skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could, but then we'd need to know specifically what to reset now, and maintain the resetting styles each time we introduce new language which sounds like something we'd want to avoid.
> If you are trying to run at a very large scale with a single repo, Perforce (or apparently Mercurial) is the way to go.

that is the problem - single logical repo in Perforce/Mercurial does mean single physical repo. Which obviously causes issues at very large scale. Even at normal enterprise scale :)

Git solves it through kind of distributed scaling where many operations can be performed on local physical repos without ever hitting the central. With centralized solutions, like Perforce, Mercurial, etc... most of the operations are performed on central server and your ability to scale vertically hits the ceiling pretty soon.

Compare the simplest case - each dev updating his local workspace/repo would hit the central server in Perforce where is with Git you can (and normally would have) a small set of downstream repos which the updates would be propagated/distributed through. You can branch left and right in Git in your local and team's repos without "master" repo and "central" server involved (while all your branch activity in Perforce is happening right on the central server in the central repo). The same happens for synchronizing your work inside the team - no need to hit the central. Etc...
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In response to your last sentence, yes.
I wonder if they are also doing this so they can get an idea of who the user base of CentOS is and also try to convert them to paying customers.
Talk about an inaccurate title! The improvement is a combination of off-heap storage and sharing storage amongst processes. I'm surprised they didn't look at Redis for this problem.

These tricks have been used for a while in the JVM world. Here's a JVM equivalent of Hammerspace: http://www.mapdb.org/ And here's some slides concerning off-heap optimisations in Cassandra: http://www.slideshare.net/jbellis/dealing-with-jvm-limitatio...

On the JVM GC time is usually only an issue when the heap gets over 2GB or so. MRI's GC is not in the same league as the JVM's, but even so, 80MB should be easily handled. As such I'm guessing the memory consumption of multiple processes is causing the main issue, which would be solved if Ruby had real threads. JRuby has real threads, and many other language runtimes do as well. It seems like a lot of engineering effort is going into working around the deficiencies of MRI, a problem that can be easily solved by switching to something better.
I don't know if this is related to blog post but the 'Sign in' button just showed 'Si' until I hovered over it. I'm using the latest Safari.
Great publicity stunt and does not look like this lawsuit has a leg to stand on. Good for them that Kanye took the bait.
People in the UK seem strangely at peace with surveillance.
I'd find this a more appealing idea if the modules were built to an open, standardized interface and you had a choice of many vendors when upgrading your machine. However, by buying the existing system, you'd be locking yourself into only using proprietary modules that are available from the original vendor.

I'm also not sure what the value proposition is here. Let's say I'm the kind of user who doesn't know how to add RAM or a disk drive to my existing machine. Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay someone a hundred dollars of labor cost to do it for me than to buy this expensive hardware? Upgrading a machine is a fairly rare occurance.
Tell me what CentOS will no longer be able to do that they could previously.
I think it's more direct than a retweet, but you're right that it's just another layer. That's not to say that a purpose driven layer can't be useful/grow into its own right. Twitter was just a layer on top of SMS at one point.
>Assuming you are a Facebook user they would know your location anyway, Facebook Wifi or non-Facebook wifi

How do you figure?
I'm not entirely sure why they say that since www.github.com is using Github's own BGP IP space whereas the CDN they're talking about is Fastly. In other words, github.com may not be on Fastly unless Fastly has built out separate infrastructure for them with Github's IP space.
Can you link to some kind of evidence of that? My understanding is that RCN, Verizon, etc. are just not interested in expanding in to Cambridge.

edit: Here's what the city has to say, fromhttp://www.cambridgema.gov/consumercouncil/cambridgecableinf...:

"Comcast is currently the only cable operator that has sought a license with Cambridge. The City of Cambridge has approached other operators, more than once, about seeking a license to operate a cable TV system in Cambridge, but they have informed us that Cambridge is not currently part of their business plan; however, City officials stand ready to negotiate with any willing operator."
I saw/heard that as well (hopefully someone can come up with the link). Things like Windows/Office apparently are in a custom perforce.

I believe that they do use TFS on a lot of the internal projects though and that Visual Studio is now done in TFS.
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I'll do some tests with .org files.
> It makes me wonder if the government embraces, and perhaps even plants, ideas like this.

With full awareness that governments have done this, I really wish people would stop thinking that if a group of rational people oppose things done by one of our heroes, that it could only be as a result of a government sockpuppet.

Rhetoric as a concept or tool is incredibly expansive, it's hardly limited to just government. And it wasn't that long ago that Che Guevara was insulting the USA during his speech to the UN for the Ku Klux Klan, the existence of which should readily demonstrate that the people themselves will erect biases and grudges of their own independent of (and often contrary to) government interference.

The same government responsible for the agency that threatened MLK, also had to forcibly integrate segregated schools, and forcibly adopt so many other civil rights measures that are still debated today.

But in any event if you have paid enough attention to politics (or at least American politics) it would be clear that having minor scandals is not only not a roadblock, but can often be used to great effect in a politician's career. If one thinks "the people" are too stupid to figure this out then would could possibly be the point of a democracy?

Let people point out what they want about Dr. King, Nelson Mandela, or anyone else (especially if it's true!). People see the world through different lenses, one may worry more about what our hero does "when no one is watching for compliance" as a measure of integrity. Another may worry only about what the hero does in public as a measure of effectiveness. That doesn't make one or the other of these people a government plant, it just means that we're (wonderfully) different.
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> Does the standard branch workflow still expect you to have a separate repository and directory per branch?

You're probably confusing mercurial with bazaar, mercurial has always had branches (though they're not quite the same as git, mercurial's bookmarks are more closely related to git branches) and anonymous heads (contrary to git, an unnamed head is not stuck in limbo).

> I don't care about plugins

That's stupid, mercurial is very much about plugins: there are dozens of official plugins shipped in a standard mercurial install.

> the standard workflow

there is no such thing.

> Does Mercurial provide built-in commands equivalent to "commit --amend", "rebase -i", and "add -p"?

All of them are provided in the base install, you just have to enable the corresponding extensions.
You can't do generics in very much generality without compromising safety, true. You can get some (sometimes a surprising amount) done with macros, and safer now with static casts. Templates are still a win though, to be sure (syntax aside...)
I'm not looking to compete with Snapchat any time soon. I have my consulting/book business that happily takes most of my time.
Mexican standoff
Yeah, all the time I had a little devil on my shoulder shouting "my jvm laughs at your mri". Thats said, I like the approach to use what the OS offers - essentially atomic file system constructs and the cache. When you control your platform, things can go faster by cutting away those abstraction layers.
CSS 3D Solar System
Thank you. I think icon fonts are the worst web-trend since a while. (Because I disable external fonts for readability.)
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Armchair quarterbacking:

* Dedicate ruby processes to a particular subset of locales

* Parallelize your memcache queries

* Break up locale files into MRU/LRU strings to reduce size

* Denormalize locales (in memory, cache, whatever) into single values for most common pages. (use with MRU/LRU above)

As an aside, still don't understand how process->kernelspace driver->platter is faster than process->kernelspace socket->process->RAM? Especially for random access patterns. I suspect a memcache misconfiguration?
Everyone I've shown the Oculus has gotten sick, which is 5 people.

When Wolfenstein 3D first came out people were complaining about puking. I think the hardware updates, game design updates, combined with learned use will mostly solve the motion sickness issues. Hell I get sick from cars if I haven't ridden in traffic in a few weeks.
How is "technology" implicated in a relevant way here? Kanye is entitled to control how his name and mark are used, and it's utterly irrelevant whether the folks misusing the mark are creating a cryptocurrency or a specialty doughnut shop. You can't just wave your hands and shout "technology!" and pretend all the existing rules don't apply to you as a result.

What's shocking to me is how immature the creator of Coinye is being. What possible technological purpose does it serve to make the Kanye reference to name a cryptocurrency? It smacks of a childish attempt to create publicity. If I were Kanye I'd be pissed if someone tried to use my image and my fame to peddle his ideology-based product.
It's a very powerful tool, but also a complex one, and one which brings in a bunch of new commands. There are a bunch of extension which provide nice UIs to various subsets of mq's full power, and are much simpler.

If you need mq, use mq, but if you just need to e.g. do some history edition, use histedit.
I've been excited about this project ever since I saw the Ted talk by Blaise Agüera y Arcas. Here are some related projects.

multiple photos:
http://www.123dapp.com/catch

Single photo:
http://make3d.cs.cornell.edu/
http://www.3defy.com/
and
http://hackaday.com/2013/09/12/3-sweep-turning-2d-images-int...

video:
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130729-disney-new-image-algo... and
http://punchcard.com.au/
Many packages have a dominant type and a couple of satellite types. If the package name is the same as or similar to the name of the dominant type, 'New' can be appropriate as well.
The unofficial Mirror's Edge Oculus port (on the Kickstartered dev hardware) caused virtually no nausea for me. (Well, except for the parts where camera control is taken away from you, natch.) I cannot say the same about the official TF2 Oculus software. I'm not sure what the difference is between the two, but it was most definitely there for me.
Does the WIFI LED flash a different colour when it uploads directly to the NSA?

What am I going to do with 8GB of RAM? My mom has 8GB of RAM.
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> * You immediately get improvements from upstream projects without having to get them manually.

You also immediately get regressions. Not trying to be dismissive, but we fundamentally have different software philosophies if you think this point (which is the essence of most of your points) is a good thing that should be encouraged.
Based on some feedback we've already received, we're planning to implement a way to import past workouts saved elsewhere.
Promise nuggets
I posted this comment elsewhere, but I thought I'd try it in an active part of the thread to see if anyone can answer my question: Do the OECD averages reflect population weighting, or does, say, Belgium count as much as the entire United States?
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You can have your own opinion all you like. The one the government will operate by (with certain historical exceptions...) is the Supreme Court's.
> How do you do that without loosing the history of those files?

I don't know how you did it, but I found `git subtree split` to be an easy solution for extracting a directory into its own repo:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/subtree/git-s...

(It's a shame git-subtree it's still in contrib/, should really be enabled by default. It can also work as git-submodule replacement in some cases, by the way.)
Guy dances across China in 100 days
What resolution/level of precision can this design achieve?
Mercurial's equivalent to git branches (movable pointer to a commit rather than embedded commit metadata) is bookmarks.
I've really wanted to try it, but never got a beta invite:)
max-flow is used to model a large variety of supply-chain type problems.

a much faster variant - this is a big deal!
Being denied entry in a phone book is censorship. It doesn't matter if it's merited or not.

I get that you play the rules. They're being censored for not playing by the rules.
Chrome keeps giving me the "aw snap" page when trying to view one of them.. :\
Are we prepared to know the genetic flaws of the unborn?
Netflix Loses Its Cloud Guru to a VC Firm
Well, that minimum font size wouldn't apply to SVG icons, so you're still not going to see them very well. So, it may be more effective to zoom the entire page overall rather than just font sizes.

Also, note that you apparently don't assign any culpability to browser vendors for the state of affairs. I encourage you to revisit that, plenty of blame to go around.
I've co-founded with my brother and I just didn't use technical lingo. When I did, it was because it would get used constantly and I just explained it one time.

I have a pretty good way of explaining tech to non-techies.
Hello Real World — You don't know what a computer scientist is
I'd venture to guess this presentation wasn't written by a very technical person. ASP.NET is now considered a "programming language", and JavaScript is a "close, interpreted relative" of Java. I don't think so.
The idea is to have a distro with no "corporate" oversight -- an independent distro. This is the reasons why I heavily lean Debian and OpenBSD, because they are independent.
I've tried it along with 20 other people, about 5 minutes each, nobody got sick. Maybe it wasn't a long enough time though.
is this a new kind of 'search' engine? No.

is this a search engine at all? No.

is it built for acquisition and using its users as a product to sell much like instagram? Yes.
Spreedly, which provides a unified API for 55+ payment processors and gateways, as well as card vaulting for recurring bills. Code against Spreedly and you can change processors on a whim to whoever's cheapest at the moment, or use multiple at once.

My primary processor is a standard merchant account provider and I pay interchange plus 0.04%. Interchange is the set of fees Visa and MasterCard charge to the processor, and starts around 1.8% + $0.10 for card-not-present transactions.

I also accept PayPal as there's a large number of countries where credit cards are not easy to come by and fund, but PayPal is readily available.

Both the merchant account (1.84%+ + $0.10) and PayPal (2.2% + $0.30) are significantly cheaper than Stripe (2.9% + $0.30) which someone recommended last time you asked this two days ago.
...and what exactly would be wrong with that? Worst case scenario the BTA price goes to $10 assuming you're buyer 1001 and everyone else bought the $10 pack. You still get a heck of a deal.
> To be fair, the key difference is that these guys got away with it.

The other difference is that "these guys" didn't do anything else but find the evidence they needed to prove the types of spying the FBI was up to.

It's not as if they copied out all of the FBI file cabinets and only then revealed evidence of spying, along with disclosing lists of known Soviet spies under watch by the FBI.
> Microsoft really does have some great engineering talent

Not to dispute this--they certainly do.

But sadly for Microsoft, Blaise Agüera y Arcas (one of the creators of the original Photosynth) just left MS for Google in December.

https://twitter.com/blaiseaguera/status/412503266061074432
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I think the point is that the technology is designed to not have a central person or organization to sue or shutdown. So serving a cease and desist letter isn't just pointless, it is counterproductive.
Does the size of the hat have any significance?

(Genuine interest.)
Even if it isn't neatly in it's own tree, you can get away with rewriting commits and some tree objects. It's more complicated, but it can be made to work.

Either isn't as nice as `p4 move ...` though.
I absolutely love TrackPoint-type sticks. I find them the best thing for pointing, and each one I have ever had has never got in the way of actually typing. I wish we had them at work.
On the about page:

To seed the community with thoughtful discussion and quality content, Product Hunt is limited to a few select contributors while in beta. Invites will become available as the product and community mature.
I just skimmed through the paper thinking maybe I can grab one thing or two.
What I've found there is completely black magic.
JP Morgan to pay $1.7bn to victims of the Madoff fraud
#AGDQ2014
Yes, I was just dealing with this for my job. Windows Chrome renders web fonts very jankily, even the fonts provided by Google Fonts! (Fittingly, the current "solution" involves serving an SVG version of the web font to Chrome, instead of WOFF or whatever.)
RH may try to cripple CentOS, gather user statistics or advertise to promote more consumption of RHEL instead.

"Keep your friends close, ..." because it's just business.
Yahoo's sleek News Digest app swims against the stream
This is my usual behavior as well - if it looks like an advertisement or low-quality post to show something off, I wont. If it's someone I follow and they occasionally share something that is genuinely helpful I will click through.
Well, yeah, they increased the average price that way, obviously. Nothing artificial or immoral about that, though (except for really weird definitions of artificial).

Typical gaming forums bullshit right there. Those paranoid entitled whiners, always the same …
You now have a chance. They are giving away some codes right now: https://www.facebook.com/aviateapp/posts/195912073936304
Debugging with Bluebird (mentioned in the article) is not a pain because it stitches stack traces across events for you when you run it in development mode :)
We did benchmark local memcache, but accessing the strings over the network (even locally) was much much slower than sparkey. Redis would likely have been similar to memcache.

The savings came not just from avoiding redundant GC over the same 80MB, but also from not going through the churn involved with loading that data over the network on process startup.

We have a large codebase that's written against MRI, so it's non-trivial to just switch to something else.
The target date for ES6 has slipped to December 2014:

https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/48c5d285bf8bf0c4...
Speedrun marathon raising money for Prevent Cancer Foundation.

(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I just like the idea and the speedruns)
There is one thing, USB3 cannot solve, the latency(typical latency of USB is around 1 ms, compared to PCI-e sub-us). Graphics cards will never work on USB3 port. Well, external graphics card is for consumer market. For industrial, high speed data acquisition system has sub-us latency over PCI-e bus, which is included in thunderbolt. That is one of real application of thunder bolt. But I have not seen any such device utilizing thunderbolt.
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I'm trying to get you to describe your reasoning about what actually differs if a corporation is involved. "Independent" is not in itself a word that confers any benefit.
Sorry it's not incredibly clear. We have some changes to make to the product before we open it to a broader audience. In the meantime, we're slowing whitelisting people, giving them access to post and comment.
> As we were just duplicating the same icon multiple times within the same file, it compressed down to the size of just one icon

SVG allows you to create clones with the `use` element. Any style which wasn't set by the original can be set by the clone.

E.g. if you don't set `fill`, the original will be filled with black and the clones can be filled with some other color.
I don't think so. He's even mentioned on some songs that he doesn't see himself as gangsta rap.

http://rapgenius.com/9243
> All because it refuses to update its business model at the pace of technology.

"All we want is brand new, big-budget entertainment in our homes for nothing. Why doesn't Hollywood get that?" --Carl Carlson
PlayStation games go console-free (CES 2014)
Does this work when you reference svgs within css though? Or do you need to have access to the svg nodes?
I participated in creating and open sourcing Guestrepo for hg. It is a very nice multirepo infrastructure, in my humble opinion. ;-)

https://bitbucket.org/selinc/guestrepo
In some cases, the processing took longer than a minute (e.g. PayPal), so they missed the window. The argument is that the buyer would not have otherwise paid $10 for the bundle if it didn't have Starbound. (to be fair, HB apparently has been offering refunds in this case)
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For driving games, there's one solution for simulating turns, and acceleration/deceleration. That's rotating your seat. When you accelerate, the chair rotates backwards, and gravity does the work of pushing you back in your seat. The faster you accelerate, the more the chair leans back. When you brake quickly, the seat leans forward, and you feel your seat belt pushing into your chest as it holds you in place. Turn right, chair rotates left, etc.

You're limited to 1G though. This is enough to give the experience of driving and turning in a fast car, but you're not going to be pulling Formula 1 level Gs, although I don't think the average person wants to experience that anyway.

Here's a similar simulator. You'd just be using the rift instead of a TV mounted display.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFCRh-anfRg

Edit: Just noticed the system in the video also does up and down. I imagine that's an awesome effect when you go down a hill fast, and get that sense of weightlessness for a brief second.