skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya, I'm now sure how you could not find this client when looking for a windows got client.

As an aside, the official git client for windows doesn't play nicely with NTFS symbolic links, which make dealing with sym links a pain in the ass.
His redesigns are very clearly significantly better

So some extent, yes this is true.

However he is a designer and not a marketer, this is clear. For example; Exec has a brilliant and clear marketing message, which gets completely lost in the redesign.

Many of the other designs suffer the same lack of consideration in terms of how to communicate a brand.

Not that I think this is a bad thing to do! It's all practice and good fun.

I'm just noting that, objectively, these designs are far from perfect and the originals often have other things going for them compared to looks nice/easy to use.
Sadly this 'official' release does not include MinTTY[0] and makes the atrocious cmd.exe the default terminal emulator.

[0]: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/
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Why is this on the front page? There's hardly any Windows dev out there who is in need of git, but couldn't, for a life of it, find a Windows port to use. What am I missing?
Powershell along with posh-git (https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git) works really great on Windows.
Look at https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit, which is fast.
Jobs had it right.

Dropbox is obscenely overvalued, and has no place in the future.
They're both simple video cameras, GoPro just has a more robust housing to make it into an action camera.
And thanks for the downvotes. I expect the explanations to become visible soon and to be well grounded in sitee policies.

I do not know why you wrote that in your reply to my comment. I cannot downvote, nor would I have downvoted you if I could. If you have a grievance, please reply to the appropriate comment (or your own). Is there an "explanation" or "site policy" I need to refer to in relation to my comment? Otherwise, please do not target individual comments, unrelated to your grievance, it is quite rude.
I have high hopes for the California High-Speed Rail[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
Excellent catch.

"The technology people employed at these companies are considered to be the very best..."

Who considers these people 'the very best'? Compsci majors? The hiring manager? Of course people in that sector are going to say "we only hire the best", but at best they're only hiring the best who bother to apply or that can be recruited. Very very very likely "the best" (by other measures) stay the hell away from finance.

In some industries, having extreme expertise with specific algorithms and other very deep-knowledge of specific business rules coupled with top-notch programming skills is going to be required for some tasks. Outside of that, by and large, superhuman math/algo skills aren't needed as much as other broader skill sets (inter-departmental relations, listening, etc).
It isn't "perfectly good" though, is it? As far as I'm concerned, bookmarking is an unsolved problem. Every system in existence sucks.

Pocket, Instapaper, etc. are nice enough for reading things later, but they don't handle the use case of bookmarks as a reference system. I'm not aware of anything which does that well.
TL;DR; there exists a git bash command prompt.
I would regard "arms-length" as a situation where both buyer and seller are aware of other options in the market and there is no dirty dealing going on. To use your vehicle analogy, I recently purchased a new truck. I purchased the one with the fancy seats and all the bells and whistles, while being perfectly aware that I could have saved 20% on the cost of the truck had I purchased a more plain but functionally identical vehicle.

I wanted the fancy one, so I bought it.
For you perhaps, I was fine here.
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It is not me, it is plain dumb statistics. Wast majority of cases of ASDs are reported in a male population, while clinical depression in female.

Baron-Cohen's argument sounds solid if you consider that women evolve non-verbal communication skill they use with babies, who cannot talk until of age of 2. All that communication is well-researched and documented. Autistic people have difficulties in communication, and no wonder that they are mostly men.

As of language usage, different cultures, well, tend to use a language differently. Most of world's cultures, by the way, does not believe in an gender equality and tend to name things, as we believe, they are. There are differences between men and women and they aren't just anatomical.)
I may well have my history wrong, but this reminds me of that situation in Vietnam when solders were made to take a hill, then withdrew only for the hill to be retaken. Lots of people got hurt and nothing was gained.
National Geographic is building their whole business on their photos. It may be quite reasonable that the previous ToS was compatible with their business, and the new ones, which allow Instagram to get paid for NatGeo photos instead of NatGeo itself, aren't acceptible anymore.

The whole point is not about the majority of dinnertable photos - for those content producers who make quality photos that everybody (not just your friends) want to look at, the content rights are an important issue. And these few users do represent a lot of value, and their leaving would hurt both Instagram and the content consumers.
You can run git bash from the start menu instead of using cmd.
I take your point, but while it is here, it is very useful!

The phasing out of direct links to the 'public' folder for new users recently suggests a need to find revenue streams.

A possible alternative...

"I'm funded by a Kickstarter project in 2012-2013 to build something not unlike DropBox, based on git-annex, that automatically version controls and syncs files between computers."

http://joey.hess.usesthis.com/
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True. If only the school system detected he was troubled and assigned him a shrink, as well as having the rest of the school system monitor him, then maybe this wouldn't have happened.

Actually he had all that: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732467720457818...

It was also illegal for him to purchase a gun, and the law prevented him from doing so. Additionally, shooting people (unless they tried to shoot or stab you first) is also illegal. Didn't seem to stop him.

Megan Mcardle has an excellent essay on why there is basically nothing we can do about incidents like this besides perhaps collectively rushing the shooter (like we currently do with terrorists on airplanes).

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/17/there-s-lit...

Arming the victims also seems to help once in a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shoo...
Hi, very interesting project!
Could you tell me how you have connected the phone to the raspberry and shared the accelerometer data?
Thank you very much
But does it have awesome rockstar ninja tech like Node.js?

I mean, if I don't have my event loops (event loops are web-scale, you see) and MangoDB ORM/ODM/object-state-propagator I can't be productive. (Gotta slam code for my startup!)

Also I heard Ada's type system was responsible for blowing up that Ariane V rocket. Clearly ninja-tech like JavaScript's weak/dynamic type system wouldn't have caused that.
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If the interviewer is not giving the opportunity that the code is just plain wrong and assures it's correct (which I say upfront) then people can be 'wrong' saying it takes an argument x and get the 2^ or it prints the number of 2^argument or that it will just infinitely loop. All of these are fine with me; you read the code and at least got the gist. It's not brilliant because the list comprehension looks like most list comprehensions in other languages so then you can know pow makes a list which elements are (ordered) 2^[1..n] numbers.

Edit: But to answer your question: yes, I would like to be asked. I did a lot of interviews from the employee side just because I was curious, and, at least in the Netherlands, they never gave me a test. Just looked at my (possibly fake if I wanted) credentials and said yes/no. No tests, at all.
the author appears to be really upset about the current debate in the US about mental illness. and I don't see why. the article goes on a long rant about how we should separate mental illness and violence, yet no half-way knowledgeable person would assume a mentally illness person to be automatically violent. why is the author so strongly trying to prove a moot point? you can't argue away the fact that most (if not all) mass shooting in recent history have been conducted by mentally ill people and mental illness is a major factor when individuals commit such crimes. the author just messes around with statistics and appears to forget about causation and correlation - it's obvious that the majority of mentally ill people doesn't exercise violence - yet the ones who did were in most cases mentally ill. we're trying to find a way to prevent these shootings. and we need to ask ourselves how we, as a society, treat mentally people - not because 50% of them might be violent, but because 0.0001% are.

what we really need to do is starting to make a more distinctive diagnosis of what the actual mental illness was and don't just conflate all forms of schizophrenia with psychosis, bi-polar mood and depression disorder, etc. under mental illness.

and a last remark on statistics (and sampling bias), and I believe we can all agree that:

P(violent|person is mentally ill) ~ P(violent|person is not mentally ill)

however (and I believe this is the source of the discussion, correct me if I'm wrong):

P(person is mentally ill|violent) >> P(person is not mentally ill|violent)
I don't know--most Americans who have guns are pretty attached to them. I don't think they'd willingly turn them in for cash, and then you'd still have the problem of 300 million guns or so floating around the market even if you nuked the second amendment. It's great that it worked for Australia, and other places, but America is unique in some very bad ways at times.

For example, the only way we ever had unions in the workplace in the first place is thanks to civilian weaponry. Leave guns to the national guard? Ha. In many cases, they were the ones shooting and killing the strikers. Given the current state of affairs, I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing became necessary again at some point. Unfortunately, sometimes the only way people (like the ones in charge of companies) will listen to you is if you have a way to keep them from killing you. It's not as common these days, but who's to say what the future will bring? I can understand why negating the constitutional right to bear arms makes people nervous. In the past, it was a way for many people to make sure their families were fed. For many people in the present, it's a way to make sure their families are safe in case the government fails us (again). In America, corporate interests run politics, not the people, and companies don't usually have your best interest in mind (just the bottom line).
Another Blizzard game, Diablo 2, actually had a random number generator bug that went unnoticed for years.

Essentially, any random chance in the game of the form 1 to n could only ever be 1 to n-1, I think with n-1 being twice as likely.

This went unnoticed since most random rolls were over fairly large ranges and it didn't seem to hurt much, however it did explain why one particular subtype of loot literally never dropped.
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Sarcasm on HN is a subtle art, fellow snarkonaut :D

Too much and your posts turn grey. Too little and your comments won't be upvoted to the top.
A quick explanation of the youtube comments crying "BR BR BR BR" or "HUE HUE HUE HUE" for those who don't know the references:

Brazilians are widely hated in a lot of online communities, especially gaming ones and especially free online games and MOBA genre games. The stereotype is that they will ruin the game for their team/community and then cackle in your face about it (that's the HUE HUE HUE).

An MMO perspective: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b77Eoxl7WQE/TB7YxU3CVSI/AAAAAAAAAA...

The situation was so bad in Heroes of Newerth (a free to play MOBA game) that most of the North American community was begging the team producing the game to make separate South American servers.

Anyway, that's why you see juvenile comments.
Today while programming in Javascript I found myself wishing for static typing and preconditions. Honestly. It'd have saved me a fair amount of time.

I ... I think this is what getting old feels like.
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So, in my limited experience, changing code in Haskell is expensive and its effect are not localized.

That's a feature, because it protects against spaghettification. Explained here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/functional-pr...

When a manager walks in with a new requirement, you'd rather be able to do it in 15 minutes than 2 hours, because managerial injections are annoying and you'd rather get back to more interesting work. Sure. I get that.

However, once enough hands have passed over code, with hackish fixes thrown in to satisfy dipshit flavor-of-the-month requirements, then if it's easy to inject complexity without consideration of the loss of conceptual integrity, people will do so. What you get over time is spaghetti. It doesn't happen overnight. Almost no one sits down and says, "I'm going to write a bunch of shitty spaghetti code."

Spaghetti code is rarely written by one person. It's an "all of us is dumber than any of us" phenomenon. Even Google has some spaghetti code, and I've never met an incompetent engineer at Google. (Project and people management would be a different discussion.)

The nice thing about FP is that changing behavior (except for performance) actually requires altering an interface. In a statically typed language, this requires that you make changes elsewhere in the code to accomodate the new information flow. Yes, it's time-consuming, but it also forces you to think about how your change is going to affect the whole system. That's a good thing.

Writing code shouldn't be easy, because reading average-case code is impossible. If it takes 50% longer to write code, but the result is that people can still comprehend it at scale, I call that a major win.
If they are in college and don't have enough interest to already know that, then they are the problem..
Australia has a murder rate of 1/100,000. According to your source, the homicide rate of the US is 5.5 according to your source, and the non-firearm homicide rate in the US is 1.8 [2]. By contrast, the total homicide rate in Australia is only 1.3.

I.e., with or without guns, the US is a more violent place than Australia. Drawing conclusions about gun control without correcting for this fact is a fallacy.

Incidentally, how do you define a weapon that is "designed purely for mass killing"?

[3] http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html
The E17 developers are mainly paid by companies like Samsung.
I am no expert in online synchronized storage. I am merely a consumer who has used ICloud, Dropbox and Google Drive. From my perspective iCloud has been a disappointment, Google Drive has been ok (we also use Google Apps in my company) and Dropbox seems to be the easier and more popular setup with my staff. The only issue I have is with their pricing (I find their company plans confusing), but we all know that is a new landing page away if they decide to change it.

The equation is not about $dollars per Gb storage per year, it is more about $/Gb/MyPain which is a more subtle equation. If my employees like Dropbox better than Drive, the few dollars in cost difference is inconsequential. The employees time costs many multiples more than the storage.

I think the article fails to acknowledge this.
Enabling Source Maps in Chrome
I’ve seen a couple of posts about enabling source map support, but never actually got it up and running. This actually worked.
My advice, invest your time and energy in selecting the right attorney and accountant rather than developing a cursory knowledge of the field. Or to put it another way, presupposing that a single member LLC is the starting point may not be the right choice. Hire people who you trust to know the best choice off the top of their head.
This blog article (http://korystamper.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/seeing-cerise-de...) by lexicographer Kory Stamper raises some similar issues about color names in English - how does one define "cerise" or "taupe" in the dictionary, when nobody can agree on what precisely they mean (where to draw the boundary).

There is also the issue of how best to write the definition so that people can actually understand it. Webster's Second and Third New International Dictionaries included color plates (which seems reasonable!) but also gave HSB values in the Second and complex color comparisons in the Third (cerise is "a moderate red slightly darker than claret, slightly lighter than Harvard crimson, very slightly bluer and duller than average strawberry, and bluer and slightly lighter than Turkish red"). For the Learner's Dictionary, though, they used definitions like "green is the color of grass", less precise but probably still having some psychological truth - the color of grass is surely an anchor point for our concept of green.
I was really mystified why Japanese kept calling a green traffic light "blue" (in Japanese, that is). It didn't really make sense to me until reading this, so thanks a lot.
This post was really interesting and made me think a bit differently about color names (I think to an even deeper extend than the xkcd survey post from a couple years ago). I also found the first comment [1] quite interesting, namely this part:

For example, ao in Japanese comes from the dye plant, ai, which as a dyestuff covers the whole of the blue-green portion of the spectrum. Some cultures have what might at first seem to be peculiarly chosen "basic" color names until you learn their associations with the culture's central food sources or dye plants, or precious commodities. The color name that covers both blue and green in many native languages of the American Southwest is also the name for the stone, turquoise. (In cultures where a staple food is poisonous when green and edible when red, you can be sure there are names for green and red.) In our own history, we have a very similar example to the "blue" traffic lights of Japan: "orange" didn't enter English as a color name until the 16th century, after the fruit itself was first brought to England, quite late in the evolution of our color vocabulary, which is why we still refer to "red" hair.

[1] http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication...
Television software firm OpenTV is suing Netflix for patent infringement..
Not to mention that an armed United States is a reasonable deterrent that would undermine any attempt at genocide in Canada.

The moment it was clear that the Canadian government intended to begin mass executions, activists from the U.S would start moving weapons and other provisions over the border to assist a resistance. This is assuming that the U.S government didn't send its own military to stop the genocide itself.
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Stallman should have politely told the coordinator to go and f##k himself and finished it in English. So did he finish the talk? Respect for him if he did.
UFL recenlty held a conference to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Ramanujan's birth.

http://www.math.ufl.edu/~fgarvan/ramanujan125.html
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If we regulate guns like cars, then:

Anyone who passes a simple safety test (simple enough that the bulk of the population has little problem with it) can purchase a firearm and use it (subject to safety regulations) in public.

With or without a license you can own and use a gun on private property.

There are certain quality regulations on cars/guns which apply to using them outside private property (i.e., if it's likely to burst into flames, you can't take it onto public roads).

There is no federal regulation, except for rules saying that a license in one state is valid in all other states (i.e., a Texas CCW license works in NY).

This sounds like exactly what the NRA regularly lobbies for. The only people who will argue against your proposal are gun control advocates (e.g., Bloomberg).
Price one pays to be the Diogenes of code.
I thought you were coining a neologism in the title.

"cloudy + flesheating?!?!?"

Clicked just for that and was disappointed.
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As a side note this is one of those things that several tetris-clones deal have to deal with, long runs are probable but can frustrate a player so a lot of the times you want to to extra logic to keep it from being actually random.

A uniform "deck" a couple times larger than the number of pieces is the usual suggestion prevents large runs and makes sure that you see every piece more regularly.
I use Cygwin bash with git installed - it doesn't work as well as git bash out of the box (some extra configuration to do), nor will it actually launch git gui without reconfiguring its startup scripts to start an X-server (slow start and shutdown), but it lets you get a mostly full-featured proper shell on Windows.
Me and many of the people I know use it everyday. It's the easiest 'cloud' storage out there and certainly the most popular. I'm not sure why you say it has no place in the future.
I usually use the print version + Readability for the best of both worlds.
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Older and wiser. Compilers and static typing are a good thing if you care about code quality and reliability.
Yes. And there are a shitload of them.
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> Even though I support gun control, I recognize that there are many good reasons that people in opposition of gun control put forward.

The problem with this train of thought is that gun control is enforced by gun violence.

Good people who just want to have weapons to defend themselves will be forced at gunpoint to surrender their weapons, and if they resist, they will be shot.

What is the difference between armed police officers and armed civilians? The most obvious would be the badge and uniform, but then you would think experience would follow, but it doesn't. Civilians are more experienced with their weapons than police officers are.

Just look at the problems the NYPD have been causing. It's alarming how many of these police officers don't spend any time at a gun range practicing, this is how 9 innocent people get shot by the police.

If you are eating at a diner and an armed man comes in with a gun screaming that he's going to start shooting everybody, you are going to be thankful to the civilian who is carrying his own weapon and prevents anyone from being harmed, you will not be thinking "I can't believe that regular looking guy had a gun on him this whole time, if that lunatic never came in here, I would have never known.. somebody needs to pass a law to stop that!"
Sure, but a $5-10bn valuation for a freemium file hosting service with ~100m users, 96% of which pay nothing?

Someone let me out of this bubble.