skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and that is exactly what I said in my post, the one that got downvoted -- there are special cases where the context can be used to decide which is the source and which the destination. But a source and a destination must always be selected.

There is no source nor destination, it's a merge of two equivalent trees. When I do "git merge <remote>", I'm not saying I want to replace the local branch with contents of the remote, nor vice versa. There's no source nor destination, they're both equal.

How do you merge two directory trees having different file sets without knowing the operator's wishes? Does he want files missing from one tree to be deleted from the other, or does he want files missing from one tree to be restored from the other?

You're still thinking in files. There are no files, just actions. The files are a byproduct, not the things being synced.
Unfortunately, for many applications in my industry, the problem is trying to fit a set of tables into an in-memory graph of objects (either because the data is more easily defined as a set of tables, or because it already exists as one).
Looking at my university's campus, I'm pretty positive this map files them under the "Asian" category.
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Fortunately you can't be cited for violating a private company's example test question! :-)

If you block an intersection because there isn't room on the far side, you'd be cited under section 22526 of Chapter 9, Stopping, Standing, and Parking:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

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22526 (a): Notwithstanding any official traffic control signal indication to proceed, a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or marked crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle driven without obstructing the through passage of vehicles from either side.

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This section is known as the Anti-Gridlock Act of 1987. The reason this had to be enacted was that it was never illegal to be in an intersection when the light turned red. If that were illegal, then officers would already have a section number to cite you under. They didn't, so this law gave them one.

Besides that, the only other relevant sections I could find are the ones I quoted in my previous comment. Here's another link in a newer format:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh....

The rest of the Vehicle Code can be found through a link on this page:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml
Right; but the pharmaceutical industry goes out of its way to avoid competition. They won't develop drugs if there is too much competition.

I understand that someone needs to pay for R&D. Unfortunately, the US government already pays for most drug R&D, but the patents get assigned to the company doing the development in all but a few rare cases.
> Gmail lets you use plus suffixes, as well as extra dots

Very nice, thanks for that!
Stopped reading at 'Arse-Sum'
It's interesting to note: in the late 1960s Denver was quite segregated. A 1974 Supreme Court decision led to students being forced to ride the bus across town to mix with students of other races (I rode from southwest Denver to Five Points for a few years in elementary school.) One of the major results was white families moving out of the Denver city limits. They ended forced busing in 1995.

Denver now has one of the most diverse populations in the US, though it's often hurt by measurements that treat "white hispanic" (22%) and "non-hispanic white" (50%) as both just white. Denver is home to the largest Mongolian population in the US, one of the largest Native American Pow-Wows in the US, plus significant African American, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Russian, Polish, Ethiopian, and Lebanese groups. While there are some enclaves, there are a lot of very mixed neighborhoods as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us/court-says-denver-can-e...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Denver
"Recently I tried to get more exposure and it has a slowly growth"

Keep doing that, you'll get better at it the more you try / practice / fail / succeed, and the skills will be vital on your next project when you run into this exact same problem just after you launch.
I haven't worked in the Kindle division, but there is a huge cultural gulf between Apple and Amazon. Apple is very much a software company (well they're a design company that encompasses both hardware and software). They care a great deal about getting software right. At WWDC each year they have a session on how to do great software that illuminates a process that involves a lot of design and upfront work before you begin coding. A process that virtually nobody does these days. (I say these days because back in the 80s this is how CS students were taught "write your program out in paper before writing it in code". Nowadays nobody barely thinks about their work before they start writing code, for the most part.)

This is the polar opposite of Amazon, which I worked for in the past.

Amazon is perceived as a high tech company but it is a retailer and its management is the management of a retailer. Amazons engineering is overseen by non-engineers and the company culture is highly political and focused on making a show more than making a product. Quality is the last thing they actually care about (when it comes to software.) You get ahead at Amazon with press releases-- it never matters if your product makes no sense. (EG: Movie listings on amazon.com, mail-order catalogs, literally scanned, and posted to amazon.com, innumerable initiatives and features that were put up there getting someone a promotion, only to have the team disappear in the next quarterly company wide reorg and the result to just rot.)

This is why I would never buy a tech product from Amazon. They really don't give a damn as a culture, and any engineer who gives a damn will not survive long there (and will be punished).

Giving a damn about design and quality doesn't play well with stack ranking.

What plays into stack ranking is kissing your bosses peers butts, playing political games and making splashy new features.
Working in one of those sorts of jobs I sometimes feel "depressed" when frequenting sites like HN. On the other hand, I specifically chose my job because anxiety (for me) leads to depression, and the last time I experienced that I almost didn't come out alive. There's something to be said for the "boring" jobs. For me, they give me a good paycheck and haven't usually required overtime. So I can still have a life outside of work while guaranteeing that I will leave my home 5 days out of the week (necessary for me, I have to be around other people to get an escape from my own mind for a while, it's that or something that'll numb my mind like alcohol or video games or something and that's a bad route). Grad school, startups, I'd like to be able to do those things, but I can't while also maintaining my sanity (I've tried).
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Many Android users are noisy after an Apple media event, but they have been particularly loud this week. I don't really care what operating system your phone uses, but I do wonder why the iPhone 6 seems to have put so many in such a panicky advocacy mode.
I think that someone like you should figure out how to implement "conspicuous charity" - figure out a socially acceptable way for people to compete on displays of wealth and taste based on what charities they give to, and how much they give.

As an aside, I think it's your money, and if you want to spend more than I would spend on a server (which is to say, way more than I'd consider spending on a car) on a fancy watch, well, I'm going to make fun of you a little bit, but ultimately, it's your money, and your judgement. But, if fancy watches are primarily signaling, which I believe to be the case, it seems to me that you could figure out how to get the same signaling value out of proving that you gave a certain amount to certain stylish charities.
I don't know how much depression is caused by external and abstract world events and how much is caused by more personal events. People are more likely to become depressed after a divorce for example.
At least there is a way to set the mode to 1:1, though. There's several tools that are able to switch the retina macbook into 2880x1800.
Nice find. Interesting to see an effect of the drug war manifested on a map.
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It's really impressive that you built that much revenue even without even notifying people who specifically told you they wanted this product. That's a very good sign that you're headed for a lot of growth.
Not stupid at all, I still don't understand the reasoning behind it.
Personally, I see Apple's product integration as a liability. It's fantastic for many users, it simplifies things and makes devices work well together. But, mostly for business reasons I'd guess, they define that integration to be best or only on Apple made devices.

But for me I feel like I'm putting all my eggs in one basket.

I know the app ecosystem is improving a bit and mediating lots of that, but there's still a long legacy there and I'm concerned about hard corners that will lock me in.
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> And even with self driving cars does that suddenly mean I'm prohibited from owning my own so I can travel where I want when I want?

On a private road sure, knock yourself out. But by driving on a public road you're risking the lives of yourself and other participants (and it's not a "everything is unsafe" rhetoric, cars kill a lot of humans every year), and the whole point of introducing self-driving cars is to get rid of human drivers on public roads because they kill people.

> I really don't understand this love affair people have with the idea that we should let some corporate computer network decide when and if we're allowed to leave our homes.

This "love affair" comes from embracing the fact that a centralized algorithm can route you much faster, safer and more efficiently that you could ever do it yourself, therefore it is best to trust the machine. Because the machine is really better at this than humans.
You are correct. The system degrades in functionality in dust, heavy fog, heavy rain, and snow. It isn't blind, per se, as radar still functions. Snow is the worst though - both visually obscuring and radar absorptive.
Yes, it would be much better if everyone used one aspect ratio, one dpi, one device - but this is something you just deal with, if you're building a native app, not complain about it, or even expect that screen-sizes will forever be constant (which is what the OP suggested). It's like if web developers complained that their job is more difficult because they have to support users resizing their browser window. Strictly true, but insane.

Again, iOS developers got spoiled by not having to deal with this stuff for the last few years so maybe it seems like it's a big deal. The reality is, once you stop expecting a specific screen properties, it really isn't that big of a deal. It's just reality.

And no, it's not fragmentation. There is absolutely no reason to freeze out certain users because of their screen-size, or not provide certain features.
Thank you, this really put me on thinking.
The good part is that I always like to work hard and automate most of my products even if it takes me more time, and in this case it's ~97% automated.
The problem with marketing is that I couldn't find my buyers when I tested, most of the success was with forums but at a low volume. So I assumed that I picked the wrong niche where to do business :)
The default seems to be 128kb for both, and that seems to be enough. It is already bigger than the buffers on most NIC.
State and modularity (2003)
The Apple Watch is not a watch
I believe that's the most common location. It takes one keypress or mouse action to get there.
What are other good examples for dev tool docs with great ux (apart from Sendgrid)?
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Your kook-like obsession with refusing to accept the possibility that mental illness exists is indistinguishabke from bigotry in this post.

People who are sometimes hospitalised can be treated -safely and effectively- with some forms of talking therapies. That does not mean their illness is not real and it is fucking offensive to suggest otherwise.
The New Yorker finally stepped up to the plate on calling out her myths recently:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt
I've heard mixed reviews of that. It is probably not quite ready for production, but it will be interesting in the future.
Machines are much, much better at flying airplanes too; yet all commercial planes use pilots. I wonder which one will change first, planes or automobiles, which has the most resistance to change. Airplanes - decades of resistance now. And flying is a trivial problem compared to driving.
> The product grew, but at a slower pace than I had envisioned

This is the single biggest piece of advice I wish I'd known before I made my failed attempts at products. It takes a long time. When you build your product, make sure you have an income or savings plan for the next 12 - 18 months.
What's performance like on ZoL compared to Solaris/OpenIndiana/FreeBSD?
Interesting read for sure, but it's just like any other product. Things that are nice looking, cheap, and plentiful will always be consumed by the mass market, even if it's lower quality. "Good enough" rules the market for nearly every product out there, at least in the number of units sold. Why would apples be any different?

"Two buck Chuck" wine is the top selling wine year after year, but it's nowhere near the best. I consider Red Delicious "good enough" apples, and they're plentiful. Fiji and Honeycrisp will be my choice when they're available, but that isn't always the case.
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The problem is, as the article indicates, image. While what you say is often the reality, the image many of these companies portray to the outside world, particularly those outside the SV bubble, is much different. I understand completely where AdmiralAsshat is coming from, because I resemble that remark. Way too strongly. I'm never satisfied with myself. Constantly second-guessing my past decisions. Feeling that I am inferior in some way. Forcing myself to start side projects because that is what "good" engineers do, even if I don't particularly want to do them.

I have by all accounts a great life and a solid career. That doesn't stop me from obsessing over not being better, from beating myself up for not having put myself into the position I fell like I should be in.
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The downscaling in the info graphic is representational of how a developers chrome is handled. Not of a "full screen" experience...

Or put another way, when you play a video, you let the OS take over the full screen and there's no need for downsampling.

Its not like the downsampling is a permanent stage of some rendering pipeline to the display.
This is not accurate, to the best of my knowledge. I've consistently read roughly 20% European ancestry as the average for African-Americans. One source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/genetic-varia...

Of course, in general, legal racial categories may not map to anything genetic.
Thank you. I was so confused about where the number 1242 came from. The number 414 isn't in the entire article.
You're not that far off from the truth.

Typically the fruit of the plant contains a lot of chemical energy in the form of sugars. Plants that have been selectively bred for hardiness (thicker skin, longer ripening periods, etc.) expend more on those traits as opposed to making more chemical energy in the fruit.
On the down side, this appears to show "white Hispanic" as white, which makes Denver look like a giant sea of sameness instead of one of the most diverse cities in the country.
The downsampling is representational of how the OS renders your App.

Especially in Metal, but probably in OpenGL, I'm sure you get access to the actual resolution buffer you can render into.
Chewing gum aids in oral hygiene, it has utility. The opportunity cost is hardly anything. The opportunity cost of something that exists purely for aesthetic purposes is 100% of the cost of the good. In this case you're talking $1,000+ for a watch. I am always reminded of the scene in Schindler's list where he looks at the additional things he could have sold or gone without to save lives. On my death bed I don't want to look back with regret and wonder how much more I could have done to help people if I wasn't acting selfishly.

To me the moral level of consumption is as close to the minimum required to survive and make an optimal economic contribution to society. Everyone needs happiness and entertainment in their lives. The struggle is avoiding excess.
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Calm down silly-generalization-man. This my surprise you but "iOS developers" aren't a monolith, aren't spoiled, and most have developed for other environments as well. There are more sizes to develop and test for. What was one is now more than one. Fragmentation.
Do you believe that some "phobia" exists? That so e people have life-altering fears to irrational degrees? Do you call those phobias "virtual" illness, or are they "real" illness?

Because current best treatment for phobia is a talkin therapy, which could be applied online.
They are bred, but you're also correct that any given variety is all grafted from one original tree. Apples can be bred by cross pollinating varieties, planting the seeds, and then taking scions from the sprout and grafting them onto mature trees (sometimes with dozens of varieties of apple grafted to the same rootstock) so that they yield fruit faster. I think it's typical to go through about 1000 seedlings before you find a good apple for fresh eating (many more are good for cider though).

You can also just plant the seeds and let them grow naturally, but it takes a lot longer to get any kind of results (not to mention more space).

I'm just getting started on this process at my farm actually (apples, pears, asian pears, and cherries so far, seedlings are growing, but I haven't grafted scions yet). It's a major exercise in long-term record keeping.

Here's an example of a tree with a lot of varieties grafted to it, though this guy isn't doing it for breeding purposes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437247/250-varietie...

Here's a wikipedia article that mentions the grafting process for testing new hybrids:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting
fortunately not all will turn out to be correctional facilities, a few turn out to be government housing of the older high rise or apartment style.

There a few high density housing areas near Atlanta that are all one race or another, like the old ethnic neighborhoods of big Northern cities.
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They bred them until they developed red delicious. Once they got it, they graft it onto rootstock.
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Ticketmaster is easily regarded as the most evil thing to happen to concerts. That sucks.
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I threw http://amihacked.org/ together yesterday to give people a way to find out their leaked passwords. It would be cool to figure out where these came from since it does appear to not be gmail accounts.
As expected, you can see 5 green dots at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC. Is there anywhere else that we can do better at tying dots to individuals?
Have they gotten the experience correct? Serious question, I haven't seen them.
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You clearly haven't tried to use rsync, which has its name for a reason -- it's a synchronization utility.

Like many others, e.g. Dropbox, Unison, Git-annex. Just because "rsync" has sync in it's name doesn't mean it's the only syncing model possible.

All synchronization operations must know which is the source and which the destination.

In rsync, yes. In others, no.

SO which word is confusing?

No confusing word. The only confusion is in the assumption that sync == rsync. It's like saying that all cars work like the Model T.

Two systems have directories with independent collections of files. System A has 9 files. System B has 10 files. The operator tries to sync the two systems. But to do so, the operator has to tell his synchronization program, which is the source and which is the destination.

Nope. You never have to tell Dropbox, Unison or git-annex which is the source and destination. In the latter, I just do "git-annex sync", and both are synced with each other.
95% of startups are nowhere near world changing.
I see. Both look worth having.
I really liked the Github documentation (https://help.github.com/), as well as Swiftype (https://swiftype.com/documentation/) and BitBucket (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Bitbucket...)

Mostly because all provide a very clean design, especially on the content pages themselves.
Hey Jacques. Thanks for the kind words! Stripe does include us on their integrations page and have been great about reaching out to Stripe Connect service operators like myself and asking what they can do to better support us. (It's been such a great platform to build on.) Now that I'm focusing on marketing more, I'll definitely reach out to them to share some ideas I've got. ;-)
Out of interest, which headphones did you go with? I've been looking at wireless headphones but I've always been put off by not knowing their battery life. Aside from the manufacturer's ratings, which have a variable degree of accuracy :p
my mom taught me this analogy as a kid:

"we don't want a 'melting pot'. We don't want everyone to become the same. We want something more like a 'mixed salad' -- all the pieces bring their own unique flavor and contribute to the whole. It's OK if some bites have a little more tomato and others have a little more carrot. Just don't be that picky eater who pushes all of the cucumber off to the side like it doesn't belong."
Not really...

iCloud grants you 5 GB of "free" storage, including music. iTunes Match just grants you free additional storage for the matched music.

If you download the iTunes Match music then cancel, iCloud will sync the music on your devices using up some of your 5 GB pool.

So as long as you don't exceed 5 GB for your non-iTunes music collection (after they have been iTunes Match upgraded to 256 kbps) you're golden.

That's how it currently works for me. Half of my music collection is on the iTunes Store, the other half is in iCloud.
I took a look at your site and you could probably double signups if you bought a $20 theme (or even just used default Bootstrap) and fixed the typos.