skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually go along with the "put any binary or tool you need to make this run in the repository" school of thought, but I don't stuff generated files in the repository.

I'm not sure "Git doesn't handle this dysfunctional source control usage" is really a valid complaint.
> Data structures, you mean like hashmap, vector, list, sequence? Those are all basic in Clojure.

And CL...
This is a good point. We probably have bigger vegetables now. So if a fruit is 40% bigger but has diluted minerals... so what?

Just eat your fruits and veggies and be happy :)
Do sites/pages like this actually work?

http://www.parrotsecrets.com/

I've always thought they look too cheap, scammy and desperate for most people to bother with...
Is It Time to Retrain Business Schools?
This is true in most of the world; HFCS's popularity in the US is due to federal subsidies making it cheaper than sugar.
Same thing happens when you die sometimes, which is a real pain. It's on my list of things to do, I'm just trying to think of a good way to handle it (gameplay wise)
If I weren't technical I would go to a local university. I would contract someone who is well published in something with a combination of math and computer science to screen my hires for people he would consider for his lab, and assume that from there I could tell the difference.
Search monetization as a model for social media monetization
Get to work dude, and grow up. :)
I don't know where I got the impression that they had a database system in Amsterdam. Talked to some good friends living there years ago, and they might have mentioned that there was a proposal to implement such a system... or that it could be interesting to implement it. I should have been more careful when presenting "facts" whose accuracy I can't guarantee.

I agree that the database would be expensive to implement. On the other hand, taxing marijuana and all the money that could be saved from not fighting marijuana dealing anymore could perhaps finance the database system. I am not a security professional, so I don't know how to implement a system that could authenticate users without identifying them, but that seems to present lots of interesting technical problems.

I agree that if there's no alcohol database, then there should be no database for weed either. On the other hand, alcohol is tolerated by society much more than weed. This makes no sense, but it's a reality. I would say that being pragmatic would be a good idea: introducing a database would tame the "fears" of those who claim that legalization would "corrupt" the teeanagers and our society's "values". Sometimes it's better to take little steps. Legalize but control consumption using a database. A few years later, people will have gotten used to the new paradigm that there might be no objections to abolishing the database. I say, legalize one step at a time because it increases the chances of success.
Another roommate of ours met the reporter at laidoffcamp in San Francisco last week and mentioned Alex and his Jellyfish business. The reporter called and came by the house to do the story.
This article doesn't really state the problem precisely; that problem is large data sets. The Linux kernel has a lot of code but weighs in at ~300MB - not even a gigabyte uncompressed. But if you start checking in lots of binaries - or if you use source control for assets as happens in a game production environment - you start having serious, serious scalability problems because hashing those huge files is no longer fast, and traversing deep directory structures with lots of files becomes a scary problem..

I speak from experience; the game I'm working on at my studio has an in-house tool to optimally paletteize 2d assets for an embedded system. It's a computationally hard problem so a lot of intermediate data is generated to make the final build relatively fast.

This tool generates about five files, IIRC, and one folder, for each frame of animation. Multiply this by 30 frames per second for each sprite's anim. Multiply this by an entire game's assets. The result is 80,000+ files and folders checked into SVN. That's after the coder optimized the number of files needed slightly. It can take 20 minutes or more to do an SVN update because of all the checks needed.

The solution we really need is a versioning system for binary files. There aren't many of those. Maybe Perforce works. I don't know, I've never used it.
For a contrary opinion on the guy's ethics, see http://nancyrichards.org/ (hoisted from the comments on Cringely's site).
Media assets are definitely an interesting problem. (Of course, then you're beyond "source control" and into something else, but that something else is important.)
I think you paint an overly-rosy picture of the usefulness of microblogging. There may be value in the posting of these minor notes -- people in general seem to be narcissistic enough to confirm that -- but I have yet to find much value in reading them.

I used Twitter for about 8 months and during that time I don't think I read a single valuable tweet that didn't contain information that I shortly found through some other channel. Most tweets were pure noise. What was worse is that I joined in with the noise and I am not the sort of person to broadcast what I know to be irrelevant information. Suddenly because everyone was wasting my time, it was okay for me to waste theirs.

Yes, microblogging may be increasing commenting, but those comments are largely noise; most people can only cite specific instances, usually revolving around real-time events, where Twitter was of any real use to anybody. There is a cognitive cost to reading all those tweets, not to mention a time cost, and I found that those costs far outweighed any perceived benefit in almost all cases. With a mere 140 characters to convey information, it seems like this would be the case of the majority of the time.

Microblogging takes the friction and guilt out of speaking (essentially), which I think is bad. You should think before you write or speak. You should ask yourself, "Is this information of significant use to a majority of those who will be subjected to it?"
I could be wrong, but making it to the front page of CNN doesn't necessarily qualify as "winning" in my book. There has to be a better metric for measuring the success of a job search.
Unlocked Nokia N91 8GB Black Music Phone
Nokia presenting Nokia N91 with nice-looking look and huge features is the best one handset of the session. The phone has incorporated as many skin texture that you can’t believe it.
there's "do-nothing" technique from masanobu fukuoka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka

he claimed his yield is the best in japan -- by weight

he could win the most nutritious award too if such category existed
The Geometry of Musical Chords
String and regexp performance in browsers
I think the list is helpful and the comments suggesting that non-technical folks have no chance to hire good hackers seems to be contradicted by facts. FedEx and Walmart have amazing technical systems and have become industry leaders because of them, but both were founded and grown by business folks. Disney, Bank of America, and most of the other Fortune 500 have retained their positions by building strong technical organizations largely from scratch. Good sales people, ops folks, and hackers are always going to be hard to find.
The text is too light, at least on my screen.

I don't like that the contact form is a Wufoo branded form instead of a Jellyfish Art branded form.
Wow - the typing thing seems to be popping up here a bit lately.

You'd seriously give a someway qualified programmer a typing test?

I don't think qualifications are a great hurdle requirement, but they are one of the indicators that are useful. Pretty much the best indication of how someone will do is past performance - and a degree contributes to that.

As for trade qualifications - e.g. Certified CompanyXYZ Professional. I've often found them to be neutral or counter-indicators -- quite often they are (1) even though you know this stuff inside out to do this work we mandate this qualification or (2) I heard XYZ professionals get paid a lot so I'll buy a "get your XYZ professional cert in 15 days" book and qualify.

In my experience anyway -- I've not done a massive amount of hiring really, but the # of positions would be in the 30's or 40's.
I'll be materialistic in my response, because love and all that jazz obviously are up there.

I want things that do what I want them to do. For four years that meant the Mac I have now. Now that I've got it, I'll be content for years and years.

I want stuff that changes how I look at the world. That means music, books, movies, but all stuff that changes me as I consume it.

I want people who are able to tolerate me and who I in turn can tolerate because we have similar values and standards.

I want out of my life the things that don't matter to me. Right now that means a lot of my classwork in college, which is the stuff that's teaching me the least. In the future... who knows? There'll probably always be something. Hopefully there will be less every year of my life.
Being a self-important egomaniac is one of the most common qualities of people who start their own businesses. Is that what you were detecting in my tone? Well, you're very observant.
This is more like trait composition (1) than inheritance. I don't consider this a downside, though, as I almost always choose trait composition over sub-typing when I am using a more OO-ish language.

(1) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/Traits/
As long as we're talking about programming and (teehee) ego-dissolution:
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
link to CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/14/california.husband.job/inde...
It's not really fair to call it "dysfunctional source control usage" (at least no fairer than the OA). The problem is with large asset files, which though almost always "generated" in the sense that people don't hand-craft them like code, are not necessarily a function of what is stored in the repo.

I'll agree with you that making git handle huge binary repositories speedily is probably not a worthwhile effort.
The success of a search for a marketing job that lands on the front page of CNN? That's not a victory?
"$79.95 is nothing to pay if it saves a vet visit per year and keeps you from losing a fingertip or having your parrot call Grandma a whore."

The last reason was actually kind of the reason I've been wanting to get a parrot. Inappropriate? Yes. Hilarious? Even more so.
This guy has nothing to do with the original husband, right? Or did I miss something?
As far as I know, in countries fighting against obesity like ours, and with no real vitamin deficit, it's not really a big problem having lesser energetic food.

my 2c.
Is there a law on the Internet saying every conversation turns to porn? If there is, let's try and stop it anyway. It's disrespectful and distasteful.
Because we don't know the traffic levels I can't say it is, for a fact, a success but Channel9 would probably be your answer. It was originally started by several 'softies but Scoble became the whole show and it stayed that way until he left.

Again, I don't have any traffic numbers but Microsoft still has Channel9 up and they still spends all that money on bandwidth so I have to assume it's considered a success to them.
Sex is easy to get. Or do you mean meaningful sex?
Valuable in no particular order:

Coffee and/or coca cola. Boyfriend. Any book by Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Sue Blackmore, Peter Atkins, Stephen Hawking. Any psychological horror film like 'Session 9' or 'In the Mouth of Madness'. Formerly camels, now e-cigs for nicotine. CNN. C. Cygwin. Textpad.

Things-to-be-endured:

Diet coke. Boyfriend's spending habits. Any book positing emergent, or anti-reductionist views of any sort. Mindless slashers like 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. Nicotine gum that doesn't do squat. Fox News. Java. DOS prompt. Ultra-edit.
Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
I'm sorry, but your search for the recommended maximum daily allowance of pot just seems stupid. We don't restrict maximum daily allowance of any other recreationally used substance so you're trying to hold pot to a higher standard than anything else, which is just ridiculous.

You still don't seem to grasp that it's none of yours or anyone else's business how much one consumes as long as no one is harmed. If you harm someone while high, the fact that you're high really isn't relevant either, you can be punished by existing law for harming someone. Murder is murder, it doesn't matter if you did it while high, or drunk, or on PCP, the crime was still the murder, not the state of mind that led you there.

Dose is only relevant if the maximum dose is easily reachable. There is no practical maximum to smoking pot, you'd have to smoke literally a truck bed full to even get close to a dangerous level which is physically impossible. Thus, as I said earlier, dose is not relevant.
I can parse justified text, although I prefer left side only...

But, centered? thats completely unjustified!
>>Erlang isn't a magic bullet. It might make migrating processes fast, but it won't speed up migrating data.

Could you explain why to me? I just can't remember. I think I might be suffering from mnesia.
You forgot something. Here, let me lend you mine:

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</heavy_sarcasm_dripping_with_cynicism>
You're right that Linus probably doesn't care about large binary files. I think that's just as well though. git can't be all things to all people. My gut feeling is that making git good for huge binary repositories would mean sacrificing 80% of what makes it so sweet for regular development.

I'd even go so far as to say that the needs of versioning large asset files and source code are so different that a system optimized for one will always be deficient for the other. Therefore I don't think the idea of "scripts on top" is so bad. Actually the ideal would be a set of porcelain commands built on two separate subsystems.
Sure, but this problem applies to huge software products like Microsoft Office, not the sort of software that the average developer at the average company works on every day. So while Perforce may be good for that 1% of the population, Git probably meets the needs of everyone else better.

(BTW, there are repositories bigger than the Linux kernel that behave very well under Git. The Emacs git repository is an example, it has almost 30 years of history, weighs in at around 150M, but still performs fine. I know that I have never been paid to work on any application nearly this big, so I don't really worry about Git not meeting my needs.)
So basically, he's an entertainer? (not a negative question... just asking. I don't follow Scoble, Winer, or most of that crowd)
want : time to go surfing, rock climbing, meeting friends at the bar.

do not want : development (but that's the only thing I feel good at :( ), redtape, trying to sell stuff, trying to sell myself.
Does anybody have the link to the TED talk about this prelude?
What's meaningful sex?
Man, what I'd give to have a chat one day with RTM. So many questions. :)
Opportunities for eager learners to more faster without being hobbled by the school system.

http://learninfreedom.org/
Yeah same - at one stage they were an anti-thesis (or counterpoint at least) to the seemingly unstoppable slashdot.
(I've written unclearly: I believe the numbers now, but I didn't at first).
If you guys want to know more about how to do this, I have an ebook for you. It's a steal at only $49!
Colonizing the "open web" is the right mindset.
Landing yourself on the front page of CNN with a carefully crafted and timely PR stunt is to consumer products marketing what commiting to github a rewritten VM system for the Linux kernel is to software development.
More time. Thanks a lot.
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I have never worked on a 6GB repository, and apart from my (pretty solid) development background, I've spent the last 3 years doing code audits for huge software shops. The numbers in this post aren't compelling.

Consider also: is it possible that the multi-gigabyte repositories this guy's thinking of are byproducts of extremely crappy version control disciplines?
WHOA, as a CS/Music Theory major and as an FP hacker, I must say, this is mindblowing stuff that I've definitely thought about but never implemented. Props to this guy. Good next steps after these would be notations for tonal, contrapuntal and schenkerian analytical structures, not to mention some sort of interface to, say, something like pd (puredata.info). Good find.
CloudBase - Map/Reduce in a relational database
This site reminds me of Timothy Ferris and that 4 Hour Work Week book.
Sex that means something to you. Same as meaningful first kisses, meaningful jobs, and meaningful lives. What else?
'Objectified' -- gadget film by 'Helvetica' director -- debuts at SXSW
I would recommend Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. He traces corn from the farm to its varied outputs.
Functional testing for Web applications
I used to think that, until I saw my Dad learn to use the internet.

These sites spend quite a bit of time perfecting the copyrighting and the small details like making certain headlines have a yellow background. To someone who can't tell a spam site from Facebook it can be pretty effective - assuming your aiming for that market.
Very nice, concise writeup on getting the idea to the ground. I must shamefully admit, I've been quite guilty of ideating a lot of the no-nos you've talked about!
"There is no practical maximum to smoking pot, you'd have to smoke literally a truck bed full to even get close to a dangerous level which is physically impossible. Thus, as I said earlier, dose is not relevant."

Is that based on your personal experience, your (unsubstantiated) belief, or any scientific data? This is an honest question. Though I have smoked pot, I never smoked more than one joint per night.

Sure it's none of my business how much other people consume just as long as no one gets harmed. But you're assuming that people are responsible and most people aren't. Murder is murder, but there are accidents that could be avoided if people were not mind-altered. And I am referring to alcohol, not pot.

I don't think it would be too ridiculous to hold pot to a higher standard than alcohol, for instance. Solely for practical reasons. Alcohol is legal. Pot is not. If imposing caps on consumption would reduce the resistance to the legalization of pot, then it COULD be worth considering. This is speculation. I am not saying it would be worth it, I am just saying one should not discard any possibilities without a more in-depth analysis.
Out of curiousity, does erlang really support that kind of hot migration of running processes along with their data?

Until now I only knew that erlang can span multiple hosts - but only when you wrote your application that way?

What has really helped us in terms of machine migration (but at the cost of additional overhead) is running stuff inside Xen and OpenVZ virtual machines. Those can really be migrated seamlessly - often without a noticable downtime.
I want to experience innovation without advertisements.
Git has a feature called "superprojects". You would configure this project with all the parts of your project as "submodules". That way, when you need to pull down some new code (but not any media assets) you can just do that, but everything is still being tracked by the superproject.

Also, keep in mind that git will hash all of a commit at once. So if 500 2k files changed in a commit, the time spent hashing should be almost the same as hashing a 1MB file.
For me, it's far more important to buy locally than it is to buy organic (though it's also easy, at least where I am, to do both). The food industry has caught on to the organic trend and there are now organic factory farms which are only slightly better than non-organic factory farms. And organic guidelines don't prohibit the use of some pesticides. Granted, what they might use isn't as bad, but it is pesticide nonetheless.
Your mention of natural versus artificial flavours reminded me of this post :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369249

The article makes for a good read.
Hey I didn't say anything about porn, you did.
Asset files, as in triplefox's comment above, are a very different thing from the OA's mention of keeping the object files from nightly builds and anything else they think of to throw into the repository.

For program source control, throwing in a bunch of unnecessary files is dysfunctional. Assets are, by definition, not unnecessary files.
You are correct--soil damage has much to do with this. Wendell Berry (among others) has written much about this. Large scale farming tends not to view the soil and its cycles as important to the process of growing food.
I'm not sure what definition of "best" you're using, but there aren't many metrics on which that site comes out top that can be also used to measure the value of reporting.

For one thing it's biased as all hell -- "Euroscepticism" is a particular right-wing British position -- and while there are many tedious arguments to be had about the impossibility of objectivity and how we're in a post-objective world and whatnot, it's surely not a bad thing to try and aim for. But far more importantly, the site's mainly comment/analysis, like we've been discussing. The majority of stuff I can see on the front page now is commentary riffing off from links to print media websites. It's good commentary if you like the beat they're thumping on their tub, but it's a million miles away from reporting.

Watergate wasn't investigative journalism

Ok, fine, Abu Ghraib. Broken by Seymour Hersh, based on a report that would otherwise never have seen the light of day. Or the majority of those on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Investigativ...

I'm going to let the Nu-Government thing slide, as it's not really germane to this. Suffice to say that I think all of these options (particularly the one that assumes people will find it easiest to uproot and move their families to express their opinions on their rulers) appear considerably more difficult to achieve than finding new and reliable sources of funding for investigative reporting.
How to Avoid Liquefying Your Jellyfish
Cool, but why are the tweets from 44 minutes ago? I would expect a live feed (or at least very recent).

And a more gradual night-day transition would look nicer.
As a cryptographer, I'd rather talk to RM senior -- but as an NSA alumnus, I don't think he'd want to talk to me. :-)
We don't restrict maximum daily allowance of any other recreationally used substance

Sure we do. Almost every country has a legal definition of sobriety when it comes to alcohol.

Murder is murder, it doesn't matter if you did it while high, or drunk, or on PCP, the crime was still the murder, not the state of mind that led you there.

There are many legal degrees of murder and state of mind certainly plays a role in how much trouble you're going to be in.

There is no practical maximum to smoking pot

If I smoke a certain amount of pot I shouldn't be driving. The effects of weed wildly differ between people. It's one reason legalization is difficult. It's very hard to determine how stoned a person is and whether or not it's even affecting their motor skills or judgement.
Hear hear.

The article doesn't say what's new about the authors' ideas. You'd expect it to mention the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics - it isn't news that the Aspect experiment can be explained if measurements affect things that happened earlier.
Can you make it so that "comments made" next to the picture on the front page links to the comments on flickr? It's a little annoying to click on a picture twice and scroll down just to see the comments.
Here, http://lmgtfy.com?q=marijuana%20overdose since it's pretty widely known dose just isn't an issue with mj.