skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm not sure how much of an influencing factor it was to the project as a whole, but from my own experience I think their choice of using RoR prevented a lot of developers from joining in.

compare this:
npm install diaspora

to this:
https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Installation/Ubuntu/Rari...
You cannot book a hotel without a credit card? That's just incorrect.
Actually it's Designed by Apple in California. But I agree with you I liked it better when it was subtle.
In general, yes. My friends in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland all notoriously shy away from CC.

Interestingly my friend in Switzerland couldn't finance his car purchase. You either have to lease or buy the car in cash. Yes, full cash payment. For an American, that's baffling...our whole car industry is based off of credit (and perhaps quite indirectly related to it's demise.)
We're thinking about it, but it's not clear to us that we can create an abstraction that fits nicely with everything else. I'm not sure that the additional complexity would be worth it. Definitely open to any suggestions.
If it was me, I think I'd work very hard to fix the "no friends" bit before even considering the future financial independence bit. Your mental wellbeing is far more important than being wealthy.
It is a good question, though in this case it could actually cut in the other direction. Stripe is a US company, which means that - from a German perspective - your data is less secure there. Think NSA and industrial espionage, obviously, but also think different data protection standards. The official legislation tends to be better in Europe when it comes to privacy, and this is especially true in Germany.
When I tried to use them, they required me to mail in a bunch of paperwork. Stripe doesn't.
Perhaps it's because there is only so much expression in our genetics. Don't think of it as if you lost something. Think of it as if you are investing and building up in the areas with max rio. By max rio I mean it on all levels of genome. Individual, your family & our society. I also believe the results can compound over time.

As a side note, I was raised Roman Catholic. Although I have not gone to church since college I hear interesting sciency things now and then. One, which I don't have a citation for, is that nuns who are experienced at prayer exhibit similar fMRI results when they pray.
Mozilla Persona.

No password needed at all - your email provider verifies your identity to your browser, and then your browser uses the key generated from that to sign you in.
I don't have anything against Paymill, but I think you may have a point there. The probability of someone who clones businesses for a living cloning yours is higher than of someone who doesn't. How much more, though, I couldn't say.
C:\users\myusername - so far so good.

C:\users\myusername\work - good.

C:\users\myusername\work\projectname1\ - still good.

Now checkout here the root of your favorite SCM from a project with 30+ developers.

There's a good chance that you'll run into problems.

/rant

Or wait, let's do it the Unix way! Isn't "etc" obviously "configuration"? And "bin" obviously "programs"? Yes, let's all use short, non-intelligible folder names like they used back in the days of teletypes when we have 24+" monitors.
And let's add on top of that some inside jokes from Bell Labs or Berkeley while we're at it ("spawning daemons").
Anybody backed this project in 2010? I'm curious what the backers think of the outcome so far.
600 users/day and 1000/posts a day is miniscule.

You can run something like that with no noticeable performance issues on a classic 120MHz Pentium and flat files (I'm speaking from experience of running a USENET news server handling 30,000 groups for an ISP on a machine like that, which was shared with lots of other functions), so if the bottleneck had been anything other than the network, it'd have been shocking.
We dont run the entire test suit.
Our last night test suit took 159 minutes to finish.

We automated that in order to run every night.
We need a 100% pass rate before we push to production.

If you just do something you run those specific tests.
If something else breaks due to that, it will be caught ( hopefully ) by the nightly tests.

Imagine having to run the test suite 2 - 3 times a day.
Your day would be wasted !
No surprise here. Long path names have always been a pain on Windows, from not being able to open files to not being able to restore previous versions, backups, etc.

Hitting these limits is very common on file servers.
Selection copy and middle-click paste is both good and bad.

As a highlight-reader, I don't like automatic copy on selection. It's too easy to clobber the selection clipboard. It also affect usability on basic things like copying something from the terminal to paste into a browser's search box. Naturally, you want to delete the existing contents of the search box, but selecting it all to delete it clobbers the very thing you want to paste.

The setup I have on Windows with Cygwin and mintty is my preference. There is only one clipboard, and normal GUI selections don't have any affect on it. However, selection in the terminal copies into the clipboard, and middle-click in the terminal pastes the clipboard. Combine that with keyboard shortcuts for pasting the clipboard in the terminal, and a couple of command-line scripts (I call mine 'c' and 'p') for using copy and paste with pipes, and everything works pretty smoothly.

As it is on Linux, my 'c' reads stdin and stuffs it into both primary and clipboard buffers, while my 'p' takes an argument 's' to print out the primary buffer, otherwise it prints out the clipboard buffer. It's a pain when you end up pasting the wrong thing. Meanwhile, middle-click in UI apps is very rarely used because (a) it requires too much precision in aim - the text usually ends up exactly where you middle-click, rather than the current position of the cursor - and (b), I usually want paste to replace a selection, but the act of selection clobbers what I'm trying to paste...
Germans pay by card all the time (I think you know them as debit cards?), we just don't use credit cards, because there is no advantage of doing so. Every "giro" account comes with one, and you can use it at the ATM and at the cash register.

I think this is because historically, wire transfers between most banks in Germany have been easy and cheap for decades, while it is different in the US, as I understand it.
Even the dumbest SSE2 based code will kick the living shit out of any byte-at-a-time super-optimized grep.

> we shall make a one gigabyte file with one thousand x's per line, and time grep searching for "yy" (a two character best case) and "yx" (a two character worst case).

In this case SSE based code will be a) several times faster because SSE loads will be used, b) time difference between "yy" and "xx" cases will be minimal (several ticks to accumulate result from second PMOVMSKB+PCMPEQB combo and c) time of search will be background-independent.

Paraphasing Linux CodingStyle text,
first off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the "why GNU grep is fast", and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture.

The trivial exercise is to disassemble x86-64 version of glibc memchr(3) and try to outperform it with byte-at-a-time based code.

Hint: you won't be able to do it.
Oh I can imagine working that deep - and the issue is never "if only we had MAXPATHLEN set higher our business processes would magically be more efficient". Paths that deep that are meant as markers for humans to read are a pathological case - if you don't at a minimum put a web server in front with a folder to human-readable name in front then all the other benefits of automation are likely to pass you by too.

In short, paths that deep show you have humans trying to do what computers are better at. Schumpter will be round later to have a word.
I think the image was mischaracterised. The fMRI will show changes in activity and if the image is actually from an fMRI post meditation then the authour may have just extrapolated from 'reduction in beta waves' to 'less activity on this colour gradient image'.

Perhaps the authour isn't really that familiar with the material?
But on a machine with 2GB of RAM running a forum that small, pretty much none of those selects should ever need to hit disk - it should all pretty much be in the buffer cache, unless there were lots of full text searches of the entire posting history.

EDIT: And that is without any app specific caching.
That's one reason. Another one, for me, is that I'd feel bad about being too lazy to simply withdraw some cash from the ATM and carry it around with me. To me it's like walking around with an umbrella in light rain, refusing to eat a piece of bread that dropped on the ground, or the recentish plague of luggage with wheels. I consider it the hobbitification of humans, and I'm not playing.

Then there is the fact that people who pay digitally tend to hold up the queue. Just plop down some cash and take the change, will ya. Gah.
Fresh-faced college kids don't know how to write RFCs. Building something was the only way for them to iterate and learn.
Indeed, now we have an excellent set of tools to enforce religious conformance and to return state religion to it's rightful place in people's hearts, and at the center of everyday life.

It is fortunate indeed that these blessed tools that were sent to protect us from unchristian violence are also perfectly suited to protect our immortal souls from the corrupting influence of everyday life.

It is a manifest part of God's plan for us that we use these tools to spread God's word and to protect his flock from evil thoughts and actions.

Control must be absolute. God demands it.
"Research on meditation has shown that empathy and compassion are higher in those who practice meditation regularly"

This very true. All meditating people that I know always falls for appeal to emotion while dismissing any facts or reason. I am starting to think that meditation was created to control and make people docile.

Oh, I am hell baned already... nvm
Search for small enough fixed strings works (no runtime assembly though, script just generates C code and compile it with gcc).
I question whether it could have. Sure they got enough money to make it happen, but I don't think that was the hard part. The hard part is getting any kind of traction with regular people. The fact that they got money and attention makes the failure more visible and thus makes us all the more disappointed, and I think it's actually a net negative because what they were trying to do could only come from a place of traction not publicity.
> All that overhead is there for a reason.

SQLite's classic use case is where SQL-like access to data would be convenient but a full RDBMS would be tremendously inconvenient, e.g. embedded systems. People seem to be citing inappropriate environments for SQLite as reasons to say it is of no value. You get the same sort of silliness from NoSQL zealots.
Gnome (Bastien), please accept my middle click. How long will it be before someone forks gnome just to get X paste behavior back? I hope they call it Troll.
Dallas!
At least for my Windows Chrome, the default font size is 16px, not pt. 16pt corresponds to roughly 20px on my (Windows default) settings.
> be proud

Well, what if I am not US citizen?

For people outside of the USA, a "Made in California" sign might be a mark of quality for gadgets, just like "Made in France" for wine, but why adding pride to this?
Meditation, such a scam. I can't believe so many intelligent people are fooled by it. It's nothing more than a relaxation technique and that's it.

The studies about meditation are mostly of dubious quality and origin, and people draw unwarranted conclusions from them.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/08/21/quacks-eve...
> Do you know who is going to buy stripe? No. You could very well end up in worst hands.

Our plan is "nobody" :).
We've got a big windows SQLite deployment. We use it as the back end for our entire test suite and it works wonderfully.
They've been talking about this for more than a year. Not sure if that qualifies as quick. That being said, it's awesome that they got there—I got into the Dutch beta and can say the process of dealing with Stripe is an order of magnitude better than dealing with Paymill (the clone that rolled out earlier).
For comparison, 8 years ago I wrote a queuing system that did either in-memory queues, or wrote to sqlite for durability. With a little bit of tuning, the Sqlite queues could handle at the very least hundreds of thousands of messages a day - we never pushed it to it's limit.
A map of New York City's 500,000 annual stop-and-frisks
You are very clearly, and unambiguously declaring that as long as there are six people somewhere in the world who misunderstand, then whoever made the original point is at fault for not making it universally easy to understand, and impossible to twist or edit to fit the prejudices of the reader?

At what point does the number of people who correctly understand it come into play? If 6 people don't get it, but 6 people do, is it still the fault of the author? What about 60, 600, 6000, 6bn?

Surely if only six people out of the entire population of the world misinterpret a point, and everyone else gets it, then it must be the due to the prejudices or poor comprehension skills of those six.
Fair bit of warning edward, these articles get banned from HN rather quick. Even thought I have attempted to keep talk on things such as the "Syrian Electronic Army" and their hacks discussion has been forcefully muted.

In a now deaded article on the probable chemical attack on Zamalka Syria, I made some comments about my covering the area before[1]. I detailed the location of some of the aggressors on the suburb as well[2].

In the second comment I linked to some footage from Zamalka years ago when open protest was still allowed, much like other Syrian cities people were out in mass after Friday prayer.

In the first comment I posted a panoramic stitch[3] I made from video of an attack on Zamalka from al-Assad neighborhood above it, there is military and officer housing along with artillery and howitzer army space behind it[4].

I also spoke of sectarian cleansing that has been documented in Homs and other areas,[5] where general bombardment and artillery siege displaces Sunnis while Alawite families are moved in to shore up military supply lines.

This latest attack on the fringes of Damascus represent something significant, obvious now due to the reactions it has obtained from other nations. Neighborhoods like al-Assad and Moadamiyet al-Shams have loyalist housing where civilians where brought back to be lynched,[6] and they are now nearing the direct lines of fire. So all attempts are being made to halt the advance to where Assad's war criminals roost, such as mass gassing of residential neighborhoods around it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248545

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248433

[3] http://i.imgur.com/XM85Q1q.jpg

[4] http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.551696&lon=36.378479&z=...

[5] http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/syrian-army-ren...

[6] http://storyful.com/stories/41049
The app is just to help you to get into a rhythm. I downloaded the app and really liked the user flow. Will definitely use to begin my meditation.

In my experience, I have seen a sea change in people who have started meditating. They are much more calmer and happy. There is a flip side as well. Many people get into a happy mode and start giving up in life.
I contributed this release cycle. My incentive is that Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features or has a few warts. I tried to fix one of these and it's now in the new release and Diaspora is a little better. That's how open source is supposed to work, isn't it?
That's not quite accurate, as other comments pointed out. But even if no German resident ever used a credit card, the significance of this is that German-based merchants can start using Stripe to accept Internet payments from people all over the world.
> Diaspora is already a working replacement for FB or G+, but still lacks some features

like people using it?
Indeed, I've even managed to run into this issue on linux, where an openembedded build would fail because the list of files passed to a command in a shell script would not fit in the buffer of arguments (about 5K IIRC). Fixing it would require recompiling the kernel.
Machine Learning research paper wins "Classic Prize", initial paper was rejected
@pc, I didn't know that. Well, what I said still applies anyway ;)

But hey, let me say I only looked into Paymill because you guys were not around.
The Apple ads seem to mostly appeal to the converted, this article is written as linkbait for the haters. "Hipster hates Apple", news at 10.
I think that Apple did bring mass access to computers, but it was Microsoft that made personal computers a commodity. It's the same situation Apple is now with iPhone, with Android and Firefox commoditizing the mobile phones.
Agreed, the friends thing is a must. Why do you have a guitar you cant play? Either its going to stay there as a reminder that you failed at something or use it for inspiration to start! if not dump it. Possessions are not everything but friends are, so GET some. get to local meets, online and off. - and what about those mediocre skills eh? Find one programming language that you prefer and excel in it. Create an app, templates, anything as a side burner - you could even write articles for technology and development blogs. Now as for the financial security, I really cant help. Just get a high interest savings account and save save save. - But remember tomorrow is a new day and could be your last. Don't get wound up, tight or hard. Relax, enjoy yourself and your life and start living fuller. Give it meaning. Maybe read this: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gongsu/desiderata_textonly.html - helped me once. Hope it helps. - If you want a twitter friend, add me @mgpwr
Congrats to all the finalists. Go disrupt.
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Would you have the same reaction if you were using undocumented APIs in Windows or iPhone private APIs and then they changed them?

There is an unofficial way and that is putting your device in developer mode.
Also wire transfers, which are also often used for online payment cost essentially nothing.
US electrical grid on the edge of failure
Not all of them -- my dishwasher is typically set to wash (on eco mode) at a significantly colder temperature than the taps (which are set quite hot at the boiler).
I'm still not convinced it's an apt comparison.
It is hard to read and some delay when moving around for me also.

It is nice as a demonstration on how the web may look like in 3 years, but personally I prefer tables and graphs when viewing statistics. Has anyone seen a link to a “classic” view?
Have you been outside in the last half century?

This idea is the foundation of our society, our economy, our entire conception of ourselves. I guess the only difference is that these days the idea is so deep into the water supply, they don't have to be coy about it any more.

There are many things this should make you feel, but surprise isn't one of them.
> "We do need a solution in the underlying windows API, but this would most likely emerge as new APIs rather than changing the existing ones. We've discussed this at length on the longpath alias at Microsoft (yes, we have a whole alias devoted to the issue!) and there are no plans to change the existing ones, since it would break third party code that depend on MAX_PATH buffers on the stack."

And thus, thanks to Microsoft's slavish devotion to being backwards-compatible with brittle software, we get yet another, slightly different, set of APIs in Windows.
Ah, okay. I'm wondering if I should ditch this one and pick up an Intel-based Chromebook instead.

I actually just need a cheap solution to program in this year, and I'd love to step away from Windows and start using Linux (since OS X is outside of my price point). Any suggestions?
The devs seem like they're on some sort of holy war to purify the gui. The problem is that interface design (like anything else) is about trade-offs. GNOME needs some folks that have been through this cycle and understand it.
I don't know, I'd not seen the ads and I think they're pretty shockingly bad.

When I see "Designed in California" I instantly think "Made in China for a pittance, based in Ireland for a tax dodge".

Thinking of the Bay Area designers doing so well out of other people's misery is absolutely the worst thing I could associate with the Apple brand, especially as it plays so readily into the (mostly unfair) "smug hipster" image Apple has created for itself.

That said, unlike the author of the article I am not an Apple fan. I have owned two Apple devices, and both broke in short order. I have an instant distrust of personality cults. Finally, and most importantly for my self-image, I like being able to tinker. So, I suppose, take this comment with a dune of salt.
I think that in the case of Diaspora, you really have to be the change you want to see. I canceled my Facebook account, joined a Diaspora pod and invited all my friends with a long explanatory email for why I did this. None of them canceled their FB-Account, but they all joined Diaspora.

Change is possible, but it will not happen if we all do nothing and wish someone else would have done something.
Another one, for me, is that I'd feel bad about being too lazy to simply withdraw some cash from the ATM and carry it around with me.

It's the 21st century. I don't want to think about whether I should get 20 or 30 Euro from an ATM, let alone carry 100 Euro in my wallet. In fact, I find you reasoning quite weird: technology exists to make mundane and boring tasks unnecessary.

Even worse is this 'digital wallet' that is required in some busses, etc., where you have to precharge the chip with a certain amount of money.

Then there is the fact that people who pay digitally tend to hold up the queue. Just plop down some cash and take the change, will ya. Gah.

That's because the checkout process in Germany is not optimized for bank card payments. Try to go to a Dutch supermarket (e.g. Albert Heijn in city centers) and it's usually cash payers who are slowing down the queues. Thank god, they have counters these days where they only allow bank cards.
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I invited all my friends, nearly all joined. It's not impossible.
yes. we will look into each issue and try to iron it out. we are in beta. (about a month that we became public). will get back to you when the issue is fixed. thanks for your time.
Research finds 'US effect' exaggerates results in human behaviour studies
Avoiding double journaling Looks is another case of the End-to-End principle. Nice catch.

On the other hand, I would have expected a performance study to include a power consumption discussion, especially on mobile.
To those who say "I almost went with PayMill, thank god Stripe is here now" don't forget that PayMill features direct debit. Depending on who your customers are this might be an important feature for you!
I hope it's optional at worst.. This is one of the features I am struggling really hard to get working on my Windows box :(
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Bluntly, I don't really care how Poles are perceived. There's little that can be done about it. And it's actually beyond funny to take the whole country and say "all Poles are like this". Try doing that with Israel or gay. All gay are this or in Israel people just hate Arabs. Try saying that. But, yeah as long as Poland or Russia goes you can degrade as much as you want. And I don't really care, it just shows you that people are racists/xenophobic even when they are victims of racism and xenophobia. Makes it just this much more funny.