skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be a little more diplomatic about the exact phrasing, but if that's how you feel, then Jim can seriously benefit from time with you. If the project has merit then a serious discussion with him about it will convince you, and then you can help him frame his approach to your mentor.

If it doesn't have merit, and you're right to be concerned, then you should be able to convince him of that. If you can't, then at least you can honestly say that you've got serious reservations about his project, and you're worried that introducing him to your mentor would reflect badly on you.

In effect, if that's how you feel then you should be the first phase mentor/advisor. If you really don't know much about his project and industry then you need either to (a) learn about it through him, allowing him to coach you, or (b) say that you don't know enough to know if Jim is a good fit with your mentor.

And if you really don't have time, then say all the above, and then say that your lack of time is the block to understanding his position well enough to make the introduction in all faith.

Is Jim really a friend? How can you best help him? Is that your aim, or are you just looking to brush him off as a bit of a distraction? If he is a friend, and you want to help him, and you really don't have time, look for a quid pro quo - see if there's something he can do for you to help you make the time to do something for him.
Makes sense to me! Probably not worth re-installing programs I already have, though, would you agree?
Having a guitar be in tune across every key is not strictly impossible [1], but it sure isn't easy.

[1] http://www.truetemperament.com/site/index.php?go=2&sgo=3
Would be nice to get a website referencing all those "dorks". Interesting.
Yea, but they give you a PO Box, which can be troublesome for certain purposes.
It's Fremont, not Freemont =)
This is not the same. Well, it's sort of the same infrastructure, but it would require a lot of work to actually work like hg evolve.

With Evolve, there is something similar to .git/refs/replace, called obsolescence markers, which may or may not indicate which commit replaces the obsolete commit (some commits are replaced, others are just pruned). These markers are created automatically every time you rewrite history. They don't have to be created manually like with git replace. Moreover, the obsolete commits are hidden from the UI unless you pass the --hidden argument to commands. Lastly, these obsolescence markers are propagated with push and pull operations. It doesn't seem to me like git replace can work over the wire?
google has the code for flash actually.
EFH has a partial interest in Oncor.
Is history modifying rebase going away? If I accidently commit "the keys to the kingdom" how do I get them out of the history?
"It maybe doesn't tickle me on an intellectual level, the way Haskell or Clojure do, sure, but for getting real work done, I'd choose it any day over those two."

Agreed. I'd suggest perfect for the world's dark matter devs.
See code coverage of any Go package
It seems to work ok over a PPTP VPN for RDP purposes. Not sure if our remote end forces a different MTU or not. I remember someone doing some work on this to get Vodafone to not drop the connection.

I haven't tried it past that much. I can whip an OTG keyboard/mouse into the thing and use it as an ssh terminal for the interesting bits with connectbot so don't need the tether facility. My ThinkPad has a 3G modem in it which I don't use any more - it was on Vodafone.

GG are pretty good. They went down a couple of times in the last couple of years for a few hours but comms were pretty good about it. Never had any other problems with them. Data bandwidth and latency is pretty good on 3G (HSPA+). I've pulled a huge amount of data in a month without a problem. Calls are reliable and clear and you can crank up and down your free bits every month.

To be honest I probably wouldn't ever hit another PAYG or contract provider again.

I just buy SIM free handsets now on a whim, use them for a year, sell them if they're ok or repair them away if I break them at cost. Up £400-500 a year on my old O2 contract.
I really doubt that these chaps talk to the PMG. He has a lot bigger fish to fry than talk to 2 tech dweebs.
That's a strange one. In early 2012, Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce put $1.4M into Flotype, a YC-backed startup. Flotype is the creator of Bridge and NowJS, both of which were very popular that year. That summer, the company seems to have disappeared. The social media accounts and Github repos all stopped updating, and all their domains are now offline.

You might tweet the CEO in search of details: https://twitter.com/dshankar
This doesn't surprise me at all.

My account was banned for "invalid activity" in the timeframe mentioned. The automated emails said they wouldn't even tell me what I supposedly did wrong. I tried appealing and only got an automated email telling me my appeal was denied. I was never able to talk to anyone or get any actual details on wrongdoing. A quick search and you'll quickly realize this happened to a lot of people.

I had something like $200 sitting in my account, which was obviously forfeited. Before this even happened, I removed ads from my blog (which is where the revenue was earned) because it wasn't performing well enough to justify having ads there anyway.

In the end, I didn't really care so much about my forfeited balance - hell, I even volunteered to forfeit it during the appeal if it was in any way associated with invalid activity among other things. The big issue is that this seems to be a lifetime/universal ban. BEFORE WE EVER RAN ADS, an AdSense account with an unrelated corporate tax ID was also banned for "Invalid Activity". The only reason I can conceivably come up with on the ban is that this was also associated with a Google Apps account that I have.

I'm a longtime Google shareholder and supporter, but it's times like this when you realize you can't trust "Don't Be Evil" any more. Ironically, I've spent way more in Google Apps + AdWords than I ever earned with AdSense.
what exactly about this comment is downvote worthy?
According to comments in that bug it looks like it were held up due to discussion around standardization of the Console API and a rewrite of the same.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620935#c30
I would think most Squares users are one-store retailers, or restaurants.
frequent being every 4 years
perhaps you meant penflip's loren, not the original poster?

if so, then yes, what i'm saying exactly is that _loren_
could have saved himself time and trouble, in the long run,
by coding a purpose-built system, instead of hacking github.

what it would've cost him, however, is the huge "jumpstart"
he received by proclaiming his goal as "github for writers".

the kneejerk response to that, from the tech circles, was
something that created huge word-of-mouth and mind-share,
not to mention a great starting user-base, of technoids.

but that was months ago, and now there's some sense of
"whatever happened to penflip?" and when he goes out to
sell the system to writers, the "github" label will not be
a benefit at all. (if anything, it will be a liability;
but i think in general writers are fully unaware of it.)

all of this is my opinion. you, like loren, may disagree.

-bowerbird
It's not ironic at all. People are complaining about adding 10 useless pixels, and about removing a feature they were using, only to save 15 pixels.
Many people liked addon bar, which was hidden by default anyway.
>PHP has a unique combination of terribleness and popularity, though, and that's a bad mixture

I've read similar arguments made against C, and C++, and Java, and Ruby here, so I don't think that bias is unique.
Definitely. I assumed it was an issue of the sites not maintaining good user interfaces, but that excuse doesn't work when every FF update breaks pentadactyl's ability to select search fields on Google...
Well, there's the new legal definition of rape, according to justice.gov, which reads... The new definition of rape is: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” [1]

The headline said sexual assault, not rape, so presumably they are aware of this definition and chose not to invoke it. But this definition precludes the possibility of men being raped by women who force themselves onto the men.

[1]: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-ag-018.html
The usage of “perfect fifth” to indicate only the just fifth (3:2 ratio) is slightly idiosyncratic (but not unheard of); more commonly in modern usage, “perfect fifth” refers to both the just (3:2) and equal-tempered (2^(7/12)) fifths, or to any other tempered fifth, for that matter (for reasons that aren’t entirely clear—or at least differ depending on who you ask—the unison, fourth, fifth, and octave are collectively called the “perfect” intervals in common parlance, regardless of temperament).
Monthly Apple Users
That doesn't justify degrading the rest of your code base.
Louts Notes
... can we please keep this kind of gender politicking off of Hacker News? I mean, I get the cases where it's directly relevant to the software development industry, like the Github debacle, but this sort of thing is purely the domain of MRAs and SJWs and women's studies departments and the like.
Agree that it is really good. I think Chrome has gotten all the cool kids' attention without them having a respect and understanding for the mission and value of Mozilla and Firefox. That being said, Mozilla and Firefox could probably do a bit of a better job at selling themselves and their features.

I am not sure what you mean by a bike shed, but it's now a pretty nice bike shed, no?
Feminists, mostly.
Steve Jobs is clearly, to me at least, the exception that proves this rule.
>Linux will happily hand out way more memory than there is actually in the system.

You can disable this behavior:

echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
You can still permanently delete a changeset using `hg strip`. Of course if you have pushed that changeset you will need to run `hg strip` on all remote repositories that have a copy of the commit.

Mercurial will also (very helpfully) create a backup bundle of the changeset you strip, so you will need to securely erase that as well.
Sorry, didn't mean "compiler assistance", I meant "programmatic assistance" (as in your original reply). I hope my post makes more sense with that change!
Not as often as 2048 is mentioned.
Hello, I helped edit the blog post and actually proposed this sentence. I love this reaction:

> What is the difference between a PHP developer and any other developer?

It's exactly the type of response I was hoping for. In early drafts we got a common "big whup" response from some readers. Most posts on PHP these days only do well when they bash the language, very few focus on __why__ they use PHP: which is to create things. Yes, all developers create things, and PHP developers do as well. This sentence serves to validate PHP and their developers. So to answer your question:

> What is the difference between a PHP developer and any other developer?

Nothing.

Even if you still don't buy my explanation. Maybe you can stomach some non-wordsmithed docs: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-p...
> Is history modifying rebase going away?

In hg "rebase" just means "change the base" not "rewrite commits". So I assume you mean "rewrite" in general.

With evolve, the obsolete commits stay around foreverish, but they slowly fade from history as new people clone or pull, since obsolete commits don't get pulled or pushed by default.

> If I accidently commit "the keys to the kingdom" how do I get them out of the history?

Mercurial never actually removes any functionality, since it's got the deepest commitment to backwards compatibility I've ever seen. Thus, you will delete commits the same way you do now: hg strip --no-backup. That deletes commits with extreme prejudice, locally. Now you just have to run this in every copy of your repo, including remote ones, but the genie-out-of-the-bottle problem is one you can't avoid with a DVCS.
I'm not surprised to read this. Any statistics about rape have to be taken with a huge helping of salt, because of all the issues surrounding data collection and self-reporting. However, I have read at least some reasonably reputable sources citing that in over half of all rapes that occur in the US, the victim is male[0].

Even if this is an overstatement, it's clear that the classic "man physically overpowers woman" narrative of rape is false - both because of the gender assumptions and because rape does not always involve physical dominance.

It's kind of sad that sexual assault and rape are oftentimes viewed through the lens of gender-based crimes. In reality, sexual assault and rape have nothing to do with gender, and should be treated as serious problems regardless of the sex and/or gender of both the victim and perpetrator.

By perpetuating a false image of rape/assault, we end up with a broken matched filter[1] for what constitutes rape. As a result, people tell themselves that what they experienced "wasn't really rape" - because the victim is male, or because they were under the influence, or because they were married to the perpetrator, or any other number of reasons. And this is how we end up with victims who stay silent.

[0] This is not the same thing as saying that over half of all rape victims are male!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_filter
It's become "the silicon valley model" for public policy it seems. Appeal to your audience's sense that they are definitely smarter then everyone else, to try and effect stupid changes in public policy in sectors they (and possibly [the general form of] you) don't really understand.

Hell, LightPeak tried to do this with RF Engineering when they wanted permission to obliterate things like satellite SOS communications by using spectrum they knowingly acquired as satellite use only for terrestrial transmissions.
Author here. Glad to see so many people interested.

I think people will find this useful as an example is programming in Idris. While there are many other resources around, this fills a niche as a fairly complete, self contained program.

Since I wrote it, I've noticed that my programming style is not very standard, especially my approach to proofs, so I'm still working on it.
No extensions installed here unfortunately.
This is what I was wondering. Is it possible to do this with mercurial? I am thinking that it is, but the evolution thing is a way to handle other types of rebase situations.
The article answers your question. "Stemple began digging through existing surveys and discovered that her hunch was correct. The experience of men and women is 'a lot closer than any of us would expect,' she says. For some kinds of victimization, men and women have roughly equal experiences. Stemple concluded that we need to 'completely rethink our assumptions about sexual victimization,' and especially our fallback model that men are always the perpetrators and women the victims."

Farther along, readers of the article find out, "The final outrage in Stemple and Meyer’s paper involves inmates, who aren’t counted in the general statistics at all. In the last few years, the BJS did two studies in adult prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities. The surveys were excellent because they afforded lots of privacy and asked questions using very specific, informal, and graphic language. ('Did another inmate use physical force to make you give or receive a blow job?') Those surveys turned up the opposite of what we generally think is true. Women were more likely to be abused by fellow female inmates, and men by guards, and many of those guards were female. For example, of juveniles reporting staff sexual misconduct, 89 percent were boys reporting abuse by a female staff member. In total, inmates reported an astronomical 900,000 incidents of sexual abuse."
I had my AdSense account and site blocked just before i got to the $5000/month mark.

I followed every consideration in the official AdSense blog, ensured that every content policy was met. Appealed with a strong case and got revoked.

No official explanation was given even by Google employees I contacted.

I see tons of sites with shit content and link building monetize with adsense while ours is loved by 1,000,000 users who spend 12 minutes average and a bounce rate below 6%.

Everything on the leak makes total sense to me and we spent so many days implementing stuff to get Google's approval (like image fingerprinting, spam database, porn detection, overseas moderators) to get a shitty robot response with no real explanation.
Electronic prototyping for 3d printers
The Cost of iOS7
Well, I suppose if you connected a remote connection to stdin you could have problems, but it still doesn't (to me) feel like a natural "code stink". It is a super easy and quick way to add a REPL or configuration point to any Python program, and I can't think of anything else anywhere near as easy.
In the sixties, the IBM time-sharing system CP-67† would physically punch an "accounting card" on one of its card punches whenever a user logged off or did some other billable event, such as printing a listing.

CP-67 ran on the 360/67, which was a 360/65 with special DAT hardware that allowed it to provide each user with their own virtual machine with its own address space.

†http://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
Why you might not need MVC with React.js
I've also never had USPS hold a package because it got to me too quickly, and I've absolutely had commercial carriers do that to maintain artificial separation between service tiers.
My own particular belief is that the death penalty as it is currently implemented is an abomination. But I also believe that there are just some crimes committed that must be punished by death. I have often wondered why the death penalty shouldn't only be imposed in cases where there is a 100% moral certainty that the accused committed the crime, ie, caught at the scene of the crime, captured on videotape, etc. Other than these types of cases, we really should be thinking about not allowing the death penalty anymore.
The problem is we can't talk this "men issues" without being called "anti-feminist." In fact, any attempt to talk about the struggles of being a man is invariable associated with anti-woman rhetoric. It's as if feminists want to have a monopoly on victimhood.

It's an incredibly bizarre situation.

EDIT: The downvotes only further illustrate my point.
Unfortunately you are not the average user, if you want Firefox to succeed it needs to do what is common, both IE, and Chrome the two most popular browsers have a single address/search bar.

In regards to the whole tinfoil hat comments about Google knowing everything you type, well I hate to burst your bubble but they probably already know everything about you, including but not limited too your inability to spell duck right.
Look inside the .app and find out.

On my debian machine here, running ff beta the biggest part is libxul, which is 55 meg on its own.
Twitter reports 255 million users, disappointing Street
Sadly bitbucket does not have very good support for features from "modern" mercurial like bookmarks and changeset evolution. Since most of their users are git users I don't think they are strongly motivated to shore up mercurial support.
same
i noticed that switching the UA to chrome on ff made those fast.. until they switched everything to webgl, now that trick doesnt work no more
Go looks interesting. Anyone else not a fan of the single character variable names?

Also, Is there a better way, in terms of clarity, to do this:

<- c

Even with the comment I would think the developer forgot to fill in the first half of that and assume it was a bug.
In the U.S, jokes are often made about male sexual assaults (look at the movies, for example). Sexual assault is horrible, regardless of age/gender etc. So it's good to have open discussion about it and bring awareness.
I didn't read this study, but when I was younger I read, "You are going to prison". It pointed out that so many
rapes are carried out in prison. Even twenty years ago, my
friends girlfriend said, 'Well, they deserve it!". My come
back was 'but wendy, most are in there for non violent drug
offenses. friends girlfriend, "Well that's not a legitimate
book anyways--I was written by a ex-con". Well the book
scared me.
I would guess people would debug their games in the Unity editor, like always.

In theory you can use the browser dev tools, and emscripten can emit source maps which helps. But the Unity editor is probably a far better experience for this use case.
They're different chips - the laptop chips get much better perf/watt than the desktop components which are comparatively sloppy. That power management hardware is actually somewhat expensive technologically.

It really has more to do with the customers. The people buying these chips by the thousands are Enterprise Desktops, and keeping power bills down is their #1 goal. The customers don't buy GPUs in these machines either, they expect Intel's to be "good enough."

Unfortunately, consumer desktop purchases are basically a rounding error to Intel's multibillion dollar balance sheets, so they don't build parts for that segment. Instead, they blow some fuses on their enterprise parts and sell them as "Extreme Performance", "Enthusiast Desktop" or whatever other euphemism they want to use for "overclockable" these days.
DATA Act’s next stop: The President
Their devs hang out in #mercurial in Freenode and have been talking about how to implement Evolve on the bitbucket WUI.
actually the changes since version 3.x are mindblowing.

if you had least picked 28 to 29 i don't know.. but theres a million lines of code change between 3 and 29. the js engine is like 50x faster, theres hundreds of new things supported, etc.
You seem to be overlooking the most important part, which is that the OP is very smart.
The loudest voices in the debate may at times be at the extremes, but the issue is still enormously relevant.

I would say it's especially relevant here, though not necessarily this particular story. The way women are treated online is still very, very much different from the way men are treated. And this has widespread and significant effects on damned near everything. Whether it's the structure and makeup of online communities (like this one) or the acceptance of women's voices in online gaming and tech journalism to the participation of women in hacking/development activities and the encouragement/discouragement they receive to do so, and so on.
No at this point it's used negatively because the silicon valley startup crowd have been using the word constantly for the past 10 years now, in reference to every conceivable sector of industry, which, as this article perfectly highlights, they frequently don't understand in the slightest.
I was able to get a package sent across the country in three days, delivered to someone's door, and watch its progress online for $5.60 in 1814?
I would never go so far as to claim "feminists want to have a monopoly on victimhood," but talking about these types of issues from a male perspective requires walking a thin that can easily be misconstrued as more 'red pill' ranting.
I have used tramp to connect to my vagrant box where I use evil to put its contents into slime.
That is sick ! I really like it ! When will you opensource it ?