skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a thread from a month ago that has some really great tips, "Ask HN: Those with intense focus, how do you do it?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5550366
hg strip saves the stripped commits under .hg/strip-backup as a bundle.
That is only true if you believe that (a) our laws are just, (b) the police only ever make honest mistakes, and (c) that it is right to arrest anyone who breaks the law. In other words, you have to be so far down the right side of the political spectrum that anything short of a fascist tyranny would appear "leftist" by comparison.
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As someone with the good fortune to work for Mozilla full-time, thank you.
What may be the most revolutionary finding as more ancient Islamic manuscripts are preserved by digitization and shared with scholars around the world is the known fact (known to specialized scholars, that is) that there isn't a certain ancient text for the Quran. Just like the case with the Bible, manuscript copyists made their best efforts to copy accurately the manuscripts before them as they made new manuscripts, but mistakes happened once in a while. And, just as in the case of the Bible, tracing the copied texts back to the earliest available manuscripts, and reconstruction of what the earliest probable form of the text was, doesn't provide certainty about the original "words of God" found in the texts. (That's equally true of the Hebrew scriptures also important to Jews and of the Greek scriptures known as the New Testament.) The gradual spread of knowledge of textual criticism (that's the name of this study as a field of scholarship) in the Christian world is helping to reduce "fundamentalist" tendencies among Christians. In the Islamic world, there is a much smaller percentage of Muslims who are aware that their holy book too has many varied copies, and there is no certainty about the original text of the Quran. As this awareness increases, that could be helpful in reducing conflict over supposed divine commands that were man-made in the first place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism

http://www.amazon.com/Textual-Criticism-Quran-Manuscripts-Ke...

http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Text/criticaltext.html
They will fight against e-currencies not because of protecting fiat currency but because of fighting anonymous payments.

Providing anonymous payments currently is illegal in pretty much all of the world; No matter how you design an e-currency, it has to be either (1) non-anonymous, (2) insignificantly small so that noone cares, or (3) temporary, since any payment service providing businesses will be closed down.

In essence, if you can send me money to be forwarded to person X; then that is heavily regulated, and unless I apply for special protection and licencing, I will (a) be completely liable for the transferred amount if the money "is criminal" - even if you/someone else stole it, and I "just" forwarded it; and (b) be fined for providing such services without the many mandatory consumer protections, such as having capital/bonds to guarantee full payment to everyone even if I go bankrupt.
It even contradicts itself. With the current title, the prefix should be "Accuse PG:".
This is the way the law works and should not be a surprise. He has an established documented history of harming people and the court failed to see a legitimate artistic merit of his case. Fortunately, he can take these arguments to the appellate court.
Or, pay him via his parents. Somehow we manage to have child actors get paid by movie studios; there must be a way for them to be able to pay children bug bounties, if they actually wanted to.
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Edit: There's a torrent:
http://linuxtracker.org/?page=torrent-details&id=ce423ed...

I'm stopping and editing out my own torrent because this one's already up and running.
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Every project has the right to chose the VCS that they feel is right for them. However I find the reasons they give for the switch are pretty weak except for the last one (github is more popular).

1. Repository size: Such size differences are uncommon, and mostly likely due to the fact that the git repo was a brand new repo created from scratch by converting the original hg repo. If they repacked the mercurial repo it would probably be greatly reduced in size. They could also do:

hg convert --config "extensions.convert=" --branchsort sqlalchemy sqlalchemy-smaller

Which results in a reduction of the repository size from 45 MB in the original to 24 MB in the converted repo. This is not as good as git but quite close IMHO.

2. This is not correct: Mercurial bookmarks _used_ to be an extension (a long time ago!) but they have been built into mercurial for a long time now. They are basically equivalent to git branches. So nowadays this is just a process issue. If using named branches is a problem just tell your devs to not use them and use bookmarks instead!

3. Mercurial's rebase and mq extensions are part of core mercurial. They are packaged and distributed with mercurial, their test suites are part of the mercurial test suite and they are supported and developed by the core mercurial developers. The only difference between a core command and one of the official extensions is that these must be manually enabled to be user (by adding a line to the mercurial config file). This is a good thing! This makes it harder to mess up your repo if you do not know what you are doing. If you are not knowledgeable enough to find and edit the mercurial config file you should definitely not be using rebase or collapsing your changesets.

The last reason on the other hand is one that I can understand and which I think has merit. Is it worth the hassle of changing their DVCS system? Perhaps. However it bothers me when legitimate _social_ reasons to switch from mercurial to git are supported by not quite as clear cut technical reasons such as the ones put forward in this blog post.
This thing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XWXJDgbeP0
That was extremely enjoyable to read.
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Here are the options:
a) keep silent,
b) exploit it,
c) tell them,

c) is the worst option; there are enough examples of people getting busted for "hacking", double so for hacking a competitor.
b) is better. If done with caution you will not get busted, and you will get richer.
a) is an acceptable altenative. You will not make money, but you won't get busted either.

It's sad, but we live in a time where honor and fair dealing is not recognized, and we must live with it.
The number on HN lately seems to be 300,000.
Maybe he's saying that nerds should be treated as separate but not equal, in that they should be allocated their own space (SV suburbs like MTV, MLP) and not allowed to mix with the cool people in SF where they would creep out the girls.
I'm not sure whether you'd still have access to cookies, but it's entirely feasible to include a script which will then submit the POST request.
Email addresses and site-specific passwords already work just fine as a decentralized identity service. You can run your own email server(s) on your own domain(s), if you feel it necessary. Then again, you can use some other provider. Either way, basically everybody online already has at least one email account, if not several. Anyone who wants an email address, or even another one, can easily get one. Persona is trying to solve a problem that just doesn't exist, so it's no wonder we see so little adoption of it.

With FirefoxOS, Mozilla is skating to where the puck was in 2008. Android and iOS, among many others, just got there far earlier. FirefoxOS's HTML5/JavaScript/CSS approach looks much less appealing when it's also available on every other major platform, in addition to native approaches that these other platforms offer when performance or special functionality is needed.
I haven't read it, so I'm judging solely off of the title at this point, but, morally/philosophically/ethically right isn't the same thing as legally right.

And the world might be better if everyone was equal, there's no guarantee to equality. I was reading something earlier today, and there was a statement that implied that being human meant that someone had the right to be a 'full and productive' member of society. I question if that's really a right, and if so, what makes it so that humans have such a right, but not other animals (one could argue intelligence, but the arguments I've seen based on intelligence have only been surface deep, as in 'because intelligence').

Maybe I should read it (I've just put it on my list of things to read at some point). I can't really make a claim for or against arguments put in the book without reading them (and the Amazon reviews don't really want to go into any depth on what the arguments made are).
I appreciate your anecdotes, and I'll respond with one of my own.

I went to college with two people. (More, maybe!) Not people I knew that well, but it was a very small school. They were both written up ("infracted") for marijuana use-- I forget if as part of the same incident or just very close in time. One of these people was a girl from a wealthy family that paid cash in full; the other was a boy from some impoverished corner of the country who had earned a full-ride-plus scholarship. You know how this ends.

Now, marijuana use is not a crime in Massachusetts, so the institutional punishment was as draconian as it was mild. They had both used up their one warning on previous, unrelated infractions, so they both got the same deal: A hundred-dollar fine, a letter to the parents, and social probation.

Well, that's what the wealthy one got. The poor kid also had to deal with the fact that his scholarship had a clause indicating that being placed on probation, being cited for drug use, or some combination of the two (I don't recall preicsely) made him ineligible.

Yes, it was a very expensive school-- It was a very good school, and he had worked hard to prove he deserved to be there despite not being able to pay for it. But it wouldn't really have made a difference if it had been half or a quarter as much. And for all that we who could afford to be in debt were wealthy on paper, it gave us no ability to help him. In fact we were all servants of the same patron; he was just a little closer to going home.

So the slap on the wrist was de facto expulsion. This kid couldn't even afford to go home for the holidays-- somebody had to drive him to the airport. Somebody had to pay for his ticket home. And when he got home...

Well, to be honest, I don't know what happened. I haven't seen him on Facebook lately.

When I think of first-world poverty, I think about the difference between these two people. If one of them is free, the other must be something else.
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Are you suggesting that Google is capable of aesthetic judgment?
can this be pointed at bash scripts?
The biggest problem is that when you have a good admin, things will run smoothly, but few will attribute that to his work.
The fact that social media sites often link to biased stories that exaggerate a situation has nothing to do with the political leaning of any particular reader. Please leave the personal attacks on your make-believe political opponent to other forums. Neither rayiner nor jrockway said anything that implies they're "to the right" or don't believe abuse of the law ever happens; they just asked for some other reporting of the situation than a petition site for the defendant.
Oh no, white kid from the suburbs too? Time to get outraged.
Paypal being penny wise but pound fool.

The next person who'll discover something, will probably monetize it on the black market.
Nobody is saying that those influences don't exist. We're merely saying that it's pointless to try to combat them without market share. Products that nobody uses will have essentially no impact, even if they're more "open" than the more popular products.

Mozilla had some influence a few years ago, but they've been making decisions and taking actions that appear to be eroding that influence. If the current trends continue, their influence will continue to diminish. If they're striving for an "open" web, they're going to need influence to have any real impact.
How do you know if someone at a party is working for YCombinator startup? Don't worry, he/she will tell you.

The advice is "broken record" and it will be ignored by majority of young engineers. Working for a cool startup is very very cool. Working for big corporation is not cool (and considered evil if that corporation is Microsoft or Oracle).

And that is actually good for economy, for startups, for VCs, and for engineers (not in monetary sense but they will become wiser).
The maker replied to me in a comment below - it won't work in Mobile Safari, but now it only sends the first frame, so the page will finish loading and it won't eat up bandwidth.
Why are they not scanning/digitizing the whole collection and putting it online as part of this fundraiser? If they want money to simply keep these in some library or other, that doesn't excite me as much as helping make them available to the whole world.

EDIT: Here is part of the reply I received about scanning the collection: "Preservation needs to happen first. The
manuscripts will be destroyed by the humidity if they are not boxed within the next couple of months."
Make it the center of your new home brew cruise missile or octocopter (heavy though), turn it into a really snazzy media player, build a gantry mill and use the PI to control it. So many ideas, so little time...
Terrorism, particularly when it's cell-based, amorphous, and decentralized, is hard to label. But the title here is a clear example of wanton laziness.

1) Linkages are very distinct from identity. The UK is linked with the EU, and it's also simultaneously linked with the USA. We don't refer to, though, "USA Prime Minister David Cameron." Journalists love to drop the Al-Qaeda linkage line, but it's driven mostly by a desire to drive home the (true) point that these are murderous barbarians who cloak their actions in Islamic rhetoric and who are highly inimical to American interests.

And how closely are they linked? The head of Ansar Dine is a cousin to a commander of Al-Qaeda. No shared military exercises; no consolidated HR department; nothing of the sort. So basically a familial tie and a shared embrace of violence and Islamism, at least that I know of. So not only is the equation of linkage and identity deeply problematic, but the linkages seem to be of a weak sort.

2) The Al-Qaeda that Ansar Dine is being linked to is a different entity than the Al-Qaeda that's well-known in the USA. Indeed, it had an entirely different name on 9/11: the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. It changed names about five years ago to cash in on Al-Qaeda's notoriety.

Why am I obnoxiously making a big deal about it, especially since I agree with the fundamental point that these are Bad People who share many attributes with Al-Qaeda? I like facts. Not just as a good in themselves, but because if there is a fact that's being ignored or misstated, people's understanding of reality is also going to be warped, leading to bad outcomes. If people think Al-Qaeda's nth in command is burning books in Timbuktu, it simultaneously makes people not understand how fundamentally the Al-Qaeda that planned 9/11 has been destroyed, and it implicitly suggests to them that to fix various Islamic fundamentalist problems we just need to do a more thorough job of disrupting Al-Qaeda's organizational structure, when that's not the issue at all.
> "but I didn't understand what private buses have to do with real estate prices."

It's pretty simple. These companies are located very far outside of the city, but a substantial portion of their employee base prefer urban lifestyles. So companies run these bus lines into the city in order to attract said employees.

The normal housing demand in San Francisco is proportionate to the number of jobs in San Francisco. Now the housing demand is all the jobs in San Francisco and all the jobs in the Valley - and that's a lot of extra jobs. By running these bus lines Google, Facebook, et al have successfully unloaded a lot of the housing demand from their local areas into the city, raising prices sharply.
A win for who?

My name is not RMS, I do not eat my own toe jam and have a superiority complex that compels me to dictate to others what they should do.

I couldn't care less if someone else uses Linux. I care about Debian being a stable and secure OS for the servers I manage.
If anybody is looking for something to do with this, consider writing a KVM-like virtual machine host which is barebones enough to boot from coreboot.

I've dreamed of a checkpointed VM which could be used to press a key and fork the running system, or instantly reboot to a usable state when a fault occured, but was small enough to fit in a flash ROM and boot in milliseconds.

The last attempt was linux+QEMU and was to large for most boards supported by coreboot.
Just think how much more enjoyable it would be if futurists kept their analyses and predictions to themselves until there was some actual evidence to support them though.

I predict that as a group they'd be much more respected.

Of course, we'd have to come up with a new name for them. "Histori...sts"
looks like they have a data center near Montreal Canada. Those are some insanely low prices for dedicated servers. I'm glad someone finally brought over Europe's low cost model to North America. I will definitely check them out for my next project.
The trouble with predicting random events
right idea, wrong place wrong time. Gas is becoming cheaper but there exist people who are buying electric cars just because they have money. Such people don't travel so far with their car to need switching their batteries. They normally travel to work. So if you want to solve a problem start with the problem not the solution!
That kind of thinking is nice and all in the academic world, but in the real world a philosophy is absolutely useless unless some person or organization has the ability to put those ideas in to practice.

By losing market share, Mozilla is losing influence, which will inhibit their ability to introduce more "openness". Their philosophy will become far less useful, and its value will decrease, if it can't actually be implemented.
That's cool you guys are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. If you really want to defend the first amendment, look into Bradley Manning & John Kiriakou.
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I was speaking more of the PSP[1] (python server pages) component of mod_python, but I guess that component was released later in 2004[2].

Note: I make no recommendation for its usage. I personally consider 'start with html and add dynamic bits', for anything beyond the trivial, as an anti-pattern.

[1]: http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/pyapi-psp.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Server_Pages
I guess it depends on the scope. We had to write a minimalistic word processor in a 4th-year CS class at my low-mid-tier university.
I just realized that I am willing to part with a considerable wealth if war is waged on neutralizing groups which destroy knowledge or monuments; ancient or otherwise.
Thanks! I did look for a way to do that, and failed to find it....
I think what you may be missing is that AWS offers a lot more than EC2. In fact EC2 may well be the least significant offering they have.

- Using other AWS services significantly decreases number of subject one has to figure out how to operate. Use simpledb/dynamo/rdb as the data store, route 53 for DNS, SQS as the queue service, ELB as the load balancer, SES for emails, etc. In addition, there are services provided by 3rd party services that one can use New Relic, App First for monitoring, MailChimp for email newsletters, etc.

It's not that you cant' do these things yourself, but installing, configuring and maintaining each of these solutions takes time, and most startups don't have the bandwidth and/or the expertise in all these. Letting AWS handle at least some of these makes it possible to do the rest of the tasks properly.

- Pay as you go structure makes it easy to create testing and staging environments that are almost same as production with minimal additional cost.

- I find that we don't spend much time troubleshooting OS related issues in production anymore. If there is a prb with one of the instances (and not the others), it often gets killed, and another one gets started within minutes.
Its become an umbrella term like mafia for organised crime. I'm surprised of a decade of its use in this fashion you still can't understand what people are referring to.
I get two inferences from this:

A) The people of this society are turning into safety-obsessed, overly politically correct weaklings

or

B) The two sides of the political spectrum exist to distract us while they both behind the scenes exist to remove our freedom

Unfortunately, I'd have to say I think both A and B are true.
I'd argue that it doesn't make any of the the "holy texts" any less ludicrous, but for people like me, who like to have this kind of resources for researching into our past, having this volume of texts digitized would be a godsend (pun intended :-)).
We all believe to be super genius, don't we ?

I really wonder what is the average QI (for what it counts) here on HN...
I second that: I definitely remember reading something in which Douglas Adams explained that he chose 42 arbitrarily. And I think he was surprised at and amused with everyone’s theories of the significance of the number.
There was a short BBC documentary, and an intervview with a high rank officer who was telling that wherever they go there were no Al-Qaeda. Only few locals that were armed, no organization called Al-Qaeda. Maybe it was this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mztfFdpd1Rk

Also http://gibiru.com/index.php/component/content/article/78-new... "There Is No 'Al Qaeda' -
Ex UK Foreign Secretary"

Also CIA Whistle Blower Susan Lindauer says that everyone knew that there is going to be false flag on before 9/11 but not exatly how. And she says that there were huge military transportain into near Afganistan befor 9/11, it was already been planned, she say.

As for Al-Qaeda, probably Bin Laden called himsef mujahdeen or somthing like that, but they are not international so big organization. I don't exacly remember but they were trying to establish Islamic republic or something like that in Afganistan. And I have no doupt that he was killed at the beggining of the war.

The name "Al-Qaeda" is nothing but propaganda. When someone is reffering to some organization in Somaila he should not call it Al-Qaeda, I think it is proper to call them "Islamit extremist form Somalia lead by XY".
Send them a message, suggest a stretch goal for digitizing. They might not have thought that far ahead, more concerned with immediate problems/threats.
Disgusting, also, how can anyone not see how all this shitty things your government does tends to make people like it even less? maybe breeding more 'terrorists'? That's the most recent terrorism problem, no? American citizens turning against their own country or something?

I've got to be honest on one thing here, I don't plan on shutting my mouth about how much I think this things are terrible, and I guess I must also not plan to set foot around there anytime soon, would I get locked up for hearing "Paris - Bring it to ya" and posting it to my Facebook? I certainly COULD, apparently, so I won't be going there... before, I thought it would be nice to know California, where most of my favourite bands come from, go to the Burning Man, do a road trip and know the country and all the famous places but I'm giving those up.