skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes ... it is in some ways the lingua franca of global finance, but since the 1E9 is completely arbitrary too I'm guessing it was only picked as a round number that's in the same league as admired companies. My contention is that this particular number is not "important" (or in the set of "everything important").

One of my bosses (now a professor teaching entrepreneurship to engineering students) once told me that the next target for any company should be a magnitude greater than its current gross (or net) income. I've read a couple of articles that say the same thing about customers.
Why did you think "This is a stupid idea"?
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I absolutely cringe when I have to go into any cell phone store.

I can buy a new car in less time with less paperwork than is required for buying a cell phone.

After 20 years why can’t they seem to streamline this process better?
It's ridiculous that you think that

"Google is so ridiculous that they're willing to lose big money by not making its glorified ad service on the platform."

On the contrary, Google is brilliant by not wasting their time and money on an irrelevant platform that has no hope for success and market share adoption.
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> So Linux as an OS does not do dependency management - you have to stay within a third party tool/package manager. Thanks for proving my point.

Debian is an OS. Linux is a kernel. Within a debian (or ubuntu) install, dpkg/apt-get are a first party tool, supplied as part of the operating system.

So debian, as an OS, does do dependency management. I'd include a mirror "thanks for proving" comment here but I don't want to lower myself to your level of supercilious condescension.

The multiple upstream repository problems you describe are very real, though - the nix approach avoids a lot of the upgrade-related problems but still relies on a curated channel of compatible versions, although given the capacity to have multiple versions of things installed relying on multiple such channels will be safe for the user, and the disadvantages at that point largely accrue to the effort required of the curator.
Judging by the huge bitchfest by users complaining because they have to pay $5 a month for Xbox Live Gold just to pay $9 a month to watch Netflix on it, people won't want to pay for their internet connection, and membership fee to the hundreds of sites on line.

Yeah the internet would be better, because nobody but the people who can afford to pay for it would be on... You'd have to have a full time job just to pay the fees to your handful of favorite sites you visit.
My personal favorites:

> git-rerere

will prevent you from getting stuck resolving the same merge conflicts repeatedly, by remembering how you resolved them the last time.

Also, instead of passing any arguments to "git-log", I usually just use "tig", an ncurses display of the commits: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/

Finally, when I was first taught Git, I was told that I should never need to comment out code again. I never understood how this was possible until I learned how to use 'git add -p' and 'git rebase -i' in tandem.
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This could easily be manipulated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdSgLmez5Q&t=33m31s
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Fair enough. There are definitely use cases for this, including some that I myself might consider (such as when I go out on random solo backpacking trips in the desert).

So it's more an issue with the marketing choice of using taking a walk as the example, which I think is one of the worst possible options and possibly perpetuates a culture of fear.
Brilliant actor in every role he had, one of my favourites. Really sad to hear this.
Using Adblock is unethical. There, I said it despite it not being a popular opinion in these circles. The publishers make few cents by showing you ads and you rob them of that opportunity by blocking ads. If you feel so strongly about blocking ads please reach out to the webmaster of every site you visit offering a donation. Can't do that? Then put up with the ads.
Have you ever wondered what YouTube's bill is monthly just to give you that content for free?

I come from a group of people who run some of the biggest video based sites online, yes people want to watch these stupid videos for free, hundreds of thousands of daily visitors... One guy I know pays $1500/mo just to give stupid 30 second clips to his visitors with nothing but a few ads on the site to support it. No ads? Say bye to these sites, because nobody is gonna work a full time job to give you 30 second cat videos with no compensation at all.
Whaaaaaat?

It isn't really that rare. Happens. I've seen real life stories on tv before. Kids who don't understand strangulation playing around. plus accidents with clothes.

http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/injury_prevention/childr...

>Remove all drawstrings from your child's clothes and make he/she is not wearing any necklaces or scarves while playing; these items could get caught on equipment and strangle a child.

Real examples

http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2014/01/16/toddler-was-strangled...

http://mynorthwest.com/11/729311/Sammamish-girl-strangled-by...

http://m.ksl.com/index/story/sid/17978696?mobile_direct=y

http://cantonrep.com/x1777806810/Dublin-boy-6-strangled-by-r...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2009/05/20/734942/mom-saves...
I'm fairly sure it doesn't.
Well, there are a few folks who are on the phone quite a bit, but if you need privacy this is not the best setup. There is a small "phone room" with a desk and a door, but just the one.

However, I believe some of the other co-working spaces in SF (including the other NextSpace ones further into the city) have multiple phone booths so you may want to check those out. Drop-in cost for most spaces tends to be about $20 - $25/day.
In Win8 (prior to 8.1) there wasn't a unified search. I run a lot of programs that aren't "installed", but are just executables in an indexed directory (like small utilities, or putty, etc). These do not show up by "just typing". And in 8.1, "everything" isn't really "everything". It doesn't search within my e-mails, or other programs that used to integrate with the Windows search indexer. It's basically garbage compared to Vista and 7.
They would just fork the code base and take their existing doge stash down a different path.
Aren't microloans like, disastrous when push comes to shove? Can't find the specific article but..
This same thing happened at CU Boulder. The phishing attempts take the form of an email from IT stating that the user has exceeded their max email capacity. The letter then tells the user to forward their credentials to the mailer.

It is sad that people can't learn to keep their passwords to themselves.
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This kind of butthurt posts pop up regularly since browser customisations became popular. The main objection is almost always towards users' freedom of choice of software to view web content. It is frightening them that some users with technical ability and will share a solution with others who lack those, often with no strings attached and free of charge, thus preventing people whose livelihoods depend on advertisements to easily dictate how anyone must consume their content. They want to limit my software choices. They want to regulate existing software. They want to decide what I get to see on the screen. Yet when they face resistance, they bring up bullshit arguments such as their content is central to the existence of the internet against all the evidence on the contrary all the while building their businesses on the software built by people who have been succesfully upholding principles such as freedom and decentralisation. No amount of sugar coating will make their arguments pallatable for purveyors of software for freedom and choice thus their feeble attemps will continue. Only way for them to win is to eliminate general purpose computing which is already struggling to some degree in the hands of our oh so totally not evil that icame darlings. If you have read this far, there is a high chance you already know how to navigate marketing bullshit and you don't need my advice anyway.

I will continue to block, and suggest anyone who listens the same, every shit someone else want me to see or run against my wishes for the health of my profession if for nothing else.
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I would be very interested in seeing a breakdown of the amounts. You only drink maybe 1-2 liters per day. Showers and toilet flushes add to a fair amount but the majority has to be water for the plants and animals you eat.
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Forget garbage collection in the sense of any variant of mark-and-sweep. For an operating system latency is more important than through put, so you really want real time memory management.

Is the assumption that mark and sweep is slower than real-time memory management? It's actually been proven false, e.g. the .NET CLR runs faster than native C code in certain situations.

If you use reference counting, then there is a lazy variant that gives you just that; no pauses due to reclaiming free memory.

Reference counting is extremely slow because of how memory caching works. Whenever you update reference counts, you're trashing the CPU cache. It seems like there's no way refcounting could be faster than mark and sweep due to this. What am I missing?
It's a git extension, sure, but git-wtf[0] is indispensable for getting a high-level overview of your feature branches.

[0]: http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org/
I was talking to a VC about how I at one time thought I'd never use AirBNB - but I've now both rented an AirBNB and rented out my house. He said he had felt the same once but the mistake cost him far more then me.
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You can buy phones of all sorts on eBay, etc. New, unlocked, GSM, 4G, etc. I just bought one last week; it took no time at all.
For just about every reason that chaz (above comment) has given. The idea that strangers will bring stuff for you sounds a bit too fantastic. I am still working things out. Would love to hear your views.
Your experience closely mirrors mine in that contracting out the work will cost you more overall. It's in the contracting company's interest to misinterpret specifications so long as they can bill more (you can't irritate the client too much or they'll quit). On the other hand, it's nothing like the way government contractors in the US overcharge the American public.

At one point, we also had a division of our company set-up in India, and when staffed carefully, they became remote members of the team (just like other remote workers). The only downside to this arrangement was that it was hard to keep qualified employees as (at the time), you could change jobs twice a year for a 20% bump each time.
Linking to a thread about a paranoid blog/rant, regarding:

"Bitcoin is a cryptographic botnet"

Bitcoin, I believe after reviewing the protocol
description here is a US gov’t black op.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7165893

Possibly worth discussing, since it's reactionary slant was directly provoked by OP's topic.

Seems to have gotten buried. Possible deliberate forum sliding?

http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Technique-1-FORUM-SLIDING

The only reason I might suggest considering this botnet premise is due to hardware mining.

ASICs are pretty much the norm for mining now, and near as I can tell, there hasn't been much discussion regarding all the custom hardware floating around lately.
To be fair, this being mentioned 2-3 times per channel kind of pales in comparison to when the Duck Dynasty thing happened it was on every news station nearly 24/7 for a week. I think the complaint is the amount of coverage this has been given, not whether it has been covered at all.
I think it's just something to do with WebRTC, I'll have a better look once I'm home and file a bug. Firefox is still my go-to browser, it's usually just the new stuff that hasn't been implemented yet in the release version that I have issues with.

Thanks for your work! Mozilla's one of my favourite companies!
On the point of "democracy" ... my understanding of Cryptocoins in general is that a miner's majority of 50%+1 could effectively take control of the block chain if such a group were organized

EDIT: What I'm trying to say is that "they" could reverse the decision if they wanted to.
At home, I think it's showers by far (something like 7 gal/minute, you do the math), ~50 gal for dishwasher or washing machine, then on down. And yea, most of the water that you "consume" is probably consumed so far upstream (hah!) that you don't even realize it.

Edit: I looked up my original source and I had misquoted dishwasher, sorry about that. The source is:

http://fi.edu/guide/schutte/howmuch.html

* Washing machines are 40-55 gal/load

* Dishwashers are 15 gal/load

* Running a faucet is 3 gal/minute
Yeah, that's one way. Or a similar text formatting on html/md on the readme. If you look at the bropages one, it very concretely shows you what it is. Any way of doing this makes it easier for people to tell what exactly they're getting.
Despite the linux comment in the authors post, but can someone please please please take some variation of "desktop" part of this design and turn it into a linux mint theme?
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> git-rerere

> will prevent you from getting stuck resolving the same merge conflicts repeatedly, by remembering how you resolved them the last time.

That's on by default these days; if you re-do a merge and git finds the conflict in rerere, it'll automatically use the saved resolution rather than inserting conflict markers.
My comment above goes into more detail but if you want the best Indian software engineers, you need to pay them more than another company would (just like in any other free market in the world). This is a constantly moving target.
It's nice to hold up League of Legends as a shining example of IAP done right, but the fact is that there are plenty of excellent games with vibrant communities that couldn't even dream of having 5 million concurrent players. Riot does fine with very little marginal revenue per player, but not many other games can do the same, especially on mobile.
I've started talking to my kids about IAP in the exact same way I talk to them about drugs - without even realizing it till just now.
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Isn't Bitcoin's success as a currency orthogonal from the negative effects it might have on the economy? If individuals think holding Bitcoin is better for them than holding dollars, they will do it as long as it's legal.

As far as the economic effects, I think we'll be much better at managing a deflationary economy in 2030 than we were in 1930. We have more knowledge, better statistics, and better communication. At its core, the sticky wages problem is a communication problem.
I don't think you have any idea what the word "ethical" means.
Wa, this comes totally unexpected I have to say. He was a good actor, not one of my favourite but one that I could always recognize and had roles I usually liked. Can't say much more unfortunately. Condolences to family and friends.
That.

Also, Linux found a niche, and stopped being a toy very early, much before people started really caring about performance.
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If message histories are your only copy of family/friends photos, you're doing it wrong.
What could be mined, some day, from the Bitcoin blockchain? Looked at in the right way, it's a sparse rainbow table for SHA-256.

I can't help wondering if this is someone's science project.
in business school (or any Marketing 101 class) marketing doesn't actually mean strictly promotion/advertisement. one of the traditional four ps is product, but I guess the term marketing has been overloaded
Shouldn't the title then be "average water use per person/day by country"?
I'm surprised the figures for the United States vs United Kingdom are are so far apart (550 vs 150). These leads me to think much of the usage is water lost during transmission, or used in farming/industry rather than in the home.
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See this video lecture for a very accessible explanation of what topology is (and is not): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdpbfOzkJzI
In this case it was not pirating but "pirating" because Adobe did not have the binary that he already payed for. It is not the only answer but it is an appropriate one for the situation.
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"Creator of Facebook Ads" is quite the title
I prefer to counteract these potential bugs by locking the keys of a hash.

For eg. in Perl:

use Hash::Util 'lock_keys';

my %hash = (key1 => 'foo', key2 => 'bar', key3 => 'baz');
lock_keys %hash;

Now any attempts to lookup or amend a key that doesn't exist produces a runtime error...

$hash{key1} = "FOO"; # updates fine
$hash{key4} = "XXX"; # throws error
I actually do feel that gold is too inflationary to store value. Many people simply don't realize at what scale it's being mined and how much of gold there's in the universe (hint: more than enough to build gold toilets for every human on the planet and not even scratch the surface).
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>IOS

Hacker News's automatic capitalisation strikes again! I thought this was about Cisco IOS for a moment.
I know, and a paper check might not protect you in any case if the attacker is able to change that option through the online system.
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Hi detcader,

That is a really good question for debate. You may see my views on it here: http://www.quora.com/Microfinance/Do-the-micro-loans-contrib...
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It probably costs like $5 to change your phone number. I think that's the best option at this point.
I know it's annoying but the best solution here just seems to change your number. Don't lose your mind over this one.

edit : seems like people don't understand my post. If you have a voice, the good thing to do is to make a blog post and submit it to websites like HN. The guy did it, now what can he do if he needs a quick fix? If he's in rush? Change number. It's really not that terrible and I do it every year without trouble.
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Yeah, this feature would make me incredibly happy. With the current program I'm writing, I swear UPSERTS would cut a good third of the code out.
This is also neat:

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshw...

It shows how your household compares to national averages in terms of water use, diet, energy, and shopping. I was a little surprised to read that the average person does 3 loads of laundry a week. I'm closer to every 3 weeks -- but I guess I have a pretty small household.
Obligatory Mitchell and Webb: identity theft:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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I had this same issue when I started working on a side project. I quickly decided to store the Github API secret and client id in a property list, and then access it from there in the code. The keys are never exposed in the code and that's great. The property list file was ignored by my github repository and all was well with the world.

Until I started using a CI server, which would fail to compile because that file was no longer present when it was described in the project configuration. To fix this, I added a blank copy of the configuration file to the repository, committed that so that the project would compile on Travis, then ran `git update-index --assume-unchanged` to never update that file again, so that I could fill in the correct configuration data again.
Does anyone have a good explanation as to why this is supposed to be hard to achieve? What incentive do miners in the distant future have against inflating a cryptocurrency?

For example, take Bitcoin after the cap has been reached and mining bitcoins only gives fees. If 50% of miners cooperate to make blocks worth real bitcoins again, they will suddenly start raking in more profit. They will be devaluing everyone's stores of bitcoins to do it, but people who hold bitcoins have no say in it, only computing power does. If we assume that miners will be the main owners of bitcoins for all eternity then they will probably never agree to this, but if there are a lot of miners with very little in reserve then why wouldn't they accept devaluing bitcoins a little bit to get more per block mined?
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This is a such wrong reply. The OP did not complain about his message history, he was talking about message histories of all his friends and relatives. Do you really think it could be socially acceptable to approach each of your friends and relative and tell them: "If message histories are your only copy of family/friends photos, you're doing it wrong." ?
i think a co-working + daycare space is a great idea. i've seen entrepreneurs try building product while staying home with their kids and it's very difficult to get into the 'zone' (and not feel riddled with guilt over it).

one model that i tried with my former CTO, who had a baby while we were working on a product, was to take turns watching the baby while coding.

/disaster
Have considered writing the entire kernel in Rust. Haven't considered using it for the system language, will defenitely consider that.
Yes, asking everyone to use a new number is less work than asking people to delete all their imessage threads. Updating contact info at work and with services shifts the burden to him.
Fixed at 10k per block, says he: https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/23#issuecomment-...
Farming sounds very plausible:

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/californias-drought-whos-...

and something I never thought about: ".. humans drink less than one gallon of water per day, but a cow can drink up to 23 gallons of water a day."
I don't think anyone would agree that USD-centric societies discourage hoarding.

No offense, but I think it would be wise to familiarize yourself with the basics of a subject before forming high-confidence blanket opinions about it like that. (The same applies to your other comment about why anyone would think an inflationary economic policy would be desirable at all.)

Sorry if I sound patronizing, but as it happens the link between inflation and hoarding is one of the few well-established empirical facts in economics [1,2,3] with ample historical evidence both from the well-documented shortage effects of price controls [4], to the well-understood effect of changes in bond yields on the money demand [5], which is the cornerstone mechanism of basic monetary policy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_(economics)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

[3] Milton Friedman once said: "We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas." From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls.

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy#Policy_tools