skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github has nothing to do with that. It's hard to delete commits from git, because of the way it fundamentally works. Part of what defines a commit is its parent commit (or commits, plural, if it's a merge), and that chain goes back to the beginning of the repo. This means that you can't remove a commit from the history without changing everything that came after.

Well, you can do that, but suddenly no one else who works with your repo will be able to pull changes, because there is no way to reconcile the histories. Think of them as divergent timelines. They're like, "last thing I saw, Obama got re-elected; what's happened since then?", and your modified repo is like, "Uh, I don't know who this 'Obama' fellow is, and don't let the Lizard King hear you talking about elections."
Yes, but the commands are normally interpreted differently in English. For example, 'cp A B' is copy from A to B that is, copying source A to destination B. But 'ln A B' could easily be interpreted as link A to B or make A a link to B where it is really making B a link to A. At least, that's why I sometimes forget the order.

I think this is because 'to copy' is a transitive verb and 'to link' is instransitive, in the sense they are used here...?
It has been posited in the press and in movies, that a warmer earth would melt the poles which would reduce salinity and then 'stop' the flow of the Gulf Stream current. That would plunge Europe into an ice age. Deeper analysis casts doubt on both sides of this proposition, either a) that the gulf stream current would stop, and b) if it did, that it would cause an ice age in Europe.

Living in California we've had about three major theories about the impact of the pacific current applied and then found wanting on California weather. There is an effect, but the extent that the weather is affected is not easy to predict.
There is far too much awesomeness on this thread...thank you for asking this question!
If you go through the trouble of setting up an A/B test and determining a statistically significant result, you're not blindly following it when you implement the winning variant.

It's totally cool to disregard the result an A/B test gives you. But don't justify that decision by saying that if you do follow the results of well-run A/B test, that it's somehow blind.
I'm a near-rabid Vim user, but I also came here to point that out. You can't draw conclusions about what people in general do from a sample of people who check in their history files.
This is bash specific and may not work in your shell. (fish for example)
This is neat, but it's not really that big of a leap. Here is a thing I wrote in 2002, as I was just starting to learn to program. It's a little broken now because the character image didn't get archived, but you get the idea. A lot more was possible, I just didn't quite have the chops before I got distracted by my next project
http://www.oocities.org/webspynner_99/games/RPG/rpg.html

The fact that browsers are still able to run my shitty code is kind of impressive.

But just sayin', it's nice to see this, but even in the "on the web" realm, it's not that big of a leap. It's more of an indication of how much network and processor speeds have advanced in the last 11 years than how much capability of web browser has.
> ... with a circular cross section of the Earth I'd expect less debris/area near the poles.

As it turns out, Antarctica is a very productive place to look for meteorites, first because there isn't really a preferred geographical zone for meteorite impacts, and second because of the large, empty ice fields, against which newly fallen meteorites stand out.

One of the most famous meteorite finds of all time, ALH84001, was located by simply driving across the Antarctica landscape and watching for dark objects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001
I used to do a lot of science-blogging (not in English) and in our circles, a troll wasn't something you'd get from 4chan who'd try to post offending pictures etc., but a "lone crusader on a mission" -

someone with apparently unlimited time, someone with his or her own absolutely crazy pet-theory [1], someone who would come to personally attack the author on some past issue on every single post. These people ruin the entire blog, you have to be fast to ban them (very useful with dynamic IPs..) and constantly monitor the comments. I've personally been attacked in "open letters" to government officials [2], calling me a "dangerous lying scientist" because I had the audacity to shred apart a terrible paper on the "apparent dangers" of WLANs.

I wouldn't see these people anywhere near Galilei.

[1] Examples: evolution is a lie, or global warming is a hoax, or the theory of general relativity is wrong, or the blogger is a fraud

[2] - that no-one reads -
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I had a nasty case of poison oak which required steroids to clear up, it was not fun at all.
In case anyone is interested, the reason it does that is that the file is encrypted on the server and decrypted clientside in javascript. The decryption key is in the link's hashtag.
Is there any chance I could get a copy of your cleaned up data? I have an analysis I'd love to try running.
Everyone fat-fingers a database at some point... Then you build interfaces so that you can't make the same mistake.
+1 Information Overload will happen much sooner than 10 years but in 10 years there would be many solutions to combat this problem.

People will be spending a lot more time in their digital devices than real people.
IIRC, 'source' is a bash-ism, while '.' is POSIX, so it might not work in all shells. That said $() isn't POSIX, but works on enough shells, that I'm comfortable replacing `` with it.
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I personally consider them evil for the reasons described at the end of glanifrons's comment.

There is room for debate here, but one certainly does not have to be ignorant to regard Monsanto as "evil".
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The model forecasting past events doesn't really tell you much about the accuracy of the model, even theoretically. It could be overfitting for example.
Well I wouldn't go that far. My wife grew up in rural Iowa, in farm country. They're perfectly pleasant people. But politically, there is no winning against them. And that's been the case since forever. Stuff like this: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/ has tremendous appeal.
Really nice, I'm sure I've seen a few other similar alternatives, but I can't remember exactly. Is there a grunt plugin for this, did anyone work with it and had any issues?
This is an excellent point - if Monsanto wants to control second-generation seed, then they should become farmers.
Nicely detailed kernel changelog: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.8
It's hard to know where to begin. You make some of the most difficult genetic engineering projects in the world sound like you can program it on your computer. You can't. What Monsanto has done and does now is difficult. Most transgenics don't work as you expect. It is most certainly an invention, not a discovery. With regard to your points:

1. There are already rules here; in terms of non-transgenics and natural sequence, the case you should look at is myriad, which is also being considered by the supreme court. I agree with monsanto here, and against myriad on diagnostics of natural variants.

2. Let me guess, you are not a farmer. Most seeds aren't saved "as nature intended". This is true of non-transgenics as well in the form of hybrid seeds.

3. Ugh...

Finally, regarding your last "scenario"; can you name an actual similar event where what you saying is even close to true (please don't link to the Percy Schmeiser case)?
We don't need to, ssh and tramp mean you can just edit the files in your local emacs.
Knowing nothing about either, can you elaborate?
> "Yes, suburb Seattle is quite different from urban Seattle, but ALOT more people live in the suburbs."

I was careful to disclaim that this isn't a urban vs. suburban thing (though it is, to a limited extent) - this is a company town vs. business-diverse city thing.

After all, Google and Facebook were both born and headquartered deep within suburbs. The difference is that Mountain View and Palo Alto are swimming in tech companies - even if your social circles were entirely tech people, it's extremely unlikely they all work at the same place.

Compare with Seattle (stronger in Redmond/Bellevue) where practically everyone works for Microsoft (if you're on the east side) or Amazon (if you're on the west). Even for members of the community who don't directly work for MS, the relationship with MS is so overwhelming that it grossly distorts reality inside the bubble.

There's a lack of perspective because just about everyone works for the same company, subject to the same cognitive biases, with no substantial competition base (or hell, just other tech companies) to give you the necessary occasional whack upside the head.

> " but its mostly a shopping mall. Not much difference from any other big city in the states!"

I very, very heavily disagree. The US has many incredibly interesting big cities, even if some of them are deeply flawed from a financial or civic perspective. NYC and SF are no-brainers, but even the much-lampooned suburban gridlock of LA is (arguably) the cultural center of the entire country. New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, Boston... I don't think I can seriously describe any of those as soulless mostly-shopping-malls.

This is my personal opinion, but IMO Bellevue epitomizes the worst of forced-urbanization. Its soullessness and emptiness is far from the norm in the US, and definitely not the norm for urbanization in the world.
Now, why isn't that in the ln man pages?
You are right but I did not do that on the purpose of alterning the original meaning, I just copied it straight off the link url which is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_Un...
Then when I noticed it, I thought that even in this form it evocates an unpleasant feeling...
I also remember seeing this around the year 2000. (One giveaway that it's written in a previous century: It mentions SunOS. Not Solaris, but SunOS. When's the last time you heard somebody talk about that?) At that point I was already familiar with sockets, and mainly found the guide memorable because the name "Beej" had a weird sound to it.
Whats to stop the Checksum Calculator part of this site from adding your text (ie passwords) hashes to their dictionaries?

https://defuse.ca/checksums.htm#checksums

I know the site says it doesnt record the information, but is there any more assurance beyond that?
So, Broder had admitted to braking the law by going 85 to "keep up with traffic." That's the most bizarre omission here -- we don't get to pick and choose which laws we decide to follow!
That and was it an upper case S or a lower case s?
It's not illegal to do 15 specifically, but if you doing it just to be annoying, you're very likely to get cited for obstruction of traffic.
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The problem with this demo isn't that it's pretty alpha (and to be fair, it is, you can move, and attack, that's about it).

The problem is that it uses stolen assets from another game.

That is 100% not ok, even for a tech demo.

(...there are plenty of free game assets out there, creative commons license; drawing attention to yourself by stealing someone elses art is douche behaviour)
He did indeed. Chico State's CSCI program was actually very good in the early 90s.
this is indeed a great resource, but nothing can be considered as hackNEWS
Like declaring public opinion bankruptcy?

How well did that work for Xfinity?
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The problem with your prediction is that you assume what she is doing is lowering her integrity, and the criteria you are using to determine this is entirely your own.

Seriously? Comparing the author of a blog who solicits donations as well as uses affiliate links to someone who falsified their employment history and photoshopped their head into pictures with celebrities? And then you extrapolate those few datapoints you have to represent everyone who has ever "lowered" (by your standards, of course) their integrity?

> I'm curious why you consider that observation sensationalist.

Comparing a blog author using affiliate links to a truck driver abusing drugs or an athlete using steroids is pretty sensationalist. Those examples bring a bunch of extra baggage: a truck driver abusing cocaine is driving impaired and doing something incredibly illegal.
I find that the request is rarely a fit for either a job I'm interested in (they're looking at my resume from ten years ago) or any job that anyone I know might be interested in (because my network is rarely looking and when they are, rarely for 'that' job). It seems like really low-efficiency spam.
When I was at university I wanted to take a class that had 'introduction to computer networks' as a prerequisite, but I didn't want to wait 2 semesters for it to come around again after taking networks first. I spoke to the professor and he said he'd let me enroll in the course if I promised to carefully read Beej's guide first, since it contains all the essentials I'd really need for this follow-on. So, this saved me 6 months, what a golden nugget!
Damn it, couldn't they have waited for Haswell?
Buy now before Microsoft kills the project.
I'm not sure what her support page used to say, but it seems perfectly clear at present. In the same sentence she both says she wants to keep the site ad-free AND confirms that one of the way she does this is through affiliate links:

"Keeping it a clean, ad-free reading experience — which is important to me and, I hope, to you — means it’s subsidized by the generous support of readers like you: directly, through donations, and indirectly, whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on Brain Pickings, which sends me a small percentage of its price."

Seems like she's being fully transparent.
i hope that user wasn't me. i was editing a typo in comment right when it happened
What's the data source? If it's the US meteorical society database, then it probably includes "finds" in additional to witnessed "falls".
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This way the server can serve a static cached page, and distribute the work to derive the colour palette to the clients.

I agree that the server could do this, and for a small app like it is this wouldn't even be a big problem, however there is almost no impact on the end user and this way scaling is handled by 'better caching' and serving static pages faster.

Offloading to the client is a good thing in general, and I think there are few cases where it is possible but not the better option.
> In all seriousness I think headway could be made with starting a byte code project for those that want to go down this path. Your VM is going to need to run in and generate js (or asm.js subset) - or you'll need to patch IE, Firefox, Chrome etc.

Well, when I was thinking about this (very theoretically) in the past, the road that seemed to me to be the easiest to take (but not exactly elegant) to get to some prototype was to have a proxy on the client that all browser communication goes through, which executes all code returned from the server and which does all the heavy lifting and returns already rendered html to the browser.

And yeah, I realize that doing a high performance VM is probably the hardest part.
Er, no. I'm not saying those images exist solely to entice someone into clicking them. That would be advertising.

Those images fulfill a purpose to the reader: They deepen the review.
The US has many incredibly interesting big cities

The US has far more boring big cities, though. You've already mentioned the interesting ones.
Are you asking whether you should advertise your product, whether it should be ad supported, or both?
Actually, the title, which displays in uppercase, copies in mixed-case. Try it. It seems you typed your title, you didn't copy it from the page.

Here's the text copied directly from the page title: "You break it, you bought it: Journalist ordered to repair $2-million Porsche 917 replica"

The reason? The page uses an all-caps font (or a CSS trick) to force uppercase on what is actually a mixed-case title. The evidence? View the page source and try to find an all-caps title in the HTML code. Not there.
Can't speak for the OP, but mine is someone who is sufficiently comfortable that they will happily accept increased complexity for improved productivity.

(Like so many labels it spans a range on a continuum, but the thresholds should be fairly intuitively obvious.)
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I really wish the author would even once mention _how_ she was warping herself/her company to impress the tech crowd. It's hard for me to understand what she's complaining about without a single example of the type of "how to be popular" advice that people were giving her that she found so poisonous...
90% ignore, because they should be.
10% read/fwded if worthy.
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Downloading from mega failed for me with an "encryption error". So using Bittorrent seems to be the better option here anyway.
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I once had a car that sometimes got the fuel stuck halfway through (even with a full or even empty tank). If I knew I topped the car one day, and the next it was showing slightly above halfway, I would presume it would be an issue with the meter.

Honestly, I know next to nothing about cars, specially electric, but if I had a car that lost 30 miles overnight by doing nothing, I would call support as well. Until this controversy, I had no idea I had to keep the car plugged in at night.
HAProxy can, reportedly, load balance WebSocket connections:

http://blog.exceliance.fr/2012/11/07/websockets-load-balanci...

dotCloud's Hipache also looks like it was basically written to solve this problem:

https://github.com/dotcloud/hipache
I'm using chrome Version 24.0.1312.57 on OSX and it is copying-pasting in all-caps.

Testing again:

$ pbpaste
JOURNALIST ORDERED TO REPAIR $2-MILLION PORSCHE 917 REPLICA

What OS/Browser are you using?

EDIT: both safari and firefox do the right thing (pbpaste below) but chrome keeps the all-caps version

$ pbpaste
Journalist ordered to repair $2-million Porsche 917 replica

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/you-break-it-you-bought-it-journalist-ordered-to-repair-2-million-porsche/#ixzz2LIstn2Jl
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Or any mailer which doesn't present the highly-styled formatting of Microsoft Outlook as created by the author. Which would be, again, any text-based client, many mobile mail clients, and others. Pretty much anything but Microsoft Outlook.

Other enterprise clients are similarly bad. Lotus Notes, and others (though these are the two most commonly found ones).

Straight text is much more fungible and portable than highly-specified formats. There's a reason technical email etiquette and formatting rules emerged, though yes, contemporary business and non-technical use is diverging from these practices.
Can't say much to that other than 'That's a shame'.

I am a realist, I recognise that the 'if' in 'if we all decided not to make the world a worse place' is a very, very big if indeed. Some people just don't care, and it's not like we can all agree on what morality is anyway. To some people it's likely to be seen as extremely moral to contribute to your country's defense capabilities.

So... yeah. But if we could all stop working for the tracking/ad industry I'd be stoked :)
As usual, they're selling in Europe, for small values of the term. Does anyone know if it can be bought in non-listed European countries?
Interestingly the author submitted an issue and also posted on the message board, but has not updated anything since April 2012. Seems it simply got dropped.
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Maybe so. It all boils down to recommendation versus promotion. I hate ads yet I'm totally comfortable with affiliate links on blog, so I consider her site to be ad-free.

Oddly, I don't like affiliate links in forums like HN.
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Am I missing something? You still have the same problem with RSUs. RSU value can decline enough that your staff may feel they're no longer getting fair comp and move on.
Even if you are in Mountain View, say you have friends in San Jose; how often do you see them? Its really not that different.

I think you have a very poor understanding of the pudget sound area economy. On the west side, you are just as likely to run into someone working for a startup, Starbucks, or Boeing, or UW, than Amazon. Amazon isn't that dominating. Now, in the east side, Microsoft is bigger, but there are still a lot of other companies, eBay, Google (on both east and west sides, and even in freaking Bothell now), a bunch of startups. Its not quite the monoculture you make it out to be!

Now, when we are talking about Bellevue, you compare it to San Jose, not San Francisco, or Fort Worth, not Dallas, or some weird industrial wasteland suburb of New Orleans (of which there are plenty), not the wards or the French Quarter. All of these interesting cities have their souless mostly-shopping mall areas. Looking international, what I've seen the same nearby satallite cities of Tokyo, Paris, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Lausanne, etc...tells me suburban blight is not just an American problem.
You're wrong, but I guess you're too young to remember and can't be bothered to learn anything.

The IE team produced 7 versions in six years and there were some very substantial advances, including a new layout engine (Trident). They also did Mac and Unix versions, a mobile version, and a tabbed version for MSN (before iE had tabs).

IE certainly developed a lot faster than anything else on the market in the 1990s, bearing in mind that Netscape took three years to get from 4.7 to 4.8.

Safari entered the market late (2003) and still took the best part of seven years to make it to version 4.

Nobody shipped major versions "yearly".
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System76 and you're there.

(Very impressed with a new system76 laptop so far.)
The Web Archive tells all: http://web.archive.org/web/20130116151028/http://www.brainpi...

The last snapshot was a month ago but it clearly didn't say it then. What do you want to bet the page changed in the last five hours?
People sample audio all the time. This isn't a commercial project and sampling some sprites from a 13 year old game doesn't seem like it's going to impact Blizzard in any way. He should, of course, give the original creators credit in his README at some point (judging by the fact there is no README the project may be still undergoing development).
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Wouldn't that mean a 3+ month wait?