skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big L does have an amazing flow. I put Big Pun in the same category: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiwvPmRTv6M

Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic I'll say to myself, "Dead in the middle of little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middle man who didn't do diddly."

Girlfriend: "What was that?"

Me: "Oh...uhhh..nothing."
If a woman's options are extremely limited and pornography is an escape from financial destitution, she is not in control.
You're selling a lie and you know it.
My #1 - Treat your employees not as assets but as negative impacts to your bottom line. You'd do it better yourself if you had the time, but instead you had to hire me.

I have Stockholm Syndrome. My biggest problem is that I'm now being overworked so much (intentionally) that I collapse from exhaustion when I go home and don't have the energy to spend looking for a new job.
I wholeheartedly agree. Kudos to MongoDB, Inc. It's a great NoSQL database that's gaining traction.
Indeed. I had two monitors on my Macintosh II back then - one color monitor and a portrait paperwhite monitor (forget who made it) for page layout.
I was going to mention the same thing. I used it when I was flying a lot internationally and it worked to overcome my jet lag pretty effectively.

Definitely recommend it if you travel internationally.
Any concern that your device might include some not-so-ethic Chinese software? Chinese companies have no pressure from consumer organization, let alone government, to push them to protect their user's privacy, so they happily track you as much as they can.

I wouldn't be surprised if the phone included a modded version of some Android components so that your web traffic go through Chinese servers, you know, just to "enhance" your user's experience with better ads.
Yep we canned it because of that, plus it was unreliable and our code and architectural review scared the shit out of us.
RCS is still used at my work. Some of its features (or omission of features) work well with our shared file system, and we often need to keep only one or two files in a directory under version control.
Agreed, but give them credit for building something new that arguably fits under "basic science" and might have unexpected applications in the future. For instance, I could imagine a system like this for reconfiguring parts of a satellite after it has been launched into space.
NSA and GCHQ attack Tor users
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If they can't identify the "missing enabler," then how are they to know it's missing?

Breakthroughs don't just happen and change everything. In almost every case there's a lot of background work, like this stuff, that builds up to the breakthrough.
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I really wish people would open source these types of projects. There's not much reason to protect the source code. The value is in the domain. This site already shows up in the 1st page results for the Google query 'did chrome update today' (duh!).

If the source were available somewhere on Github/Bitbucket/whatever, people with feature suggestions could do the implementation and submit a pull request.
The rethinkdb guys think it's important and have joins in their nosql product. Everytime I try nosql first thing I miss is the ability to query as the need arises without a refactor.
People may have information stored under RCS that they still want to access. It doesn't look like there's a lot of work being done to add new features, but having the ability to run RCS on new machines seems like it's a good hedge against data loss.
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Totally tangential but, does Mercurial really not allow you to delete things ever? So, for instance, when you accidentally commit a 100MB PSD file and then need to remove it, there's no way to do that?
This whole discussion is starting to make me feel reckless in a hilariously inconsequential way. I literally said to myself "I think people take melatonin when they have trouble sleeping...", went to the drug store, bought a bottle, and started taking the dose it recommended, at the time it recommended. Apparently I skipped out on a whole bunch of research I was supposed to have done.
That will give the SPAM-Wave a hole new meaning.
> doesn't that rather put MongoDB in the position of commercially exploiting the work of developers who contribute their code under the expectation that it will be freely shared under AGPL?

While the MongoDB product is open source and licensed under the AGPL, they very rarely accept outside contributions. A vast majority of the product was built by 10gen/MongoDB, so this is less of an issue than it would be for something like Postgres.
Interesting. I work on call shifts. (Linux sysadmin, one week out of three is 24/7 on call -- which works much better than rotating one day out of three.) I've used Melatonin for years to 'regulate' my sleep cycle so that I can stop my tirelessly creative brain from thinking about that article I read a few hours ago on Hacker News.

My other 'hacks' to keep my sleep cycle regulated are f.lux where possible, using only dim incandescent lights in the evening around the house once I am ready for bed, and NOT using a laptop, iPad, or anything with white/blue LEDs in bed. Wake-up is accomplished with an alarm clock that activates a piece of "wall art" that slowly changes color spectrum to full daylight using LEDs and shines on the bed.

Having good control of my sleep cycle keeps jet lag, time changes, mid-night alerts, and other things that disrupt most people from disrupting me as much for as long.
The downside is that it's not usually prescribed to people under 55.

(http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Insomnia/Pages/MedicineOverview...)
I have to add LiftMode, their products are pretty good, and come with test results to show exactly what you are getting.
Does pumping out heat in a cold area like this have any meaningful effect on local climate or environment?
"The obvous question with building front-end applications is where does the state live? Fortunately there are many services ..." Does any body know what is a great solution for simple Contact Forms?
My favorite part about the Github 404 page is that it consistently locks up Firefox for me.
Lots of data at http://examine.com/supplements/Melatonin/
> The original windows API is water trash.

You know, I let it slide when the comment you replied to said it, but I disagree with this one. IMO most people who criticize Win32 just aren't familiar with it. I've heard plenty of people dismiss objc on similar grounds: simple unfamiliarity becomes "this is bad". Once you get over the initial learning curve it's quite easy to be productive with it.
'I'm the original voice of Siri' recorded in 2005
Polar bears work cheap.
Both APL and R promote interactive exploratory programming. Both are strong in computational programming and intended primarily for domain experts, though over the years APL has drifted more into a domain for developers.

In my opinion, APL's array capabilities are far stronger and notation less noisy, i.e. less syntax and punctuation. R seems to have been developed with tools like Lex and Yacc and the language has a certain look and feel.
Could someone explain how Silk Road handled it's transactions?

I've been reading on it and it seems they kept in escrowe the Bitcoins until the package had been marked as "Shipped"?

Was there a central wallet that one would send/receive coins from or was it flushed on the in/out through random wallets? Can the blockchain be traced to DRP's primary wallets?
85F ambient maybe?, the components are necessarily much hotter then.

meanwhile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtDuqqR_Dbg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IX9U2zaI_I
You're allowed to remix it as much as you like in your own home for your own amusement, the problem comes when you publicly release that remix.
I think they meant C not F.
I don't understand what the Arctic circle has to do with this. It's a data centre, not an HPC cluster. Data centres don't run nearly as hot as clusters.
Better to ask, has the war on drugs made the world a more dangerous place?
I've taken meltonin for 19 years now. I've moved up my dosage in the last few months. I stayed on a very low dosage for a really long time, but am up to 10mgs now, and sleeping wonderfully.

The main side effect is being much more tired when you wake up, and that is cured by coffee. I love the stuff.
Interesting analysis but I think the last sentence sums up my sentiments: "Even if all the other issues could be dealt with and mindfulness meditation did improve arithmetic, what is it a valid proxy for?"
Enterprises don't, but they often do want to run Redhat or Suse
Edit: This is my complete misreading of the situation. I genuinely apologize.
Could a similar statement not be made for all the enabling technologies? If all the materials scientists, nanotechnologists, and biotechnologists went fishing as well I suspect the future would look a lot like the present.
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/10/important-custo...
win8 has currently a lower adoption rate than vista. winrt is so great no one wants to build hardware for it anymore.

the components you cite, sharepoint, sql server, are bought by IT departments that went with windows. once you switch to linux you do not have access to those tools, regardless of their greatness. and yeah, most of those tools are bundled in CALs anyhow, Sharepoint without SQL server?
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I always thought of the MySQL purchase as a last desperate attempt to get their geek mojo back. Not something that they could have done with an in house solution (quickly).

It still didn't work, but I don't think they were just trying to buy a database.
The main side effect is being much more tired when you wake up, and that is cured by coffee. I love the stuff.

I noticed this the very first time I tried it - I slept in on a weekend, about 13h total and then felt very fuzzy and hung over.

That only happened once, and now I take it nightly.

Other recommended sleep hack: Tempur-Pedic sleep mask.

Seriously, it costs a lot more than the cheap plastic ones (although still only $30) but it is worth its weight in gold. For shift workers, it's great - you can sleep like a baby in full sunlight.
What dosage do you take? (It sounds too high.)
Mercurial does let you do it in much the same way Git would, but it requires you to do it very deliberately, enabling (bundled) extensions in the config. For example, the "strip" command, part of mq. As with Git, doing things like that if you've pushed publicly will be difficult and require coordination.
I agree that oversight is important. Incidentally, that's why bottled water is generally more dangerous than tap water. Public water supplies are held to stricter standards in terms of quality control and regular testing.
NSA and GCHQ Target Tor
So JOIN in your application. Or use a different DB. MongoDB isn't correct for every use case and they would never claim it is.
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I actually first heard the term used in what has turned out be to be a very unusual sense. "Big Data" is like "Big Oil" - it's a term for industries that get their economic clout from the value of their data. Google, for instance, is "Big Data" because it's able to offer the advertising platforms and spam filtering services that it does because of the data it's extracting value from.
Maybe it's just me, but WebKit nightlies have been very crashy for me lately. All js stuff, from the tracebacks.
As the article itself said, successor sites are inevitable (and there are at least two that are thriving right now in SR's fallout).

Those who prefer online black markets over physical transactions will simply migrate to the new marketplaces and consequently turn them into the "new Silk Road".

The only true effect, perhaps, will be people taking security even more seriously. I read a statistic at some point that approx. 80% of SR users didn't use PGP (The Daily Dot sources this claim, otherwise I cannot validate it).
I don't see how that's possible. Go report the bug. This is a bizarre bug.
Surprised nobody mentioned the extremely annoying and misleading 404 response when you are denied permission to view a private repo. I can't tell you how many times people at work tell me my link doesn't work because they aren't signed-in.
The point of focus for a flatbed scanner is the scanning bed itself. As objects move away from this plane, they don't scan nearly as well.

I think I paid $400 for my first 600dpi scanner, which was awesome for a flatbed back in the day. I scanned all sorts of things with it. Especially PCBs. If the object I was scanning wasn't perfectly flat on the glass, the results were terrible.
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Instagram was bought for $1 billion, not 2 and had a $500 million valuation at the time.
Is positive feedback (other than possibly yearly appraisals) not useful?

I don't think the point is to replace compensation with pats-on-the-back, but rather, get in the habit of personally recognizing the positives. Too often it's only the negatives that are recognized, and though most of it is probably on the technical side of things ("hey, we found a bug you wrote that crashed prod"), there's still very little in the way of positive encouragement or reinforcement coming from a human.

Of course, some will respond better to it than others, but I think it's a worthy practice. Too often, especially in stressful atmospheres, only the negatives are spotlighted, and this can hurt morale over time.
The point is that DRM doesn't effectively protect content, since hundreds of millions of regular individuals can rather easily access "pirated" copies. Whether the protection is broken by their grandmothers or by a single über cracker is irrelevant.
The old "YHBT. YHL. HAND." comes to mind...
if each key has its own lcd backlight ballast, how much power does this draw?
http://alexleo.tumblr.com/post/5244455384/newyorktimesheadli...
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I don't think there's anything wrong with the praise (in fact I would love if employers did this more), but when there is discontinuity between the verbal praise and the financial compensation - then you have a problem.
I was a bit vague on the European Convention on Human Rights - this article from the BBC is quite good:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/948143.stm

One particularly interesting point:

"The UK was one of the first members of the Council of Europe to ratify the Convention when it passed through Parliament in 1951."

Indeed, Chruchill seems to have been very keen on the idea - how ironic!

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009...
Popular Crime by sabremetrician Bill James has a good chapter on Fish, plus some other American serial killers.
You're right.

It's still hard to recommend GIMP to someone looking for an alternative to Photoshop.

Mongo is likely to be a similar distraction:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mong
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Hahaha best comment.
Keep in mind that melatonin is a hormone. Exogenous hormones can downregulate your body's natural production. Like anything hormonal you should not take it continuously for long periods of time.
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That page only describes melatonin, I can't see any products containing it for sale?
Hm. I'm warming up to it.

A remaining problem might be actually measuring those values in ways that can't be gamed too easily. Attempts to objectively measure programmer productivity have generally failed at this, and Women's Freedom seems harder to measure than that.

Another problem might be that the objective function will keep changing. I guess the way to handle this is to pay off bets based on what the function was when the bet was made, and to have a fixed schedule that alternates making bets and changing the function.
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How does CouchDB compare? What are the latest thoughts on this?
It's worth remembering that the "Revenue" number would count bitcoins twice if they were used in two transactions. If bitcoins used to buy something on the site were then used by the seller to buy something else, the revenue would be twice the total bitcoins used.
I like article titles with rhetorical questions because I don't need to read the article.
The profiler is nice, a lot better than Chrome IMO.
We do that to avoid leaking the presence of the repository, if it's private. It's a bit of a pain, but privacy's important to us.
I've been using melatonin for years every night. As a person that has extreme obstructive sleep apnea, I credit melatonin with providing me a modicum of restful sleep for the years I didn't use a CPAP. Now that I have one, melatonin helps improve my "normal" sleep patterns.

Anecdotaly, I find melatonin usage helps my brain rewire itself every night. My belief is that increases the number of connections and associations that various concepts have, and it also elevates my mood. Not bad for something that costs mere pennies!

During the time I had almost no sleep, I would take quite a bit of melatonin in a desperate attempt to get some kind of rest. At times I would pop 25mg or more. I found there were no side effects, except perhaps being sleepy for the next couple of days.

I've also quit a number of times for various reasons. Just a few months ago I quit for three months due to surgery. I found quitting to be completely symptom-free, which kind of amazed me. I figured with years of usage, quitting would make it impossible to sleep. I based this opinion on numerous studies that show when you replace a naturally-occurring hormone with a supplement, your body stops producing it. Instead, I slept fine. Once I was out of the no-supplements period after surgery, I started back up with the melatonin. No side effects, and I almost immediately noticed an increase in creativity and mood.

I'm a supplement junkie. It's that irrational thing that I do, my black swan interest. Yes, I know, most of the market is just BS and marketing hype. But not all of it. Melatonin is one of the 2 or 3 supplements I use that I believe really make a huge and immediately perceivable difference. Can't recommend it highly enough.
I started noticing this the other day.

If you click "like" on a page in your newsfeed - it automatically shows a bunch of similar pages beneath it.

That seems really "non-brand" friendly behavior - as it's sort of annoying to spend time building up a FB page only to have that info mined by fb itself to recommend to other brands.

More of a reason to build up brand presences on properties you own.
Federal employees aren't the only ones furloughed! (Some) contractors (for example) are too!
Thats a very good point, also it's important to look for off label side effects (Adverse Events) to the non prescription drugs. I own the site linked to in the 'Uses' section (http://www.drugcite.com/?q=melatonin), it's also to sort the data by date and gender to get more accurate information. This data is put together from numerous data sets including FDA FAERS.
The web has had copies of that content well before the "content providers" even had a website, and it'll have copies of the content well after they decide to leave.

All they can take away is the sources that actually bring them money.
Probably no privacy laws there ;)
We're not using RCS, but we use GNU CSSC for an old SCCS codebase.

Many people here are keyed into 'new hotness' startup projects. But there are a lot of us out here maintaining 20+ year old codebases for products in maintenance/support mode only. Migrating them to modern version control is a tough sell. CSSC in particular lets me at least host the code on something modern.
I wonder if there is anyone who believes - really believes - it has not.

The war on drugs is kind of this diorama encapsulation of everything that is wrong with our politics, media, and society.
This is understandable however. If you get a 401 response the person knows that you have a private repository with that name, they just don't have access to it. A small information leak.
The difference between frequency and types of crimes committed by powder-cocaine users and crack-cocaine users was also so great that laws were enacted to treat the drug differently.

This is racism, pure and simple. It may not be intentional, but that doesn't change it. The frequency and types of crimes committed by powder and crack users are a function of their socio-economic backgrounds, not their drugs of choice, which are a co-incidental cultural preference which was convenient in the repression of lower social classes. The same thing happens now with white meth users.

Yes, they are different drugs. No, one is not considerably more addictive or dangerous than the other.

Plenty to read on the subject in the references here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act
Yes, one of the unfortunate trade‐offs between usability and information disclosure. That's why they put the login form there if you're not logged in—though having it add the line of text “there may be a private repository here, log in if you know there is” (or similar) would be a good thing.
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All data centres have cooling. They get cooling for free 7 months of the year!
What do students use to organize work and social plans?
If you're a college student or recent graduate, what d oyou use to plan out work (assignments) and social events?

What do you wish was better?
That's an interesting piece, thanks for sharing. I think from the perspective of "what existing pieces of culture can I use to create something new" IP is actually a useful bucket. From the perspective of people who have already created or are consuming that piece of culture, I agree that combining trademark with copyright and patents is not useful.