skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main workaround is to keep your commits small. If you run your own GitLab server your can also tune the constants that affect this behavior. If you have a good use-case feel free to send a merge request to increase them so they get better for everyone.
The Chrome OS linux variant is not the OS that many want to see dominate. Google is untrustworthy since they treat their users as the product via data mining and information gathering. Their services are suspect.
Silly rant, it sounds misguided if you know git.

But, two things:

The author is, of course wrong about git vs svn safety. Once you really know git, it is more forgiving than anything else. Almost all mistakes are recoverable. Not so for svn.

The author is right about git having a usability problem. Git is hard to learn. I'm sure some of us had the same initial reaction. Personally, I'd love to see someone put a gui skin on git that uses different terminology, picks the most newbie friendly defaults, and makes the workflows easier. P4v, for example, is easier to use than Sourcetree or Tower or other GUIs that basically only give you menu options for the things git does. Not saying that p4v is the awesomest, but I've watched artists manage with p4v, and artists largely don't in git.
"Simpler" is how it was formulated at the time... nowadays we'd probably formulate it in terms of going with the possibility that least amount of "luck" in its explanation. Something that requires four events with 99% probability is still more likely than an explanation that requires one at 0.004%, even if it is not "simpler". (Those numbers are just made up, not my guess at the odds in question... in reality, the gulf is probably even larger.)

I don't think the odds on filming a meteorite are so bad that it will absolutely never happen, low probability events do happen in the real world (people have been directly hit by meteorites, after all [1], and that's much lower probability than a meteorite passing through a camera's field of vision, which has a much larger volume per second), but for a given claimed meteorite filmed, the mundane explanations are more likely.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_%28meteorite%29
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Per capita income is per person. So if a family of four -- two adults and two children -- live in a neighborhood where the per capita income is $20k, then the expected income of that family is $80k. In other words, it counts children who don't even earn an income.

As such, median per capita income is always going to be considerably lower than, say, median HHI.

(Apologies if you already knew all this--I had to make a guess as to which figure from the article specifically you were referring to.)
If you think Sharepoint is garbage today, you should have tried it in '08-'09. I was at a 100% Linux site where management insisted on everyone using Sharepoint and scrapping out old Wiki and source control systems. The rationale seemed to be entirely because Unix admins cost more. We couldn't even browse Sharepoint from our own machines since it was so broken in non-MS browsers that they had to set up VNC to a Windows box. Most people couldn't install Wine either because IT refused to give local root to anyone. The only way to install your own tools as local root was to violate every security principle by bringing your own box and swearing off any kind of support.

I notice that management in most companies has a bad habit of believing IT will put up with awful tools just because admin staff do.
As a Canadian, I would like to suggest an alternative title :)

"The Canadian Middle Class is Now the World's Richest"
Asimov and Kurzweil seem (to me) to be making similar predictions in terms of the gap between their predictions and the status quo. 50 years is probably a lot easier for that kind of progress to be made than 10. Did Asimov make any 10 year predictions? Not knocking either, but it would be interesting to see if Asimov had trouble with a shorter horizon.
That argument might've held sway prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I don't think that's been true for the past 25 years :).
I don't see this post as Mailbox losing trust. If they are peaking at our data, or selling it in a way we were not aware of I'd consider that a breach of trust. But if a product simply get's bugs (which all new updates for most any product do) I don't see that affecting my trust.

I installed the update, and after it just said would you like to link your account or something I clicked yes, and was brought straight to my inbox, no need to reenter passwords or anything (seamless). Sounds like his experience was due to Dropbox now supporting business accounts yet.

When Apple releases a new version of iOS or OS X there are always plenty of bugs compared to the previous versions which have had a year to work out all the bugs. Doesn't make me trust them any less.

If a person (like the author) doesn't want the newest product versions they should simply disable auto-update and update manually after a certain amount of time.
Conversely there are other signing techniques. GPG signed tags is an officially supported method.

Probably more importantly though, Git encourages everyone to have the full repository lying around. Even if you inserted a vulnerability in a master, there would still be thousands of copies of code which could be independently compared to find the exact changes which were made.
I really enjoyed HowStuffWorks back in the day. But it kind of failed to keep up. Discovery wanted to use it to extend their pseudo-educational, but actually entertainment, brand. I think that HSW would have been better suited to work towards education and not towards entertainment.
HFT Quote Stuffing is a software bug
Good to hear it is getting better, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst... for the requirements.
All those if statements inside loops... would be a lot cleaner (and faster!) to just use a single goto statement:

goto cont;

for (; ; ++z)
for (; x <= z; ++x)
for (; y <= z; ++y) {
if (x*x + y*y == z*z) return *this;
cont:
}
And I would assume average bank employee includes tellers who are paid close to minimum wage.
They're accused “of being bad neighbors and bad citizens.” “They’ll call us slumlords and tax cheats."

If the shoe fits, wear it.
if more US citizens would travel their view on how much they're getting ripped off would change drastically.

For many Americans, especially the richer ones that can afford a trip to northern Europe, it would be a case of cognitive dissonance: "gosh everything is so nice here / here is not America / America is the best / I can drive my SUV in America / these Europeans are crammed into tiny cars / thank god I'm an American!" or whatever the chain of reasoning is that gets you back to "thank god I'm an American!" from the world-crushing "gosh everything is so nice here".
What are the advantages of using an approach like this vs. editing /etc/hosts directly?
And so both get what they want. Both are used to 'their' way of living. More freedom would scare Francois because it also means less governement in health care, child-support, rent-support, 3 years of unemployment checks, etc etc.
The trend over time is still a story. WRT services provided, the USA has not advanced (very much) and the rest of the world has not backslid (very much), so its a fair comparison over time.

Also even if the perfect median Canadian vs the perfect median USA is open for debate, for absolutely everyone below median, the graphs indicate its a virtual certainty they'd be better off emigrating out of the USA.
Are you sure? There hasn't been a release for 8 years.

I followed the links a while ago after hitting an intialization failure bug that leaves Linux boxes with the incorrect date. I found that neither Arch Linux or Redhat consider OpenNTPD to be supported on Linux.

Edit: a better link https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430143
I don't like how they use 'sharing' when it is about paying for something.
I'd observe that if that is literally true, if neither would trade for the other's economic position, the question of which is better off is undefined, for any definition of "better off" that properly takes the subjective nature of value into account.

And that's not just a statistical sort of truth... it's actually profoundly true, something that touches deeply on the question of "affluence" and what wealth really is.
Most Western countries (not Canada) have opposed the last few major American conflicts, so "subsidizing" is an awfully generous way of putting it.
My understanding is that all first world countries are experiencing growing income inequality, it's just that the US/UK have much larger income inequalities.
I think I know why is that

Users don't trust the app won't do anything else beside authentication, like: posting to your wall, spamming your friends, reading all your information, etc, etc
> I was expecting it to do a lot worse than that of many European countries

I would say that the median quality of life is slightly better in western Europe. The charts compare income after taxes – but the taxes pay for services like free healthcare and free education (in some countries, you even get paid for studying).

Another important note is that Americans work more hours per year.
Well, that’s one part of the equation. Are there any guides on what to do after; setting up virtual hosts?
"Magic" itself isn't an explanation, it's an excuse for not seeking an explanation. It can also be a category of explanation (that is you could develop an explanation which involves magic), but any explanation in that category is unlikely to actually be particularly simple in the sense of Occam's razor, in that it will involve invoking new entities that are not already needed to explain other phenomena. Occam's razor is simply a test of parsimonious when considering expansion of an effect in the context of all other effects.
Surprisingly well faked in face of the fact that there's no real 3D information in the pictures.

There simply cannot be new 'pixels' appearing that were (i.e. before applying the effect) hidden from objects in the cameras line-of-sight. This is evident upon closer inspection (look at edges around the approximate middle of the DOF). The trompe-l'œil then falls a bit apart.

Interestingly, I did not notice above with the IOS7 background parallax; I'm wondering why? Special images, or a stricter constraint on movement?
Coca-Cola as a good example and good design...WTF, nobody NEEDS sugary water is really frivolous to show that in a non profit organization. That 4 pictures says to me "select the bad thing: a chair, a watch a pen or diabetes err.. coke".
There isn't necessarily a solution. I'm just pointing out that underprivileged folks are often at a disadvantage. "The truth shall set you free" sometimes only applies if you can afford to fight the other side's lawyers for a few years.
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"play on words" - That's a nice euphemism for it. A better one would be just plain "lie".
It's not impossible for it to be both. Special-interest hotel owners AND average citizens both have excellent reasons to see illegal hotels stamped out.

As a member of the community at stake, I applaud Albany for pursuing AirBNB's customer lists. I want to see heightened enforcement, not compromise. So far, I'm very pleased with my elected officials on this one.
In the US, the mean annual wage across all occupations in 2013 was $46,440. (Source: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000)

My experience is that most college-educated people don't really understand this, because they look at themselves and everyone they know and extrapolate their definition of "the middle class" from what that population makes, which skews their perspective considerably. So you get discussions about how people making $100,000/year or $250,000/year are "middle class," when statistically speaking they are very much not.
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I'm pretty sure a hoax requires a deliberate deception.

From the definition:

Noun: something intended to deceive or defraud

Otherwise it's just a mistake, misunderstanding, or other form of "just being incorrect". If they said "we know it's not a meteor, let's tell everyone it is anyway" - then it's a hoax.

Let's not dilute the word.
Stash also has great pricing for small teams as well.

Reading code through Stash is quite nice as well, much faster then bitbucket.

Gitlab seems to be improving at a crazy pace, which we hope to make the switch to soon.
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Very neat. I found a bug.

What is listed as "Foundry Modo" is actually a different product called Katana by The Foundry.
Off topic: This is the first I've seen of BitNami and it looks great, especially the cloud hosting app. I'd switch from our current system (mainly AWS tools and shell scripts for app deployment) in a heartbeat but there's no way I can justify $599/mo for 10-15 servers. I'm surprised you don't use a PAYG pricing model like most of the IaaS providers out there..
Indeed. This is part of why I included "idiomatic" in the title here. Someone smarter than me already wrote a bit prettier iterator increment function, and using that is easy once you have the interface decided. And in C++, iterators abound, and can be used as infinite sequence generators with no difference to how they are normally used and understood.

The code may be spaghetti, but I mostly just lifted it from the referenced article and solved the problems the original author brought up, namely the separation of concerns. The C++ solution to this problem will never be as beautiful as the Haskell one, but I wanted to show it doesn't have to be alienating for people who program C++ daily.

C++ iterators are powerful, and can be used for a lot more than stepping through a container. We write too few of them.
Yeah, it appears to be a regular JPG with a depth map added to the metadata. Originally Google uses this for refocusing, but the parallax is a neat trick
The running gag from Archer springs to mind. "Do you want a severe crime problem? Because extreme income inequality is how you get a severe crime problem."
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Another thing besides taxes that the analysis doesn't take into account is that Europeans work less.
Canada does not have a strong entrepreneurial culture, however. While there is a fairly new program for startups, the immigration policy is generally geared towards bringing in people for traditional jobs, which tends to have the opposite effect on incomes.

What did happen in the mid-2000s was a rise in commodity prices. By 2010 we were seeing record high prices for some commodities. Commodities are what Canada does and it stands to reason that incomes for everyone will tend to rise as demand for extracting those commodities increases.
There's also Racket[1] and Rust[2].

[1]: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896
[2]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.10/guide-macros.html
Scrum and the Gollwitzer Effect
So I've (unfortunately) had to spend a lot of time losing weight at various points in my lifetime, and one tip I hear repeated is: don't tell people you're going to lose weight, just do it and talk about it after.

From Reddit's /r/loseit FAQ:

"A word of warning however, don't announce to the world that you're just getting started. This leads to what is called the Gollwitzer effect, where people reward themselves for achieving something that they haven't yet because they've told people what they intend to do. Unfortunately this psychological reward lowers the chance of achieving their goals in the first place. Get started, give it a few weeks, and then let us know."

I've noticed a strong parallel with our daily morning scrums: after I say I'm going to do something that day, I lose motivation to do it. I got much more done when we didn't have daily stand-ups. Anyone else with this issue?
We still have the primary problem: If it hits a town (due to any error, such as an unforeseen destruction of a component) the human casualty would be a disaster. It's not even just the $$.

A barge would not work because it is mobile as well.

This is indeed rocket science.
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I totally agree--thank you for bringing this up. I'm not sure it would be faster, but it is an interesting case for goto.

I saw another proposal referencing the original article which used a trio of functions in a nice way to achieve something similar without the goto (and without the ifs). My main point was to illustrate the use of custom iterators.
With a PhD in architecture, design and branding, there's something about the extreme simplicity of OpenBSD's web pages that I find really attractive. "Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away".
Two things always stand out to me:

1) Are you thinking before you touch the keyboard?

If you have the mental model right for data structures, patterns, networking, caching, then you'll have fewer bugs. Get the mental model wrong, and one can treat a bug as a code smell, it probably indicates a fire that you've just not noticed yet.

2) As all bugs that have ever gone live have got past testing, Q&A and user acceptance... are you better at reacting to the unexpected (bugs) than the expected (testing)?

Bugs will happen, best to have great processes for when they occur.

I advocate insane measuring and monitoring which means thinking of instrumentation when you author code. This goes back to thinking, as a team and company one can fight the cargo cults with evidence. Monitoring and measuring dramatically reduces the time it takes to react to an incident, and guides which things should be tested in future.
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As much as I like this post because of beeing 'working horse' myself, I still believe that 'Rockstars' are very important when some brilliant solution is really needed.
It might be true in America that the downside for employees is unlimited but in France it's not the case : there's a lot of benefits to be had if you loose your job.

It's not the case for entrepreneurs unless they subscribe some really expensive insurances (which you can't afford when you're starting a company).

I still agree on the global point he's making but let's not kid ourselves : we still need more Indians than chiefs.
Gee, does the Wall Street Journal have any interest in deflecting attention from investment bankers?
Why not? New things tend to use new tools, so it's understandable.

We're not talking about MtGox here, which incidentally, was written in ::cue disdaining programmer voice:: PHP ::end cue::
Anyone who seriously tries to make a company adopt Sharepoint should be fired on the spot, be it the IT guy, the CIO, the CEO or the chairman of the board. There is no possible excuse for that kind of stupidity.
Disregarding your question, which others have answered plenty well already, I find it funny that you refer to them as hieroglyphics, since actual Egyptian hieroglyphics ended up being discovered to be phonetic as well!
Unless you know magic exists and works, postulating "magic" fails Occam's Razor, since you're needlessly postulating that magic exists as part of your explanation. The hypothesis that an iPhone works by elecricity and clever engineering- since we have similar objects like TVs that work that way- is favored by Occam's razor.

You're right that it doesn't seem like you can apply Occam's razor to the falling rock. Really it seems like an example of Bayesian reasoning: we know the prior probability of someone coming anywhere near a falling space rock is very, very small. We know the probability of a piece of grit falling out of a chute is orders of magnitude larger. Shakey video evidence by itself barely shifts our confidence that it actually was a meteor.
No, it's certainly been true. Many world economics have avoided military buildups by piggy-backing on the back of the US buildup. In fact I've seen credible arguments that it has actually contributed to world peace significantly to have the US building up the way it has, yes, even despite the wars the US sometimes engaged in, by making it not worth it for anybody else of significant size. The rule about "democracies not going to war" may in fact have been false... it may merely have been Pax Americana happening to coincide with a lot of democracies.

As America becomes "enlightened" (heavy scare quotes) and withdraws its military umbrella, a strange world is left behind... how does Europe feel about having effectively no military with which to counter Russia's growing imperial ambitions? It's officially all smiles (or forced grins) while they're stuck depending on Russia now, but I'm sure wheels are spinning behind closed doors even now. If the US elects another President with ambitions to back off the foreign involvement even more, or if the situation deteriorates enough more on this one's watch, what are the odds that Europe has to start building up? And how many other places will have to follow?

And how will a social-benefit-addicted continent react to having to fund a military again? They certainly won't be able to maintain the current level of social commitments everywhere.

Maybe the US shouldn't be enforcing Pax Americana depending on your own personal values, but don't think for one second it hasn't had its benefits even outside of the US, and don't think that the end of Pax Americana is somehow going to occur with a burst of rainbows and puppies, where we go from one dominantly-powerful military to zero. The number can only go up.
Thanks! Great to hear that you are happy with the development rate.
"Iberian"? We're two countries, you know. And I wouldn't say middle class life is the base here in Portugal, especially since the crisis hit hard.
As someone who is french and has spent a year in Beijing learning chinese, I have to agree on what you said. French grammar must be the worst, I haven't run into a more difficult language at the moment, and I found chinese quite easy to learn.

It's easier to learn a language that uses a latin alphabet of course, but chinese has almost no grammar, it's so easy to build sentences in the language!

I don't think it's fair to say that chinese is a difficult language to learn when compared to other languages.

But yeah now we have pleco, nciku, sergemelnyks, mgdb...
It's all about environment when you try to speak around. I believe your Chinese teachers encourage you practice speaking in class, but trying to speak Chinese to others after class?
If you have Chinese friends, then you are lucky! :)
Have your tried merge requests to do code reviews?
I'm always looking for a legitimate excuse to use a goto in my C++ code because I'm perverse. It's very rare to find one but this looks like it might be okay.
> If this is truly the case, then we in technology must take much of the blame.

Except technology also saves lives, keeps people connected across large distances, makes work safer, democratizes creativity, and innumerable other benefits.

The Industrial Revolution also killed off farm jobs and many domestic jobs but baling hay by hand and scrubbing laundry with a washboard are certainly steps backward.

If the problem is that some workers cannot earn a living, then let's look a policies that solve that problem directly (like a more aggressive earned income tax credit).
I added it to homebrew-cask :)

https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-fonts

brew tap caskroom/fonts
brew cask install font-comic-neue