skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subtree operations modify commits (and trees). As a result, cryptographically signing or validating a subtree operation does not extend to an independent module, and vice versa. If you care about these things, it's a big deal.
EncFS Security Audit
A 2-dimentional array with width = 6 and height = 4.
They ported Crysis 1 to consoles using a later engine, they may choose to use that as a base.
Did I say it was? I argued for 16 on the basis of this comment thread.

All countries have constraints based on mental competency. The point is that a typical 16 year old (and yes, probably 15 year olds too) are well above the mental capacity where we still allow adults to vote.

The current age limits are not justified with any evidence of that the group is substantially less competent to make the relevant choices than many other subsets of the population that we don't hesitate to allow to vote. If someone for example started arguing for iq tests, or a test on knowledge of current affairs, it would be exceedingly hard to put the barrier low enough to not exclude any enfranchised adults, and you'd almost certainly end up including children well below the age of 16 (e.g. political youth parties in many countries have a lower age of 14, some even lower, and you'll find people in those organisations that are schooled in political science beyond what most adults ever will be).

This would not extend to 1 day old babies because a 1 day old baby lack the ability to make any kind of informed choice. In fact, a 1 day old baby lack the physical ability to observe the alternatives and indicate a choice. They would be excluded by any kind of mental competency standard.

Where exactly to draw the line would be hard, but expect it to drop substantially over time, as it already has.
I find it really interesting that people instinctively say 24, which to me means they know the answer, but they don't actually compute it - it's just learnt, which is why if I asked 14*19, most people would reach for a calculator. It Reflects a lot of maths and education in general nowadays - it's more important to know the answer over why that is the answer. It should be the opposite - the latter is far more important.
Comparing hg branches to git branches in this context isn't super-useful; the right comparison is to hg bookmarks. In this case the semantics seem to be (based on reading the documentation so I might be wrong):

hg push [dest] -- Push all local bookmarks that match a remote bookmark
hg push -B [dest] -- Push a specific local bookmark to a remote

To me those semantics don't seem particularly simple or flexible. In fact it seems quite like the semantics git is moving away from but with the restriction that local names and remote names always have to match, which means that you have to be very careful naming your local bookmarks to avoid clashes.
Pioneering 3D printing reshapes patient's face
The last one instead of wget could be curl
6" by 4" photograph.
I guess 'simple' means "don't try to be too smart".

Pushing only the current branch by default is a good thing, I think. If you are using a more centralized setup you can change the configuration of push.default to 'matching'.
Since most desktops/PCs/Macs are now always online, why is nobody up in arms that any application has access to your home directory, your registry (HKCU at very least) and your "My Documents" directory either?

This is basically what Android apps have access to when requesting STORAGE permission.

Surely it is the same "problem"?
I have on occasion missed having one. However, it's a pretty bad plugin, so it's no great loss. I think they may also be deprecating it.
I don't know about that, I think to a great deal it is possible to guess through context and the word what a word means. The number of neologisms produced everyday on reddit must be huge but it doesn't present a problem.
I think that the problem is that "user-hateful" is the opposite of what's actually happening here: we're still at a state where security is something that users don't actually like, because it often puts the burden directly on them. Viewed cynically, what's happened here is that we have received "the software that we deserve".
SXSW Interactive, Net Neutrality, and the Future of Innovation
Borobudur Temple: Restoring heights
6 Facts You’re Not Being Told About Lost Flight 370
I come from the same area as the bithplace of william the conqueror and, to my surprise, as I was learning English, I realized that some words sounded the same as the local dialect my grandparents were speaking; such as 'pear' and 'chair', etc...
These tools are not to read. They're to quickly scan texts and get the general meaning. You would never, never want to read a novel using this.
Me too. That's what 6x4 will always means to me -- standard sized prints.

As for the wording of the options, in maths terms, I never think in terms of 'so many lots of something' -- it's just 6 times 4 (well, I guess that's semantically the same as 4 lots of 6, but I'd never think of it in those words).
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if we could get rid on the English language as the world's dominant language altogether. The pronunciation rules are completely crazy.

I recently visited Indonesia, and people who spoke Indonesian were surprised how good my Indonesian pronunciation was. Apart from some food, I didn't understand a word of Indonesian, but in Indonesian, pronunciation is pretty much phonetic. Just say what it says, and you can't go wrong. Unless you're a native English speaker, in which case all the crazy mangled pronunciation you've grown up with gets in the way.

A lot of languages from totally different corners of the world have agree on pronunciation, and have practically identical rules for it. A few exceptions, like English and French, seem to require mangling it beyond all recognition.
I want to see a decent rendition of Facebook that was made in just a few hours. ;)
Gremlin.js: monkey testing in JavaScript
This reminds me a lot of the way Twitter and Netflix migrated from large monolithic applications to microservices. At Twitter they used Finagle for service discovery and RPC calls.

The complication arising from splitting into microservices is that tracing and profiling calls become more difficult. So you have to start using new tools like Zipkin.

[1] http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2014/slides/BrianDegenh...
[2] http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2014/slides/AdrianCockc...
I remember playing Screamer 2 with that. I think my brother still has his 3dfx cards lying around (Voodoo Dragon, Banshee etc.)

Happy times. The music in Screamer 1 was better though, more noodly guitar music in the style of Satriani.
I used to do this for my .emacs files and modules. It worked quite well, but in the end package.el made it unnecessary. Since then I came to the conclusion that git submodules are not a real substitute for a package manager.
ok, yeah, I think I read that chapter in Das Capital about how to increase your capital by using government to restrict supply.
> The $25 socks his manager gave him were an "impulse buy" in his former life. Wonder no more!

Anything <$50 is also an impulse buy for me, but I've still managed to sock away a year or so of expenses.
Social Media Marketing, Customer Service and Reputation: A Case Of British Airways
exactly. startups are essentially always validating, beginning with what sendwithus/others did to get a product and idea, and then going through the steps sonink listed. like sonink is saying, there are no guarantees with startups, so you might as well try to stack the deck in your favour right from the get-go.
Is this released already or are those just preliminary release notes?
Google Expands Link Network Crackdown Across Europe
It's not guaranteed to be always winnable.
Cool, I'm happy that is your opinion and thoughts.

The OPs actions are governed by his opinion and thoughts, and he chose what he wanted to do. You saying he should do what you want is absurd.
yes. terrible article.
debs/rpms: http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
First I assumed it was related to timber (though I'm squarely from a metric culture).

I see the 6 and 4 as being equal and congruent, so I don't imagine one number as multiplier of a lot of some other thing or visually as groups of things. I guess my answer would be the dry mathematical 24. Maybe I'd be better at mathematics if I'd try to visualise things more...

Your question reminds me of the little experiment Feynman did where he tried counting to a minute while reading, and how people can see and do even simple tasks differently in their head.

Ways Of Thinking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/
How do I install and use it?
Agreed. I am a solid developer with ten years experience living in Spain. 1/5th of that salary is good money here.
From my experience, I get the general meaning also by focusing on first and last sentence of a paragraph and skipping everything else. Also, thinking for a while about individual words gives a lot of information about the whole content without the need to go through every word one at the time.
> He's been building web apps professionally for over 10 years, and he didn't think to right click somewhere (anywhere) and "Inspect Element"? That's the first thing I did on that page.

That's odd too, it was basically my first thought to inspect the element which used this pointless div and then tried deleting it. Total time spent: 15 seconds, less than reading this rant.

(This is actually a habit I formed by getting rid of huge overlay ads that cover the page or try to force me to log in. No sir, I'll just have this node removed, thank you very much)
If I want to quickly scan an article, I start by a few opening sentences, then go directly to the conclusion, and if it is not enough I will quickly scan the opening of some paragraphs to look for the most compelling arguments/experiments. I don't see how using something like Spritz I could be more efficient. The point is that you don't need to read every single word, even very quickly, to grasp the author's ideas. Maybe I am missing something ?
I guess the market isn't the best judge of what is good? We still have a few places left here in Sweden and we do understand english pretty well. Welcome to a more healthy work environment.
Btw, I still have about 200 days of daddy-leave left with 80% payment and work expects me to use it all or I'm not a good parent. :-)
India’s Largest Online Classifieds Site Quikr, Raises $90M Led By Kinnevik
Actually you can get an amazing amount done in two days.

For example:

* A company looking for a prototype of something that they wouldn't otherwise have the capacity to do
* Refactors
* Code audits
* Four eyes or rapid/agile development partner for a staff member
* Junior dev mentoring/training on a specifc aspect
* Presentation of a technology that might be relevant for which they lack inhouse expertise
* And of course simple app dev. Many inhouse tools can be written in just a few hours.

And so on.
People can recover more then 1 rewrite (zero's and 1's) easily.

Do it 50 times, then it should be safe (if your paranoid, melt the drive though)
I certainly agree! Some of his publicised projects, including this one, have been major motivators for me.
Haha I own that website. I made it as a gag for the IRC channel I go on.

I'm supprised how well my server is handling the strain.
I don't agree that it is a change of attitude. That's the point. Unless you can point to her excusing previous instances of surveillance of the intelligence committee, there's no basis for the claim of hypocrisy. It's perfectly possible she is, but her statements so far does not appear to provide any evidence of it.

She can consider the intelligence committee to be in a special position on the basis of its oversight responsibility: Even if every other person on the planet is fair game, she can still hold that the CIA has gone to far when conducting surveillance against the intelligence committee without being hypocritical just on the basis of a belief that it violates the ability of Congress to carry out its mandated oversight role. The arguments she has made about separation of powers etc. are all in line with a line of thinking that makes this a special case.
.wang!
The article mentions that he IS still making a ton of money. In fact, the announcement that it is being closed down, actually millions of more download in the next 22 hours
FYI: The market of Tencent has surpassed Intel's.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/11/tencents-market-cap-r...
Show HN:My first Game-Android need feedback
Strangely, despite coming from South Africa, where I've never heard the terminology used in real life (maybe it is, but I don't do much woodwork), I've watched enough American crime series that the wood terminology came to mind immediately. I had to Google to confirm that the terminology refers to wood, and not, say, a large metal pole.

Google also tells me that it's actually a 2by4: "He took a 2x4 to the head".
Are you hiring Freshers? Or people with under One year of job experience?
DuckieTV : Keep track of (and download) all your tv-shows from your browser
I wrote up my side of Jacques / The Flying Dutchmans visit here, http://ryanoneill.com/jacques-mattheij/

He was brilliant and very engaging.
For anyone curious in the field, there's a version of Michael Abrash's black book publicly available at github;

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
Mass surveillance in China
The link towards the "shadow mapping article" seems broken, it's this one: http://fabiensanglard.net/shadowmapping/index.php
How To Increase Sales By Getting Rid Of Shyness
1. Where is the source for this benchmark?

2.http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org could be a bit more representative of broad-based algorithmic performance.

3. There are lots of Python libraries for application features other than handpicked algorithms. I would be interested to see benchmarks of the marshaling code in IJulia (IPython with Julia)
All of Mozilla Is Out There in the Open
But just in time for TPP deliberations.
> What's the anecdote?

I think What's the irony? would be more appropriate.
For reference, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949446
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
I don't need a universal set of principles that are good because such a thing is impossible. The entire world of human thought is a subjective abstraction. This need for objectivity is a common failing of the scientific mind, and it is a struggle in vain as our brains are far too puny to truly comprehend the nature of things—we must deal in abstractions, and abstractions as, any programmer knows, are leaky.
Yes, I think it is common for cider still. Its entirely doable with wine, but only high end places tend to, cheap wine, like cheap cheese, is more industrial...
All seem to leaving GTK+ behind.
>> 'kin' comes from 'ken', so 'kinfolk' are folks that think like you
Is that right? I cannot find such a reference. Could you please give a source for the etymology.
A friend of mine once said "caffitary" for cafetière and for about three seconds I genuinely thought, "Wow, have I been pronouncing that wrong all my life?"
The backup feature is on by default, scheduled to backup at 4:00 daily. I can't find an option to turn it off.
So they’re replacing GTK+ with something called Aura. What is Aura? “The goal is to produce a new desktop window manager and shell environment”¹. So they’re doing another Unity?

1) http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura-des...
Either way you don't get repeated UTC timestamps. A negative leap seconds means you go from 23:59:58 to 00:00:00 without passing 23:59:59, and a positive one means you go from 23:59:59 to 23:59:60 to 00:00:00.
cattle and kine is another doublet. two different words used by two different groups. kith and kin, is like saying neighbours/extending group and family. but your right its not a doubling, but more a broading.
It was a calque of the Greek ανέκδοτο, which means "short, amusing story", or "joke".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kith

cȳththu is like tuatha, I always thought.
It just doesn't make a difference though, blu ray is easily high enough quality that the recompression matters much less than the specifics of the encoding when the iTunes files are about the same size
I recently bought a chromebook, and was surprised at how nice the user experience was. Tasks like opening tabs and loading pages seemed subjectively faster than doing the same on my 4GHz desktop. I also like how my attention was never consumed by irrelevant details like it always is in a desktop os.

In places where GNOME treats the user like an idiot by needlessly hiding useful functionality, Chrome makes specific tasks quick and painless. Surely, the fact that Chrome tries to do less, and benefits from a clean slate helps this, but there is still a very clear winner in this comparison.

I'd use it (chrome os) a lot if it had decent native text editing, and wasn't a botnet.

Hopefully a WM comparable in performance and UI design to Chrome's will be supported in GNU/Linux distros soon.
Or wi kud jast meyk Inglish speling ruls mor sensibl.
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You inspired me :) http://meandavejustice.github.io/xkcd-now/
Mystery Malaysia flight may have lost signal, gone hundreds of miles off course
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29. c.f. "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe".
The current version is still 1.9, but it shouldn’t take long for 2.0 to be the official stable release.
I am a database developer in a sequencing center. I would not recommend bioinformatics if you have any passion for good quality code.

There are some decent bioinformaticians out there, but most of them write crap 100 line scripts, and have very little desire to learn more than the basics. I am getting increasingly frustrated, as I can see I am clearly writing significantly smarter software then these people (most of them are just counting things and plotting the counts on a graph). I am seen by management as being the same kind of skill level / skill set.

If of course you are really interested in the research, then you may like it, but do not expect your coding skills to be valued.
I've taken two Coursera courses taught by UW faculty- Wetherall's Networks and Grossman's Programming Languages. I am impressed with both as educators.

As far as if you should pursue a CS degree, well it seems to me that someone who studies literature is likely to have an inclination toward a scholarly approach to learning. If so, such a person might find pursuing a degree enjoyable and earning one to be rewarding in and of itself. Practical benefits would be gravy for someone who enjoys Sedgewick...who also has courses on Coursera.

And when I mention Coursera, I'm talking about the free stuff not the new program with Georgia Tech. It might be a middle ground. In the end, an engineer is deemed good based on their design not what hangs on their vanity wall. Half are below average.

Good luck.
Mostly misinformed rubbish - don't waste any time on this.
Minor feature that's really nice: the pull.ff config setting. I had made an alias for doing that manually, now I can start actually using git pull again.
I wonder how it became "laranja" in Portuguese...
Thats weird. I thought You and thou existed alongside each other as formal and informal. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/138925/thou-or-yo...
I still don't get what Aura is, but thought 'Oh, are they creating XUL now?' instead. So far these design documents aren't enough for me to understand what this is _actually_ for.
Can you also call C++ libraries directly from Julia?
Forbid the usage of junk-alias emails in Prestashop
This is a great idea. I often struggle with testing outside the bounds of what I consider normal usage.
I believe these speed-reading tools are missing the concept of meaning. While the idea to fix the eyes allows to deliver more data to the retina, the linear speed does not work well. It would be great to combine these methods with some text processing algorithms that are able to extract the key words from a sentence. While I am not expert in text processing I am convinced that methods able to compress text into meaningful keywords must have been proposed in the literature already. If not, it would be very interesting research. Those keywords should be then presented longer to the reader, while the less important words should be skipped.
Ask HN: How to disable new Google search styling
I personally find the new google look without underlines and massive text to be rubbish, I gave it a go, but it's hard to scan and the design looks amateurish. What is it with designers constantly trying to get rid of link underlines?

Previously whenever it reared its head, I simply deleted cookies to get rid of it but now it is stubbornly sticking around.

Anyone know how to get rid of it quickly without having to install anything? I have many Chromes/profiles for testing/businesses/etc. so extensions just turn into a massive pita.
Attribution—

https://twitter.com/gitHater/status/169978106227068928
It makes more sense in english where you can't hear the difference between "An orange" or "A norange".
A lot of people just assume the democrats are responsible for everything that happens in California. It is somewhat notable when this isn't the case, so I thought I'd mention it. I don't really buy the logic either way, but if someone else wants to, I figure they should buy something that's accurate.

I voted no on that one, for whatever it's worth.
That requires that each sound is replaced with a letter.

There are more sounds than letters AFAIK.
http://w3.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS05/efs/materials/PhonSymb...
That is possibly one of the geekiest analogies I have ever heard. Fly that flag!
They have their own compositor and uses a model based around Views (yes, similar to NSView / UIView).
what do you think is missing in text editing?
Is that in the US? It would make some sort of sense since 'moot point' has effectively reversed its meaning in US english ('something not for discussion' there). 'Mute' seems to to agree with that sense.

(See also the US meaning of 'table' as in 'postpone for discussion' which has also reversed)
What is the most bizarre job interview you have ever been party to?
I am thinking mnemonic is the right word here.
I'm not sure how "Manhattan.bike" is any better than ManhattanBike.com. Or Bike.nyc. Or any other possible similar combination. It's like people think they're gonna bring the Real Name dream back to life.
My poor neck. The GNU-project really should get to work on creating software capable of rotating images. Hopefully we will get to it just as soon as the Hurd is finished.
Right! I've been using spinning rust drives for longer than I've been using SSDs - thanks for the tip.
GE animation design from 1922
Nice. Protectionism and trade wars between US states.
I learnt the parametric representation of a circle sometime in highschool but never remember learning the representation of a line segment.