skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably mean

*(((unsigned char *)rightmeow)+i)

but just change the "q < 10" line to "q < 195" and you should see the output change, since that immediate constant is going to be present at least once before the final ret. For me, changing that changes the output from c3 being found at 47 to it being found at 25.
That's very debatable and even if true, would only matter if dogecoin became a mainstream currency, which it certainly isn't. At best it just means a continuous transfer of wealth from coin owners to miners for doing nothing other than wasting electricity on cpu cycles.
what a visionary
The only bug here that was "bugging" me was that issue 3857, where you had to specify the username in your config rather than being able to just do it on the fly in the command. Nice to see the rest getting fixed, though.

While we're talking about Mercurial (which is rare), the crecord extension may be getting Windows support soon -- there's a Windows fork, and the original author wants to merge it in. Crecord is a command-line interface for choosing which specific lines to include in a commit. It's one of the reasons why I feel hg is very useable from the command line, even if you aren't a command-line wizard.

crecord: https://bitbucket.org/edgimar/crecord/

windows fork: https://bitbucket.org/jmb/crecord
Slavery’s last stronghold
https://redbooth.com/ (formerly teambox)
See my previous comment[0]. That perf test is testing Backbone's use of jQ vs. native DOM, not jQ v. DOM in isolation. I don't trust that there aren't side effects and interactions in the test.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155710
or http://planet.postgresql.org , I found it worth following.
If you know the address of the function that comes immediately after it, then subtract the two. This will include padding nops at the end etc. so it might be slightly bigger than the real size but you won't be missing bytes from the tail, which is what really matters in this application.
Goldieblox plugged in superbowl quiet riot ad
Have you read the article? This man had nothing to do with terrorism, and was only in Guantanamo because of the perverse incentive of bounties given for supposed terrorists. It is completely bizarre that he was not set free when this became clear.
I used to do mine on TaxAct, but since starting a company and having the accountant do the business taxes, my co-founder and I started to add ours to that as well. Yea, it costs more, but it really took me a long time to do it myself and I'm much happier letting someone else take care of all of it.
You never said that. Please don't redirect.

You made an assertion. Back it up.
I use both. I dont think Git 'won' but it is more popular. I suspect many git users dont even know why they use git except because they were told to, they probably never tried hg or know anything about darcs, bitkeeper, etc.
For me, it's:

1. The queues extension.

2. A bazillion other extensions.

3. The source code is pretty reasonable -- even mortal humans can contribute and write their own extensions.

I've found the queues extension to be really useful. It's like having multiple staging areas, which will later become multiple commits. I tend to change too many things, and then remember that I need to create specific commits. Queues makes that possible. I haven't found a good way of doing that in git, although I still use git every day without any big problems.
SourceTree seems to get slower and slowerespecially if you have submodules and lots of branches. Not sure why. Any good alternatives out there?
> "I can't do this, I can't do that", "I'd like this feature, why don't you have it?" and "This is incomplete"

The key about that is to not worry much about it: things are not as bad as they seem, and they are not as good as they seem.

If someone tells you "I'd like this feature, why don't you have it?", probably what you don't realize there is that this person is currently talking to you and is talking about your product. That's a lot. Starting from there you can go further like for example start to charm him/her.
Did I miss where it says what size Linode and DO server is being compared, and the price of each?

I'm guessing the smallest DO may have more competition for disk IO than the smallest Linode or the DO box could have had aggressive neighbors while the Linode didn't.
I'm no physics expert, but I can account for the second one -- if there's no friction, the balls just keep rolling
I didn't dig too deep into this blog, but right off the bat I suspect that there is caching going on. Since this is a virtualized environment that is not surprising, you don't know if the entire volume you are working with is being cached in the hypervisor or possibly the disk controller or disk itself.

You don't get fraction of a millisecond random reads from spinning disks without caching... period. So whatever you think your measuring you aren't.

My experience with performance measurements is that the vast majority of people don't measure what they think they are measuring or don't measure what is actually relevant for the use case (and all related use cases that need to be considered). And if you don't know what the expected result is they can be equally useless because you can't know that your results don't fit reality or the speed of light or whatever.

I wish I had a great answer for how you can get started doing performance work, but it starts with understanding the orders of magnitude of various operations. Flash seeks are hundreds of micros for crappy flash, spindles are ~4 milliseconds and that is with fast spindles. If you are working in memory you should know the difference between instructions (for instructions branching and stalled execution vs continuous execution) and cache misses and the various kinds of cache misses (different tiers, remote NUMA) as well as what happens when you have contended mutual exclusion or CAS primitives.
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ might be of interest.
I just kill them one-at-a-time via Stylebot myself. If I don't feel like fixing a site, I'll just close the tab or hit it in Readability.

Totally agree with you, however.
Nice! For me it changed from being found at 38, to 34.
I wonder why you get C3 while I get C2.
TurboTax by far, looking for a CPA.
W. Edwards Deming
Git an Mercurial are so similar. You have to remember that Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar were all released within a month of one another to do basically the same thing (because BitKeeper took their licenses away from linux debs). They all have very similar concepts and try to solve the same problem in near the same way. Each of these DVCSs have stolen concepts from one another and there isn't a lot differentiating them. Sure, syntax and terminology differ, but they all end up working pretty similar to one another.

You have tools like Kiln Harmony[0] that lets you use git/mercurial for the same repo (looks like it cross-commit between the 2).

Git gives you all commands all at once, while Mercurial gives you just the functionality needed 90% of the time that can't really get you in trouble. Mercurial ships officially supported extensions with Mercurial that let you do history rewriting and other fun stuff that people are used to with git rebase.

I'm more a fan of Mercurial's CLI syntax/terminology, but Git has really won the popularity contest at this point. If you ever have questions about Git usage, the question has probably already been asked and has a lot more people that know and enjoy it.

Mercurial does have some advantages going for it still I believe. Being purely written in python makes it work a bit better on Windows. And as Facebook has said, it is easier to develop new plugins for Mercurial (at least given their skillset). I also like the Mercurial Largefile extension (if you have to deal with a lot of binary data). I know there are 3rd party modules like git-annex, but nothing officially part of Git.

[0] http://blog.fogcreek.com/kiln-harmony-internals-the-basics/
If you're using just Git, have you tried Git Extensions (https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/)? We don't use any submodules where I work, so I've never tried it with that.
You don't have to be anti-military or even anti-war-on-terror to be against abuses of the system. (I don't know if any reasonable person is ever anti-peace, but I would definitely choose war over oppression; I still think Guantanamo is a bad idea for both moral and effectiveness grounds.)
Completely coincidentally, I just bought the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (in Spanish: "Crónica de una muerte anunciada") today.

It's a short novel by the Columbian author that I had read ~10 years ago, and thought of it again today when reflecting on the nature of journalism. The novel is a commentary on the notion of "truth". Its plot involves a murder in a small town in Columbia, and is told in a journalistic style, where you, the reader, learn new facts that reshape the perception of the "whole story" as the story itself unfolds through the narration. As the novel unfolds, you start to question the veracity of the facts presented to you, causing you to question whether the "true reality" of what happened is even knowable.
I think a user that uses deleted files to hide information could be classified as a power user: give them an option to enable unsecure file deletes if they really want to. That seems like a crazily tiny use case.

For the average user, though, I'd rather make them more secure by default.
Someone flicked the startup on-switch in Myanmar
> Savings accounts have interest rates.

What year are you living in?
> there's simply no good incentive for them to prioritize fixing this

There's plenty of incentive for them to fix this. OP is far from the only one calling Apple customer support or going to a Genius bar over this issue. Those costs add up, unless they're also considering the incentives on the other side of the ledger.
The Chipotle Emphasis on "Throughput" Is A Recipe for Continued Disappointment
There are quite literally thousands of documents that disagree with you on that, especially when it comes to physical addiction. Your response demonstrates a misunderstanding as to what addiction is, even if you happen to have experienced it first hand.

If you're really interested in continuing to debate whether your perspective of addiction should be adopted by others feel free to search Google for "addiction" or "is addiction a lifelong problem" or if that's something you don't have time for start with the first Google result I pulled up: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/subabuse99/chap2.htm

There are plenty of other, better, sources that will provide more thorough descriptions of both the physical and psychological characteristics of addition. Practically all of them acknowledge that addiction, once attained, does not grant an individual the luxury of choice as you entertain it. One can certainly choose to seek the tools to control the impulses of addiction through willpower (be it internally or externally inspired), but that will never mean they can choose to make the underlying addiction go away and never bother them again at any point for the rest of their lives.
The Web Styling Challenge: you and another person are going to make a web site. You are doing the HTML, while the other person does the CSS (you can discuss it and swap jobs if you want). You can talk as much as you want ahead of time, but the only record you can keep is a table that maps CSS selectors to a description of what you'll be using them for. You are then split up and do your individual tasks. When you're finished, you will be judged on how broken the results of combining your pages with the other person's stylesheets are. I think just imagining how this game would go makes it pretty clear that CSS is lousy at separating the concerns of style and layout.
Is ioping legit? It obviously looks like it is latency focused. I must be have been living under a rock.

I usually use gnome-disks, hdparm, dd and iozone.
Here we have a little program called e-tax [1] that we can download. It'll download a whole heap of pre-fill info for you [2] such as wages earned and tax paid throughout the year, your medicare (our dirty socialist public healthcare) info and any private health insurance you may or may not have (since that affects your tax contributions), any share dividends/transactions, bank savings interest accrued, etc etc.

You then just go through and answer a bunch of questions, entering relevant info wherever you need to and at the end you press submit. The info you enter essentially amounts to any deduction claims you want to make, plus any other niche pieces of info you may have to supply.

It covers the vast majority of people who don't have crazy complex tax returns. You can still do it by hand, or pay someone else to do it, but for most people it is an hour or two long exercise to do it via e-tax and at the end your return is either directly deposited into your bank account or you receive a bill to pay your tax owing.

It's nice and easy and makes tax return for most of us a pretty painless affair.

[1]: http://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Lodging-your-tax-return/E-...
[2]: http://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Lodging-your-tax-return/In...
Ask HN: How to prepare a safety net in case the startup fail?
Well, I am the tech cofounder of a startup in Brazil.

I think that my ponderings of how to prepare in case of startup failure, probably is something that crossed the minds of many tech cofounders, or even tech early employees, so... how you prepare a safety net?

My two best ideas so far: 1) Attempt to crank projects to stuff GitHub (because seemly now you cannot get a coding job at all without one).

2) Get some formal administration education, although my resume has two executive levels on it (R&D head in a past company, and CTO in the current), I guess most companies would not hire me (because my lack of formal education, young age, no famous work, no certifications...)

note that I am considering only "get hired" because the foundation of the current startup was a crazy fluke (I was looking for a job and found a co-founder with investors tagging along by accident), although I would love to remain as entrepreneur, I have no idea how (in case the startup fails).

So, how tech cofounders and early employees prepare in case their current company fails (something I believe to be actually a common situation)?
>> However, the problem with inflation is that might turn the currency not interesting: Why would anyone want to buy an inflationary currency?

Why the hell should anyone want to invest in a currency anyway? It's a medium of exchange!
I think the terminology of "unlink" and "unreference" might be too esoteric for typical users - I'm thinking of my mother who can just about manage putting up pictures on facebook and email through Outlook Express.

Pairing "delete" with a "secure delete" option in some cases might work, but I don't think renaming the option is going to change behavior.
Looks like -D will make ioping to direct
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143500
Very glad to see this in between all the git monoculture. Yes, GitHub is kind of nice for some things, but git really isn't.
They are taking a massive DDoS, not only it is having recurrent netsplits, the services (chanserv, nickserv) are getting up and down, and lots of bogus users are logging in and off (right now I am seeing a 31NAEEEF5Q for example... and some minutes ago I saw 18 users in the same style in a channel that had 3 real users)
My post may have been confusing because I was addressing two different things, the standards process and the merits of flexbox's design.

> You seem to be arguing that people shouldn't have been frustrated for the last 17 years by CSS' inability to do basic and non-novel tasks simply because it's starting to become possible now.

The standards process is frustrating. For the CSS working group in particular, there was until relatively recently a stubborn clinging to monolithic CSS standards even with nearly a decade of evidence that holding up everything people agree on until people agree on everything is not a winning strategy. That's how you end up with being unable to center a div for so long.

Flexbox's particulars aside, however, my point is that there is a difference in kind, not degree, between "trying to express this in CSS makes me want to murder the universe" (the case in 2008) and "this thing does not work in a browser from 2008" (the case today). If your point is that it's taken a ludicrously long time to get there, I don't think you'll find anyone to disagree with you.
The monthly updates always scare me a bit for version control. Is that really prudent?
Unless there's a tax treaty between the US and the country where you reside.
I'm trying to imagine what circumstances would result in that particular panel, plaintext password and all, ending up broadcast on a wall.

A honeypot?
How about Japan, South Korea, Taiwan?

South Korea and Taiwan weren't true democracies until the 80s.

Transition from a dictatorship takes time.
NYS actually sent me a letter saying I missed this and that credit, refund check enclosed. Pretty crazy.
My favourite technique: position absolute and top: 0 bottom: 0 left: 0 right: 0

also doesn't require a fixed width
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/vsliJ
Review: The Story About Ping
Try switching back to iOS then forward to android again?
Won't disable neither disk cache nor raid controller cache though.
Could you get more equations by symmetry?
> Mercurial isn't the terrible DVCS that people left for greener git pastures; indeed it's the opposite:

For everybody who does not like git there is one who does. I vastly prefer git over hg after having used hg for a few years and I did not regret switching a single bit.
> Speaking for myself: the one specific thing I use every now and then in Mercurial is "hg serve" command. It allows me to serve up my changes to others in an ad-hoc way without needing to set up a repo in the usual places (Bitbucket, Github, etc.).

You can do the same in git:

git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=.git --reuseaddr --strict-paths .git/

or

git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=. --reuseaddr .
Years ago, a pbs documentary (coocoos egg?) interviewed Richard stallman. He was standing in front of a whiteboard with "prep.ai.mit.edu" user "rms" pw "rms".

Of course I tried it, of course it worked. There was a nice "motd" to the effect: be cool, don't break stuff.

I'm sure this breach was nowhere near as deliberate.
Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors
Constraint Cascading Stylesheets for the Web [1999][pdf]
I disagree, I think he made excellent points, and I fail to see why you think there is a problem with his comments.
The central issue here is one of limiting risk. It's far easier to destroy prosperity than it is to achieve it, similar to a reputation. It's less important for a good politician to be able to achieve good things than it is for a bad politician not to be able to achieve bad things.
I used TurboTax in the past, since a few years I'm using a tax advisor as this is essentially cheaper. With TurboTax I always ended up being not 100% sure if I'm eligible for certain deductions. So I could either not claim them (and potentially lose a lot of money), claim them (and in case I wasn't allowed to claim them also potentially lose lots of money), or spend lots of time researching the law. With a tax advisor I just describe my situation, pay a relatively low fee, and don't have to care about those things.
Falling in Love with Node.js
Same thing happened to me when I switched to Windows Phone. I didn't realize it until my iPhone was long gone. I un-registered my iPhone on Apple's site and about a month later, iPhone users could text me again.
To be fair, this guy did talk about politicians power being limited, not abolishing the government. There are clearly good things we should take out of libertarianism, which is why most people join these fringe movements.
EXCEPT when its not
What a contentless comment. One might just as well flatly claim that mercurial isn't nice for anything.
It was H&R Block until tonight.

I started my 2013 filing in H&R but hadn't submitted. I stumbled on this post and saw all the votes for TurboTax and re-entered my info into TurboTax and it saved me 5K.

Even the UI and help sections are nicer in TurboTax than H&R.
Sorry, that was just my laziness leaking through, as I thought it would be hard to actually dig up. But it turned out to be easy! Search for "Battle Dungeon".
A small experiment with Bootstrap + Backbone.marionette + node.js + mongo DB
Thanks for the bait, FYI Ive implemented a shit-ton of protocols. Your comment is the experience level of a 20 year old shitty PHP junky.
"the US government has the ability to tell you how much you should be paying in taxes, and to pre-fill your tax returns"

This is only true if you have a relatively straightforward tax return. Once you itemize deductions, there are all sorts of things the federal government doesn't know about, like how much real estate tax you paid, how much you gave to charity, what your medical and miscellaneous expenses were, etc. They only know about what's on your W-2, 1099s, K-1s, etc.

For the really simple tax returns (like 1040-EZ), I think there's already an option to have the IRS compute your tax for you.
Why do all my text posts go dead automatically?
I've noticed that while I appear to still be able to submit articles, any text post I submit seems to go dead immediately.

Is there any way I can find out what I did to cause this behaviour (presumable I posted something a moderator did not like?)
Laws follow morals, not the other way around. If the parent poster's absolute statement is to hold, it should be independent of the legal system.
Of course, CSS was a compromise between old guard semantic "purists" (who envisioned an HTML document as being pure text with structural meaning semantically applied to the content via tags, with the browser in full control of presentation) and designers, who wanted control over look and layout (the fools!). And so, CSS was created, and designers could have their silly colours and fonts. Any layout or typographic abilities were added as a neglected and poorly considered afterthought.

Designers being what they are, worked out systems like tables, and the hacks in the link to get what they want out of CSS anyway. (but why would you want to centre anything? that's stupid! the original designers of CSS grumble)

meanwhile, far superior systems, such as "Constraints Based CSS" were proposed, and ultimately rejected because it's stupid and irresponsible to want to control the layout of a webpage!

Now it's 2014 and we have flex box as a patch over. Constraints based css would have been much better, and that's what you get in Cocoa Auto-layout now,

but oh well.
let's copy java and flash. what difference does it make?

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-u...
For example, one might decide to make massive political reforms which sound good (and populist) without fully considering all their implications, and thereby destroy prosperity
Yes. Friction being constant is a lie that we tell middle school students. In undergrad physics you learn that there is also a linear and quadratic component. That is also a lie since even that assumes perfect balls, etc.
The Case Against Performance Reviews
Why can't I submit articles anymore?
I like git because it stores objects, not diffs and you can recover from almost anything with reflog.
Agreed, I have high hopes for Hopper.
Really cool problem! And great animations.

I was disappointed to find that the associated notebook (http://math.bard.edu/belk/code/BilliardsHertz.nb) doesn't work correctly in either Mathematica 9 or 10 -- I think the author used 8.

It seems like NDSolve falls down:

NDSolve::smpf: Failure to project onto the discontinuity surface when computing Filippov continuation at time 0.`. >>

and the solution shows the cue bool passing through all the others..