skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is nice to have shelve in the core.

That said, with Git, my main use of stash is to put away uncommitted changes so i can pull updates from the origin. Stash, pull, pop. However, Mercurial is able to pull changes into a working copy which has uncommitted changes - it essentially just treats it as a merge. This, with Mercurial, i need to stash much less often.

It's still useful as a way of putting changes aside while you work on something else, though, so i am glad to have it. The alternative was doing things with patch queues which were a bit scary.
I think you'd get very depressed just by the statistics, let alone the reproduction. Especially if you included journals of econometrics.
That is NOT true. It does in fact use the real login window
"...people using traditional online dating loose hope..."

It is nitpicking, but when you're in ultra-intense competition with lots of other good applications, I'm sure these things matter at least on a subconscious level. If I were to apply, I'd proof-read my application until it was perfect.

Oh, and is it just me, or was this one very long? If this is the hundredth application you're reading, you might look at this and be scared off by its length. Not saying anything about the quality of the applicants -- I'm sure they're talented and motivated -- but this little text they're submitting is what gets them either in or out. It's important.
Disclaimer: I build Wello(https://www.wello.com) and am ex-googler.

We are a vertical marketplace for connecting you to fitness professionals. We are extremely focused on this segment and our offering in terms of price and trainer quality, etc speaks for itself.

Here are some observations from my point of view.

1. I welcome Google entering this space. I am not nearly as worried as others are. The big challenge that this business really has is that we need to explain to people that you can do somethings over video that you used to do in person. Google has infinitely more marketing dollars than we do. If they can convince folks that this is something easy, we would love to ride their coattails (is that one word?) on that one.

2. For some verticals, Google will do well (my guess, technical help etc). Building a fitness focused marketplace is not the same as building a music learning marketplace. We can make our user experience far more fitness centric than everyone else. Ultimately our users value that. So do users of other vertical marketplaces for online tutoring, etc. When you are meeting a trainer, we can offer health tracking, health data analysis, fitness suggestions based on your prior workouts with us. This is not impossible for Google but they have to boil the ocean first and then make their bets.

3. Working in this space, it has also taught us that while Google will be better at some things (integrating with Hangouts, Android etc), if they are going to move to WebRTC, there are many users who still prefer IE and Safari and are stuck on older versions. If they move to support those browsers, then it is at odds with their WebRTC focus. We can offer an independent solution that uses WebRTC when available and not in other environments to again give a better user experience.

4. Overall, we are cautiously optimistic that this is good for this space. It validates our work for the past year and we are hoping the market is big enough for a lot of niche segments.

Be Wello,
Amol
Most definitely so! :-)
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I believe he is referring to a web-mail service hosted by a third-party having inherent insecurity. With mailpile, you run the service on your own system.
How can appearing to clench one's buttocks constitute probable cause for a search warrant?
This could also be Google probing for vulnerable software on your website.

They're doing it for various Typo3 versions (I know, because we got some false positives in the past - Google Webmaster tools warned us about it, we saw the requests in logs, our fault for replying with Status 200 for some invalid URLs where we just showed our main page), they might be doing it for other software where the only way to check for vulnerabilities is to try an actual (harmless) SQL inject.
The iPhone 4s looks and feels like the two year-old phone that it is. The only reason to choose it over the Nexus 5 is because either you want iOS or you really like the small form-factor.
>For this application I read only first couple phrases until "3 matches every 3 days", and just being an HN reader for 4 years, i see that this startup isn't YC-material

Please elaborate on this so we can circle back on our marketing pitch.
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While there may be issues with localized liquor laws, this is the greatest idea I've ever heard. Too bad you just missed the last YC batch! I'd be your first beta user.
Clemency for Torturers, but Not for Edward Snowden
Curious: how many TB where/are you storing and what was your bandwidth usage like?
Dating meets Groupon meet Uber.

Guy and Girl both pay for a date

Site matches Guy, Girl selects 1 activity and 1 dinner a driver and autopays for everything. The two people just show up and enjoy there date.
+ The application is riddled with typos and grammatical oddities that are distracting and occasionally affect the meaning. You may have better luck if you have a second pair of eyes look over your written work.

+ When describing the potential size of your user base, why do you only include people who are already on eHarmony or okCupid? What about all the single who aren't on either?
I don't think a colonoscopy counts as surgery. As bad as this is, we don't need hyperbole.
My ass it's an internal problem.

http://i.imgur.com/WS4gG7B.png
Humble WB Games Bundle
How do the GPUs on this compare with NVidia desktop GPUs? Anyone know?

Also, very exciting that they're supporting GPU cloud rendering - that's going to be big for 3D.
The grammar was atrocious. There were too many grammatical errors to list here, but for God's sake please use a grammar check. Paul Graham's grammar is perfect and yours should be, too.
This would only work on connectionless protocols, such as UDP. UDP offers no message reliability and relies on the source address to respond. This is how DNS amplification attacks work, as the main protocol of DNS is UDP.

Whereas HTTP goes over TCP which is a connection-oriented protocol. TCP offers message integrity by going back and forth between client and server multiple times to verify the message was retrieved successfully. Without a valid source address the 3-Way TCP Handshake used to establish the connection cannot succeed.
must... resist... urge to troll...
(edited for stupidity)

Ok, I kid, I kid... :)

But seriously, I'm thinking of switching back to testing from Ubuntu, if stuff doesn't break too often.

Is anyone here using testing lately, and did it seem fairly solid for daily desktop use?
Except the interface to scrypt is kinda weird so nobody writes sane library bindings for it. (I tried once. I didn't get very far.)
<Groucho Marx Impersonation>Are you workin' remotely, or remotely workin'?</Groucho Marx Impersonation>
If you want to see truly egregious uses of statistics, take a look at any paper on diet or nutrition. Be prepared to be angry.

At this point, if someone published a study stating that we needed to eat not to die, I'd be skeptical of it.
Germany's Quandary: The Debate over Asylum for Snowden
>If all pools are acting this way, then there's really no incentive for miners to go to any specific pool (avoiding centralization). So it will just be like regular mining again.

The rewards enjoyed by selfish miners are super-linear in the size (power) of the pool. So it makes sense for selfish miners to merge their pools.
Browsing through these jobs is enough to kill your faith in humanity. I don't think I saw any I'd want to work for regardless of salary.

Cases in point:

We're looking for a younger developer ... There will be no compensation for this job

https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20

You will be working with interesting people, namely me.

https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/10

EDIT: I take back the initial statement, there are a lot more postings now and some of them are pretty good.
Why is the date May 16, 2013?
From their IngieGogo[1]:

Mailpile is free software, a web-mail program that
you run on your own computer, so your data stays
under your control.

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-bac...
No, problem with git rebase is that it allows you to do this.

Read this part of the git manual:

man git-rebase | grep -P "^RECOVERING" -A200 | less

Phases are actually a feature that git wants (last idea here):

https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas

You have some ways you can work with this in hg using phases. One example is to mark the repo you're publishing to as non-publishing so that hg knows it's safe to edit history pushed to that repo. Another way is to just tell hg that you know better and to use "hg phase --force --draft" whatever commits you want to histedit or rebase.
The Frightening New Definition of Terrorism
Everyone and their mother is making a jobs board: StackOverflow, JSFiddle, Github, Techcrunch, now these guys...
Looks like an old version of the site. The date is old.
When we allow fear to consume us, when we embrace and encourage fear instead of being ashamed of cowardice, then this is the sort of thing that becomes justifiable. The shear magnitude of the irrational fear of drugs is dumfounding, and creates a climate that nurtures shit like this.
Timezone doesn't make sense for Canada and South/Central America. Visa doesn't make much sense either, plenty of startups work with remote workers, no visa needed and for European people they can visit for 3 months with a business visa, nothing required for that, just a valid passport. Also, I have many south american friends who got a visa easily while working for successful startups.
It's a good example of practical skeueomorphism but I don't want simplicity to get to my desktop. I want it to be as complex as possible so I know that its ME and ME ALONE accessing my desktop.
If you made this out of plywood/polystyrene sandwich and gave it a slightly more aerodynamic shape, you could probably arrange to have this quite securely anchored, depending on the ground where you are moving. The hyper insulation of such materials would also do a lot to alleviate the climate control issues. You'd want to arrange for shade to control solar heating in warm climates. Also, such a small house would be easier to cool using solar and wind power.

Your third objection probably kills this, though. I'd just make the place 5' longer.
This is pretty neat

http://give-n-go.tumblr.com/

Basically, it's a collection of dribbble designs implemented in HTML, CSS & JS. They are all somewhat small so it's a good learning experience.

Also http://codepen.io.
Thanks for mentioning ClearSkies. I have only mentioned it in a comment thrice on hacker news when it seemed appropriate (and pretty much nowhere else), and it's amazing to see someone else bring it up!

We've been working to get it to a point where it'd be ready for a "Show HN". We finally got connection encryption working last night, so hopefully that will be in a week or two.
I am not familiar with mailpile, but I imagine it uses client-side implementation of PGP with automatic public key exchange.
this is something like remojobo.com which was on HN some time back
Just hire people as contractors and it is extremely easy. They send you invoices periodically, you send them money through regular bank wire transfer.
OS X Mavericks: Calendar synchronization with USB app
This is our first public release of the site url. And we want to see if the site worked properly in live mode. Also any suggestions about the site would be greatly appreciated!
Looks a lot more like dummy text making it to prod.
When Big Data goes bad
FWIW we designed Everpix's infrastructure and our unique image pipeline so it would break even and it did: revenue from subscriptions (around $40K / month) did cover both free and paid accounts (around $30K / month).
How technology changed sides: industrial entropy + the agile firm
Probably to ensure a good overlap, timezone-wise.
http://jobmote.com usually tags those with 'US-only' or similar.
"Simplicity" is not a good thing when it introduces confusion and errors.
I think the disconnect here is, many of us can't imagine offering something with known technical security issues such as browser side JS encryption, and branding that "secure". Much less with all the unknown legal, operational, and techical security issues that may arise later in a project like this. As well, from what I read this project transfers your (encrypted with only a passphrase) private key over the internet, where it will be caught in the dragnet for decryption later.

I find it far more dangerous for someone to think they're secure against government level threats, than to know they're not. And if you're not worried about government level threats, gmail with MFA and pinned chrome certs is likely safer than this project. Of course, this is all just my humble opinion...
BayesHive is very interesting! I couldn't find any details on pricing, though?
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This sounds strange, seeing as that the kernel is a single repository. Right? I would expect it to compete in size with most any other project. That not the case?
It is the other way around, the FOSS community does not understand the gamming/modder communities.
They had one before already and sold it.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives

Edit: sorry, yes, my brain got mixed up. I used to use Sortfolio going through lists of agencies and checking out if they have vacancies open.
The sandbox appears to be down, but I'm a little concerned about the security. Can database users be created that only have read access?
I particularly like how http://phx.corporate-ir.net/ does a 302 to http://www.ccbn.com/ which doesn't even go anywhere.
I'm more than happy to elaborate.

Web Client:
First of all, I hate how control are at 4 opposite corners of the screen. On any screen size it now takes longer to go from one control to another.
I used to be able to zoom down all the way to street view. Now I have to click on a spot and hope that the street view option comes on.
I used to be able to right click and search nearby. Now when I search in an area and want to see a list of results and I can't change the search area without going back and forth.
It's one thing to change the aesthetics and move features around. But to completely remove features is really annoying.

Mobile client:
My use case is when I'm in motion. I want to see where I'm at currently. It always shows where you last were before it fetches a GPS signal. Sometimes, it even shows me moving in the opposite direction at my old location before it finally updates and animates to my location. This leads to confusion while I'm driving or walking. The animation is really annoying because sometimes I'm super far from my previous location and I have to wait for the app to animate to my position and on top of that zoom down to a default zoom level which should never be assumed because different zoom levels have different contexts and this assumes a default.

When I do searches for anything, it automatically zooms to the top hit. I always have to zoom out or even stop it while it's mid-zoom. They've removed tons of features like layers, seeing things along the way during navigation (useful for gas stations along the way home), etc. For the mobile client, I can really go on forever.

There was nothing wrong w/ the old maps looks wise. Yes, the new maps "looks" nicer but it's actually frustrating to use and I'm sad to see a lot of features go.
Off the top of my head, Topolsky refuted complaints about the Chrome browser, then observing that it operates and feels faster than other leading phones, including the 5s.
Hit game Ruzzle built on Google Cloud Platform
Sigh... I knew this was going to happen. :-/ This is part of Google's strategy to push Dart in the browser. Soon they're going to start developing Angular primarily in Dart, and 'back-porting' features to JavaScript.

Sadly, this is the nature of so-called "Open Source" at Google.
I like that one better, thank you.

Would be interesting to know if it is because of timezones as West Coast would work very well for me.
Take a look at Phases: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Phases

What you need is to make your backup repository non-publishing. Just drop these lines in your .hg/hgrc file inside repo:

[phases]
publish = False
I stopped reading pretty quickly in and then scanned through it... It doesn't look like he gave any real takeaway and it came off as just a veiled insult to google to me.
I wouldn't bother with the slab either. Set it on blocks but also ensure that it's anchored on all 4 corners. Instead of a septic tank, change the design to incorporate a Clivus Multrum toilet and put in a large water tank for rainwater and to act as a heat sink for a heat exchanger. (Depending on climate, of course.)
General anesthesia, typically used for colonoscopies, has a mortality rate. It isn't common in hospitals, but it does happen and isn't dismissible when you are considering that the procedure was done without consent and without a medical justification. I see no reason to call this hyperbole.
There are limits to how much you can do this as a US-based company, and if you overstep the bounds the IRS will come a-knockin'. I imagine it's much easier to hire someone as a real employee inside the US, and based on the size of many of the companies, they probably don't have the accounting or legal resources necessary to deal with real international employees.
There is an incentive to move to the largest mining pool, since that has the greatest chance of discovering a new block and gaining a selfish advantage.
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Can't I just be a luddite who has never done it any other way?
Whoa, the colonoscopy, which is hardly a simple or safe procedure, really crosses the line of "first, do no harm" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere). Echoing jlgreco, all the "doctors" involved should lose their licenses to practice and be barred from ever gaining one in the US in the future. Ditto the equivalent for nurses.

Of course, I know there are efforts to change the Hippocratic Oath et. al. to put "the good of society" before that of your patient, so maybe I'm just being old fashioned.
Java, Python, etc don't have a DOM to consider.

When you're just an XSS away from an attacker doing:

function encrypt(plaintext) {
$.post(plaintext, ...);
return plaintext;
}

then you lose. The post talks about this, and XSS isn't the only way either.
> Let people be who they are. Measure them by their output and their product, and the effectiveness of their decisions. Not on whether or not they conform to your taste/style.

I would guess that the true point being made is that these people are not "being who they are," because someone else has caused them to "conform to [their] taste/style."

Your reaction is actually pointing out exactly the same thinking on their part as you're using to criticize it: hackers don't like it when someone has forced their idea of aesthetics on them--because hackers are, fundamentally, aesthetes--so we get vicariously offended when they see a trend of some group "forcing" their idea of aesthetics on some other group.

This applies even if that "force" is just the majority declaring some particular style to be "objectively fashionable." Hackers don't like the idea that things can be "in vogue", because it coerces their ability to self-style down set paths they might not want to have gone down. Even if they would have liked a particular style, having it be popular means it's no longer their creative idea to choose it--so it doesn't demonstrate their creativity, and that's all they cared about doing in the first place.
I was confused by that too. I suspect that they are subsets of one another (e.g. don't sum them because they are largely redundant).
Although to be fair, that job 20 does offer equity in the company in lieu of monetary compensation. Maybe not what you're looking for, but still a different beast than working for free.
It's something that was absolutely on the table for our planned 4th generation infrastructure. It was unlikely to us we could stay on AWS. We already had 400 millions full-res photos and running 80+ EC2 / RDS instances for 50,000 users. At our growth rate, we would have been close to a billion photos by end of year.

It's far from simple though: you need to find the people who can build such systems and also be able to afford the capex. And then there's the risks of running your own system and opportunity cost.

It's really unclear we would have been able to go this far in the first place without AWS.
Faster and safer than typing a password. Just Knock. For iPhone + Mac.
I thought it counted as a "surgical procedure" if not surgery. It involves sedation/anesthetic and invasion of the body by medical equipment. I don't know, I am happy to change the title if you like.
Boring, sounds like something that has been done before. 3 by 3 and bonus 4th on fish taco Thurdays. To put it in the terms of your business area, [my impression that] YC is looking to be swept from their feet.
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to look for "younger" developers. Might want to rethink that one.

Of course if there is no monetary compensation, maybe it doesn't matter.

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adea.cfm
I love the concept, but as a developer working on non-web technologies, it's discouraging to see that this practice is less common outside the world of web dev.
That's not a job board, that's a web agency discovery engine.
You don't need to buy a $300 graphics card to experiment with GPU programming.

The current and previous generation Intel CPUs (Haswell and Ivy Bridge, respectively) have on-die GPUs which support OpenCL: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdk-for-openc...

AMD's APUs are quite cheap (~$100) CPU+GPU designs similar to those in the upcoming PS4 and XBox One (though the retail APUs are somewhat less powerful). They've been more-or-less designed specifically around the needs of a heterogenous OpenCL application.

Finally, the last several generations of NVidia cards all support both CUDA and OpenCL; the newer cards do support additional features though. You should be able to pick up a low-end, recent-edition Nvidia GPU for roughly $100.

The new g2.2xlarge instances are $0.650/hour, and the existing cg1.4xlarge are $2.100/hour; so it may make sense to experiment on AWS a bit, then buy your own card for long-term use if you decide to spend more time doing GPU programming.
For the people objecting to an open staircase over the counter - I'm pretty sure the only reason there isn't more to the stairs is because this is a display model, and building the stairs that way lets you see the stairs.
Why click on the thread if you don't care?
Here’s what the Morris Worm prosecutor thinks about Aaron Swartz
Having to choose between dead Netscape and alive IE is a fake choice. May I have my third choice please?
Yes, I too thought there was no such thing as a court-ordered colonoscopy.
Internet Explorer 11 beats Firefox and Chrome in WebGL performance
Installing Rails is not for beginners
Interesting that most of the backend jobs look to be for Rails. I wonder if there's a correlation between Ruby/Rails developers and a more liberal policy to remote working...or if it's just because Rails shops are much more likely to flock to a 37signals site.
I think your first two points are mostly trivial to address - put a board going beneath all the steps and add a handrail.

The bed seems a poor idea to me too though. Maybe if it were just for one person or if you used a futon that you'd roll up. Isn't a futon more in-line with the micro home concept anyhow?