skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting this. Fossil has many good ideas. Since I rather like learning about source control systems, I took this one for a spin.

It's definitely pretty fast, although I didn't stress-test it. It noticed that I have GPG set up, and prompted me to sign all my commits by default. Very nice. It has no Git-style index, but commits straight to the repository like Mercurial. I did not find anything like "git add --patch" or darcs partial commits, so saving work seem to be all-or-nothing. Like any good modern VCS, Fossil seems to do real branching and merging, although I did not stress-test that, either.

One major downside: if Fossil has file move detection, I didn't find it. So you have to either spend some time informing it that you moved or renamed things (luckily, you can do this after the fact), or you need to use Fossil-aware tools.
The average person is going to find a "rank" for internet speed meaningless.

This is better promoted as:

"The U.S. has slower internet than Iceland, Poland, and Korea."
That stinks. On one hand, the beauty of DVCS is that you can clone from another repos that isn't corrupt, but this would still be a big problem in a bare (central) repository during a merge or if you were working offline for an extended period of time (in which case you just lose your diffs). Of course we all keep local projects with just one copy of the repository.

One great thing about Fossil is how easy it is to back up since it's a single file. I've always felt that million-file approach was clumsy, even when centralized in a single directory.
This is at the application level. The point is that there's no way to do this as one search without building an index a la Spotlight. You can't write a program called "nameandcontents" that does the above without doing exactly what find and grep do - there is always the data equivalent of NUMA... call it Non-Uniform Data Access. The author wants, at an architectural level, but not application level, UDA.
I worked at a dealership for a while so I got to see how things work from the inside. There are tons of different factors. On new cars the auto makers offer various incentives or specials to dealers that might allow the sales person to go lower on Thursday than they would on Monday. It also helps if you're flexible. If you don't mind waiting a week to pickup the car or can take it in a different color you're making the sales person's life easier and they'll usually give you a break. If you're really picky and demanding they really don't care if you go to another dealership so they won't offer you much of a deal.

For used cars the dealers are making money on trade-ins even if they let it go far below the posted price. Any used car they sell off the lot is going to be a bigger profit than cars going to auction. A lot of times you can simply look at the dealer's lot and see how crowded it is. If it's packed with lots of used cars there's a great chance you can walk in and say I will pay $X and get the car. They just want to get it off the lot to make room for better inventory.

My advice, if you're looking for a used car, is to find a dealer that doesn't deal with a huge volume of used cars. They're often selling their trade-ins at a good value because they don't have the volume to make the auction process work in their favor. They'd much rather just sell them off the lot.
Well, what the heck are we #1 at? I need something to hang my USA hat on :)
What bothers me is not that he claims that what he has done is art --- it is. What frightens me is that he claims photography is not art.

Photos are not 'mere reproductions of reality' any more than his painting is. Paint, print, screen, clay, plaster -- these are not reality; they do not have the fidelity of the real world. When I paint, I must decide to what degree the intensity of light is important, to what degree the detail is important, to what degree the tonal range is relevant to my portrayal. Even more importantly, choosing which part of reality to examine is vital! Can a photographer pay no attention to aperture, shutter speed, composition, crop, focus? Can they ignore the possibilities of manipulating the world before photographing it (arranging, building, lighting, removing components until their "metaphysical value judgment" is satisfied? Sure, they can ignore all that. A camera with a timer can make an exposure, no metaphysical presence necessary. But no artist must do so. And even leaving things up to the camera is a "metaphysical value judgment."

You didn't make art. You used tools to apply pigment to a surface replicating a temporary sensory input; a purely mechanical recording of reality.
I second (1) and (2) - but for me (3) has a periodicity of roughly 4 years (I can't remember which one college was ... and I've become insomniac in grad school).
"Can't cope" may be overstating it, I parsed it as "not optimized for" which sounds fair.
I really find that to be true all the time. I would much rather click on a list of n things rather than an article about the same topic.
how about an article on working full time, coding in any spare time you have, attend networking meetings and try to maintain a basic relationship with a gf.
There are many situations when DejaVu Sans, Helvetica, and Arial look equally good. The print designer notion that the design must look identical everywhere is obsolete for the web, which remains a medium controlled by the user. Jakob Nielsen has written a ton on this subject.
I'm not going to try to follow LKML just for this but if anyone at HN has a benchmark they'd like me to try out on 2.6.30 Arch vs 2.6.30-bfs on a quad-core Xeon I'll give it a shot.
I know exactly what the writer means by that problem. The first page is really useful to search for new tweets on a topic, but once you login to use what you found, you can't revisit the original home page without logging out.

I find that to be really annoying, especially when I want to tweet about multiple topics that I want to search for first.
I am a sucker for any story that has a long highway in it. This is a marvelously written view of the intertwining of the automobile and the second half of our nation's history.

If one is concerned about peak oil or some other factor driving down the pretty much unlimited ability to travel, this suggests a major change in a large number of the aspects of our daily life and culture.
I parsed it as "resolve", or remove it from the plan because it's done.
Time spent on grocery shopping, washing dishes, etc. are only opportunity costs, they only cost money if you were to otherwise use that specific time generating income.
> This isn't to say that we should have companies replace nonprofits

Yes we should.

Charities I donate to are selling me a product just as much as companies I buy from. That the product is a better world--by some measure that seems reasonable to me, rather than a simple benefit for myself, matters not a whit to my decision making process.

I don't give without a very concrete understanding of what the money will be used for, any more than I buy stock without a concrete understanding of what I'm buying and for how much.

By all means, sell me peace, charity, and goodwill! Perhaps that will motivate you to learn how to produce it, and to convince me that you have done so.
Thank you for that link. One of the most informative reads of my life, and timely too. My lease runs out in a few months, and now I feel sorry for any dealership that I walk into.
funny you mention the "cannot drill, file or bend" comment... i love using my drills and angle grinders... but never thought they were a big deal... felt they were common and easy until i met a whole bunch of family friends who found such work "beneath them" and/or were simply found it too "tricky"!
Lately I've been really interested in learning more about zen concepts and aesthetics.. Can anyone recommend any good books on this subject?

The website lists a few but they all seem related to marketing and presentation. I'm interested more in the philosophy.
There is something really basic wrong with the premise of this article.

If a person buys a stolen Iphone, Kindle or other device for a price that is reasonable they have no reason to presume it stolen. The sale might have happened in between the time the device was stolen and first reported to Amazon, apple, at&t or whichever party has 'control'.

If you then disable the device you are hitting the wrong party, according to the law that person is now the rightful owner. The thief has long passed the 'hot' item to somebody else.

If you have any proof at all that it is the thief that is using the device and the company won't shut it down that is a different matter. But the safe money on the companies' behalf bets that the new 'owner' hasn't got a clue the device has been stolen.

The best thing to do when your laptop, e-reader, digital camera or expensive phone is stolen is to keep an eye out on ebay and sites like that for similar gear offered in your region.

My business partner Joyce found her laptop back like that.
Basically, it turns out there's more 21-35 year olds on the internet who are hopped up enough on caffeine to answer the survey they ran into while browsing the internet. Consequently, I feel almost any survey done on the internet in this fashion will include this distribution of respondents.
I phrase this as "solve the first problem" whenever I explain my functionally identical method to others. Google tells me I have stolen Tilton's Law[1], the origin of which I will endeavor to remember in future.

[1] http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/tiltons-law-solve-...

Edit: grammar.
Certainly the android phone is a competitor to the iPhone now. The whole community including the app store is what makes the iPhone successful. As many people have said, even if a phone comes out that is as good or better as the iPhone, it will only be equal to or better than the iPhone when it has the same community of support and apps.

I personally think that the Android's biggest issue is that it does not have a very solid main place where everyone comes for apps and even if that happened, it would need a lot of publicity, just like the iPhone got.
It won't mean anything if they can't convince RSS readers (specifically Google Reader) to adopt it.
I was negotiating the total price of the car. I guess the missing bit of information is the term (both prices were the same) and the amount down (both were $0). That wouldn't always be the case if the dealer is trying to pull a fast one on you by giving you a lower monthly payment but a higher total payment. I made sure to match apples to apples. I assume most people reading this website would realize the possible bait and switch.

On the 4 variables. I can see their point but I never get into that stuff.

My experience has been that you can usually sell the car yourself for more than trade in value, and these days with craigslist and ebay its not very difficult. I've sold 2 cars this year and you know bad the economy is.

I also don't really finance. I guess I will have to in the future but so far I've been able to buy all my cars cash. I buy most coming off a lease 2-3 years old.

And I definitely never buy an extended warranty or dealer warranty. The dealer I bought that car from is gone now and its only 4 years later, the manufacturer's standard warranty is all that matters.
"This isn’t to say that we should have companies replace non-profits..."

Actually, that is not necessarily a good thing to just sidestep. A lot of things that non profits work on might work better if they were worked on by companies. A lot of things that companies work on might have to be filled by non profits if companies weren't doing it.

Think of second hand stores. They are often run not-for-profit in order to provide cheap stuff to poor people. These compete directly with commercial low cost stores and other second hand stores. If these beat the non profits, there is no societal loss. One of the worlds most celebrated not for profits, the Grameen Bank provides small loans to poor people. It seems very possible that this NGO (and its many imitators) will be put out of business by commercial banks.

The UN has started a free online University to help the world's poor. I would take an either-or bet on for profit variants making a lot of progress on this issue commercially.

A great way of making non profits more like chess masters is making non profits into businesses. You don't always have to. But if it is feasible, its worht considering.
My theory is that it has much to do with a culture that grows up expressing ideas pictorially. During my (admittedly short .. just 1yr) time in Japan, I noticed that people don't just write in Kanji, they think in Kanji. They pun in Kanji - one way to pun in Japanese is to use a word that can resolve to alternative Kanji combinations whose combined meanings are funny in context. If they're fishing for an idea or brainstorming, they start drawing Kanji in the air with their fingertips.

And to me the cultural effect of this pervasive visual thinking nearly-since-birth is cool aesthetics. For example, the average "How-to" book in a Japanese book store is chock-full of diagrams and flow charts, with various sections outlined in garish colors like blue and orange, and different fonts for each different type of idea. (Also notice that China, whose characters Japan shares, has very cool aesthetics of its own. Both countries have beautiful landscapes, which probably contributes something as well).

Also, anyone who goes to Japan notices, that they go for totally-over-the-top-ness (for example, the Tokyo reggae subculture is populated by people with really huge dreadlocks).

So combining heavy orientation towards visual stimuli and color, a love of over-the-top-ness, and a healthy dose of anime with its romantic-teen-angst-cool, you get that awesome cyberpunk stuff. But I think it's not easy to characterize analytically as the Zen aesthetics, where the visual form is meant to represent a well-defined state of mind and personal character.
Psychologist claims Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’, Twitter ‘diminishes it’
even easier, every 64 characters are 64 bits, simply strtolower all the characters then make the '0' bits lowercase... No typos needed, still plenty of space.

Maybe use a magic pattern in the first few characters to indicate a url ID is present.
I would LOVE to use a scheduler tuned for my hardware if outperformed the generic scheduler. I'm not a kernel developer, but I can imagine how the mainstream single-socket multicore case may be quite different from the multi-socket multicore case.

As I software engineer, I realize that making different schedulers for different architectures is "inefficient" (unless development/test resources are increased). But if somebody is willing to put in the time and effort to make me a scheduler that works best on my hardware, I'll gladly take it.

I have to agree with Con's remarks here. Seems like an underhanded move by Ingo to give this thing a bad reputation (and hence kill developer and beta tester interest) before it comes out. And judging by the comments here, he may have succeeded. Looks like open source has lots of politics too. :)
Growing up, I was always younger than my peers. I was the youngest in my class, team, etc.

With this, I started feeling old when I was 18. It led me not try out out new things thinking I'm too old for it.

I'm 33 now but I had a realization that nobody is too old for anything. I'm trying out new things again and I don't care if I'm older than most people.
Yes, but 25 is probably old for a figure skater. There are outliers on both ends, but athletes usually tend towards youth. You'd be hard-pressed to name an Olympic event with a gold medalist over 40, or in the team events, a gold medal team averaging over 40. (While it's not fair to compare Olympic soccer, compare World Cup soccer instead.)
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a charity with demonstrable results in improving the lives of people in a measurable way?
microfinance is an area where this debate is raging

Can you show me where?
Not sure I would list kids in the wrong reasons tough.
This is extensible well beyond non-profits. The general form is still rough in my mind but it is something like "avoid situations where accountability and feedback mechanisms are not essential parts of the environment"
Google "commercialization" and "microfinance" - a debate that's directly related to "social metrics"/"social impact" - you should find a number of forums (consolidated at nabble; but there are also a number of articles that you can find at USAID funded http://www.microfinancegateway.org/)
The cost of bouncing a cache line depends less on the number of cores and more on the number of sockets. Since the future of desktops is clearly 1-socket machines, BFS is optimized for that and it's not representative to test with a 2-socket machine. IOW, today's expensive 8-core 2S workstation is not a good proxy for tomorrow's cheap 8-core 1S desktop.
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Isn't Ping pretty much realtime, too?
It's not that Ingo chose the wrong benchmarks. The right benchmarks don't exist, and we're not even sure how to build them. Unfortunately, building a scheduler optimized for "unbenchmarkable" use cases is a recipe for misunderstanding.
Formal Ontology
That article would have benefited greatly from the N-list approach.
One major downside: if Fossil has file move detection, I didn't find it.

i couldn't find it on the website, so i downloaded it and it does appear to support renaming files.

jcs@smug:~/Downloads% ./fossil help mv
Usage: ./fossil mv|rename OLDNAME NEWNAME
or: ./fossil mv|rename OLDNAME... DIR

Move or rename one or more files within the tree
very similar idea here. I also run a mediawiki wiki on my laptop, and my pile of ideas is in a template I call the idea garden. The front page of the wiki is a pile of templates: to do list, idea garden, and a subject-matter-specific meta template that has two levels of links into all the other areas. Been using it for over a year now, swear by it. SVN and PHP are not cool, but it works, and that counts. BTW, what plugins are you using? I'm using

* SpamBlacklist (just in case)
* ConfirmEdit (just in case)
* Cite
* Parser Functions
* FCKEditor
* Quiz

I'm getting mediawiki and plugins through mediawiki svn, and apache, php, postgres, etc, from macports. You?
There, my friend, you have a point!

Yes, my grouse is with Network Manager but that is really a distinction without a difference. I have a problem with Ubuntu by extension.
LambdaJ: the wild man's closure
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/apple-holding-rock-and-ro...
The right benchmarks for the stated goals of BFS do exist. BFS is hardly "unbemchmarkable"; the only thing being misunderstood here is the goal of BFS.
Google Reader adopted PubSubHubBub. PubSubHubBub is similar to RSSCloud, but fixes many issues with RSSCloud.
this should be at the top of the comments.
see PEP 238, @ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/
You can see the pause in the apps over the past few days
http://www.yappler.com/Apple-iPhone-App-Store-Stats/

Apple has also changed some of how items link to each other under the hood.
Monotone (http://www.monotone.ca/ : a DVCS that predates git by several years, and was a major inspiration) keeps its repositories in SQLite databases, as well. I used it for a while, kept my home directory in mtn, etc. SQLite databases are indeed quite easy to back up. (You're better off putting "echo .dump | sqlite3 dbfile.sql > dbfile.sql.bak" in cron, though - the dump is more portable.)

Using SQLite dbs for serialization is a great idea, particularly for prototyping. It's not quite as efficient as bespoke file formats and data structures, but frequently good enough, and getting transactions for free is a huge bonus.
A person who unknowingly purchases stolen goods has no right to use those goods. Since the technical means exist to inform the possessor of their stolen nature, if the possessor continues to use them after that point and doesn't return them to the rightful owner, they are guilty of a crime - possession of stolen goods in some form.
Looks like git-svn corruption, not git corruption.
Regarding making explicitly numbered lists of n things in school, I am pretty sure thy do that in the lower grades, although not in essay form. For example, children have to write "5 things I learned about x" or "5 things I like about y" and are graded on relevancy and sometimes persuasiveness...if I am remembering correctly anyway.
Same with "sleep" (which in turn will directly affect our kind of work).
For someone working on a startup in his free time, there are only opportunity costs! If it costs $10 extra per day to dine out, that's $3650 a year. If it saves an hour a day which can be used for working on the startup, that's 365 hours, or the equivalent of 45 business days at a full time job.
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Very good tips. I have to say that bookmarking things saves me hours. I bookmark maybe five things a week and retrieve about 2-4 bookmarks a week. I only bookmark things that would be difficult to search for so it certainly saves me time.
How do you measure the "results" of a non-profit, when most of them work in non-quantifiable fields?

You end up with the quantity versus quality argument, favoring large, superficial efforts over narrowly tailored, substantive efforts.
I personally think that the Android's biggest issue is that it does not have a very solid main place where everyone comes for apps

that may have been true in the early days of the tmobile g1, but i can't even recall any apps i've installed that weren't from the android market on my tmobile mytouch. i would wager many mytouch users don't even know it's possible to install apps that don't come from the market.
"-khtml-opacity is used in Apple’s Safari, and in other KHTML-enabled browsers."

This is factually incorrect. Safari has supported the CSS3 selector Opacity since version 2.0 (currently at version 4.0).
Should parents meddle in their kids' classroom assignments?
The Game Theorist blog discusses this article:

http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2009/09/matching-problem.ht...
Gosh, Haskell is so readable! Most of those slides have nothing but code on them, yet they read perfectly comprehensibly. I guess it's a testament both to the language, and to the author's skill in expressing concepts clearly in it.
One of the things I remember from taking game theory at college was that getting a good deal on a used car is near impossible.

The seller has perfect information (knows all the flaws) and the buyer has imperfect information (only knows what information can be gathered from a test drive and superficial inspection).
Modified GTD.

1. Instead of a weekly review, I assign every task a date -- that's the date I want to next think about it (either to do it, decide it's no longer important or to set a next time I want to think about it).

2. Every morning, without fail, process my inbox (Todo and email), assign dates to things, review that set of things I wanted to review that day (and act according to step(1) above) and then get on with my day. Usually, this is a ~10-15 minutes task.. This amortizes the weekly review over every day.

3. Capture any and every actionable idea I have in the same system. (at the moment, I use Things and email todos into it when I'm on the go)

I put everything in this system -- not just work items. It's all stuff-I-have-to-do-in-my-life.
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1. Work on problems I care about.
So in plain english without all the hype, it's RSS pushed from the server instead of pulled by the client.

How are they doing it over http without thousands of connections being open and closed constantly on the server per second? Are they just announcing to a central server and the client only polls the one server for any one of thousands of blogs they could be subscribed to?

I guess I'll look at the code tomorrow.