skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all git vs mercurial differences for most users are cosmetic/usability/culture related. With a few extensions turned on, you can use either interchangably. The biggest exception to this is if you use named branches (a fairly common thing in git, slightly less so in mercurial). Mercurial hard codes a branch name in the metadata of a commit, git doesn't do that. I prefer git's method as it means that a commit can move around on branches (or really that branches can point to different commits) without messing with the commits themselves.
Stripe Aims to Reinvent E-Payments
That's what I'm thinking so I'm trying to find a reason why everyone is hosting it on a subdomain. One reason may be that if you're hosting your blog separately on like for example WPEngine you need to have it on a subdomain or else you will not benefit from things like scaling (since it still needs to go through your server if it's a subfolder).
Warning: It's by Mark Zandi. Zandi is a hack and a mouthpiece for the ratings agencies.

For one example among many, see this link: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/zandi/

More seriously, the link is just a summary of what Zandi's model predicted the recent stimulus would do. It's worth noting that:

1) Pretty much every other economist on the left and right disagree with him. On the right they think all his multipliers are too high, and even on the left they think the way he ranked them is bizarre. He reckons one of the best tax cuts is a lump sum refund - despite copious theoretical and empirical backing for the proposition that it's actually one of the worst (because it's most likely to trigger Ricardian Equivalency).

2) The actual results of the stimulus are starting to become clear, and they disagree with him too, both in terms of overall magnitude and, in particular, his completely batshit rankings. He thinks aid to state governments is one of the worst ways of spending cash, but infrastructure spending is quite good. In reality the aid to state governments was one of the most effective line items, while the infrastructure spending was a black hole in terms of job creation.

My advice is to go hunt up an actual respected economist (Romer or Barro are both great on this area) and read what they have to say. Zandi is neither respected nor, at the risk of being cruel, an economist.
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What can you do?

What do you want to do?

I made http://jekyllbootstrap.com because I decided one day I needed and wanted to make myself a blog that was not Wordpress.

All my code is Open Source on Github, I just code all day everyday and throw it up on GitHub.

I would be interested in helping you along because I think it is very rewarding to contribute to Open Source.

So if you will tell me what you are interested in doing as well as what you want to do. For example: web app? front end, backend? backbone? redis? twitter API, documentation generation, good writer? good teacher?

There's something out there, you just need to make small steps. Also what's your github username?
Should the kind fashion experts at JC Penny's mandate what you wear, comrade? Should your mechanic prescribe your car, along with the distance you are allowed to drive and at what intervals? Constrained by common sense government guidelines, of course; backed by bureaucratic approval and studies designed to prove whatever the bureaucrats want.

I can't imagine someone voluntarily giving away their freedom to choose what to put in their bodies, but people like you do it every day. It's a shame that your misguided decisions take away my freedom as well.
Selecting Save on the Games We Make, Part 1
Agreed. This is a good deal for someone like me who wouldn't want to spend $35k, nobody knows me and I could take a flier on some random guys. But, if I'm a famous comedian, I'm looking for someone I can trust who has done this type of work before. Not the lowest price.
You clearly have sufficient wealth and/or insurance to make such a decision. Most people don't, and either get a short list of approved doctors and procedures, or wait until it gets bad enough to go to the emergency room. These people are not choosing anything.
tl;dr; I only ask detailed questions about technologies of which a candidate claims recent and deep knowledge. Wrong answers suggest stupidity or dishonesty.

Let's say I'm interviewing someone who claims to have been a professional software for a decade and that most of his work was in Java. I know Java quite well, and I know what sorts of things one HAS to know about Java if he doesn't fundamentally suck as a software developer and isn't lying on his resume. If you claim to have written Java code for the past five years but can't explain the difference between a Set and a List, you are either stupid or dishonest. One of my favorite questions for a supposedly experienced Java developer is to show them a code snippet with a try/catch block and ask them to trace through the code's execution in both the case where an exception was thrown and the "happy path". Roughly 40% of the people I've interviewed who have claimed years of recent Java experience (like they were coding in Java the day before) think that a method's execution terminates when a catch block is entered and that block's code finishes executing! How could one possibly write correct code without understand this? How much evidence to the contrary must they have ignored? One developer complained to me that my question was hard because he was "mostly used to dealing with SqlException and not other exception types." He then complained that he was an experienced Java developer and didn't see how my question was relevant to the job for which he was interviewing. Want him on your team?
How to Hire DevOps
This spirit of the article is good, but two of the three example questions are bad. I ask candidates about projects on their resume. I ask them deeper questions about those projects. Many people get excited about cool things they have built and will tell me about all the details.

If you cannot clearly explain the interesting details of a project you should be familiar you are either not that smart, are taking credit for an entire project that you were only a small part of (this happens pretty often) or I am too dumb to understand the concepts (I like to think I am pretty smart and this never happens).

I also ask why they want to work here. Many people don't really know and that is OK. Many want to move into management, although they will never say it directly, and that is usually a red flag.
We’ll Handle Google And Apple, Mr. President; You Worry About SOPA...
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0: Much Better, Yet Not Good Enough
This, a thousand times this. Jim's good at being funny, he needs someone who's good at providing a solid online venue for promoting his upcoming release.

Take a good long look through the website for Version Industries, the guys who worked with Louis CK. I've known Caspar for years online, and I still have no idea what he looks like. But I can see from this website that he does good work.
Your argument, though, doesn't make Patrick's point necessarily false.

Even if Google take more value from people than any other company, they can still provide a portion of that value to n other people, and assuming n is larger than any other company's n, Patrick's point still holds.

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Reason, plead, threaten - it's worth a try, but probably won't help. The amount isn't worth suing over. Write it off as learning expense and never deal with them again. Warn others. Welcome to the club.
Can you please write a book? Thx.
38 Million Americans Visit Social Networks on Mobile Devices ‘Near Daily"
> Why not experiment and try to be better at what you do?

Herein lies the problem. The term "better" is most definitely subjective.

Not to pic on Xcode, but this is a prime example of focusing too much on making a consumer appliance rather than a professional tool. Like I said: I don't want iTunes, I want a kick-ass IDE.

I'm in the middle of a project that has, quite literally, thousands of assets to manage (images, audio, video). The thousands of files end-up piled-up without any semblance of organization in the project directory. I mean, who woke up one day and though "This is a good idea!" when you have a perfectly good file system to take advantage of? Updating assets is an absolute nightmare.

Yes, yes, there are crafty work-arounds. Each with its own pros-and-cons. The point is that the IDE itself was designed to totally ignore the underlying file system. Let's put it this way: If I wrote code like that at the many jobs I've had over the years I would have gotten fired in a microsecond. Yet, for some reason, this is "feature" is now considered good design?

Back to coding.
Issue on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=98264

It seems that this appeared in the development builds 6 months ago and it was still carried out to the stable branch, even though people complained.
>My biggest issue with VS2010 is the amount of memory it consumes

RAM is so cheap now that there is really no excuse for developers to skimp on it. I would rather hope that they work on improving the product in other areas than optimize it for 1GB. If there are leaks however, they need to be addressed.
Probably to help beginners get going. You can hide all toolbars/status bars etc. if you wish.
Your analogy confirms my point, because the things that make job interviews so awful are not things people do on dates - not without being crushingly inappropriate. What you're talking about, it seems to me, is contactful conversation. That's precisely what job interviews are not, and that's the problem.

In fact, the dating analogy points toward a saner way for small organizations (as most software teams ought to be) to find people. Get to know one another in a relaxed way. See if there are common interests and values. Do things together. Eat and drink. This is how humans behave.

There are other analogies to look at too - auditions might be one.
Sometimes (but not always) the fleecing is being done by European governments. The Value Added Tax in Italy is currently at 21%, with the possibility that it'll rise to 23%! Not to mention various "fees" when importing stuff.

They tried to get me to pay import fees on a birth certificate my dad sent me from the US. It cost him $50 to get it from the state of Oregon, so he declared that as the value (it would have cost him that to replace it, right?), and they tried to make me pay duties on that $50. I asked them what they thought the retail value of a birth certificate with my name on it was, and they backed down, but...sheesh.
I recently appointed a legal firm. Today I saw their ad embedded as copy looking for cheap clicks via google content network. Screenshot here
http://portablepixels.com/images/google.png

Seems to me like Google are stooping to new lows. The ad makes me feel like the legal firm I have appointed are selling diet pills and Im minded to terminate my relationship with them. Cheap clicks can be costly.
I've been using Metro on a Samsung Series 7 Slate as my main PC/laptop/tablet for a couple of months now and don't quite see OLPC in there. But then, I've not used XO. FWIW I love Metro. The little UI touches like changing the volume or brightness make Windows 7 feel somehow... inadequate.

As for VS - yup, 2010 was slow. I actually went back to 2008 because even the Express editions were too slow on my little Vaio P-Series.
I like it that way. It allows me to think of the tabs like a stack. In any case, you can easily change the default, it's not like you use a new machine every week that needs to be configured again.
Seriously, GTFO. This is disingenuous.

Trying to make money by doing this kind of thing isn't wrong, but that's a private negotiation with the talent. You don't get to pretend you're doing it for "free" for upvotes and exposure.
By removing all the borders/bars, and other useful grouping elements, they've made the application feel cluttered -- too many unrelated things share the same z-index. For example, the pinned panel titles, side panel buttons, inactive tabs, and toolbars are all on the same background. Considering how unrelated these things are in comparison to each other, I don't think they should share this same "zone".

I'm not saying a design like that can't be done, but the only way I can think of making it work would involve much better use of the grid system and much better spacing than what they have in these pictures. Considering how limited they are for space though, I think they were just better off with the 2010 look.
No great shakes. Mostly COIN. When I wasn't tracking I was sitting in a bunker getting stoned.
I don't believe it was GCC bashing but rather exposing an unintended consequence of a political decision that led to clang. Sad but true.
Some of what he wrote makes me think of quantum effects (as badly as I understand them, anyway) and homeopathy (which seems like it doesn't even try to reach the level of a pseudo science).
can you elaborate? which one?
Directly to screenshots here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/23/2818611/microsoft-office-1...
2020: The Rise or Demise of Wireless Carriers?
I didn't know Pipes didn't work? I thought it was just basically way too complicated for almost anyone besides a programmer?
None, whatsoever. But what alternative do the "best and the brightest" have? After all, in order to keep being "the best and the brightest" they do need to pay rent (and have an occasional steak dinner).

What value is there in educating if one can simply purchase social capital when one needs it?

Exhibit A: http://www.facebook.com/BPTeamUSA

Exhibit B: http://www.altria.com/en/cms/Responsibility/investing-in-com...
interesting. this sounds a lot like the conclusion that the Varnish author came to - https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes.
Why One Startup Wants Your Mobile Carrier to Act Like Your Bank
Unexpected maintenance costs can be factored into the consumer cost using expected value, similar to how one accounts for recurring costs such as fuel efficiency in the decision to purchase a vehicle.

Your reasoning is similar to a company computing the cost of web hosting using only the initial cost of one server, without accounting for the cost of downtime or multiple backup servers. Maximum effort does not imply a process with 99% reliability is 100% reliable, and that the cost of failure can be written off.

This is not making a claim in regards to Tesla or the accuracy of the $40k figure, merely that cost matters.
I'd like to see a reference for your comment "most github users don't use branches much".
I'm afraid XP won't be ignorable for another 3 or 4 years at least.
Sorry for the delayed reply. When I mentioned T&Cs I meant the risk that the provider you use changes the terms and conditions some time after you've deployed and have an established user base that relies on the provider's service.
XCode 4 may have been designed but it wasn't designed well. It has no mixed source/disassembly views. Hovering over the debug icons say that pressing control and clicking "step into" will step a single instruction. But this isn't a sticky setting, so if I press control and click "step into" twice, the first time will step an instruction and the second will perform a source line step.

It also crashes. A lot.

When doing iOS development I find myself switching between GDB and LLDB regularly, as LLDB gives some great context information but it crashes and takes out all of Xcode on a fairly regular basis.

Xcode is terrible. It's really quite sad that a company that prides itself as much as Apple does on its user experience is able to let something so unusable out its doors. Xcode 3 may have been messy but it was many times more usable because it was many times more stable than Xcode 4. I don't really care how pretty my tool interfaces are but rather how well they work.
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> (e.g. patch queues are such a kludge-fest it's obvious that nobody really believes you should use this feature)

No, plenty of people like patch queues, including me. They are very good at what they do.

I prefer git overall, but let's not bash competing projects with huge overgeneralizations like "nobody really believes you should use [patch queues]".
now declared invalid: RE38,104
remaining patent: 6,061,520
removed patent: 6,192,476

Oracles original complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35811761/Oracle-s-complaint-agains...

(original patent pool: 6,125,447, 6,192,476, 5,966,702, 7,426,720, RE38,104, 6,910,205 and 6,061,520)
I have a (mostly working, neglected) implementation of SPDYv2 in erlang (github.com/RJ/erlang-spdy). I've been following the mailing list about the v3 spec. Notable differences if you are updating a spdy library:

* various fields changed size

* compression dictionary [1] for headers block updated

* a few things clarified where spec was ambiguous

* CREDENTIAL frame, so multiple ssl certs can be used on one connection

* addition of per-stream flow control

The last two are probably the most work for implementers.

[1] Compression dictionary for header block:
* Paper: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~amer/PEL/poc/pdf/SPDY-Fan.pdf
* The Dictionary: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~amer/PEL/SPDY/SPDY-proposed-initial...
TiVo Announces New Boxes and Grows Subscribers with 2012 Q4 Results
I don't know how exactly people got the wrong idea from your article, it's certainly not on you. I definitely understood the extension of the "I see the greatest minds of my generation showing ads" idea from a few months ago. Do you think it's a fad? I hope it is. I'd love to see more people trying their hand at making things worth paying for. It's flip but any more I get this Kanye West lyric stuck in my head reading about startups: "Do anybody make real shit anymore?"
What Mobile Users Will and Won’t Put Up With
Honestly I didn't even notice that. I usually use Ctrl+t to launch new tabs anyway
Is this all Khan Academy courses? What would be the point then? I browsed Algebra and 9 pages are only KA courses.
The lubricant has been applied to the slope...
How about 200+ comments on the actual article mirroring my exact sentiment?
That's pretty trivial though: one line of code instead of 2 or 3? Writing a for-loop to iterate over an array is so simple that Python is cutting out "reduce" entirely because for-loops aren't that bad, really.

The real gain is when you are working with data structures other than arrays, then closures are 1 line rather than writing a 25 line breadth-first-traversal! If you think writing lots of for loops is tedious and confusing, try writing lots and lots of BFSs, Queue and all.
Patrick is talking about how things work today. You seem to be trying to convince him that they should work differently. (Maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't. I'm not going to comment on that right now.)

You're talking past each other.
Off-topic: is HN under heavy load recently? Sometimes I see recent pages cut off at around 50 comments, with the more links. Normally this would only happen at older pages where you can no longer comment.
Great job Quartzy. It's wonderful to see more startups join the movement to accelerate science!
The effects of a stimulant like amphetamine are strong enough to outrun the mind's placebo. The effect is concrete and quite distinct from baseline. In other words, I think that if one has ever taken adderall for real, the placebo effect will not deliver a comparable experience.
The author does address the subjectivity of the integrity dollar value:

""The $I cost is the most subjective of the four and depends on how much stock a player puts in "doing the right thing," (so to speak) or whether they even see any moral integrity in the choice at all.""

I agree on the value-added point though, there are often services game makers can provide which make the official copy more attractive to players.
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Don’t try to reach everyone at once
Yeah, the best and first thing this guy should do is kill motoblur.
There are two things here that I wish were not socially accepted: the demonization of even small amounts of body fat, and banning content you dislike "for their own good".
This is why Steam is so good - it's less of a pain, and takes less time, than piracy.
It's so true, back when I was 18/19 years old I did cold call sales where I would go out to area business and have them sign contracts for Advertising. Many people would rather die than do that and to be honest I sat in my car outside a business for a good 45 minutes the first time I had to do it. Once I built up the nerve I went and did it and found that it was really not bad at all they did not call the police or kick me out they would either say yes or no and that was that. Eventually I could sign up ten or more business in a single day just by walking in and talking to them.

TLDR: The fear of doing something is worse than actually doing it! Don't think just do it and everything will be great.
With Many Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow
However the battery management system of the Roadster won't allow the car to reach that low level of charge.

This is just plain wrong. If the car is not charging, self-discharge will happen and nothing can stop it.
Mozilla Led Effort for DNT Finds Broad Support
These iOS vs. Android Flame Wars Have To Stop
According to: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201101-201201 XP dropped 14% in the last year, and is now on 34%. So a really dumb calculation says about 2 and a half years if that keeps up, but I guess there will be a longer tail of die-hard users... hard to tell, since it's pretty unprecedented for a particular version of a major OS to be so popular for so long.
Thanks for the tip! I let myself get miffed at the "grow up" message and forgot one of the prime rules of the intertubes: there are probably smart people out there who have already solved your problem, you just have to remember to look for them.
You're right.

I forgot about the communicator because I didn't consider it a smart-enough phone to use. I kept using my Palm Pilot Pro becuse it gave me the productivity I needed. The communicator definitely had a keyboard and apps though, I just didn't find them usable at the time.

By far it is still one of the most bad ass looking phones, with that folding out.

On a side note, the Handspring Visor Phone addon is also worthy of a shoutout, since it was out before the Treo..

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Handspring_Releases_V...
I would be a little put off if Google were to sell ads, then turn around and sell the opportunity to never see those ads. Seems wrong, like they're saying to the advertisers "Oh sure, we'll get your great ads out right away, all of our customers will see them!" and then saying to the rest of us, "If you're sick of those annoying ads (which we put up), just pay us and we'll make them go away!"
As someone who's an IDE "beginner" (I usually code in Vim, recently started using IDEA) in my opinion there's nothing at all about this that "helps beginners get going". Instead of having a useful toolbar with a few of the most common operations on it I have a double or triple stacked bar with dozens of icons, panels coming from every side, etc.

It's basically impossible to find even the easiest of IDE functions in that mess. One of the purported advantages of GUIs is the discoverability of the interface. When I have to visually search through hundreds of UI elements to find what I need, that is all lost.

The monolithic IDE concept really needs a fresh breath of air. I do like the fact that they come with a lot of integrated tools for a programming environment, but they shouldn't clutter the UI because of it. Ideally I think an IDE would start off looking mostly like a text editor and give you clearly delineated views of different activities once you need them.
Along With New Look, Apps,Astrid Now Lets You Outsource Tasks To TaskRabbit