skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"git grep" is a lot faster than grep in a large codebase. One obvious reason is that "git grep" ignores non-checked-in files in the project directory. But I also notice a speed difference even when the project directory is clean.
Hey, this is John Doe, iMessaging you from his email.
And no matter how good you are at it, a dishwasher does it with less water.
Note that the effect of this inflation, being fixed, lessens each year. After 100 Billion coins, the next year there are 105, for a rate of 5%. The next year, the rate will be 4.76% ; then 4.55, 4.35%, 4.17%, 4.0%, etc. in later years.
Yeah even I was fooled - I totally missed his "key" and the links.
Ask HN: What compels you to submit something for users?
I was thinking about this earlier today, do people post something to get the points or they want HN to be an actual news site for learning. The epiphany came when I posted a link for a WSJ about the top 10 American Kennel Club breeds. After about 10 minutes of thinking, I realized I didn't want HN to be a place where this stuff was promoted (the link seemed liked it belong more on Reddit).

How I see HN is my news feed into tech and science - it doesn't have to be the most sensational news you see on CNN nowadays. I just want a place where I can learn from the users and the insightful observations they have.

My question is this: How do HN submitters find that right balance between an article that is both popular and insightful?
A Superbowl Wifi Problem: Praetorian Prefect
There has been a lot of discussion about which way UPSERT should be implemented so I remain cautious about if it will land in 9.4.
Curious: has this even been tried? I would assume Apple SoC's require binary drivers, so even though they are similar to Android phones on a hardware level it might be difficult or impossible to even get an Android port to boot.

Hell, it can be difficult to get an unsupported version of Android to work without major bugs on an Android phone.
This has nothing to do with the phone carrier.

In the US phone numbers are much more open than any other means of identifying someone you want to contact.

"non-free" is a bizarre thing to say in this context. No identifier is going to be free as in speech - that would defeat the purpose. If you want to have assurance that you can keep the identifier it had better not be free as in beer either - the provider of the identifier could revoke it at any time.

Some sort of government-issued communications identifier might provide the needed benefits, but actually the phone number is the best solution to the problem that we have.

If you're relying on an email address, you're in much shakier territory. (Unless you own your own domain and email hosting solution, and unless you're a multinational corporation it's likely to be less reliable than other options.)
Investigation on an attack tool used in China
Nokia’s Trapster is too far over the freaky line
General concepts: concurrency, parallelism, threads and processes
"git log -S" and "git log -G" should also be helpful here.
ADVAPI.DLL is a microsoft thing. It's not a crypto standards thing, so my point still stands. (Restated: it is easier to attack implementations than standards.)
GiveWell has some interesting thoughts on microfinance: http://blog.givewell.org/2009/10/23/6-myths-about-microfinan....
Urine and ozone both rapidly decompose.
thank goodness! test? put that out pronto!
Coding tunes
> but it's a much more reasonable policy than holding and never spending

It seems to me that what you are doing is actually not "reasonable". If you are assuming that Bitcoin is going to increase in value over time (or at least not decrease), then you should be spending all your dollars first (which are known to decrease in value over time).

The issue of whether merchants can offer discounts based on lower transaction costs would make these crypto-currencies more attractive (if that is the case) but it is not relevant to the discussion of inflation vs. deflation.
The Dove Sketches Scam
I love this part as well, when Sir Humphrey is arguing for Trident: https://www.youtube.com/v/XyJh3qKjSMk

"In the world of nuclear missiles, it is the Savile Row suit, the Rolls Royce Corniche, the Chateau Lafite 1945. It is the nuclear missile Harrods would sell you."
Wow, what's the deal with PHP that it's that hard to migrate from Linux to Windows?
There is no parallax effect (AFAIK), the Paper's innovation comes from using stilt to scroll through the photo thus leaving the swipe gesture available to flick through pages/cards
“Just load existing photos of your known shoplifters, members of organized retail crime syndicates, persons of interest and your best customers into FaceFirst,” a marketing pitch on the company’s site explains. “Instantly, when a person in your FaceFirst database steps into one of your stores, you are sent an email, text or SMS alert that includes their picture and all biographical information of the known individual so you can take immediate and appropriate action.”

I can imagine that shoplifter identification systems will have the same kinds of problems as no-fly lists. Let's say you look exactly like someone who is on the no-shop list (shoplifter database) and every time you walk into any store, you're ejected by security guards. The company that runs this database has no accountability to the public, so there's no way to get yourself removed from the list.
Just...no.
"Blackout" implies a direct or implicit threat of violence by the government against the media, and the media either willingly or unwillingly complying to censor something they would otherwise cover.

The American media is in the business of selling time to advertisers, not necessarily informing the public. Duck Dynasty is more popular than Edward Snowden and that particular story was incredibly sensational, so it gets covered more, so it gets more viewers, so it makes the commercial time worth more. Conspiracies aren't necessary to explain it... it's not worth more effort for stations than it gets.
The media and the government collude to conceal important truths from the public, in the same sense that Coke and Pepsi collude to reduce consumption of tap water; which is to say, not at all, yet extremely effectively.
The critical piece I'm always missing is how to center a div vertically if you don't know its height?
Microsoft's Superbowl commercial
I couldn't find anything about what wage gap may have existed for her prior to 1964, but after June 11, 1964 until 1986 when she retired she was probably paid the same as men in the same position.

Edit: Found some more information, showing that she was likely paid the same wage as men for the same position:

"The pay and training received by the WAVES was
identical to the men's."[0].

From a biographical blurb on her:

"Rejected by the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) in
1942 for not weighing enough, she was finally admitted in December of 1943
and in 1944 was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade, thus beginning
her 42-year career with the Navy and her life-long relationship with
computers."

[0] http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/AirSpace/text...

[1] http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/alumni/grace-murray-hopper....
My favorite merged 9.4 features missing from this post:

* GIN optimizations for smaller index size and faster search. This should mean faster full text searching

* Time delayed replication standbys.

* CHECK OPTION for auto updatable views, I believe the constraints were slightly relaxed on which views can be updatable too.

* Replication slots looks promising, this should make it easy to setup a replication slave which does not have to be reinitialized on long network failures. No more WAL shipping needed.

* Printing the planning time in the EXPLAIN output (only since I wrote it myself).
After reading this I need to find a new country mine is broken and I really no longer desire to attempt to fix it.
Thinking in Animation Frames: Tuning Blink for 60 Hz
Do iOS apps not have a clear data/clear cache system level option like android does?

If not, what do you do to wipe an app's data?
Bitcoin/Dogecoin is basically a public ledger. Couldn't the system be set up so that this system of rules did destroy coins during a recession by reducing everybody's balance?

It could probably be gamed very easily by speculators going in and out of the cryptocurrency, but there shouldn't be a technical reason why it can't be done. This is in sharp contrast to traditional currencies: You can't send in the police to confiscate 5% of everyone's dollar bills.
I haven't seen a youtube ad in years. And I only use Noscript which is partially disabled on youtube, because you need scripts for flash. So I should see ads.

If you could link me a video with an ad it would be awesome, I want to determine the cause.
In addition to the pursuit of points, I think to many it's a challenge to see if they've got the intelligence to identify something provocative to the masses and get the scoop on the item.

Also, and I'm going out on a limb here, maybe people submit to seek reassurance that their taste in tech news isn't too deviant when their submissions get traction, or a right of passage to consider themselves a legitimate "hacker" who earned the respect of people apparently smarter than the slashdot crowd, but more energetic than the kuro5hin gang.

Or out of narcissism maybe, a desire to be at the helm steering what thoughts a bunch of people shall focus on at a given time.
Touché. Though I suspect it might be prudent to further explain that that means they need to add your email address to your contact, as their mind will be blown at that point.
Are Android 'TV sticks' eating into Apple's tablet market share?
Well, I'd use display:table-cell with vertical-align:middle.
Startup launches the 1st Private Feta in history
This is a pointless post. Use the TABLE tag. Yes, it will violate the purity of CSS, but you can trust it, and it will make your day better because it will free you angst and from extensive cross-browser testing. Simple is better than complex. Straightforward is better than arcane.
The major cable companies are also content companies, too. Comcast/NBC, Time Warner/Time Warner. Nobody has clean hands. So I say it's worth giving a new player a shot at doing better, rather than conceding the market to the existing monopolies.
Hi BvS,

Microfinance as a poverty-fighting tool is hotly debated among donors. Here is a recent post about why we believe microfinance is healthier and more effective than handout-based charity: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-kurnia/about-to-send-a-d...

But don't just take my word for it. I'd encourage anyone interested in what microfinance borrowers themselves say about their loans to check out our universal member comment feed. This is simply an uncensored feed of the latest 100 comments posted on Zidisha loan profile pages by our members worldwide. It gives some insight into the wide variety of loan uses and results, and how the borrowers themselves describe the impact of microloans in their lives: https://www.zidisha.org/microfinance/testimonials.html
> So, what's an open-source alternative to iMessage

XMPP is _the_ standard, with just so many[0] implementations. On mobile, a good choice is ChatSecure, or Yaxim if you're on Android.

> that lots of people use

XMPP certainly doesn't meet this criteria, it would have to be IRC... but that's yet another way of modelling your social interactions.

[0] http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/
<center><div>I'm centered!</div></center>
Sure, but however - you can check the link; the plugin is about parallax on desktop, but there's tilt on mobile, which I think is pretty the same as on the FB Paper video. My thought is that it's not something totally new as UX.
Does anyone know of an alternative for iOS games?
One that I use the whole time is:

git status --untracked=no

This shows only files that are tracked.
I tend to do a lot of work which leaves files that I don't want to check in lying around in my git repo, this eliminates these and lets me see exactly what I have been working on. The slight caveat to this is when you are working on a new file that you have not yet checked in ever.

This goes hand in hand with:

git add -u

Which only adds untracked files. With aliased commands this usually results in a flow like this:

> git stu

> git adu
Using display: table-cell on a div is a more semantic approach than using <table>.
My understanding is that nuclear submarine bases need to be close to very deep water. Faslane is great from that point of view. A look at a hydrographic map of the UK suggests the only options south of the border are Barrow-in-Furness and the Isle of Man. The Vanguard-class missile submarines in question were actually built in Barrow, so there's a good chance the locals would be happy enough to see them come home.
In this article, I learned,

* that the "warrior gene" thing == psychopathy,

* that your genes determine your personality, except when they don't,

* that your behavior is determined by your biology, except when it isn't,

* that lack of affect == Buddhism,

* that "looking at brainscans" is a valid step in judicial sentencing,

* that you can claim to be a person who suffers from an impairment of empathy, who at the extreme, might well not see the difference between a person and a block of wood, and still be taken seriously when you say "that genetics were very, very dominant in who people are—that your genes would tell you who you were going to be",

* that neuroscientists aren't all that spectacular about keeping their data sets neat and orderly; in particular, they don't see a big deal mingling the results of several different experiments, and

* that claiming to have a Big Evil background, that you have to struggle with every day, is still a great way to get publicity.

I laughed, I cried, it changed my life. Two thumbs up.

By the way, have I mentioned that I am of somewhat Nordic descent; every day, I have to fight off the urge to raid the coastlines of Europe, to pillage and plunder the tender and peaceful farmsteads and towns?
Not necessarily. Having your own business might take the same number of hours as a full-time job, but you have much less commute time. Also you can decide when to work a lot of the time.

If you set things up right, sometimes you don't have to work at all.

The old adage "work smart, not hard" has become trite and meaningless, and when I first started out in business I thought it was scammy bullshit.

But now I work 3 days per week and take care of my kids every Tuesday and Thursday. I work from home and see them all the time. Sure I don't make much money but we get by and I'd rather live on less money now while I watch my kids grow up than spend all my time working.

I guess what having your own business gives you more than anything is choice: choice about when and how you work, choice about who you work with and choice about how much money you want to make.
Stupid is not an objective assessment though. I think Facebook is stupid, and I don't use it. I'm clearly in the minority, but that doesn't make me wrong, because there is no universal, objective standard on what is or is not "stupid."
Thankfully all of these submissions have been getting killed.

It looks like (and has for a while) that HN has the dubious honor of membership in the autosubmit bot (bot, even if human) list for internet news promotion.

But hey, hackers watch movies, right? Relevant!
DRY, though, right? Changing one set of CSS rules is better than hunting down 20 <center> elements when requirements change. Not to mention <center> is deprecated.
I employ between 5 and 12 people depending on my workload. I just don't have to provide an office because they're all remote.
Sewers probably already have a harder time with the other major household source of solids.
Salesnap
Controversy sells. Also, crazy paranoid ravings are a time honored entertainment tradition. I don't buy for a second that Snowden's interview is being avoided because it's not newsworthy enough. In any case, since when did youtube exert editorial control to bar un-entertaining videos?

This looks like real self-censorship: it's not newsworthy enough to be worth alienating people that you might want to have as your friend later on. You still don't need a conspiracy to explain it; but it's nevertheless toxic for democracy.

Frankly, I think self-censorship like this is much worse than explicit censorship. At least with explicit censorship there's still some attempt to question the party line; but with self-censorship you've lost even that.

As to the video itself, is it possible ARD simply has a copyright claim it wishes to enforce?
You're right. We should be building bitcoin toilets for every human on the planet instead.
In World's Best-Run Economy, House Prices Just Keep Falling
It wasn't sarcastic I was agreeing with you. I guess other people thought I was being sarcastic too because you got downvoted and I didn't. I don't know, seems kind of obvious. I use google voice, I never have to change my number when switching phones. I don't know how that would impact imessage. I wouldn't ever use such a service baked into the phone by the phone maker.
gwillen isn't deciding anything for anyone. They've provided advice to people so they can save themselves a lot of heartache. Would you be so upset if someone were to post about (let's use a Myth Busters example) sticking your hand in molten lead, and the top comment was "Don't try this at home! If you're off by a few degrees you will seriously injure yourself."?
I was wondering why the demo is not working for me. it really took me a while to realize that it is actually a button.
Thanks. The efergy clips seem too good to be true! How do I know if they're accurate?
Hashing IPs turns one uniquely identifying number into a different uniquely identifying number.
Not sure that's fair if the United States is exporting a larger percentage of it's agriculture (as in, that water is indirectly being consumed by other nations). So we'd need to account for who exports / imports from each nation.

Regardless, the United States has 1.4x as much cropland per capita, which already accounts for a good portion of the 1.8x increase in water usage per capita.
Start Smaller
Good thing they updated the procedures just in time for Able Archer 83!

26 May 1983 minutes on discussing the last resort procedures: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C1...

Able Archer on 8-9 November 1983: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Drugs vs. the drug war
Dollars and Bitcoin are easily interchangeable, so the concept of spending dollars first doesn't make sense to me.

The amount of Bitcoin someone holds is based on their belief in Bitcoin's future success, their wealth, their spending needs that can only be transacted in dollars, and their backup plan in the likely event that Bitcoin becomes worthless. Once you've reached the proper balance for your risk tolerance, whether you spend Bitcoin or dollars is irrelevant, other than the 1% fee to switch between the two. Even if you think Bitcoin will triple in price tomorrow, it still makes sense to spend Bitcoin today because you can easily replace it with Bitcoin purchased at the current price.
Same here. Incredibly frustrating.

Did you unregister your device(s)? After doing this I think people's iPhones know your number isn't an iPhone anymore and after it fails to send the iMessage it sends it as a regular message. The below link helped me:

http://support.vodafone.com.au/articles/FAQ/How-to-deactivat...

I'm still having occasional problems with not getting texts but for the most part it's fixed.
"It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the pressing civil rights issues of our time."

The author's lack of perspective is astounding.
So basically it boils down to "I am not a professional and thus I am not qualified to have strong opinions in such matters".

You can close your ears and do "la la la la... I can't hear you" and be as much in denial as
you want. Unfortunately it won't change the reality.

Instead of writing "This is my last reply. Goodbye.", I suggest that you avoid commenting on
issues you have just a passing familiarity and leave that to the professionals. It would
save you from future embarassements.
I think the point is that stupid things can still be popular, and stupid ideas can make for successful businesses. Americans in particular tend to have a purely capitalist viewpoint that equates "profitable" with "good".

Hell, the "Pet Rock" sold millions, and I would hope we can all agree that was a stupid idea.
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Not a stupid idea, but I think this will be infeasible largely due to customs.

There are many things that an individual traveler simply cannot bring through customs. Many agricultural products, meats, cheeses, etc. I would guess there are also issues with collection of duty on tech products like iPhones especially if they are being transported for ultimate delivery to another party, and not just the personal property of the traveler.
Oilpan, Tracing Garbage Collection for Blink
Because one is the unit number.
> Shop without broders
World's Most Portable Computer – Same Size As Your Smartphone
Cancer cells grow and thrive just fine in their environment, what's all the fuss about?
Show HN: History of Bitcoin [Line]
As igvadaimon wrote below, there's no need for a <table> tag. Instead of:

<table>
<tr>
<td> my div </td>
</tr>
</table>

you can do

<div style="display: table;">
<div style="display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;"> my div </div>
</div>

The inline styling is just for illustrative purposes, of course.
I had a friend who went through this same issue, for about a week i wondered why he never replied to me, until we talked about it and i realized the situation he was in. It's a terrible bug, apple seriously need to address this.

I get why they wouldnt want to, but to me this is a shady as a broken "Unsubscribe from this email" link.
I found this a few days ago, I haven't tried it yet but it looks promising.
http://snippetrepo.com/snippets/vertical-align-anything-with...
Mutual funds are an investment. Hoarding is savings.

One is productive, one isn't. That's the key difference.

The difference is even more glaringly obvious if you think about the difference between equity in a productive company, loans to productive organizations, and simply doing nothing.
It does. Since it's cached on every device of the people that has sent messages to him, each one of them will either

1. Wipe out the iMessage data - which is all their message history.

or

2. Manually delete every message/thread the OP has been involved in.

That's not going to happen.
This is the man I've been looking for my whole life.
The inflation rate over time will actually tend to zero, since each additional 5bn coins represents a smaller proportion of the total amount. A constant quantity over time translates into a decreasing rate of inflation.
12 websites in 12 months
Former Greenpeace leading light condemns them for opposing GM 'golden rice' crop
You might want to stick a 'solely' in there, because it's plain not true that the majority of beef production does not use grazing. Most beef production raises on grass and 'finishes' on grain, and there are lots of different grades. Some beef is raised on little but grain. It varies heavily on location and climate.
That works great vertically! </sarcasm> Did you even read the article?
A startup launching the first Private Feta -not- a Beta in history
I don't think I am. Trading performance for productivity is completely different discussion. It sounded like the claim here was that immutability in the OS (whatever that means) might result in a system with better performance.

We have programming languages where everything is immutable (Haskell). This results in programming techniques that generate a lot of garbage. We have not seen that this results in programs with better performance than those that do not generate garbage to begin with. Why would it be different in an operating system?