skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
minus the social spam... for now while we try to gain users.

If they were serious about it, they'd put it in a non-changeable clause in their TOS. Otherwise it's just marketing fluff.
I honestly thought from the title that the post would be a mea culpa for just that.
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This video popped into my stream a week ago now, I must have watched it eight or ten times now. It's certainly hit a chord with me.

I went to a secondary school (ages 10-14, first half of high school?) where the senior teachers gave the speeches about a "Zero-Tolerance Approach to Bullying!" and how they had only had three cases of bullying in the last few years. They lied, cooked the figures and redefined bullying to cases of systematic physical abuse which was rare. Because they did have a zero-tolerance policy towards violence.

I have two sets of parents, my dad and then my mum and step-mum. Starting secondary school someone found this out and like a lot of people suggested here when they tried to use it to verbally abuse me I exacted violence against him. Not wanting it to explode into something more, the school kept it very quiet and I didn't get punished, but neither did he. Instead, if he ever told anyone else what happened or about my parents he'd get off scott free. To his defense no-one found out for three and a half years. Instead, I got three and a half years of verbal abuse, the little physical things one can get away with in corridors, my possessions taken and hidden. Some teachers tried to help but there is only so much they can do when most of them don't care. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will break them for you" is something I remember hearing from a sympathetic teacher.

Then one day, it suddenly became common knowledge. I found myself faced with what felt like a third of the school who wanted to see me beaten. Fortunately, I appeared to be the only person who didn't know this was going to happen, there were almost as many if not more people behind me (and quickly, around me) who were adamant that I was going to be okay. The next six months were basically hell. Then as the natural progression of things, I shifted schools to a school that had a teacher who kept everyone in line and looked after those who needed help, be they the abused or the abuser. I was lucky in that I found a support network that let me rebuild myself and my self-esteem after. I am who I am despite, not because, of what I've been through. Even if there are still days where I have to look a little closer at the mirror to remind myself of that.
Why doesn't Facebook allow posts edit?
Anyone else having trouble working through their examples? It seems like they haven't made their example repositories public yet.
https://github.com/googleplus
Can somebody try to explain what considerations go into picking between merge and rebase, or when rebase is a better option? The example here "you've branched that file and made some changes. Meanwhile, someone else has modified that same file on the master branch..." says 'merge' to me, and I'm not sure what consideration goes into the decision that rebase is the right tool instead.
I've tried to google a bit, and read some posts on it on stack overflow, and it still just doesn't click for me.
I felt the same way with the author.

When Sublime Text 2 was in development, the developer gets to keep working on then somewhat buggy editor because of early adopters. It was the first editor I bought because I truly believe its potential. At the time the developer made update and bug fix almost every month.

Then once it was released, only one bug fix released was made and then no update or news were made until Sublime Text 3 was announced. And don't tell me there's absolutely nothing that can be updated/fixed in Sublime Text 2.

Basically the developer of Sublime Text is telling me I'm a sucker for supporting him during development, the time others software developer would still have to eat on their own budget.

May be I'll buy Sublime Text 3 in the future if it still has all the key feature I love. But this time I'm not gonna be an early adopter because that's how the developer has shown me how I should treat him.
They already have a Mars unmanned orbiter for this year. Oct or Nov I believe.
alert() and confirm() have one feature that no other alert system can match -- the execution of the surrounding script blocks at the calling location.
This is the third time this week that I've read or heard about Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), the formal programming language devised by Sir Tony Hoare.

Third time's a charm. Definitely going to have to investigate.
from the linked abstract: "honey may reduce weight gain and adiposity, presumably due to lower food intake".

Sounds like it only works because you end up consuming less, not because honey is fundamentally healthier than sucrose.
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> (without credit)

Just to note, no credit is necessarily required. x264 is now dual-licensed under GPL2 + commercial license. If they bought a commercial license, there's nothing illegal or wrong in what they do.
If he became a more vocal advocate for coding education, he could have an incredibly huge impact since basketball has such a big international fan base. Not to mention he is just a cool dude!
What would be an example? I'm more of an advocate of individual liberty than I am an agitator against any particular organizations. Bad things happen when governments, even Western ones, have too much power over individuals, just as bad things happen when individuals gain too much power over their neighbors.
They ask me to upload a photo of myself 100% of the time I visit the front page of google+. I actively avoid it now.
So there is no possibility that if it is rendering poorly in a particular browser it may be the browser's fault instead of the website? Good article, please shut up about the fonts.
Doesn't the combination of Google+ Sign-In and Google Wallet remind you of Microsoft Passport[1]? I wonder if people who had concerns over a decade ago, will have the same concerns now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account#History
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Perhaps DF will be the first game that requires an actual mainframe to run on...
I can assure you that the system won't work against bullying -- oh there will be a lot of talk, maybe even with his parents - but of all the people (and that has been a lot) I know who have been bullied over the years only fighting back works.

And you better do it as soon as possible, before he does too much psychological damage on you.
Abstract thinking isn't your strong suit, I take it.
Quoting the conclusion of the linked abstract:
"These results suggest that in comparison with sucrose, honey may reduce weight gain and adiposity, presumably due to lower food intake,"

It seems like the rats on honey diet just ate less. I don't think this transfers to the honey as sweetener use case, where you'd use about the same amount of sugar compounds to reach desired sweetness level of the beverage.
You rebase to clean up your own, non-shared, local commit history. That is it. As soon as your commits are shared you can no longer rebase them or feel the wrath. If you don't care about cleaning up your local history, before you share it, then don't rebase.

A merge creates a new commit that doesn't effect history so it's always safe to merge.
Wow.. now i'm wondering how quickly (if ever) i can adopt to using ctrl+alt instead of that awkward (and hated) AltGr.
You never stop learning...
Out of interest how do dutch keyboards handle the IJ
> Does IIS better job than Apache or Nginx?

Depends on the definition of the software's job. Nginx is better at serving web pages, IIS with an expensive support contract is better at shifting the blame away from me when it goes wrong :)
> It's possible to be careful about rebasing code, say by duplicating the master
> branch and rebasing your code on that new version to see if you accidentally
> destroy the world before trying to rebase within the actual master.

Is it possible to ask 'What would you do if I rebased' without a test branch?
I live in Lancashire at the moment, the only issue for me would really be spending £150 on a round trip to London, do you guys do preliminary Skype interviews?

(I'm aware that the post might not be prestigious as say, engineering - however, I feel that having someone with strong web development experience (who is a user of Cloudflare already) would more than offset the slight inconvenience on your part.)

EDIT: Grammar
Putting healthcare in hackers' hands
Once, a wiser man than I told me that if you don't like black coffee, just go one week where you drink your coffee black, gag it down at first if you have to, but then you'll be hooked. (once you go black, you never go back...) I tried it, and have been drinking nothing but black coffee for 6 years. I've managed to convert my gf and my dad and several friends as well. It's amazing, and now I can't stand to water down my coffee with cream or sugar.

Edit: I've also been told that coffee has the most "flavors" of any beverage out there, orders of magnitude more than wine, or tea. Take it for what you will, I'm not claiming to be capable of distinguishing them, but once you add cream/sugar/etc, you start to neuter the flavors. Savor them my friends, savor them.
Take a look at some of the screencaps below (or mine here: http://i.imgur.com/XpVhDMx.png Chrome/Win7) - this isn't the typical "omg don't use dark gray on light gray". The "t" and "l" are in distinguishable, so it is pretty hard for me to actually read.

I'm sure it looks fine in the authors browser/OS of choice, but it is not usable in mine - regardless of the merits of the content.
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Thanks.

http://imgur.com/tzToXpv

Nice data. Basically Obama won only among people with less than $50 K a year.

Wow! The exit poll data is amazing -- the poor, the non-whites, the women, the less educated except Obama also won the postgraduate crowd! Amazing.

Partly you are correct about my error in geography. But there is still an issue: Romney won in a lot of the less wealthy geography -- as I recall, Kentucky, Tennessee.

Maybe the Romney 49% comment was a more serious torpedo below his waterline than I estimated.

In simple terms, the Republicans were too happy with themselves and 'conservative principles' and just seriously failed to 'please enough of the real customers'.

But I still don't quite get the MSM bias: The MSM, especially the 'good demographics' the advertisers want, and from the data in your two links, should have an audience that voted for Romney. My only guess about the MSM is that it is populated by people who are totally interested in gumment and, thus, want to see more gumment and gumment do more and, thus, are for the Democrats. But at least for much of the campaign, Fox News had ratings that no doubt meant that the biased MSM outlets lost a lot of money, and I'm surprised that the biased MSM 'suits' upstairs would put up with that.

Looks like the Republicans have to get out of conservative country clubs and get with more of the real people, and some investors can do some MSM takeovers and make some big bucks.

Thanks.
If only it was that low. A venti latte with 2% milk from Starbucks has 240 calories but a venti white chocolate mocha with 2% milk has 580 calories.
What is stopping you from getting your own autonomy?

p.s - I did not read your post.
"companies can go broke"

Apart from the "too big to fail" banks...
I see where you'e going with this, but I might change your examples a little bit. There's a very fine line between just a simple Google search and a lot of what you're showing there. It might make sense to demonstrate something that requires more human intervention. The file conversion example is a good one, and maybe expand more on assembling trip itineraries, etc. IOTW, things that actually would take up a lot of time, where the value of the site would be more clearly demonstrated.
I don't think that's public education's role.
I guess they are. ISRO also has a plan to eventually let private players build complete PSLV system(currently they build 80% components) and operate them. Leaving ISRO to concentrate more on GSLV and reusable rocket more.
Not saying this is a cure-all for everyone, but it's a good first thing to try:

My dad was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He was tired during the day and got bad migraines. They recommended a fancy apparatus but he instead sewed a golf ball into a small pocket on the back of his pjs. Like most folks, he only snored and suffocated himself when asleep on his back. So this way when he rolled from his side onto his back he woke up slightly and went back to his side. 100% cured him, no migraines since.
Modula-2 ????????

Is that serious language then? We learned that back at University when I was doing my CS degree. Other students were scathing about it, going on about why we weren't doing C. But it was used as a simple introduction to programming techniques to prepare for C, Java etc. I understood its value back then as an introduction, but I never realise it had a use beyond that. I have to say, I quite enjoyed using it, and I was a little disappointed to move way from it to "proper" languages at the time.

So, it is used in anger, as it were, now? If so, what can it be used for? Part of me would love to pick it up again for something vaguely serious.
The problem with the logic

"the pace of changes in the variables around us has made it virtually impossible to know where the puck is going to be"

Is that we are actors that can change the variables. Oftentimes the progenitors of change, by introducing a new product, actually bring about the right changes in zeitgeist.

For example, even though the technology was there, it took Steve jobs and the iPhone to get people to use touch smartphones. He wasn't "skating to where the pick will be" but rather made the puck come to his vision.
Good point. They always say that about Presidents, they age like 20 years in 8 years.
Again, where have I advocated the initiation of any sort of violence? You seem to have some kind of projection issue going on, or else you're confusing me with someone else.
I think saying "has to" is far too charitable. In the US you can't be compelled to actively assist an investigation. Hector is now nothing more than a professional snitch - he has voluntarily spent more time actively working to put kids in jail than he spent "working against the man" in anon/lulz/anti efforts combined.

The work he's doing now doesn't even relate to the activities he participated in since those bridges are long ago burned. These days the feebs are providing him with lists of infosec folks they haven't been able to get anything on who he then tries to befriend and then encourages them to commit crimes that he suggests.

Quite the committed activist.
Unfortunately for you, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is an enumerated Constitutional right, and there are strict limits on the restrictions that can be placed on those.

Any analogy with merely owning a car fails hard, in all but really revenue hungry jurisdictions car ownership has no restrictions of this kind. It's only when you want to put it on the road that you have to get plates and a licensed driver. And there's a vast distance between the skill and experience needed to safely drive a car and use a gun; in just accidental deaths, this shows in the ratio of 58:1 from memory when I last calculated (> 30,000 vs. a bit over 600 annually; I can look that up if you want).
Is anyone aware of a performance analysis between SDCH and one of the dynamic compressions like deflate?

I google, but all I find is people complaining their proxy/filter/appliance/diagnostic is breaking because it doesn't understand SDCH.

It seems like SDCH has been around for 4 years, I presume the lack of data means it hasn't worked out.

(I imagine that you could drastically reduce the CPU load of compression by making simple hard coded state machines for each dictionary. For content like XML or json you could easily make your field names and surrounding punctuation minimal. For many very short messages sharing a dictionary that would beat deflate on compression ratio, and for long messages of non-repeating field values it wouldn't be much worse. CPU use of expansion is probably comparable, though you might get better memory access behavior out of SDCH.)
But everyone learning to drive is / was.
Being a car driver is python coding. Being a car mechanic is probably on the order of writing a compiler.

The analogies will always break down but really, in this day and age, an adult in the Western world who cannot drive is socially and econmoically disadvantaged. (chooses not to is likely a different thing - for half of 20 years in London I had no car and biked / tubed everywhere. Now, my day would be impossible without a car. Sad but true)

I mean how many 17 year-olds do you know who say, "Learning to drive - who needs it?"
Unfortunately rebase doesn't fit well with our team workflow (team is geographically distributed). we use branches and commits to check which user is on which task. everyone pushes code at the end of the day even if it's incomplete. Pushing code prevents rebase usage.

Rebase is really good especially when you are contributing in open source repositories but our experience has been limited in our private repositories.
Not only don't they capture all the quirks, but they introduce new ones. I had an issue a year back, I can't remember the exact details unfortunately, where IE8 in compatibility mode for IE7 was causing some weird behaviour that didn't happen in either IE7 or 8.
Hmm, that's really good feedback. In reality, most of the things people have used it for have been truly complex multi-hour projects.

ie:
Input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nzW2Fmpx
Output: https://docs.google.com/a/fairtradework.com/document/d/1jzhw...

We'll update the examples to make them more robust. Thanks!
That's a miscommunication then. It's mainly for providing feedback to the user, e.g. "Document saved", "Error deleting user", "Can't connect to the server, retrying in 4", etc.

For debugging, you should probably use console.log.
So, since it's seem to be fairly well established that they're just using x264, anyone got any idea how they plan on making money from this, er, product/service they're offering?
I don't understand what you mean by your last sentence. Are you saying that your friends are too distracted by TV to learn coding?
You can always do "git rebase --abort" if you're stuck in the middle of a rebase, or, if you've rebased and don't like it, "git reflog" to find the previous state followed by "git reset --hard <hash>" to get back to where you were.
So? It can't be done, so forget about that. Just like you can't replace the executives.
Indeed, it can be abused as a sort of primitive step-by-step debugging tool.
Until apache or nginx implements it, I wouldn't really see SDCH as gaining any real traction.

AFAIK, Chrome is the only one supporting it from a browser standpoint.
Using it while driving sounds dangerous!
>If they bought a commercial license, there's nothing illegal or wrong in what they do.

Looking into it, they seem to have actually done that. ICVT, the company behind Beamr, can be found on the list of x264 commercial adopters[1].

Doesn't change the fact that they're major Snake Oil Salesmen, though. Also, the claims on their technology page[2] are still incredibly dubious.

[1] http://x264licensing.com/adopters

[2] http://beamrvideo.com/main/technology
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The main use I have for the new Chrome feature wouldn't be to find out where audio was playing that I hadn't started, it would be to find out which tab was playing audio if I had lots of YouTube tabs open and I couldn't remember which one I had played.
I think the point is that the bugs are being fixed in a new paid release, and not in the release many people paid for.

The only thing, imo, that this does is harm the relationship between people developing software who would like to be paid for it and their customers. If you charge people money for something it behooves you to keep releasing fixes and point releases for it regularly, not to disappear and release a paid upgrade with the things fixed that should be part of the current release. I don't know of any legal or moral obligation to do it, but it certainly is a good business move for the ecosystem.
I hate that this link/discussion only spent a few hours on the front page of HN, and has been replaced mostly be frivolous crap.

I'm sure the trivia behind why so many programming languages use curly braces is super fascinating, but I'd much rather be discussing something of substance.

Are these honestly the things that people would rather be discussing instead of bullying and the work of poetry and art that has inspired this discussion?

I'm a little bit disgusted by the HN community at large right now. If I could reset my karma level to 0 in trade for keeping just this one thread on the front page for a whole day I'd do it in a heart beat.
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I think people are shifting away from the point of the video and that's fine, and I don't mean to be "that" guy, but it is important to realize what these accomplished programmers are trying to say through the video.

If you listen carefully, most of the interviewees are simply attesting to Steve Jobs' quote at the beginning: "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer...because it teaches you how to think." The second part, the ability to think, is a skill that people must have AND use in their everyday life to be successful in whatever they do. Zuck, Gates, Dorsey, Houston, etc. are all encouraging people to learn to code for this reason, and because programming is an extremely empowering skill--not just in one field but in all...if you want it to be. The fact that programming can be used in all fields is why there is such a huge push for people to learn. It is a self and world-empowering tool that is simply being encouraged to be taught/learned by the incoming generation.

The current generation needs to realize that programming exists everywhere, just as we are taught that subjects like math, biology, chemistry, physics, and history are. There is a HUGE distinction between learning to code just for the sake of getting a job or improving the economy and learning to code because it can empower us to THINK and then DO. Not to be philosophical, but part of societies' problems has been always knowing what problems exist, but not actually doing anything to solve it--until now. Programming, more than anything, accelerates our ability to solve problems, little or big.

In a world where so many problems exist, programming is many times the means to achieving the solution. And that is why these successful programmers are pushing everyone to learn.