skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold on.

I don't mean to pick apart your comment but since you started off with a big bold nasty "WRONG" I don't feel so bad.

First, "branch and merging with ease" has nothing to do with "distributed SCM" tools. The branching model in Git is great of course but Mercurial for instance has a far different branching strategy. Bookmarks, which mimic Git branching, were added much later.

Second, while I do a lot of branching in Git, that has nothing to do with the branch selector on the Github UI.

Now, something that DOES, is the branch selector in the Pull Request screen which wasn't mentioned by the author but IMO should've been because that's the single worst part of the Github redesign.
Looks like Go optimizes this fully, as pointed out by https://twitter.com/nynexrepublic/status/350717895971586049

If you run these on your own machine and peek at the RSIZE, it stays constant (well, the first grows slowly due to `logIt`).

http://play.golang.org/p/A5Pz-3kthP
http://play.golang.org/p/RnXr_jB5Qh
> many in Congress insist that they never meant for the law to cover this level of surveillance

Too bad they never considered reading the patriot act before signing it...

Also, I think I'll need an XKCD graph to understand just when WP and NYT stopped being Obama puppets...
I find it so odd when people say "bad for democracy" when they just mean "bad".
Generate electricity by walking
I've been a salaried employee my whole career. All these patio11 articles are inspiring, but the main thing that intimidates me is I have no idea how to get started. How do you transition from an employee to a consultant?
Do you mean http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp ?

I hope Will Bond makes some money from that, given all the time (and hosting expenses) he puts in for the indispensable Sublime Package Control: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control
The problem with the Internet meme is that to be valid, as I understand it based on my reading, the search has to be incident to an actual recent border crossing. Merely living in NYC does not subject you to routine searches under the border search exemption. But that's what the meme says!
"You do understand that the dealer model came about to allow the manufactures to maintain production without having to directly deal with changing of sales patterns throughout the year don't you?"

I do, and it is entirely irrelevant to my point. You asked for an explanation of how sales can be good, even when the dealership experience is bad. I provided an explanation that depended on the existence of legislation to protect dealers. I wasn't debating the merits of the legislation to protect dealers, just noting that it exists.
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Clearly the idea of pi and tau are both wrong, since they make the 2d circle the reference instead of the 1d circle.
Notice the formula for the volume of an n-ball is proportional to pi^(n/2)r^n! Define tau properly, and could become (tau r)^n!!

Also notice how many other cases outside of 2d geometry uses sqrt(pi) or sqrt(2pi). The gamma function, normal distribution, stirling approximation etc. are all full of it, and when you rarely need pi or tau, adding a ^2 is much nicer than always having to draw a big ugly sqrt.

I don't mind tau especially, but it is seems the wrong battle to fight. Sqrt(pi) also has mythical powers: http://www.squarerootofpi.com/
This is a really interesting article!
As a designer that codes, i'd really like to remove most of github's grayness. They seem to do a lot of excessive bordering and gray layers. You could remove almost all of it, without making the UI harder to use.
Are you trying to use packages or create them?
You do not have LAMP on your Windows box.
Shouldn't the leaders of the free world set the best example for free countries to aspire to?

No one begrudges the US, UK, or any other country having spies and what not. They are essential to peace. Remember the point of spying is to understand your opponents real intentions. Imagine how vital it was to know that the USSR was NOT going to start WW3. Its all about how you use them.

I think part of problem here is the West using cold war apparatus to fight what is essentially civilian crime, which is what both drugs and terrorism are, after they lost "work" because of the fall of the USSR.
Is there a good cite for the 100-mile border search zone being "found wanting"? A court case or something? I'd like to be able to link that in discussions, if it's true.
Wiretap Report 2012
In case it's useful, I've been working on this code-oriented companion walkthrough for this post: https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/examples/w...
Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
Not that I have anything to add but I'm surprised this didn't take off here. It touches on so many things that frequently provoke interesting conversations on HN.
Interesting idea. I wonder how you'll deal with the problems with anonymity though. You've no record of who signed up for anything, and creating a page is easy. What will you do when someone puts child porn up? What about any other 'illegal' content? Copyrighted content? Libellous content?
I think we all know what he means, but you are right. WAMP, not LAMP :-)
> nothing up except for the GoDaddy splash page

Which markets content hosting services, one of the services Instagram has registered their federal trademark in. Your use of their mark in that market is likely infringing on their rights; it's not a baseless C&D request. Drop the domain or drop the GoDaddy splash page if you don't intend to enter one of the markets their name is protected in.
I don't take notes.

I learn better when I read the same thing over and over from different sources, which might have additional details or different points of view.

Not taking notes forces me to go back when I don't remember something, often finding new sources.
Right now I am more concerned with Brazil stuff...

But it would not surprise me in shorter term (less than 10 years):
Syria civil war dragging other countries on it or spreading to other countries.
Israel engaging some Shia country in actual war.
Eurozone disbanding or changing radically.
Bitcoin getting much stronger OR attracting governments worldwide to squash it with heavyhanded tactics.

Also medium term (about 5 to 20 years from now) is clear we will remain having issues related to debt, this will be particularly bad in the US, that will desperately try to maintain USD as world currency (because otherwise it cannot pay the huge army).
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Muslim Brotherhood want to pull-off something, but I don't figured yet what it is, also it depends on they winning Syria Civil war.
There is a chance (I am not much sure) that wars (civil and foreign) might happen in countries with a recent rise in far right nationalism (Greece, Japan, Brazil at least).

Long term:
UN breakup or centralisation of power... It right now is already quite unstable.
Reversal in pro-liberal viewpoints, might lead to extreme violence (ie: lots people actively killing gays, other races, immigrants, instead of isolated cases). - Regarding this, Brazil had some news today, government found out that since passing pro-LGBT laws, violence against LGBT is up 300%, with half of it coming from family members.
Instabilities as result of low birth rate and increasing life expectancy.

If you want the "why" of each stuff, feel free to ask. Also I might add that currently (instead of 10 years ago) predicting stuff is harder, because there are more forces at play, specially Anonymous and Cipherpunks, they have been consistently making me recalculate stuff, and I never expected their rise in first place (interestingly, Ghost in the Shell series did... kudos to them), and because of general instability on the world (more riots and protests are happening, and communication tech spreads news about them much faster, sometimes spurring more of them).

EDIT: if anyone know how to make line breaks in HN please tell me... it just took all my stuff and snagged into a single line :(
To reinforce the analogy: with the same key.
The surprise is that a non-referenced value isn't collected, not that a referred-to value isn't.
This article as a great deal more detail:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/7-aboard-u-s-boat-miss...
You don't actually need a paypal account to pay via paypal; you can use your credit card directly and never make an account.
Louisiana Voter Literacy Test (1964)
So many ideas :)

I have found that e-book writing is a nice way to get a product out of consulting engagement:

1- get a mission on an exotic platform or technology

2- read a lot about the subject, write your own documentation, format it nicely

3- you can sell it, but there's an even better side effect: you're now the guy who has written a book on the subject, which will get you more engagements...
Tesla Is Using Apple's iPhone Model To Revolutionize The Car Industry
Use your own username(s), or
Demo the app with these usernames:

Exfm: plapier

Hypem: phillapier

Soundcloud: phil-lapier
No, what the NSA is doing is illegal and unconstitutional:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.h...

That's why they keep their tortured legal pseudo-justification secret, because if it ever came to a public court, Federal judges would stop them collecting call records on millions of Americans for long periods of time. Read the link and discover why SCOTUS has said that long term surveillance violates the 4th Ammendment.
I'd gladly read that.

I'd also appreciate an option on the app to bypass the stories and cut straight to what ddg does best: no frills, no tracking search.
It's important for a programming language to have a technical person leading it. If the language development is managed by a business person without any academic IT background, you end up with smoke and mirrors.
Ghoti and the Ministry of Helth: Spelling Reform
Github's got a YouTube channel
Great response. Thank you.

I think the "after 8pm" part is the secret sauce of not feeling guilty about how you're allocating your time. You've found a chunk of time that you really shouldn't be working on your startup anymore...and it's a time slot where most people are wasting time watching TV, drinking, etc. Keeping productive at that time is awesome.

I like this so much, I might give 8pm blogging a try.
Related:

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coor...
Also, part of the gap is finding a payment method for $3/mo. Kids don't have credit cards of paypal accounts. Lots of parents don't want to sign-up for this mysterious thing called web hosting for their child. I haven't searched for free hosting in 10 years, so I don't know what's currently available, but there's definitely a market out there.
Loongson Alive and Well in Linux Kernel
Asking for a lawyer to comment:

Rejecting standing was how the SCOTUS disposed of Proposition 8; how does it compare to find a way to have standing for this issue? Yeah, I know it's something of an over-broad question, but I don't know enough to pare it down better.
Your vision is great, but which is the difference to open a blog on wordpress.com?
This:
"... recently, an unknown company brought a case before the FISA court which resulted in a secret 2011 holding that the NSA had violated the Fourth Amendment."

As well as the US government insistence that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD, used as an excuse to invade Iraq, yet no WMD were found. (Yellow cake uranium, etc)

With this kind of a track record how are we supposed to have confidence in the US intelligence apparatus?

This is a clear case of "it's not fascism when we do it."
Analysis of Korean War Anniversary Cyber Attack & Malware
every six months this is posted here.
Please stop.
Thanks
Best of Hacker News in May 2013 - A curated list
And people still complain about ObjC long method names...
Actually, most of the time it's explained as being needed to determine if the phone is in a call. Which sounds perfectly fine - I'd like music to stop or games to pause on incoming calls.

The fact that "phone state" is mixed up with Phone Unique ID is terrible.
Great insight! Thank you! If you have more thought on the matter, please share it!
CopCards: Cheatsheets for dealing with the police
Steve Blank: Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers” http://steveblank.com/2013/06/24/tesla-versus-rent-seekers/
Doesn't look like it. See the about page, I think that's a pretty good indicator he intends to host it (although might be open to selling a license).

Why isn't this project open-source?

Ultimately I'd like DevDocs to provide me with some income so I can keep improving it over the long-term. Until I figure out how to do that I've decided to keep the project closed-source. If you have comments or ideas about this I'd love to hear them.
First time I've seen it
Of the things that get posted to HN on an average day, this technical, interesting, well-written piece that shows up every several months is the one that really bothers you to see? I've read it before too, but its having become part of the site's recurring culture seems… not so bad to me.
link to previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196
Steve Wozniak on Google Glass: "Oh my gosh, I want one already"
Good to hear. How many of those are developers?
Open bounties are listed on the project pages: https://www.bountysource.com/#trackers/48759-jshint
Kinda shameful that DPI scaling has never been a thing in Linux. I'm glad it's being worked on. I'll keep a Linux install kicking around once Wayland and/or Mir land with this stuff.
I'm trying to create packages.

I haven't been able to find a decent tutorial on creating packages. That particular section in "Learn Python the Hard Way" was hard for ME to follow. I was able to create a package but only after finding a link on stackoverflow question that then redirected me to a github page containing a sample package from an individual who also had problems. He states that his package worked but he wasn't sure if he created the package correctly.

I've tried reading the python documentation but I'm too dumb to understand some of the language. (No CS background, just a regular dude and a computer here.)
99% of the time you'll just type `git clone gh:user/repo.git`, or copy from the URL bar.
The 12 best designs from the past 100 years
Would you consider saving time on web shopping?
What to do if you need to look for some goods or services, but are too busy to lose time on googling and web browsing?
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Wanna try?
Am I the only one who had fingers in ears regarding Google Reader death until this week?
That's not so bad compared to the other permissions on there. With Facebook, I'd guess (maybe incorrectly) you're already listing your phone number on there and they'll eventually get it anyway. I'd like to know the reason behind some other things on that permissions list...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.k...

* Directly call phone numbers:
Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Note that this doesn't allow the app to call emergency numbers. Malicious apps may cost you money by making calls without your confirmation.

* Read phone status and identity:
Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.

* Write call log:
Allows the app to modify your device's call log, including data about incoming and outgoing calls. Malicious apps may use this to erase or modify your call log.

* Read call log:
Allows the app to read your device's call log, including data about incoming and outgoing calls. This permission allows apps to save your call log data, and malicious apps may share call log data without your knowledge.

Account management I can understand. Location makes sense for checking-in and what not. Reading/modifying contacts also makes sense if you'd like it to manage your contacts automatically.

The call logs are the ones that really confuse me. The only thing I can think of that would make sense is charging for Facebook Credits via your carrier and trying not to confuse the user into thinking they're getting charged twice (once via the Facebook App and once more via the phone call).
In high school we took an example of a literacy test that was completely different. It asked questions about the contents of the constitution. For example, one question was the exact date that the new Congress starts. No one, even in AP US History, would have been able to vote.

Of course, the real problem with the tests were the grandfather clauses ("If your grandfather voted, you automatically qualify"), white people administering the tests, and pure intimidation if you tried to vote.
instead of complaining about posting to hn something you have chosen to post publicly on the internet, consider not to publish it at all. if it is meant to be be seen only by email subscribers you could just, you know, put the story directly in email, not on your web site.

or is this just another way of self promotion?
What’s in a ‘G’? Why terms like 5G and LTE-Advanced are important
Likewise. It's one of the best posts I've read on growing an audience.
Just make a page with pure content - no layout, no styles. It looks good in text browser or piped through htmlfmt yet unreadable for most users.
Here's a compilation of 7-Zip benchmark results that includes the Loongson 2F CPU: http://www.7-cpu.com/. The Loongson 2F beats the CPU found in the SheevaPlug on compression scores but scores slower on decompression.

Other than GNU/Linux [1] Lemotes can also run OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html.

Sadly, I was unable to find out which exact model of the Lemote Yeeloong RMS currently uses. His website [2] certainly doesn't tell us and neither do the interviews.

[1] I feel that the "GNU" is mandatory here.

[2] http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
It's a nice improvement (specially with the huge language bar gone), and the header image would look great, but I still think the two-column layout is a step back. Right-hand menus are a bit weird, and it makes everything below "the fold" left-aligned, total waste of screen area.
There seems to be a bit of disconnect between the multiple, fundamental flaws with the unit, and the recommendation for its use at the end. The degree of pain and suffering the author is willing to go through for a completely FOSS system is pretty incredible.
I don't see how that part of standard mandates that all anomymous functions share the same closure. The example only has a single lambda.
Many do the transition by having the former employer become the first consultancy client.

There's also agencies that can help you, though this will typically get you into the role of a contractor, basically a hired temp, than of a consultant. But it's a common path to go from contractor for a client through an agency -> consultant for own clients.
The A380, what? No, 747 obviously far superior, please, Oh I see, it is CNN, that explains it.
I've said this before, but privacy activists need to get in bed with the hardcore conservatives on this one. Surveillance could be used to impose more aggressive policing of taxes, it could be used to track gun purchases and use, it could be used to track anti-abortionists, it could be used to spy on religious groups, etc. Is the NSA spying on state and local governments? Could surveillance be used to get a "47%" type soundbite to torpedo a future conservative candidate?

Couching this debate in national security terms is a losing proposition, because conservatives tend to want to defer to the federal government in national security situations, and liberals are just ecstatic to finally have a President who isn't seen as "weak." And hanging out with the libertarians is pointless, because they do not and never will have any voting power in the U.S. But there is tremendous potential here for an appeal to the frothy Tea-party base of conservatives because there is a lot about NSA surveillance that is contrary to their interests, or at least they would understand so if the message were cast in their language.
I regret never getting around to obtaining enough karma to be able to down vote that post. That is a completely false analogy. It's more along the lines of: "Indeed, just like if they can wiretap my son's girlfriend, because her father was from Sweden, then they could tap mine, sooner or later"
Wow. That does seem like a rather blatant ripoff of the icon design.
You may want to refer to this thread: Ask HN: Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5945865 Lots of great advice there.

As for how to "get started," find something you're good at, find someone who has a related problem, offer to solve it for them at a discount because you are learning how to do this "solve problems for money" thing. Then, lather, rinse, raise your rate, repeat.
The video was already embedded in the Lanyrd page linked to above.
"The formula that was struck down identified jurisdictions subject to preclearance as those with a history of a voting test or device and less than 50 percent voter registration or turnout as of 1964, 1968 or 1972."

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2013/06/25-sup...

The decision hinged upon this very narrow point. Congress' decision to require preclearance was not declared unconstitutional on its own. The problem was that the formula for deciding who required preclearance is a static rule that does not allow for the evaluation of any events after 1972. Therefore, regardless of how much a state or other jurisdiction changes, they could not change their status under this law. If they were originally on the preclearance list, never had another voting anomaly, elected minorities to every position in the state, and had 100% minority turnout, for decades on end, they would remain on the preclearance list, because of what happened 40 years ago.

Chief Justice John Roberts even wrote in his opinion that congress is free to make new legislation that has the same consequences. But it must rely on current data to evaluate jurisdictions.
>Second, while I do a lot of branching in Git, that has nothing to do with the branch selector on the Github UI.

My thoughts exactly.