've never had a commit like this one?

deep/magic: Commit changes even if not dirty.

Changesets are somewhat magical these days (obviously!); even if they are
not dirtied; they could end up being really, *really* bogus as far as
their on-disk status. The reason, as far as I can tell, is that in
deep/wizardry, we are being very liberal about our modifications to the
on-disk data structures without actually considering whether or not any
other owner of that structure is pending changes to commit. As a result,
we could end up heavily corrupting these structures if we're not careful.

I'm not altering the comments in the file because, frankly, the comments
imply that we should have already been doing this. I just changed the
code to match.

Fixes #4242. Finally! Time to go grab a beer. :3

Tests: +5 working

mad/deep/magic.py | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 0 deletions(-)
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Wouldn't that be too easy?
Sorry if that wasn't clear, but my rule is no refined sugar. Fruit is fine because the sugar in it is naturally occurring. Fruit is pretty much my only source of sugar at this point.
1. If your metabolism and energy level is crashing throughout the day, change your diet, not the frequency. Look up intermittent fasting, and learn that this 6-8 meals per day is a myth:
http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun...

3.

Why drop red meat? Eat more fish sure.

White bread -- get rid of the grains altogether. And, no, whole wheat bread isn't better for you:

So if we compare white bread to table sugar sucrose, white bread raised
blood sugar more. If we compare a whole wheat bread to white bread,
whole wheat bread raises blood sugar higher than white bread. And so
much higher than table sugar, and by the way, much higher than many
standard candy bars. So a Snickers bar is far better for you from a blood
sugar standpoint than two slices of whole wheat bread. So the reason for
that is the unique structure of carbohydrate in wheat. -- Dr. William Davis

Soda -- drink Tea, or water. Eat fruit. Fruit Juice isn't any better.

Peanut butter -- Replace it with actual nuts or nut butter if you must.

Sugar... Hey, we agree on something.
Nobody understands economics well enough to predict what Bitcoin will become. For a start, both of those pieces hinge on the dangers of a deflationary spiral. But it is far from clear or agreed how such a spiral would work, or whether it would encounter a natural limiting factor. To the extent that deflation might cause a decrease in demand, it's not even clear that that's a bad thing - because we live in such a consumption-oriented economy it's hard for economists to even conceive of - let alone analyze - the idea that people might only spend money when they need to.
No one is saying to write a lot. The point is to write enough. You should basically be able to hand someone the commit log and they should be able to easily figure out how the current state of the code came into being without having to dig into the code.

Small commits are fine and often don't warrant several lines. I've done that too.

It's often a fine line between a commit that's too big and too small. At the same time, just because a commit warrants a few sentences about it that doesn't necessarily mean it was too large. I don't want to keep being long winded here so I won't go into examples as I think we've all seen situations like what I'm talking about but I'd be happy to add an example later if necessary.
Trying to get some heavy co-investors on board of what?
As late as 1990, half the US population was descended from pioneers. They had big families.
This article does an absolutely terrible job describing work "Inside McKinsey" and seems to be more of a puff-piece for the firm than anything else.

If you are interested in what management consulting is or looking for an interesting read (the background is fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining), I highly recommend the book Lords of Strategy referenced in the article. Here's the WSJ review which gives a good summary: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870486930457510...
and a BW interview of Kiechel: http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/feb2010/ca20100...

The origins of management consulting are actually in Frederick Winslow Taylor's work around scientific management, using a stopwatch to cut excess labor on railroads... you could call it hacking labor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management

I worked at BCG before coming to FeeFighters, as did our CEO. My 2 roommates worked at McKinsey and Bain, so I have a pretty good perspective on the industry. This article goes way overboard on the prestige associated with working at McKinsey - noone at my school chose an offer from McKinsey if they had one with BCG or Bain (more of a culture/fit decision than anything else at that point). I worked with multiple Rhodes and Baker scholars at BCG... but you don't get to 10,000 employees only hiring the smartest guys in the room. People are generally VERY smart, but you also have partners where you wonder how they got there. There are a few different types of partners... the rainmakers (they can sell), the teachers (awesome to work with, they teach junior people a lot), and the ones that do amazing client work. I hated working for rainmakers.

Working in consulting can be an awesome time... at times, you get to do strategy work that decides how billions of dollars will be deployed (that is when you do pure strategy work). But at other times, you're spending days building gantt charts deciding who will manage a particular document in a new organization (most of the work these firms do now - they had a desire to grow, so they take on shitty operational things that they aren't well suited to, to create an "ongoing relationship" with clients). As for recycling stuff, sure - you are paid for your expertise and part of that expertise was learned at your competitors. It is no different from hiring anyone from a competitor, which happens all the time, even at junior levels. There is a huge chinese wall where you can't get information from someone who serves or has served a competitor.

BTW - there are certainly skills that transfer well from the consulting world to startups... I wrote about some of them (sub consulting for MBA) http://feefighters.com/blog/should-you-hire-mbas-at-your-sta...
In my experience, Nutrition is an area where the mental shortcuts that humans tend to use are counterproductive (e.g. looking to "experts", trusting in "conventional wisdom").

Do your own research, and give it some thought.

(You might start by looking into "Paleo." You will see quacks there (as elsewhere) but generally speaking, its proponents seem better grounded in scientific understanding.)
It's not about better utility. It's about where you can unload the currency and for what/how much.

This sounds like the Bitcoin-as-investment thinking that produced the bubble. Imagine a fork of Bitcoin that clears transactions faster, has less volatility, and has a better GUI; would you still judge it only on its exchange rate?
There's a difference between "in use, somewhere" and "almost universally used".
Real double- and triple- agents laugh at claims of 'conflict' and the rules which bind ordinary agents.
http://code.google.com/p/aima-python/source/browse/trunk/lea... is shorter (NaiveBayesLearner around line 200) though that assumes some infrastructure.
I've only heard of "up or out" being used in high-end professional services companies - which are usually very different places to start-ups.
I have a cousin who is 12, him and his friends have been kept off of facebook by virtue of their parents being there. Every single person in his age group is on Google+. Are there any demographic breakdowns of the g+ users anywhere? I am interested to know if this anecdote is just that, or if it represents a larger trend.
I went 554 days back through my saved stories before I got bored of clicking next. So no, it doesn't.
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I don't think anyone is allowed to ignore guidelines. When you know the rules well, you are allowed to bend and break them when it makes sense. But people as a group are often not thoughtful so we have to apply rules to everyone even though a few individuals don't need rules applied to the, because they know what they're doing and generally don't cause trouble.

If we leave it up the masses to be on the honor system then the problem would be much larger. Everyone thinks they're awesome enough to bend the rules when they aren't. It always seems like the people who suck the most are the ones who believe they're the most skilled too. Why is that?
The point about colors, specifically grays, on different screens is really important. I can't think of how many times I look at a website I'm working on at a friend or family member's house and am disappointed with how it looks.

Sufficient contrast is important. Worse still I have color blindness so for me contrast is critical sometimes.
[It was a mistake to make an economics argument on hacker news. I'm outnumbered and know I won't get a fair hearing.]
Thanks for pointing out the problem, I'll look into this.
lol. I am not a fan of Fox either, but the article nicely summarizes what I think are great examples of low budget market tests.
I don't see how setting them up is a big deal. Once you know how to do it, you'll use it for just about everything. I'm at the point now where 99% of the websites I visit are accessed via either a keyword search or keyword bookmark (i.e., 'hn' for http://hackerne.ws/). Combined with Pentadactyl (Vim emulator) in Firefox, I browse so fast that the only thing that holds me back is how dog-slow the Firefox UI gets unless you regularly create a new profile and "start fresh" every couple of months. But I try to keep all my stuff in the cloud (bookmarks in Xmarks, passwords in LastPass) so that this is fairly painless.

Besides, it eliminates two keystrokes. Considering the amount of times I look up something on Wikipedia every day, I'd say that it pays itself back in spades.
Part of the point of his blog seems to be to take the temperature of his community of readers on certain topics. Given that the USV investment thesis involves "large networks of engaged users", it's helpful for him to be able to see where the crowd is going, or what direction it's leaning in.
Yeah, I'd love to go but honestly I don't bother anymore.

I'll just go and watch the livestreams in a hackerspace and have some fun there.
That's not the same thing as the '!w' feature on DDG or the 'w' keyword bookmark. Once you Google 'wiki <search>', you have to click on the first link. Unless you set up an IFL search, in which case you might as well set up a Wikipedia search.
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This is unfair. Some of his work is built around general relativity:

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
Zuckerburg talked about this at a startup school event years ago. No clue if it's actually implemented.

Up or out mirrors natural social behavior- the highest status individuals tend to evaporate to become lower status people in higher status groups, while the lowest status people tend to drop off to become higher status people in lower status groups.
For me the desire towards absolute perfectionism has passed regardless of my level of intoxication, but I agree with your sentiment in general.

I code best when I'm relaxed. Alcohol helps me relax.
To make it easier, and what I did, is to cut out all liquid sugars. No soda, fruit juice, energy drinks, or anything sweeter than water. Took me a few weeks to lose 30 pounds when I drank nothing but water.
I fast for 24 hours (i.e. no food, only water and a couple cups of black coffee) twice a week. Contrary to popular belief this does not activate "starvation mode", it burns fat and keeps the weekly calorie intake low.
Even if you are adept in using a highly efficient and effective language for doing each job, if no one else is using the language it's utility becomes limited. That's because none of us work in vacuum. Computers run by different people in separate locations cannot talk to each other unless those people cooperate. They have to agree on some things. And further, we're all using software and systems designed and built in whole or in part by someone else.

I sometimes wonder what we could achieve if choices of language were reduced and we were all forced into "speaking the same language". Would the advantages of a common language supercede the advantages of any one language's design?
I imagine this is on the front page due to Google code search going away. Since i'm currently working on a replacement this seems like as good a place as any to ask people what they are looking for. My list of required launch features are,

1. Regex search support.
2. Browse full file.
3. Filter search to single project.

This is based on what I observed on the Reddit and HN discussions when it was announced. I can see from the below some people would like grouping of identical results which is fairly easy to add so no worries there.

Any other thoughts?
It is fairly easy to get it accepted as the standard DNS.

First you have to package it so it is reasonably easy to setup Joe the regular user. It does not have to be perfect.

Then you have to offer an incentive. Napster (at the time the most popular program ever written) had tons of MP3 music as the bait. Bittorrent was seeded (ha a triple pun, win) with pornography.

In other words we have used lust and greed. Perhaps vanity or envy could be used to seed namecoin? Click here to see what your friends are saying behind your back? This is what they won't let you know about famous celebrity.
Doesn't mean humans have to do it. When using vim for git commit messages it wraps them to 74 characters for me.
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I was born and raised in Alabama, too, and it terrifies me to think that there are talented young people living there who have never left the state. The culture there is so unlike the rest of the country, you can get a skewed view of reality really easily. I mean, I have one.
I'm more a fan of catfish and salmon
Awesome. That's a really good start and quite a bit easier.
... just wish away reality by printing more Euros?

The term "printing more Euros" is rather inaccurate. When people talk about "printing money" it tends to be an indication that they either (a) don't know what they're talking about or (b) are not interested in an honest discussion.

Printing money is irrelevant. Spending money isn't.

As for the reality: The reality is that there is vast under-utilization of resources in the real economy. That's what a recession is all about, after all. I'm not a growth-fanatic, but real people are hurt by that development via the crazy amounts of unemployment, especially youth unemployment.

Furthermore, this under-utilization is an indication that if someone were to massively increase spending in the real economy, the economy would likely react significantly by adjusting the size of its production, and the reaction in terms of price level would be minimal.

So in that sense, if I indulge your misguided metaphor for the moment, it is actually the anti-printing folk who are wishing reality away: in their fantasy world, the recession will just end without any spending involved. Out here in the real world, this is not how it works.

(But note that the type of spending matters. Just throwing more money into the hands of the financial sectors is not going to help. Direct job creation is necessary, and in the case of Europe, there are some very obvious candidate projects, such as installing large amounts of solar energy capacity around the Mediterranean, along with the transmission capacity. That's just one pet idea though, there are plenty of other useful things to do.)
Watch Denver Broncos vs San Diego Chargers
I would totally use that site, but are you thinking micropayments or subscription?
Acting as a short-term store of value is very important for a currency, but it's bad for investment if it's good as a long-term store of value. Money at its core is not a store of value; that's one of the requirements, but at its core it is a common medium of exchange. It is the very indirection that makes markets using money more efficient than ones based on barter; having a single common medium of exchange means you only need to solve the price discovery problem for n products rather than n^2.

Deflation is bad because it turns money into an appreciating investment asset; this means it reduces productive investments (i.e. those that actually incentivize people to create wealth). A (quasi-)fixed base of money as a root cause of deflation lets people with a lot of money to begin with siphon off wealth from people doing productive work that increases the size of the economy and the velocity of money.

TL/DR: deflation means theft of wealth by people owning currency at the cost of the economy at large that uses the same currency.
I've found that cashew butter is harder to find, but it tastes better and it's almost always cheaper.

Recently I've found some shops carrying sunflower seed butter. Tastes great and sunflower oil is one of the healthiest fats you can eat.
DRINK MORE WATER.
Seriously, drinking more water yields great results. Many of us don't break a sweat during the day, so it's easy to feel like we're properly hydrated, but if you have a salty diet, smoke, drink a lot of coffee/soda and don't drink water to compliment it, you are almost certainly dehydrated and don't realize it (even if you're not thirsty).

Gather empirical data if you are skeptical. Try drinking 6-8 glasses of water per day, even if you're not thirsty. You'll feel more awake, you will be less prone to headaches, your eyes won't feel painful and dried out by the end of the day and you'll start to notice many other subtle benefits that add up to a big net positive in terms of how you feel daily.
I see: in your opinion, unless I'm willing to risk incarceration--a risk PayPal never faced because the USA PATRIOT Act had not yet been passed--I'm not willing to take on "the challenge."

You have a strange view of the world, my anonymous friend.
My first thought is that you're opening yourself up to litigation. I drink wine and occasionally code with a glass of wine - the easy stuff, and I only commit the next morning. However, making strategic decisions, dealing with human issues and sending external communications is a bad idea.

Someone I'm close is a former CEO and majority shareholder of business that generated 8 figure yearly revenue. His advice to me was to "never hit the send button until the next morning". I'm inclined to give you the same advice.

Alcohol lowers your inhibitions and your sensitivity to the needs and feelings of others. It's a wonderful social lubricant but it also leaves you occasionally cringing the next morning as you remember what you said. Usually there's no record of it other than fading memory. Emails are on the record, so you may be cringing for a long time if you get it wrong and it could be expensive.
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FWIW, the graph is around 0.1337 for no other reason than 1337.
_would you still judge it only on its exchange rate?_

the idea is that the market will judge it on the features you enumerated (GUI/settling speed/volatility) and the exchange rate will reflect that, n'est ce pas?
ha.. i love this.
being an ex self-help junkie myself, i did at some point come to a conclusion that while it helps to feel better, no actual work is getting done while improving "the system".

I feel like i owe a lot to self-help. Coming from a place where i was operating at 0-5% efficiency, it's a miracle i was able to make any progress in my career

SH REALLY helped me debunk some limiting beliefs i imposed on myself and ultimately find a happier state of being although that took a lot of hard work.

to me, SH was not a quick solution, but a slow progress, where each year i'd get a little bit better with seemingly not noticeable differences, but multiply that over 5 years, and the difference is huge.

not to say that one could not figure all of this stuff out on their own, if they only stopped to think every day about how to get where they want to go. Unfortunately most people don't think about such things.. and as Brian Tracy put it, most people throw themselves at life like a dog chasing a car :)

Anyways, over the time, i slowly transitioned my energy into doing productive things vs reading about doing productive things.. but form time to time i stil re-read some of the old classics and usually get those "oh yeah! i forgot about this" moments because there really is a sea of great advice buried in SH genre.
Google+ is more "natural" because of the circles. Thats why the ads say "Sharing, but like real life"...
It would be pretty cheap, except for the wifi part. Those modules seem to be running in the $50-$60 range for onesies, not including antenna (or making room on your PCB for a screened one)