skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that the workloads on Digital Ocean are not fully utilizing the block device. FIO shows about 50% util for DO, and 81% for Linode on the queue depth=1 test, and 70%/82%, respectively, on the queue depth=8 test. Which seems to indicate a bottle neck somewhere else (at least on DO), and that seems to align with OP's statement at the end, where it seems DO is being capped. Also as it was pointed out, the sizes of these VPS are not even mentioned, and most likely the working set size of 128MB, might be either too small or too big for any of these VPS, making even harder to see the value of these results.

Brendan Gregg has excellent info on these topics,

http://www.joyent.com/blog/benchmarking-the-cloud
http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/05/11/file-system-laten...
http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/10/23/active-benchmarki...
They're actually very big on backwards compatibility. It's quite straightforward to work with repositories created by old mercurial versions on and communicate with mercurial installs with different versions. The only thing that won't work is features that are only in the newer version.

The real effect of the monthly releases is that bugs get cixed in releases, new features get added, and I get to regularly see all of the awesome activity going on in the mercurial world.
I consider hg far more easy to use than git, specially for the most used commands (status, fetch, push). I need to check the docs about how do the damm push each time with github.

My only gripe with mercurial? That everyone else asume git.
Somewhat meta, but at what point does Stack Overflow transition from being a useful, time-saving tool and become a waste of everyone's time? The top answer author clearly put a ton of time on the answer. We are all now reading this. Is anyone able to apply any of the knowledge they gained from this Q&A to anything productive?
Either they didn't see it, or they did, but didn't care.

Either way, we all got a good laugh about it when I unpacked at our destination.
Kapture: "Instagram for audio" device
I rarely have geeky conversations with anyone (since I don't know any and that is why I hang out here) but I'm genuinely curious:

Why is git more popular than hg? I tried both and hg was generally easier (for me) to pick up. I'm sure it's not JUST because of github.
One of Angular's core contributors gave a talk at ng-conf on a new DI system he's been working on that may eventually make it into Angular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OGGsf1ZXMs
Fixing it is the right thing to do. They're seriously screwing with people's communications otherwise. If you're saying that they're avoiding the right thing because it's too hard and there's no incentive, then to me that is essentially saying that they are doing it on purpose.
This is not relevant, you still have to file and can deduct your foreign paid taxes in any event. The tax treaty becomes relevant when you are working in the states on behalf of your foreign employer (china and USA really needs a better tax treaty).
> Joseph Bankman, a Stanford Law School professor who helped design ReadyReturn, says he spent close to $30,000 of his own money to hire a lobbyist to defend the program in the legislature. Intuit made political contributions to scores of legislative candidates, Bankman said, and gave $1 million in 2006 to a group backing a ReadyReturn opponent for state controller.

> ReadyReturn survived, but with essentially no marketing budget it is not widely known. Fewer than 90,000 California taxpayers used it last year – although those who do use it seem to be happy. Ninety-eight percent of users who filled out a survey said they would use it again.

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-...
I recently made exactly ths same switch, and unsurprisingly had exactly this issue. I resolved it by turning on my iPhone, putting it in airplane mode, and turning on wireless.

I then went into Settings >> Messages and turned off iMessage. All the iPhones that had previously been trying to send me messages via iMessage then started routing messages to me via text.
There appears to be no "About" on that site. Who knows what on earth it is?

On the left sidebar, the "documentation" link is to a video. No thanks, I'm look for a sentence of text.

The next link down is a 404 error.

The community link is for insiders...lots of comments about people leaving the building,whatever that means.

Bottom of page, how to install. Why am I installing something when I don't know what it is?

Sites that expect you to already know what they are about, and do not deign to give so much as a sentence of explanation, are extraordinarily frustrating.
Materialized views "Didn’t auto-refresh"? Maybe I'm dumb or not getting it, but if it doesn't automatically refresh (it should be straight up transactional), then what's the benefit over a normal table? Just a perf gain for queries you can't modify (but can have non-transactional/stale data)?
"Essentially, we're back to where we were with video arcades, before consoles at home gave us unlimited play."

you just nailed it... most of these companies executives were alive in the time of arcades... they all LOVED the play per quarter model. Most of the big companies have backdoors into Vegas gambling as well... keep you pulling that lever.. that's their BUSINESS. The idea that you played the games for just one bit of money was always a temporary thing.
RMS has previously encouraged people to "just press enter" when asked for a password on unix systems. So I'd imagine he does this sort of thing on purpose.
States are perfectly within their legal right to declare war on organizations. If the US were to declare war on FARC or Los Zetas, then yes the US government could detain prisoners until the end of hostilities. (Note that that's not the same as indefinitely)

Whether or not this guy was actually fighting with Taliban or Al Qaida is an important issue, but not really at the heart of the broader issue regarding Guantanamo detainees.
Show HN: Graph showing positivity of nation during Super Bowl.
That's odd. I made the same switch, but when I turned off iMessage on my old phone, texts from contacts with iPhones are sent correctly to my new android device.
H&R Block @ home here because they sent me a free copy (since I did TurboTax last year). I don't do anything too complicated and both seem to get the job done. I like the flow of H&R block a bit more than TurboTax, but both really get the job done for me.
I'm thinking of building an app that records who you are with...
It's an android / iOS app that runs in the background, and buzzes you when it detects you are hanging out with a friend. You can then decide to record that "With". The only other function of the app is a newsfeed that shows who you've been with and who your friends have been with.

Here's a screenshot of the prototype:
http://i.imgur.com/BGAL4XI.jpg

What does Hacker News think - do you think this could be a cool app?
Ask HN: I'm thinking of building an app that records who you are with...
It's an android / iOS app that runs in the background, and buzzes you when it detects you are hanging out with a friend. You can then decide to record that "With". The only other function of the app is a newsfeed that shows who you've been with and who your friends have been with.

Here's a screenshot of the prototype:
http://i.imgur.com/BGAL4XI.jpg

What does Hacker News think - do you think this could be a cool app?
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Could be that the typical Yahoo mail user is less technically savvy than the users of other email providers and more prone to making mistakes which makes it easier for the account to be hacked.
There's a Mathematica 10 now, already? Interesting.

I'm still a happy 8 user, myself. Is there much reason to upgrade?

It'd probably be good for them to pay more attention to backwards compatibility...
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Yes, the server recognizes links and creates the proper HTML tags. It does so by looking for properly formed URLs in the text, and does not check domains against any list. My comment was both an answer and an example -- the http://www.somewebaddress.io in it was turned into a link while www.somewebaddress.io was not. Perhaps that's unclear through whatever app you're reading this on.
My father's worked in international tax at a Fortune 100 for the bulk of his career after starting as a CPA - I was talking with him yesterday and he mentioned that he knows several people in his department that still use TurboTax despite presumably being well-equipped to handle it on their own.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/21/opinion/la-oe-ventry... - an op-ed from 2010

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/intuit-turbotax-... - another, more recent, report.

Intuit's lobbying is intended (it seems) to reduce funding to the program and replace it with their own variation. Not in CA so this whole thing is news to me, otherwise I'd probably have been paying attention to the details (like I did when Time-Warner-bought legislators were screwing over city-owned broadband in NC).
That's a baseless assertion -- legality and morality are independent and only coincidentally aligned. Unless you want to start telling us about the ethical necessity upheld by the farm subsidy bill.

Clearly it would be immoral for you to intentionally provide a source of liquidity for stolen goods. How does that show anything about your gambler?
This is an insight shared by many artists. My favourite, and perhaps the most blunt, take on it is by Picasso:

"What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch… And at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself."
The US has not declared war for over 50 years.
Depending on how you do the layout it also may not play well with screenreaders.
This really depends on the particular tax treaty. Do you have to file taxes? Most likely yes. Do you have to deduct taxes? This depends: Some tax treaties specify that you only have to pay the "difference" in taxes, i.e., by deducting the taxes that you paid to the other country. Some other tax treaties specify that only one country is allowed to tax a particular type of income.

In my particular case (foreign citizen, resident alien) this means that I currently pay 100% of my taxes in the United States (where I also reside). In case I would move back to my home country the tax treaty wouldn't allow the United States to tax the income I make in my home country.
Thanks for this. I hadn't heard the full quote before. People often quote the “great artists steal” line from him - including Steve Jobs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU - but the fuller idea is much more interesting.
I do them manually, using pen and paper and snail mail. This is my eighth year straight doing it this way, and so far it's worked perfectly. The technical overhead of e-file, or TurboTax and its ilk, puts me off.

Every year I have one or two W-2 forms, and a income deduction form for interest paid on student loan. For federal, state, and local combined, it all takes no more than 3 hours. Invariably, the state taxes have the worst instructions, and they are usually very poorly designed, compared to the federal IRS-1040. That goes for KY, CA, and MD, the 3 states I've filed taxes in. My refund (if any) never takes more than 4-6 weeks to arrive via direct deposit.

Doing taxes manually gives me (a perhaps false) sense of control over the process. Most importantly, it only costs two postage stamps.
And you needed to kick people off after a certain point so others could use it.
This is an incredible bit:

"Developed between 1962 and 1964, it was saved from the sale of the computer division to GE thanks to an employee who one night changed the internal categorization of the product from "computer" to "calculator", leaving the small team in Olivetti and creating some awkward situations in the office, since the building except that office was then owned by GE"
This is the most likely explanation
That is odd. Mathematica is usually good about backwards compatibility. That sounds like a change in the under lying numerical solver.
Youtube can detect copied videos automatically.

Also I had a video that was copied several times and wasn't automatically detected (that's only for high level partners). When I reported the copies for copyright they would generally be taken down in about a half hour.
Edward Snowden: World's Most Wanted Man
How to view constraints as blessings in disguise
Agreed. I think everyone will move to canvas eventually (for the whole site), and get over it.
Setting Expectations for Academic Code Releases
It started experiencing frequent netsplits as the Super Bowl stream began, and went down completely a few seconds before the Half-Time Show, then came back up for a few seconds right after it ended. Since then I've been reconnecting over and over without being able to load any channels.

It's just come back up as of five minutes ago, with normal chat working.

(US user)
I came here to say this, glad to see other hacker news people picking up on the impossible disk seek times as well.
You need to stop and smell the billiard-ball-shaped roses, my friend. Not every pursuit needs be in the name of industry. Some people enjoy mathematical puzzles for their own sake.
If something needs demystifying, that's a design smell.
The "great artists steal" line comes not from Picasso but from T.S. Eliot. Lots of previous discussion about this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=picasso+eliot#!/comment/forever/0/... eliot

The line that elliots (not to be confused with T.S. Eliot!) quoted turns out to be authentic, though—or at least there's some evidence for it:

http://books.google.com/books?id=OJTKZeXaUvkC&lpg=PA53&dq=%2...
Show HN: Kurikku – Rap Genius for Code
If you're the author of the pages, you can set the licensing terms as you wish.

Generally, an MIT/BSD style license tends to be compatible with most other licenses. If you're the sole author, licensing the manpages under the same terms as the specific upstream works would work.

You might specify your own terms (say: a CC license), with a proviso "or, as an alternative, under the licensing terms of the original project for which this manual page applies".

IANAL.
Yes … in the symmetric case. That might give you enough to solve the first one-against-two collision. But the subsequent collisions in the pool break problem won't be symmetric (the velocity of the "incoming" ball is not perpendicular to the axis joining the centers of the other two).
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For those whose day job is modelling pool breaks, this could be a time-saving tool.

Actually, for anyone whose work involves modeling physics and collisions in general.

The fact that it describes a phenomenon with which a great many people are familiar and at least casually interested is only one aspect of this. And there's a long history of useful discoveries and advances coming from gaming and gambling (going back to Blaise Pascal).
I presume you know the story of Feynman and spinning plates [1]. Sense of play is important for productivity, sometimes it is more than just important, it becomes a necessity

[1] http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html

The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel
Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling
plate. -- Richard Feynman
This isn't a bug. How do you expect it to work? It's probably not just expected behavior, but an intentional form of vendor lock-in.
Wouldn't that suggest the product wasn't viable, by definition? MVP doesn't mean you can give them something that doesn't cover what they need. Maybe you cut out stuff that was actually needed to be successful. More research might have uncovered that up front, maybe.
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I agree, and that's the reason it kind of rubs me the wrong way when people attribute House of Cards to Netflix's statistics on what people want to watch—which always seems neglect the fact that the show is very well written, very well directed and very well acted.

To make an analogy to start-up land: having the great idea is only the first part—actually executing the great idea is actually the more important (and difficult) part.
This is really insightful. Why didn't I think of this?
Kurikku is a website that allows you to annotate text or code.

Aren't those code comments?
You ever consider how much power Turbotax and H&R block have? The government could behind the doors make a deal with them that could potentially make billions of dollars of revenue by simply omitting a question for example.
What was the thing that H&R did differently than TurboTaxthat accounts for the difference?
And as soon as this news broke, DOGE/BTC went down to .00000154 from a high of .00000185.
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The same way you establish that other stem cell therapies don't cause cancer; you have to do long-term studies.
I think people would take issue with the more explicit forms of function annotation being the __only__ option, for the simple reason that they're a bit verbose and ugly. It's very nice for people to be able to just write code that appears to magically work, without any extra noise.

That said, the dependency injection system in angular.dart is a bit different, and we'll likely be learning and porting some of that back into AngularJS 2.0 over the coming months.
I think he is confused. Wolfram's site only has Mathematica 9 listed
The NFL is an entity which represents the interests of the teams' owners. The commissioner is appointed by the owners. It bargains collectively against the Player's Union and handles things like national television deals, officiating, and scheduling.

The teams themselves are where almost all of the money is. Each one operates like an independent entity that has to follow rules set forth by the NFL. This is why they're called "franchises." The NFL does gross millions of dollars each year, but it's a tiny fraction compared to each individual team and the teams themselves do not enjoy the same tax status that the league itself has.
Bitcoin is spelled without capitalizing the C - it makes the comment look uninformed.
I really don't care if I have to say "steak" twice. If it was 3 times I would probably not go there again, but twice is a not a big rock for my wagon.
Some of them are actually fees imposed by law on the telecom company which they have decided to pass on to you as a line item.
Linus is the reason, I guess.

I tend to think that if Git was written by somebody other than Linus, it wouldn't have gotten so popular. After all, Git was not even envisioned as a VCS [1], and all the usual VC-related functionality has been bolted onto it without a single design vision, which is why we have this clusterfuck of a CLI now.

Sometime after that there was GitHub.

[1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111288700902396
People pay $99 for 99 lives in Bjorks Butter Batterer. People will pay $99 for a real game.

"already established reputation" is overrated in the age of the internet. Lets hope the internet is still around these days.
Not to mention how junky their webmail interface looks. With large image ads plastered all over, I just can't imagine looking at that every time I check my e-mail.
They have at least one branch in London now. I've been there. They didn't do the creepy greeting thing, probably because we'd look at them like they were crazy and walk right out again. Also they might not find any workers.
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Facetime was supposed to become an open standard†, but I don't think Apple ever said that about imessage.

† From the WWDC 2010 keynote: “And we're going to take it all the way. We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make Facetime an open industry standard.”
Actually, my experience at chipotle has been pleasant most of the time and I order out of script stuff("chicken bowl to go with the fajita(veggies) and the tortilla on the side")

Big orders do throw them off but that's because they are optimized for the 99% case of 1-2 orders/customer.
I'm not clear on what is broken. The reason Chipotle has become what it has is because it serves a particular market, and has been optimized for that market. All evidence points to that optimization being highly successful. A company can not grow as quickly and deliberately as Chipotle unless it is doing an awful lot of things right. And frankly, if you asked: What would McDonald's look like if they wanted to portray themselves as a healthy, eco-friendly, trend-setting fast food company? The answer would look a lot like Chipotle. So queuing theory aside, it works well enough to be a major success. So what if I have to repeat myself to the next server in line? The cost of repetition in this context is nearly zero.
Again, which assertion?

That the government doesn't like Snowden being cast in a favorable light or that it uses mechanisms to deter people from doing so?

A good place to start for the latter is chapter 1.3 of "Manufacturing Consent"

http://www.scribd.com/doc/190262164/Manufacturing-consent
It complained for me as well. I just overrode user agent for many years and never had a problem. I think I pick IE or Firefox. So I still stick with TurboTax.
but not really at the heart of the broader issue regarding Guantanamo detainees.

Then don't invoke it.
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I see. You are correct, Erlang definitely falls on the shared-nothing side if you ignore some uses of ETS and ref-counted binaries (binaries above 64 bytes, I believe).

I disagree with the statement "Erlang requires multiple machines to shine," but my motivations, and my definition of "shine," are likely different from yours. Erlang only requires >1 machines if you are creating a system with proper fault-tolerance. In my opinion, it has good SMP support and it performs well for general-purpose applications. You wouldn't use it to implement matrix multiplication, though :)

Anyway, the gist of my post is that the lessons learned from writing Erlang programs might be useful in your work.

Good luck! I look forward to hearing about your progress.
> I like git because it stores objects, not diffs

Now _that's_ a reason to pick a VCS! Would you drop Git if you found out that this is not true [1]?

[1]: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals-Packfiles
Is it me or is the content of this page annoyingly off-centered?
I short companies like chipotle. I invest in twitter and snapchat. that is where value is.
Yeah, I've been to Chipotle probably 30 times in the past 2 years and have never endured the greeting thing. If it weren't for the photos, I'd have assumed the author was writing about Moe's[1] and accidentally got them confused (which is easy, since they're basically the same restaurant, except Moe's DOES the horrendous annoying greeting thing every time somebody walks in.)

1: http://www.moes.com/
I usually go with the footer height 50px, content min-height 100%, bottom-margin -50px. Generally works, but still has some edge cases that can throw it for a loop.

Whereas what I instinctively want to do is something more like a conditional absolute positioning. If the content fits above the fold, then have the footer absolute at bottom:0. Else, have it relative to the content div. It can be done in JS of course, but I feel it should be a lot easier to do in CSS.
Because comparing it to the types of prisons in the 3rd world that do have truly horrible living conditions and real absolute torture, is just dishonest.

On what are you calibrating your gauge of dishonesty?
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> If one needs to set up a local repo hosting service for internal use in a .NET company,

There's also (shameless plug follows) HgLab ( http://hglabhq.com/ ).