skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting post on Reddit, about a user who used a Raspberry Pi, a heart monitor, and vibrators to create a sex toy that reacted to his wife's arousal. Whether or not it was true, it's an interesting idea.

An ECG is a step beyond that, but I can see it being super cool to play with, and who knows what sort of ideas you could come up with! I know at this price, I'll definitely get one.
Its the same case as was with Microsoft. Microsoft forced its users to lock into its ecosystem - by artificially making "Microsoft Product X works only with Microsoft Product Y". And they also had this practice of bundling some software for free, destroying all competition, and then pricing for it.

Now, Google isn't that bad yet, but they're slowly on their path. Recent "YouTube comments requires G+", "Hangouts in GMail requires G+" are examples of those. And as with the past against Microsoft, the same sentiments are now being replayed.
I understand where you are coming from, now.

I am unsure of the reason why the person you responded to wanted a "real" DVD, so we'll have to see if they respond to you.

I am also not very well versed on DVD ripping techniques. If you are: Are they 100% lossless?
I understand, and I didn't mean to discredit the site itself. I was just pointing out the weird upvote behavior here. It would have been very useful and clever idea back then but why is it #1 today? is what I don't understand
Okay, so why is this bad?
So true!
HN comments on hot new tech also act like gyro stabilization for me. When I read an article on tomorrow's hot new framework I often go "wtf I can't go on using Ruby and Ember" (although Ember is pretty new itself, if we're being honest); comments then help me manage my expectations. A la "There's no silver bullet", "this aspect is suboptimal", "you could try optimization X for established tech Y to achieve the same"...
But you're evaluating that in a vacuum. When J. Random User is evaluating a solution for his/her email, cost-per-storage-unit isn't usually the highest thing on list (or at least not the only thing).
I'm relatively ignorant on BitCoin but would this not be a huge arbitrage opportunity...?
Food and beer, mostly. Handy when you run out of cash and don't want to walk to the ATM few blocks away :-)
Nations spying on each other is immoral? Why?
Can you comment on the pricing structure? Breakdown why exactly it is $99?
>I wouldn't waste my time discussing with HN idiots anymore

Well, you certainly know how to be convincing.
It would be if it was easier to get money in and out of the exchanges. As it is now it can take days/weeks to move money between accounts, especially on Mt Gox.
Well, cygwin won't have it by default
Now that I have recreated my original scenario I am now firmly of the belief that the interface to the user, documentation and available reference are inadequate.

http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html

Hopefully I can claw back some of the respect that I have clearly lost from you. Or at least discourage you from being so offensively defensive about this. :)
If you've got to ask ...
You don't have to contribute to open source to have a github account. I use it to dump all my projects on (most of which are incomplete). I've made only one pull request to OSS (months ago) and it's still sitting in the request queue!
To be useful, this needs to also crawl the projects I contribute to, not just the ones under my account. I am a maintainer of a project under another github account but that completely escapes this tool.
Activity Feed, New Sidebar, Drag and Drop Tasks and more updates from...
Seems to be a yearly cyclical thing with resume.github.com. I don't know why but as the author, I find it amusing :-)
But then ask wolfram alpha why ferrari cars are red, and it fails lamentably at giving any answer. Just a rigged """demo""", if you ask me.
thanks. that's pretty interesting to note.
but i'm pretty sure they also had a stacked team with 8m bucks under their belt with former orbitz top guys on the business end, bunch of vc's to support and help recruit.
kayak story is more like justfab.com when cmo of gilt leaves to do something than a true startup.

but interesting note nevertheless. thanks.
I think both, side-by-side, convey more valuable information than either alone.
That's what I thought. It's always struck me as a limitation of the ssh auth approach. While I can't insist on a good password, I'd like to be able to insist upon password-protected keys (at least as a default -- exceptions for some system processes / activities).
I agree that git can be characterized as having some usability issues; I initially found the documentation obtuse in many places.

My favorite git joke, by far: "git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space."

If you're having trouble understanding git but you find yourself comfortable with basic CS terms, you might want to check out Git for Computer Scientists [0]. This really helped put it in perspective for me.

[0] http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
The important question on the other side: What are the chances that we all, as a human race, wind up accidentally embracing a digital tulip?
Well, the article itself provides an obvious solution -- don't use the commingling program. That should be enough to stop a race to the bottom, even if there are other undesirable effects.
> "I've really tried to 'get into' mercurial's mindset several times now, but never could, whereas, IMO, git's model is simple and powerful. "
>
> I find it hard to understand what this means

The git model can be, to a sufficient degree of completeness, be demonstrated with child toys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4

I can't even imagine how a similar demonstration would look like with Mercurial. It would probably involve having a bunch of such trees on the table, and super-glue instead of sticking things together.
Some of my most important projects are open sourced under my company's account and this won't show any of them even though I contributed 90% of the code. This only shows my personal side projects that are done for fun. Any chance this could change in the future?
It is a speculation bubble. People are betting that Bitcoin will become world money and be worth millions of products in many countries. Anything can become money only when it has value and acceptance which are created by speculators. Such bubble can pop only if some other, more promising thing may become money, or if there's a flaw in the currently hyped thing.

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.fr/2013/04/bitcoin-...
"Lewis Ellington is a heavy hitting JavaScripter..." Hmm... I hate javascript and most of my code is in C#

C# (76%)
JavaScript (7%)
I've always had the impression that it's just an easier way of dealing with potential hires but by no means the only way. If the company you are applying to is an active contributor to OSS then it would probably be more important as a gauge of some workflow they'd like to see. Maybe I'm wrong though– I've never gone through that process myself.
thanks for the suggestion, i did recreate my problem so that i could present a properly reasoned argument rather than a ragey comment:

http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html

i'm pretty sure that i need to do this particular shooting myself in the foot to be able to do work unfortunately. i might be lacking knowledge, but it was far too difficult to acquire said knowledge. as someone who self taught himself programming in many languages,classically hard stuff like functional calculus, quantum field theory and general relativity - as much as that is a weak argument - i'm inclined to think there is insufficient information, or at least extremely poor documentation here.
I don't have a strong opinion on Bitcoin, but seeing the price double repeatedly over the course of 12 months gives me a physiological feeling that I can only describe as FOMO. I know it's irrational, and I'm not going to buy any Bitcoins just based on my gut feeling, but it's still disturbing that seeing a chart go up and to the right makes my brain think that I ought to be buying a piece before it's too late. I bet this is what it felt like to be in the middle of the Tulip Bubble.
i am using it in production (debian wheezy package, version 2.1.7-7 now) and it works pretty reliable. do you have a link to a bug report? i kind of depend on it atm, so i'd like to know its bugs.
I think it's just going through the technology curve. It jumped out of containment from the early adopters and now it's hitting the mainstream.

To an average guy that just heard about some online investment opportunity where you put in $500 now and you get $100 more in a few days is a dream come true.

Here's the pivotal point: there's now energy, momentum, and attention.

The best thing you can do is establish domain expertise and market understanding and make bitcoin work.

Or else it's going to be the next betamax. Shit, that was expensive too.
One could argue that the prices posted at MtGox have always been reached :)
As I alluded to in my response to thaumasiotes, I am perfectly aware that some compression algorithms are better than others. But, this whole conversation is being made with regard to counterfeit DVDs being passed off as the real thing. In such a case, something like H264 on DVD won't work in many players, thus the issue.

The original scenario is counterfeits getting mixed in with official stock on Amazon. If the counterfeit uses a compression algorithm that works on all DVD players, it won't take any fewer discs as compared to the original. If the compression algorithm chosen is something more efficient (such as H264), and uses fewer discs, it won't work on many players, and the whole "I find it unlikely that a user, as opposed to a media company running stings, would ever complain" as voiced by thaumasiotes, is no longer valid.
We all live in cages, all that varies is how golden they are and how big they are.
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Completely OT but what's up with the scrolling? Why would you do that?
you are correct. its popularity is an advantage, and this is precisely why i would want to use git - so many people are familiar with it and it almost seems like the standard solution today for source control.

but its still worrying to me for its popularity. either i am fantastically stupid or people are happily using a tool without any idea what they are doing or how to resolve what i consider to be a very standard source control problem. these are both things for me to worry about.

if you are wondering what i had such a hard time with here is a trivialised example:

http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html

even if this problem is solvable and there is a solution this is a perfectly good way to approach problem solving - the problem is the lack of quality documentation and source materials to research a solution from.
I always wondered why this is. I know people hate change and it baffles me (I long for progressive change). I understand that having a basic stable framework is a nice thing to have, but rejecting change outright is somewhat backward IMO.

Then again I was always a fan of SciFi thinking about where we'll be in the future, so I'm probably a weird oddball person.

I'm probably overlooking something here, like re-learning changing stuff is not preferable for many and tech is only tool and not lifestyle.
Berlin area is much poorer than the rest of Germany, why not give Berlin a separate currency too?

If you'll read up on currency theory, you'll find some people have proposed pretty much exactly this (Jane Jacobs comes to mind, probably in Cities and the Wealth of Nations, it's been a few decades since I've last read it).

More generally: with a sovereign currency, a country controls both its monetary and fiscal policy, and can make its own allocation decisions with both. Which means it can set monetary policy to benefit its industrial / manufacturing or other economic centers, and use fiscal policy to create wealth transfers to underdeveloped regions. This is effectively what happens in the United States, for example, through SSI, welfare, medicare, SNAP, and similar programs.

In the EU, you have a bifurcation of monetary policy (ECB) and fiscal policy (independent European states). This was pointed out by numerous early critics of the EMU, including rather notably Margaret Thatcher, in the late 1970s / early 1980s. Her comments then proved exceptionally prophetic.
EDIT: It seems I've got the details wrong, please excuse this comment. I'm just leaving my original text intact so the replies make sense.

The MtGox USD price is not real. At least not for the purposes of arbitrage. Although it says $600 USD, no one (or almost no one) is actually buying or selling BTC on MtGox for $600 USD. They are buying/selling it for other currencies and MtGox is using an internal exchange rate to convert it to USD. Their internal exchange rate does not reflect the risk free rate you can actually get if you were to try to arbitrage it across borders (namely china/japan). MtGox does not allow you to withdraw USD.
I would not want an employer to use this to evaluate me because it is called my "github resume" and somehow implies that it is my summary of my experiences, abilities, skills and potential.

You don't need to be an active github user to be a good developer (I am not even a good developer) and you should be able to present your resume as you deem fit.

Obviously if this allowed me to own my account and easily customize how my github works gets displayed I'd be more interested. Until then, this feels like pushing my github work through a meat grinder and evaluating the sausage instead of me.
>Why I stopped [perfectly fine activity]... and why you should too
The algorithm you end up with for a particular message format is going to be very dependent on the meta data you have attached to each message. Given that "It depends..." disclaimer, I would start here:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

With respect to GG in particular, you can't really "rethread" an unthreaded medium via message metadata, but you may be able to do so via "replied to message data" in the form of quoting.

I would go about parsing messages to extract quoted text, then I would use the quoted text to determine the "parent" message to which is being replied to. 98% of the time, there will only be one parent, but you need to make sure that your data format allows more than one parent in the case that someone has replied to two messages at once via cut and paste quoting.

In such a case, determining quoting is going to be far more challenging and computationally intensive. You'll have to figure out a few heuristics, such as maybe limiting the search space to "only search messages posted between the post time of the current reply and the last message a user posted to a particular original ancestor message."

You may also try to figure out the replying style of each user to figure out what text in their message is likely to be quoted. i.e. Are they a top replier, a bottom replier or an inline replier. Labeling each user according to their reply style could speed up the identification of the parent message(s) much more quickly.
Rather interesting, but can anybody point to something more practical? Ie some application or website that, given a couple of colors or preferences or sample data, constructs some sort of optimal color scale, preferrably also usable for the most common form of color-blindness?
I bought $9,000 worth of BTC at $7 two and a half years ago.

I sold them when it hit $30. :-(
My advice would be to embrace your generalist nature.

There are certainly roles fit for specialists, but generalists with rare blends of difficult and useful skills are a lot more valuable in most situations. Specialization in any one area tends to have rapidly diminishing returns.

I think any above average developer can make themselves more valuable at a much faster rate by becoming decent at complementary disciplines like design, user experience, conversion optimization, writing, etc. than by continuing to hone their development skills.

Even within development, becoming decent at every level of the stack, from dev ops and databases to front end, is usually going to add a lot more value than becoming slightly stronger at your specialty.
I agree. But the problem is quality of curation.

Another problem, and maybe one can call it FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is that sometimes the best knowledge is deep inside the comments.

They may or may not be there but you have to filter all the babble.
This is spiraling out of control
There's MyKolab, hosted in Switzerland, that costs about 11 usd per month for 1 GB storage with mail, calendar, contacts, etc. Mail only costs about half.

I have not made the jump yet, but it does seem promising.
US senate meeting 18th Nov effects on BTC?
1. You will never miss out. Even if you never by bitcoins and it becomes world money, you'll benefit from it indirectly (and taking no risk in the process).

2. It's never too late. The bet is that Bitcoin becomes world money. If so, all the wealth stored in cash, gold, silver, bonds and other low-risk less liquid assets will go into Bitcoin. This will make it worth more than 10 million of today's USD per BTC.
The quality of the linked article is very low.

Comparing Facebook and Apple to ponzi scheme? Check.

Comparing founders and VCs to blood-suckers? Check.

Comparing Facebook and Apple employees to slaves? Check.

Zero useful information, 100% linkbaiting by stirring controversy.
Awesome! I (almost) didn't believe the fish thing. I had to PRT-SCR and use paint.net to change the white to transparent to overlay them. It's real!
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> Students take a picture of themselves

Is that how kids use it? Me and my friends are a lot older but we also use it as a photo sharing service - for sharing random stuff from your day, not on yourself.
It just displays one of the (positive sounding) adjectives next to the most used language in your profile:

https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...

Adjectives:

https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...
Sadly, I don't know the answer to this; even the impeccably-licensed official translated Disney movies I've bought don't tend to work in US DVD players (region coded, I guess), so I never try. I play DVDs via computer (for one thing, that means I don't have to buy a DVD player in China; I already have computers). I don't have the discs with me, so it's impossible to check. :(

I can think of a couple scenarios -- (a) my error, it's actually the same number of discs, but packed into one box instead of four boxes; (b) they're nonstandard, but still recognized as DVDs by VLC; (c) (highly speculative) something about the limited palette of cartoons makes them more susceptible to compression, and that was exploited.

For what it's worth, the reason I included the qualifier "(for a western show)" is that I once bought a set of bootleg DVDs for a chinese TV show, and they were compressed to the point where I found them unwatchable. They still played through VLC; my best guess is that DVD-making software was used on ripped, heavily-compressed video files. It is entirely possible that something similar was done for my Futurama discs, although no compression was visible in that case.
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I don't there it's anywhere near mainstream yet. I know a number of my friends who follow economic newspapers regularly and who have yet to have paid serious attention to Bitcoin. It's still very much a niche, at least in the circles I know of.
I think that if you examine the meta on HN dispassionately you'll see it's actually a very good reason.

It often gets couched in different language, but a great deal of HNers have a large dislike of HN because of either groupthink or mainstream-aversion.
I am sick of all this Google bashing here on HN; that's what is bugging me, really.

Come on, its a company, they don't owe you anything;
They sell your data, yes, but it's still the best search engine, by far; to me it's a tool, and yes, they also use their customers as tools to sell adds, that's what the internet is all about - pushing adds.

They could still do worse, they could push much more adds than they do now, but they don't; That's something that few people seem to notice.
Do we live in a Matrix World?
My team in China has now heard of it.
Only if Bitcoin fails at its promise and can't be fixed. E.g. some crypto breakthrough makes all security worth nothing.

Only if P=NP, in other words.
And freelancers/consultants/employees-in-general have very little liability.

If what you wrote there were necessarily true, nobody working as a freelancer/consultant would need to set up their own corporate entity as a legal shield, nobody in that field would need professional indemnity insurance, and insurers who offer professional indemnity insurance to IT contractors here in the UK wouldn't routinely ask specific questions about whether those contractors were going to be working with clients in the United States because of the risk of having to cover significant legal bills increases so much in that case that a higher premium is indicated.

I code people's websites all the time with 0% fear of losing my bank account in court.

Well, that's your choice, and of course you're entitled to your personal opinion.

I've worked with other freelancers who didn't feel the need to have a written contract with a long-term client either, but I would never recommend that approach myself.
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Why I 'hate' git
I'm a Google Apps user, which means I have my own domain. I can always switch without losing my email address. If you're using a @gmail.com email address, then you should really stop doing that.

I'm thinking of switching to an Apps account but I'm worried about the complexity of the transition for all my data.. Do you have any advice for that? Also do you miss anything with an Apps account compared with a regular one?
It can be transferred more cheaply and easily than traditional government money, particularly across borders, so it does have some advantage.
> I am not sure what is there that this makes a news

This is not news for all the initiated. It is news for the general population that is not aware of the extend that current spying takes. This also makes it important news for the general population since secret services undermine fundamental principles of democracy: Transparency and accountability. All revelations in the wake of Snowdens leak show that secret services around the world try to extend their capabilities and at the same time evade their responsibilities to report correctly to their government appointed controllers - be it the senate or the bundestag or whatever you call it in your country.

Also, spying is illegal, namely by the laws of the country you're spying on. It's also immoral, at least in the cases where your president signed a treaty promising not to spy and still, someone obviously ignored that agreement.

> Even when we show outrage against NSA's snooping program, the only valid argument is that NSA perhaps can not snoop on American citizens as per the 4th amendment.

The much better argument is maybe that while it's technically not illegal, the cost-benefit analysis shows a net negative. Circumvention of legal checks and balances is another one. Just because some action may be legal doesn't make it a good thing in all cases - see ciscos latest losses.
Is this sarcasm?
Do you really consider being in the Army a noble profession?
And do you think that the software industry serves humanity in general less than military industry?
Isn't "we have no plans to regulate bitcoin" just the least embarrassing thing they can say between that and "it is not actually possible for us to regulate bitcoin"?