skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article didn't make it clear how a side-project is any different than other of life's projects and distractions: family, sports, that home remodeling project.

If an employee's productivity at their day job is not acceptable, then hopefully the employee no longer has a job there.
You don't need to be filled with awe, you only need some awe..
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Note: most commercial flights, for most of their duration, are on autopilot.
That comment is missing the fact that IF the top 1% are having huge growth in wealth AND the 99% are having tiny growth then perhaps we could tweak matters so that the growth in wealth, which we can clearly see by examining the whole picture, is not quite so lopsided.

I don't care if there are people with 100's of millions of dollars but when I know their wealth is increasing at very fast rate it makes me think they'll be okay if we 'level' the playing field
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-h is not a valid option. You could put --floogahbar in there and it'll give you the help by way of response.
Your bookmarks swipe, I don't get it?

Branches in mercurial are called Named Branches. And they have the benefit that commits made in the branch will always know where they were created.

They have Bookmarks which really are a better name than "git branches" anyway because you can't really understand branching in Git until you understand that a branch name is just a pointer--a bookmark if you will--to a specific HEAD commit.
You're right, turns out I am the one jumping to conclusions here. Or, in this case, missing the positioning of a quote mark.
Don't look at inequality from a justice perspective. Justice is a moral definition, and highly volatile, so the discussion would be endless. Look at it from a society efficiency point of view.

From an efficiency point of view, some inequality is interesting. You need to aggregate some capital for investments to occur, you need rich people for high risk investments to be possible. However, as in most systems, there is an optimum point. Beyond a certain level of inequality, the system becomes less efficient.

Herein lies the problem with the job creators argument. It is not fundamentally wrong, but it is wrong for the current level of inequality. We are past the optimum and, for society and the economy to gain efficiency, inequality must be reduced.
Sorry, you might be the author of Backbone, but this is one aspect that you might have gotten wrong. If you had considered it, there would have been more meat in Backbone.

Following your logic, we should all be writing code in assembler or even machine code. Higher levels of abstractions are always good and not everyone ( > 95% of the apps ) needs to fine tune their app to the last processor cycle.

If we are writing an app for a Rocket launcher or some high critical app like that then I would agree that the developer of that app shouldnt be using higher level abstractions / library / frameworks. But these are webapps for gods sake and the computers of today are perfectly capable of handling an average web app and provide 60fps rendering ( unless the developer is seriously stupid ) or in the worst case 30fps atleast (which is smooth enough ). The question is a tradeoff between how much performance you want and how much speed in development you want.

I am sure that for the average developer out there, Marionette or Chaplin will be faster than plain Backbone.
With all this talk about bubbles I'm starting to think there is a bubble bubble :P
Take a look at when Chargify was started and if the market was crowded then
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multi-domain certs are brittle, because you have to keep them up to date with all the domains you're serving.
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Error, man page, short usage. And the arrangement doesn't make much sense.
There are certainly attempts to do so. I've been meaning to try http://www.git-legit.org/
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It is wrong, but only because of the weirdness of how this works.
The call to strlen is not replaced with builtin_strlen, it defines both a builtin_strlen and a strlen.
Both are marked pure and nothrow.

Due to some wonderful oddness around freestanding environments, if you use -fno-builtin, it will define neither.
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Branches are just mutable pointers to commits. You're imposing a mental model onto Git that simply isn't present.

Git is revolutionary, in part, because instead of asking "what's the mental model we want to emulate and then never mind if that matches the implementation", they gave developers credit that they can understand a handful of simple concepts and made the actual design and data model as simple as possible. Programmers know what pointers, SHA-1 hashes, and DAGs are, so just use them.
Human Computation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlzM3zcd-lk

Captcha creator on how we can trick humans into doing useful work via "games with a purpose".
I'm surprised so many people in the tech community have fallen for this Ponzi Scheme.

For example, many heard about "some guy bought a $25 pizza with 10,000 bitcoins", but no one has thought about what this means. It means someone now has that 10,000 "coins" (which is close to 2'000,000).

This also means someone had this amount (and possibly much more).

And, finally, no one questions who posseses the first "coins".

That's why the creator is anonymous.

Just my 2 cents.
Transform XPath map into XML document using relational data?
How is it not immoral? Why should employees work full time yet still need food stamps to get by, while employers see record profits? How is it moral to not pay someone a living wage, while the wages at the top go up?

http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate-subsidy-watch/hidden-...
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Jeez... the word 'bubble' seems to be thrown around every other day now.
Are you kidding

Did you notice my use of the smiley? That might be a hint that yes, I was kidding.
When I read your comment, I couldn't help but think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn3Xp2jkTZQ&t=116
Why do you need a law to ban something that is already illegal, or something that is intentionally protected by law? Trespassing and violating private legal activity is already illegal, and whistleblowing on criminal activity is protected by current law.
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A little backstory: this was written the last few days during Startup Weekend Madison, so it's very alpha. Why Startup Weekend? It gave us an excuse to block off the entire weekend and devote ourselves to this project. When we pitched it to the judges, we were highly confident we wouldn't win: we were right. :)

This wasn't created to make any money. It was created so that communities around the world could have their own API of things that matter to them. We welcome contributors! (it's MIT licensed)
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I'm surprised so many people in the tech community have fallen for this Ponzi Scheme.

For example, many heard about "some guy bought a $25 pizza with 10,000 bitcoins", but no one has thought about what this means. It means someone now has that 10,000 "coins" (which is close to 2'000,000).

This also means someone had this amount (and possibly much more).
And, finally, no one questions who posseses the first "coins".

That's why the creator is anonymous.
Just my 2 cents.
Go for Rubyists (ebook)
But instead of using the savings to be more generous to authors, the six major publishing houses — five of which were sued last year by the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division for fixing e-book prices — all rigidly insist on clauses limiting e-book royalties to 25 percent of net receipts.

Therein lies the problem: antiquated business model. The publisher in its current form is a dinosaur. Certainly we need curation and editing, but not for this level of cost.
Short Answer: No

Here is the redis author's blog post about that:
http://antirez.com/news/52

My guess is that SSD's would be beneficial in ensuring the Append-Only-File and RDB snapshots are faster.
I think you're on to something, there. If only I could manage my taxes with git...
Agreed. I had a side project that ended up driving adoption of several applications that had components from the project that saved the company over $100k per year in employee costs by automating things that were previously very manual.
I don't think it was a coincidence that this is a United flight.

I generally avoid United because of the older planes and bad service. However, my flight to Ithaca was delayed and I would have been stranded in Detroit, so I rebooked on the redeye on United last Wednesday.

I have never seen such a rude flight crew. It was unreal. Besides just regular rudeness in how they addressed people in order to get them to put their seats forward, put away phones, etc, there was one incident that really takes the cake.

After boarding had started, a woman ran to the restroom in the far rear of the plane. She was in there for several minutes, but this shouldn't have been an issue since she boarded early and people were still in the aisles trying to get bags put away. The plane didn't leave for at least 10 minutes after this.

So a crewmember knocked on the door to the bathroom, and told the woman that she needed to hurry up. She replied that it would just be a moment, and apologized. The crewmember then yelled that she was delaying the plane from departure (obviously a lie, but she couldn't tell from inside the bathroom). So a few seconds later she finally comes out looking embarassed, and the crewmember asked her, very loudly, "What's the matter? Are you sick or something?". The woman looked like she was going to die of embarrassment. She quietly replied that she was 2 months pregnant, and having morning sickness. Then she pushed her way to her seat trying not to make eye contact with anyone.

The other passengers in the rear of the plane with me were looking at each other in amazement. One gentleman said, fairly loudly, "what the fuck".

So now not only will I avoid United because they are a shitty airline, I will refuse to fly on their planes because they are incredible assholes. It is worth a few dollars to fly another airline and not reward United's unbelievably abusive behavior.
I'm surprised so many people in the tech community have fallen for this Ponzi Scheme.
For example, many heard about "some guy bought a $25 pizza with 10,000 bitcoins", but no one has thought about what this means. It means someone now has that 10,000 "coins" (which is close to 2'000,000).
This also means someone had this amount (and possibly much more).
And, finally, no one questions who posseses the first "coins".
That's why the creator is anonymous.
Just my 2 cents.
Might aswell make it ie8countdown.com
I'm surprised so many people in the tech community have fallen for this Ponzi Scheme.

For example, many heard about "some guy bought a $25 pizza with 10,000 bitcoins", but no one has thought about what this means. It means someone now has that 10,000 "coins" (which is close to 2'000,000).
This also means someone had this amount (and possibly much more).

And, finally, no one questions who posseses the first "coins".

That's why the creator is anonymous.

Just my 2 cents.
Isn't guaranteed buyback part of the definition of all leases, not just on luxury cars?

Every lease I've been a part on (none luxury) has the buyback price in the contract.
>The idea is to approximate the density of P(x) while trying to reject as little as possible. Hence less wasteful.

The idea is to approximate P(x) period. Rejecting as little as possible means nothing other than one's choice of proposal was poor. There are published works stating the optimal acceptance probability in high dimensions is 23.4% (see the work of Roberts et al (1997)). I think if one wanted to reject as little as possible one would have, albeit naïvely, tuned to a much higher acceptance rate.
Bet there's some older "sacred cow" app or web portal that they connect to that REQUIRES IE6.

Saw that in a former job, and when inquired about updating, "it would cost too much" was the typical response.
Sure, but we have obvious "chilling effects" when a law is explicitly written to combat a specific recently witnessed fact pattern, and the law is unconstitutional not only in some theoretical future fact pattern, but also in its well-documented primary intent.
I'm surprised so many people in the tech community have fallen for this Ponzi Scheme.

For example, many heard about "some guy bought a $25 pizza with 10,000 bitcoins", but no one has thought about what this means. It means someone now has that 10,000 "coins" (which is close to 2'000,000). This also means someone had this amount (and possibly much more).

And, finally, no one questions who posseses the first "coins".

That's why the creator is anonymous.

Just my 2 cents.
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When glancing over laptops at the coffee shop is this what you see: http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/160230-libretto_orig...
In Urban Neighborhoods, More Trees Equals Less Crime
As an outsider, it appears to me that almost the entire US legal and political system is driven by, and for the benefit of, corporate and big business interests. The only other major factor at work seems to be fear - witness the ever increasing power of the TSA

Probably appears worse than it is, but it does appear to be in a pretty sad state now.

The Founding Fathers are probably turning in their graves.
This debate has been covered to death in other sources. The majority of scientists disagree with you. It might be because there is a vast conspiracy; it might because most peoples' values differ from yours; or it might be because we know neuroscience better than you do

EDIT: Just to make clear, I don't want this to be taken as a wholehearted endorsement of the treatment of the animals in the Silver Springs case. There were some questionable practices. However, I feel that there was a scientific reason to be performing the general class of experiments.
Plastic SCM's free-as-in-beer desktop diff/merge tools include enhanced diff functionality, including help when refactoring:

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Thanks for a mature discussion on a topic where most discussions fall into abysmal stereotypes and prejudice.

Great article; best of luck to you guys :)
"Professional" is bad enough. "Criminal" is far worse.
When bitcions are bought, people are transfering "real" value (USD or any other government backed currency) into the Bitcoin system where the value is being held. When they sell Bitcoins they are removing value from the system.

These two sentences may be the perfect summary of how misguided the Bitcoin community is.

There is no value transferred into or out of the Bitcoin system when people buy or sell Bitcoins from each other. AAPL doesn't get money when I buy 1 share of AAPL from someone and they don't lose money when I sell 1 share of APPL to somebody. Because every purchase of AAPL is also a sale and every sale is also a purchase.
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Git flow esque helpers, designed with github in mind
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If you rebase a lot, then you want to avoid pushing code constantly until you get it where you want it.
Right, and that's why this lawmaking behavior is so wrong.
> This has some real promise. Congrats!

Thanks!

> Are you planning to parse PHP?

Sure, more languages are on the way! The problem with PHP, however, is that when it is used in a HTML page as template language, you can't get much from it. On the other side, when it is a simple class file with no HTML markup, things should work as with any other language.
How does it ever get in the way? Just add `-a` and you can essentially ignore that there is an index on commits.
Tony Hoare's CSP Paper Implemented in Go
Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Laws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk

Incredible talk for both the content and the form ! There is so much we could learn from him.
Git does it on `git commit -a`.
I was partly responding to my own irritation with the underlying premise of the article. If Tor is being used maliciously to deliver or receive an encrypted payload on your computer or network, it isn't a problem caused by Tor. Furthermore, Tor has an enormous social benefit.

In other words, my first reaction was that it is harmful to attack the technology, but realized that is a silly argument for obscurity. Publishing a vulnerability, and more people publicly searching for vulnerabilities is a good thing, since authoritarian actors will just exploit what they find without any disclosure.
But MS-DOS and Win16 isn't software anyone still have to deal with when making new content because the software isn't used by anyone to deal with any content, only legacy software that won't hurt anyone. It's isolated.

But a browser doesn't get stuck in time like a OS does when it dies, they don't surf on the same Web as when they were popular while an old outdated OS still runs its old outdated software just fine. MS-DOS and Win16 also weren't garbage, IE6 is.
Let's worry about that case after we've handled the 99% of cases where omnivorance is not supported by ethical practices.
Really annoying on an iPad while zooming in on the text.
In light of Mr Kernighan's quote:

> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

I was advised that one should code stoned, debug caffeinated, and document drunk.
Awesome. And I think a lot of you will enjoy this Neil deGrasse Tyson keynote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLzKjxglNyE
I wonder, why noone turned off traffic lights or something like that to do mischief?

Also, why no terrorist yet used those security failures to do terror?

Once a random dude managed to log into ISS controls... Ever wondered what happens if some terrorist crash ISS into New York?
What you described is how git thinks of branches.

Most developers think of branches as something they commit to. Therefore they are surprised when later they can't tell which branch they committed to.

This could trivially be fixed with porcelain that puts the name of the branch the commit was made to at the end of the commit message.

The issue of branches not really being branches is not unique to git; most VCs I've ever used have had significant differences between what you would think of as a branch and actual branches (SVN doesn't even have branches, except as a convention).
I've seen that @TinyProof tends to use multiple tweets to prove a single result, whereas @ProofInATweet tried to get the whole thing in a single tweet. Both are difficult challenges, and both have limited use.

Interesting idea, though.
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Excellent article. What I find surprising about many psychological studies is that they try to analyze why a particular therapy works or doesn't work, but no one seems motivated to find out why -- to shape a scientific, testable theory about therapy. This applies with equal justice to psychology itself -- it's nearly all description without explanation. This may explain why psychology is gradually being eclipsed by neuroscience.

Related: http://arachnoid.com/building_science
Haduh.. mau post pertamax gagal deh.
Maybe Linux kernel devs deserve that credit, but it's becoming increasingly clear that developers as a whole don't deserve that credit.
Does WebKit face a troubled future now that Google is gone?
>no one questions who posseses the first "coins".

This is thoroughly documented https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining
They can remove you for just about any reason they choose

All sorts of businesses can freely refuse service, right? Certainly if they do it in grounds of things like race they will get sued, but generally speaking no business is required to serve you. Airlines are businesses.
All phpers are now offended? haha, must be true than!
This is exactly what I'm talking about. The US has no monopoly on the right to free expression, silence when talking to the police, protection against double jeopardy and so on. It is a peculiar kind of American exceptionalism that imagines other liberal democracies suffer under quasi-tyrannical legal systems by comparison.

The US Constitution's protection of the right to firearms, which actually is an outlier among liberal democracies, is also a case in point of its essentially 18th century conception of rights and governance. The Second Amendment is based on the quaint idea that individual liberties can only be secured through the constant threat of civilian rebellion and violence against the government.

Nearly every other liberal democracy regulates and restricts ownership and use of firearms far more than the US does, and those countries have no more fallen into tyranny than the US has - in fact, those countries tend to have governments that are more responsive and accountable to their citizens than the US, in addition to having rates of gun violence that are orders of magnitude lower.

I would respectfully submit that the common American assumption that the government cannot be trusted to do anything right is self-fulfilling.
One of my favorites is Alan Kay "Programming and Scaling"
http://www.tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/
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Not your usual list.
I think it's a great practice. We've received some of the most valuable feedback for matchist (https://matchist.com/talent) from our users by simply asking.

You'd be surprised at how many people are willing to give honest feedback when you personally email them and let them know you're completely open to their honest opinion.
The reason the value of bitcoins is going up is because people who buy bitcoins expect that others will pay a higher price for it in the future.

That has a much shorter name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

The price of the Mona Lisa won't go down because the art community won't let it. It can do that because there is only 1 Mona Lisa. Such a force doesn't exist with Bitcoins.
I'm glad I read it, because I never would have known about XProc otherwise, but a lot of his specific complaints are moot today. XProc apparently supports directory listing out of the box and there is now a zip module for it. In any case you could extend these tools with your own code if you wanted to continue to use them, they all offer extension points (mostly in Java, sadly, but a directory listing is just a directory listing).

His overall point is not moot but at the same time I'm not all that sympathetic. As you dig deeper and deeper into the XML ecosystem you learn that more and more of it is really only there so that there can be an XML answer for every problem. I doubt many people see the benefits of a comprehensive XML ecosystem (frankly, I doubt that the benefits are all that meaningful) but if you don't see the point then you're engaging in pointless masochism by trying to use it. That he solved his problems by going outside the XML ecosystem suggests that he doesn't really perceive the benefit of it, which makes the whole exercise a little circular. "I like sweets and I don't like vegetables, and I discovered that if I put sugar on my vegetables I like them better than if I don't." Yeah, that's what I'd expect you'd find.
The point isn't that video tapers should be prosecuted as anything other than as trespassers. The point is that the constitutionality of the law derives from the same place. It is not an exercise of free speech to go onto private property to do pretty much anything.
Seems to be back online now.
Great stuff, Kelvin..

Look forward to run some of my apps there.
You're basically gold to any agency here then :)

Development + Design is like finding a unicorn. You should be aiming much higher then 70k.
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