skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more cost-effective to build bigger collectors closer to Earth.

Mercury would be exporting high energy manufactured goods to the rest of the solar system excluding earth. The ground<->LEO energy loss would make lots of trade prohibitive. The rest of the solar system would be different.
TFS for large scale enterprise, hands-down. But I don't recommend it for small shops. (Expensive, although I know it's free for shops with 5 devs or fewer) simply because code management is easy and you can build automated deployment without having to use anything else (you can script with PowerBuilder, Ant, whatever if you like, though). The issue I've found with that is it's not easy to find people who don't code for a living but understand scripting enough to build automated deployments. I'm also not crazy about TFS' visual displays of branches - ClearCase (which is god-awful in every other way) has the best visual display of code and branches.

Mercurial for anything smaller or startup. Love it. The issue with Mercurial is that you'll need to determine how you want to do automated deploy builds, but the code management is great and using BitBucket + Hg I never have trouble seeing which code I'm working in or resolving conflicts. I actually think Mercurial has the second-best visual branching display.
I asked this a while ago on HN and got turned on to Zoho CRM. I like it a lot and its easy to use, and free, for small users.
Macdonald's recently introduced touch screens as cashiers in europe. They didn't do it in the u.s. .My guess is thy didn't want the bad PR. Maybe similar motivations exist for lack of robots.

But maybe the simplest explanation is that big businesses are not very much optimized for innovation, so it took a startup.
Good old days? Have you seen the source of this page?
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Very useful tool, and pretty quick to use.
Riak Cloud Storage adds cross-data center replication
This is a perfect illustration of why programming is easy if you have aptitude for it, at least on a small scale, but almost impossible if you're not. Clive is already a programmer; he just doesn't know any programming languages yet, and anyone can learn those.
My personal favorite is Bazaar, but Mercurial is good, too. I also heard very good opinions about darcs, but didn't try it yet.

Mercurial has BitBucket and Bazaar has Launchpad, so they hardly 'loose' to git and GitHub here. There is but one thing that git does better (I'm forced to use git at work) - it's faster, or at least feels faster. Other than that, on the technical side, both Bazaar and Mercurial are I think on par with git and they win hands down in terms of ease of use.

So, yes, I would guess that the cause of git popularity is primarily Linus and then GitHub and then the popularity itself.
As I said, I worked with Git. I am no longer interested in it as a solution. I'm not sure why I (or any programmer) would need to 'get excited' to learn Git. It's pretty easy to understand.
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because all kickstarters are created by reputable people with legit "industry experience" who always produce.

...NOT!
Then you have the problem of identifying what their skills are and also of balancing supply/demand.
That is contingent upon minimum wage rising to match, or an Alask-style guaranteed income trust.
I have used Mercurial extensively, and I while I find its interface superior to git, I find that git actually models the kind of development I do.

Also, git is accumulating tooling and integration with other tools much more than hg is, afaict.
I've recently done some work for a startup that is developing a highly comparable product.

I strongly doubt their "works on any car since 1995" claim. While OBD-II has been an official standard for very long, not all cars support it equally well at all. We've had serious trouble getting it to work with A-brand cars made in e.g. 1999.

Therefore, I believe that them making this claim can mean one of two things:

- They're lying
- Their "prototype" has seen little field testing at this point.

That said, honesty be told, we've been testing in Europe, where the OBD standard has been adopted later. My impression is that moj.io is a North-American only product. Maybe this makes all the difference.

Additionally, however, "Virtual Mechanic" based on OBD-II alone is going to be a half-assed feature (to my understanding). OBD-II contains little more error reporting than that related to emission (i.e. your engine). If your airbag or your breaks malfunction, then this may only be reported through manufacturer-specific protocols. Most importantly, this would mean that a light in your dashboard may be lit, while the Moj.io app says "Running Great!" I highly doubt that they have implemented all manufacturer-specific protocols to a sufficient extent for this feature to work well. It is technically possible, but it needs either a lot of reverse engineering, or a lot of purchased IP.

I really like the other features (FamilyConnect, etc), though, and how they're presented. Well done!

Still, while I like this approach, and while I want this badly myself (and a lot of moj.io seems better planned, marketed and designed than what I've been involved in), based on the above I have strong doubts.

Now, I understand that this may be hard criticism, and maybe I'm completely wrong about some aspects - I'm no real expert here. So if one of the founders reads this, feel free to correct me!
As a note to addlepate, you appear to be hellbanned. I don't see a clear reason for that based on your comment history...
What if the Drupal productivity is directly a result of the messiness?
Great idea & execution! Any reason why you chose to post a "link" to the user's wall instead of something else? I've had more success (higher CTR to app and higher engagement on FB) from posting nice large graphics to a user's wall using the photos API. Make a POST to /USER_ID/photos.

Also, I haven't had much success using Facebook invites/requests or the Facebook App Center yet - would be interested to see what kind of conversion you can get.
Labor income is a trivial portion of the cost of care for a mentally disabled person. They could do volunteer work instead, with only the slightest change in lifestyle.
How to manage OS X windows using xmonad
As someone who has switched from WebOS to Android to iOS, I definitely agree that I would be happier if some the best innovations on each system made it to other devices. But I think the current patent situation makes this basically impossible.

Anyway, power users will always have rooting/jailbreaking as an option for getting advanced features on their mobile devices.
am i the only who's thinking it is a nice real world solution to a real world problem?
Also check out Google's appengine and AWS, both have free tiers. I think AWS has support for Flask. GAE was quite steep a learning curve but I managed to get a Django testapp running on it. I want to try AWS next.
A good point. Coming from the iOS side I missed this. I mentioned Xcode's garbage collection in passing, but pointing out that garbage collection is deprecated on OS X would've made a strong argument that ARC is the better way to do things.
Without basic jobs, "basic job" skills are irrelevant.

Plenty of jobs don't have the two rules you mention.
I was actually thrown off for a second by the capitalization and possessive apostrophes.
We have some other good ones too: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5pSwIdp6w7L3bAZwhsIuq...

:)
that is what network effects look like

for eg. it is comparable to the chart of Facebook growth[0]

[0] http://www.nathaninfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Face...
Thanks, appreciate the kind words.

In terms of posting a photo, we are. We're posting a graphic of their grade. Is it not showing up for you?

I will definitely let you know how the conversions are and how many people we get to our actual site
How do you handle window-switching on OSX? I haven't found anything that satisfactorily reproduces the simple mod-j/k keys of xmonad.
This might be a naive idea, but it seems like you could throw noise into their system by having a program send out random requests, making their data less valuable.
WTF.......http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/
I mentioned this in another comment - I don't have an exact number, but I can take it to an all-day conference and use it normally without worrying, which is probably more indicative than "batter tests", anyway.

I was considering the Chromebook at one point, but I've heard mixed things about its support for ssh (connection reliability), so the Ultrabook seemed like a better choice even as a dumb remote terminal.
True, although a certain amount of isolationism is needed to fully develop creative ideas. Really good new art is typically utterly alienating to everyone except you and your associates, and it needs to stay that way long enough so that you can explore its potential before outsiders are let in and the inevitable compromise and dilution begins.

The internet has kindof put a top to this and it's a shame. The creative engine of the london underground which produced dubstep and everything before it is chasing its own tail right now, devoid of new ideas, and it's partly for this reason IMO.
A classic case of critical mass. Linus started git, then Github made it social, then everyone started using git, so you did too.

Think of it exactly like an atomic bomb. Atomic bombs are simple: you need fissile material that decays and emits neutrons, and you need it to get close enough to keep a reaction going.

The fissile material in this case is the quality of the software. If it's good, consider it fissile. If it sucks, it probably ain't exploding anytime soon. Git is good. It works, it's fun to use, and it's collaborative.

The trigger was Linux. A large developer community suddenly was introduced to it, and used it day-to-day as Linus was still developing Git itself. The bomb had dropped.

Github was the mechanism itself. It brought all of the developers closer together (like neutrons) and the reaction started spreading. The quality of the experience ensured people actually wanted to be there, and to share it.

Critical mass of ~the social web~ anything in society. 1. Quality, 2. Trigger, 3. Social Mechanism. Boom.
Thanks man, the goal is to get our product in front of more people. We convert very well when we get people to our site, so this seemed like a cool, fun way to do that
There is such a thing as addiction to marijuana. He may or may not have it, and it may or may not have something to do with his actions here, but it does exist.

Some people in the comments at that link are trying to make a distinction between "physically" and "psychologically" addictive. This is a common belief, but medically, there are no such distinctions. Addiction is defined as continued use despite consequences, and whatever the mechanism, it occurs with marijuana in some people.
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The creator of one of the exhibited games, Katamari Damacy, went there. You can read about it (in English) on his blog.

http://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_fh_diary&...
Walmart has greeters. In and Out can always have same.
I'm a big fan of sketching in Painttool SAI, it feels much easier to use than Photoshop http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
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> Vertical resolution is needed so you see more code at once, not for design work.

Maybe, but I've never noticed the difference with the Sputnik resolution, so I guess it's large enough.
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Not as instant, but still exponential. That's an interesting factoid, but I think the intent of the question remains valid.
McDonalds has been advancing robotic preparation at minimal marginal cost for decades, and they continue to do so.
It's probably not syrians but Russian/Chinese who are worried about having yet another ally switch over to camp USA.
I agree that the Rails halo effect probably had a lot to do with it. That's certainly where I first heard about it.
Liberal arts education seems to get a bad rap around here (I did take less higher math and science than would have been required at a state university), but the average class size for my college was twenty. Occasionally more, but there's also the counter case, where I had an English class with two other students. One had a voracious appetite for skipping, and the other was consistently absent for mock trial.

I found it substantially raises my perceived importance of finishing the required reading when I think there's a 50/50 chance of being the only one there to be questioned about it. :) I had a huge motivation problem end of high school/early college, and I think if I hadn't had the individual attention of a liberal arts college, I surely would have dropped out.
Whoa components are making it on HN. This is great.
because git is easy , git is distributed , and github is fancy. My designer team use git yet they cant program. They learned basic git in 4 hours. SVN is much more complicated to work with and to learn for non developers. Mercurial is cool too ,but since most of the library we use are on github my organisation push on github ( and bitbucket ).
This seems a little exaggerated.
Before git took over there were all kinds of VCS in use including a bunch of proprietary stuff.

If most of your work is done with one group of people inside your company and you decide mercurial is a better fit it would seem silly just to go with git because it is popular.

Besides the two are similar enough that someone versed in mercurial should be able to learn enough git to be useful quickly enough should it be required.
Awesome, but it misses the epic http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
>"but to earn wealth you need to press and push and cheat."

It's impossible to agree with such hard-line statements like this. Extraordinary wealth is possible to create through honest work, intelligence, and luck. I'm sure you don't believe Google, Tesla, SpaceX, and IBM all cheated their way into their positions.

There is a lot of truth to some of your points though. Scanning through the Fortune 500, more than half of these companies do seem to "press and push and cheat".
Because hackers said bitkeeper sucked.
So really this boils down to one question: what is the purpose of universities?

Put simply, is it-

A: to make prepared members of society

B: to make prepared members of a work force

Now this is not as simplistic as it seems. Some may argue that A results in B. Some say that B is necessary for A to happen.

My view is why can't we have both?
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Looks like you're posting a "link" with a photo attached (using "/feed"). I'm definitely seeing the graphic you're posting, just suggesting a different method/post type which may engage users better.
Craftjack.com looks like a great example of doing something really well that's not particularly glamorous and has successes already in about the same space (the obvious comparison Angieslist.com). You don't need to "invent" something out of the blue sky to make money, just do it well. Nice job on all fronts!
Oh you poms and your manifestoes :D
There are lots of parameters that would worry me before I trade space in my email newsletter
1. My subscriber count vs the other newsletter's count (Probably the biggest problem if I have a large user base)
2. Reputation of the other business
3. Audience relevance

All in all, I feel barter can surely work if proper metrics are put to it. I'm beginning to think about bartering tweets, facebook posts, blogs etc etc!
Assuming too much...
People who conplain loudly about ClearCase most often never understood how it is supposed to work. Ok ok, you need an army of administrators to make it work but still far from being the worst.

Sourcesafe?
I'm not sure Apple are their guide; I htink it's more that they react more slowly to market forces.

It's like someone in a swift boat and someone in a row boat, they tale the same course, but the row boat seems to be imitating the swift boat while in actuality both are reacting to the river's course -one more swiftly.
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I didn't even realize you could do that. Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to check that out. I agree, the bigger the graphic, the better
I also noticed that the higher reward levels, which I would expect to be all inclusive, have a lot of fine print like "Please add $150 for domestic shipping"... Seems like a way to milk it.
I wonder how much of the time git is in practice used identically to SVN?
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A network effect applies to revision control systems.

Mercurial is a much better fit for how my mind works than Git (I feel that Git is from the school that thrives despite complexity, where I prefer the school that puts lots of effort into a really clean model to minimize complexity).

But I am now giving up on Mercurial: every open source project I play with is on github, so I absolutely need to master Git - and I don't want to keep using two systems.

The network effect wins.
I think the data source is a bit flawed - "Nr of packages installed on debian"

I would say mercurial is more polished on windows, taking tortoisehg into account. Maybe most mercurial users are on windows while most git users are on linux?

(now i don't believe that mercurial actually is bigger than git, even on windows, but the data from the post is still dodgy)

The "Linux uses git!"-argument is a good one but mercurial has an almost as good one: Firefox. So i don't think that would be an overwhelming factor.
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Yet we are moving towards an industry where "the fully re-programmable computer" no longer exists.
> Which shows that the popularity did not rise dramatically (take the green line for the left part until they cross, then take the red line).

It's less dramatic, but it does look like there's a pretty substantial increase that can probably be attributed to "using an easier to discover package name." Out of (genuine) curiosity, does the graph include Ubuntu users?
Both with the simplicity of the web, and the relative simplicity of building simple apps with good tools , we didn't see a great number of teenagers making money from building web sites or mobile apps.

It would probably makes more sense to outsource building a site to someone from low-cost country that have gained experience than to a local teenager. The same sense probably operate on arduino development and 3d design by teens.

And teen entrepreneurship didn't scale for web-develpoment or mobile apps, no reason to think it would scale this time.
Yeah, I'm curious to see how long it lasts.
Totally fair question, which I'm reading as, "why did you take the time to write this?"

1. I've been reading through Types and Programming Languages in fits and starts over the last year or so. Operational Semantics is one of the topics covered in the book and I wanted to test my knowledge of it. I did the same thing with Category Theory and jQuery

2. I get a kick out of "teaching" (that's an overestimation of what I'm doing) things like Operational Semantics using examples that developers can relate to out of their own experience. This is also part vanity. I like people to read/enjoy/approve of my ideas, but that requires that they be able to understand them.

3. Writing is a difficult but rewarding exercise. It makes you better at thinking through and conveying your ideas in all mediums.

Hopefully that answers your question.
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OK, advertising is speech, sure (I suppose). But, there's no right to demand that anyone listen to you; I am still free to peel the logo off my car, remove the tag from my shirt, fast-forward past commercials, tear pages out of magazines.

And that's the problem with trying to use protected speech as a defense for advertising: all that does is protect your right to use it; it does not force me to also use it. Once the content is loaded on my browser, on my computer, I have the right to do with it whatever I please -- including automatically block any of the pieces that I don't want.

You're free to have advertising on your site. I'm free to not download any of it. Freedom is great!
No, before git took over there was CVS (and a brief moment when svn looked like it might win, before being forgotten). There still are "all kinds of VCS including a bunch of proprietary stuff". But as before with CVS (and RCS before it) the open source community has picked an overwhelming favorite.

And I'm not saying you should choose git because it's better. I'm saying git "won" in the community because it was the choice of people who want to play in the community. Culture matters, and hg's proponents, for whatever reason, are less likely to want to share their stuff.
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Popularity itself is an often overlooked feature. When trying to sell the use of a version control system to others (peers, coworkers, bosses, etc. Or more difficult if you are trying to make an institutional change) you are already in a better position with git than you are with mercurial.

If all mercurial is bringing to the table is being a bit more pleasant, I am still going to pass over it for that reason.
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A blog post from 2010:

http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/why-i-switched-to-git-fr...

Concludes that Git handles larger amounts of data more efficiently and stores revision info in a safer/clearer way. Git might be more arcane in terms of it's command syntax, but gets the job done.
With a bit of image editing: http://i.imgur.com/PmYj7.png

It does look like something happened that caused a spike in popularity.
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Headers: W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4

So he's serving a static page 90% of the time? I'd love to see how this thing operates without a cache.
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This still misses the point. It's not a technical problem, and you can't solve it with software. Being able to interoperate with git does nothing to convince users to use your great tool when all the cool people they know are using git. Where are the hg champions? The culture is the point, not the software.
What? A one-way trip to Mercury takes three times as much energy as a trip to LEO and back. If you need energy to produce goods, building power plants on Earth or Moon make much more sense.

Your ideas belong in a soft sci-fi story. The economics and orbital mechanics simply do not work out in favor of a Mercury colony.
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