skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it shows the USA's copyright abuse woes. 123 creative projects were slapped for daring to build on the work of others or engage with popular culture. And even more projects were threatened with bogus legal action, taking resources away from new projects and scaring off many others.
btrfs still isn't 'production ready', unfortunately.
Thanks! I have been wanting to do that calculation myself.
Well, hold on. I don't think the condescension is warranted given that the idea of a "source" refers to attributing where some piece of information comes from. Consider Wikipedia's policy of verifiability, that requires all pages' material to be verifiable, but not necessarily cited. If you are interested enough, just try to find those USDA numbers online!
You can do that without any subscription in the settings.

Source: I found out yesterday when trying to figure out if it was possible to make YouTube not choose 4K video by default. Something that you cannot do.
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USDA is US Department of Agriculture, which I hope we can accept as a neutral commentator on such matters. This is indeed a source, though not a citation.
Your statements carry with them the implicit assumption that "anything you want to do" and what you do to make a living aren't the same thing. For some they are.
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Is there any hint on pricing? Slighty annoying to have a section titled "Pricing" which .... doesn't tell you the price. I would much rather use my own external server for hosting large files, it is going to need to be price competitive with other options to be interesting I would think.
Since most cattle in California is dairy, not beef, your numbers don't disprove his statement.
What are you talking about? He says: California produces 80% of all almonds produced in the world. It does not produce 80% of all beef produced in the world.
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Calories for all food taken from here: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?

Water consumption for everything but beef taken from here: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gleason-almond-fa...
My understanding is that dairy cows and beef cows are different breeds, and that dairy cow meat is not normally sold as beef. Is that not the case?
FAT is creaky, ancient, and battle-hardened. It's the only filesystem that all OSes can use properly and can be used as a sort of rosetta stone as a result. It's still not suitable for data storage.
The Myth of the Boiling Point
Allan Savory TED talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI on this topic
dragonwriter above offers a more informed solution: "But if a company wants to restrict 'poaching' of its employees unilaterally, it can just offer them defined-term personal services contracts with suitable compensation."
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I think both livestock and almonds need attention, and I think both are getting attention. Ten percent is not the single largest slice of the pie, but that doesn't mean we ignore it while we work on the livestock slice of the pie.
One entire dude? It seems like he works on it for about an hour a week.
They're both right:
http://www.cattlerange.com/cattle-graphs/all-cattle-numbers....

California is #5, containing 5.7% (down a fair bit from a year ago) of all cattle in the US.
>I do not agree with anyone who thinks that Cloud'ifying everything serves the needs of the end user better.

It's easy for use to forget what actually happens in the 'real world' when we spend so much time in the 'tech world'.

The cloud is extremely powerful in that it bridges the gap between devices, and users. if I have a photo on my phone then why cant I view it on my computer without hooking up and importing. Or if I have photos taken on my DSLR, why then cant I share them remotely from my phone to others whilst I'm out and about.
Now that vim is on github, I think it'd be cool if eventually the vim logic/model could be abstracted into a library that could then be used by any text editor to instantly provide the basic vim experience without all the edge cases that current reproductions tend to have.
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How would you diagnose an unknown compression format? That's a problem I've encountered recently and I'm hoping there is an easier way than stepping through the reference compressor in a debugger.
Sadly true. But what's worse is, look at who I'm replying to - not a group of CEOs or other billionaires, I reckon. Even the people who get screwed by this kind of shit agree with the reasoning behind it, for some reason.
Don't forget "They trust me — dumb fucks" - Zuckerberg

Back in the day CEO's actually pretended to not be sociopaths.
They don't make em like they used to!
But even the Tim Cook statement is the exact same tone as Ed Catmull. At first "protect his employees" sounds like it's as if he's protecting chess pieces from being killed in battle. But really what it boils down to is him protecting his employees from becoming employees at another company, from getting opportunities outside of Apple. Which is essentially him keeping assets to himself.
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Seems that git status nowadays does manage to avoid running the smudge filter, unless the file's stat has changed. This overhead does still exist for other operations, like git checkout.
I like where your head is at, but I'm not sure how a cow that only consumes 3000-5000 gallons of water in its lifetime could possibly produce 2500 gallons of milk (85% water) every year for five years.
Is there anything really wrong with that approach though? Car manufacturers often make the most powerful and high-tech cars they can make as a proving ground, then that technology trickles into the rest of their lineup. The Tesla Model S wouldn't exist without the Tesla Roadster, which was a pile of junk but proved the technology. Mercedes S Class cars are horribly overpriced and sometimes impractical, but they're the first place you'll find tech that will be an option for all cars in 5 years and standard in 10 years. The original Surface sucked, but they kept revising it until people could at least give it some faint praise.

The most generous complaints are that "it came out one year too early." That's better than never coming out at all.
Everyone did. Developers he stole from stole it from someone else, the whole social game space was a clone war. But Zynga was consistently succesful in it.

Do you remember the tower-breaking game on Kongregate and iOS that Angry Birds cloned? Or Backyard Monsters that was the original Clash of Clans?
Positive lessons to be learned from an objective analysis Pincus and Zynga:

- Do not mislead, abuse, or harmfully exploit your customers as Zynga did in the early days through tricking them into installing malware or pressuring them into abusing their social connections for in-game currency.

- Do not make exact replicas of competing products and leverage your popularity, financial situation, and legal team to crush them.

- When your company somehow manages to survive despite the previous points, do not claw back the stock options that the people who built your company earned fair and square.

Follow those three points and you just might survive long enough to be the next lucky mobile game startup that Zynga decides to clone verbatim!
>> ...and just turned 10, has been nagging me for ages to teach him Haskell...

I'm guessing you would have taught your human(?) kid some human languages first before he started nagging you (why you, he can read too, right?) to teach him Haskell. I think you had a dream or sumping...
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Hi, are there any tests for Skit? How have you been testing it?
It's very tractable if you don't insist on the diff reconstructing the target file byte-for-byte. But this would require pretty invasive changes in the version control system, no?

If you change the top-left pixel of a PNG, for example, between the intra prediction and the DEFLATE compression, the new file can be totally different, and to reconstruct it you either hope the destination is using the exact same libpng with the exact same settings, or you have to find a space-efficient way to write down all the arbitrary encoding decisions the format allows.
He also did a little write-up around this stuff:

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/201698.html
I've heard similar stories from people who work on oil platforms.

Forgot the exact numbers, but it's something like six months you live there and work most of your waking hours, then six months vacation, and the pay is stupid high (and living on the platform while you work there means you have almost no personal expenses during that time).
Can you open an issue on GitHub and post more details? Any errors on the JavaScript console?
They go, but they don't always identify themselves. Because of their corporate culture. Which isn't great mind you.
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Very true. I just like when sources are linked by URL so it is verifiable by another user.
Actually I think the answer is yes. Or at least they're disabled.

I forget the name but I had one that allowed for a custom new tab page. It had opt-out ads, but I otherwise loved it. It kept getting disabled after each fresh start of Chrome. Debated forking it but haven't yet.

It might matter that I do have my extensions sync between machines. Extension is eventually disabled on the others as well.

EDIT: "This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy." The extension is Modern New Tab Page. The store page is gone, so no clue what policies are violated, what I need to fear, etcetera.

I can still enable it, but it will be disabled at some point.

Does it have questionable practices? Yes. There's a settings option but it's different than the settings I see by going to chrome://extensions/ as the sole option on the latter is to disable ads.

EDIT 2: To be clear, this extension was blocked late last year, and is not part of this recent batch. At that time there were questions about whether there was a list as well. There was, like this time, no notification to impacted users.
Not sure. I have a very fast connection and my MacBook is always on. I wasn't paying attention but I think everything was uploaded in a couple of days or so.
Fine. Writing air traffic control systems is tech, and is pressure.

The difference is artificial pressure driven by concerns like "I will look bad to my boss" or "or EPS might dip a fraction of a present", as opposed to "people will die".
Also, is there any reason Git LFS can't be used as a special remote for git-annex?

It would provide an easy way for people to host their git-annex repos entirely on GitHub.
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I also don't really see the problem. Very few will use excessive storage, which is the insight those free services with sizable storage is based on, like Flickr with 1 TB free which is essentially "unlimited" when it comes to photo storage. Key is to restrict it to a certain use scenario / file format, which will make it even harder to abuse.
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I realize it's a little bit comical to consider customer service so highly, but I have had __consistently__ excellent support from Sonic.net, and have been a very happy customer ever since literally the first day it was installed.

I have similar probably-irrationally-high opinions of In-N-Out Burger's operations.

I've had such excellent service for so many years that even when I have an objectively __terrible__ experience [0], I end up writing it completely off as a fluke, or an inexperienced or frazzled employee. I actually reflected on this the last time it happened, and even recognizing this I still think highly of their service.

They get customer service so right in so many directions that I almost feel bad exposing the rare instances that my visit hasn't been flawless.

0: Last week, in the same visit to the drive-through: "No, I didn't order those [3] shakes. I actually ordered two fries." They eventually got me the right things, and my burgers were right, but I've had that wrong too before. Almost never.
Last I heard dairy cows are butchered for low grade meat. They won't be in your top sirloin but maybe in your ground beef.

The livestock industry does its best to use everything.
I really hope that they make common JITs Windows x64 SEH compliant.
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Gruber's scenario with the two high school kids was probably the worst thing he's ever written. There needs to be an annual 500-word short story writing competition, for best story turning on the sentence "But you both wore an Apple Watch".

I say this as someone who generally admires John Gruber's ability to sell me on 1000-2000 word blog posts on Apple minutia purely on the strength and clarity of his writing. This post was painful.
Journalists getting review units does mean they are on the "take" or shills. If the journalists don't have to send the review units back, then I would filter those. MEven John Gruber has written about how he sends the review units back to Apple.
It appears this is already happening. Beef production is declining in CA and some farmers are switching from grass-fed to importing feed from other states.
Sure, it could. I mean, it could also stop producing almonds without crashing the local economy. But, sure.

Look, according to Slate, almonds use 1.1 trillion gallons of water per year in CA.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

There are 5,000,000ish head of cattle in CA. This thing:

http://www.uaex.edu/publications/pdf/fsa-3021.pdf

suggests that the most water that any cow needs per day is 20 gallons. 20 x 365 x 5million = 36.5 billion gallons of water per year. Let's assume that that's holy shit an order of magnitude low, and it's 365 billion gallons of water per year -- so it's still only 1/3rd the amount of water that almonds use.

And thus, we talk about the amount of water that almonds use.
e: I read cal/gal as gal/cal and was completely off base. Apologies.
Since the industrial revolution people work less and less ... until the 19th century for most people life mostly was about working. That's why people's last name was inferred from their profession b/c they were even identified with their jobs.
I see it as a progression of technology. We used to see a bright future of automation, robots and leisure. Now we label it unemployment and call it a problem.
Engineers at Google don't have mandated hours. Be available for important meetings, and be somewhat consistent with when you're around.
Why did we love programming?
But would you instead argue that you discovered how to draw the map?
Great read! But come on, customer support is not the main body of the company, just one of the limbs. And those limbs suffer if they do not strive to be themselves and instead seek to be someone else.

One phrase that I tell myself often kept coming to mind: the freedoms you don't take, someone else will, and the freedoms you don't fight for, someone else will take. This applies between government-citizen, corporation-employee, manager-managee, and head-subordinate.

And do you know what happens when one hot shot takes hold of the company/department/group? Everybody seeks to emulate him and judge themselves and others in comparison to him. What happens then is like what happens to metal dust scattered on paper with a magnet in the middle. The hot shot is no longer a leader with a team, but instead a one-man army with slaves extending his rule.

And some leaders will never manage creative people because they can never step out of the way.
I'm sorry that's just frankly not possible. Even with your lowest value of 300k a year and you're hours value of 100 hours a week you're looking at ~60$/hour assuming they have no vacation or time off. Now look at the minimum wage and realize it's still many times that. I have a lawyer friend who says the same thing as you, and I seriously doubt it's so over the long run.
New Zealand is actually suffering a pretty bad drought. One of the towns actually just up and ran out of water one day last month. (I know, cause I was there and it was weird).
I guess this is such a common event that it doesn't even make the news anymore. See this article from 2012: http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/water-restrictions-in-franz-jo...
Not at all ironic. OP was posting about how customer support is a cost center, amongst other claims. He stated that it is like this in any company. I completely disagree and have experienced the proof of that first hand.

I'm a little unclear from how you worded things--was the question around the notion of firing people as heroic juxtaposed against what we call our support team (ie. Heroes)?
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Sure, that's absolute numbers. But from a gallons-per-calorie point of view Almonds are more efficient. A social engineer would still want to discourage meat production.
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Genius idea. Not OP, but might use for my own projects :)
> for everything but beef

But it's the number for beef that is contentious. That's the whole point of your comment. And, unlike the others, it wasn't included when you made this comment last time.
"It does not produce that much beef or chicken"

It produces quite a bit of beef.

A percentage is not an amount or measurement of production.
Also back in the day we didn't have access to the massive amount of information about these people we do now. Back in the day we'd never see that Zuckerberg quote because he'd have said it in person or in a letter which probably got burned or tossed soon after it was read. The Pincus quote is pretty baldfaced, but so is Zynga's business strategy - I don't know the context but I can see that being an answer to the question "What the fuck is Zynga doing!?".
Yeah. "We need to hustle" means "we need to work a little bit harder".

"I got hustled" means "I got tricked". Not sure what OP is talking about. There's literally two different definitions.
You're conflating Windows 8 and Windows Server, the two updates you specifically noted are Windows 8 updates.

The first one is a Windows 10 pre-checker (KB2976978), so zero chance of Windows Server getting it, and the second one (KB3048778) isn't a critical update (solves a minor Explorer bug) so would have to be manually installed.

You likely have "Give me Recommended updates the way I receive important updates" checked in the Windows Update GPO/applet and also just seem to think there is no difference on how Windows Server and Windows Desktop are patched (which there is, massively).

A Server 2012 box I happen to have open, has restart events that are corresponding with patch Tuesdays but months are often skipped. You'd likely see a little more if you weren't using Server Core, but nothing like the number you're describing. The thing doesn't even install updates between monthly pushes.

I'm seeing approx. 4-5 a year. Which is still much higher than Linux, but nothing like Windows Desktop.
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It's a big company, and there will certainly be diversity in experiences. But he's not the first person to talk about such situations: http://oleb.net/blog/2014/09/work-habits-at-apple/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8389238)

It does happen.
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If part of your compensation comes in the form of food, then it isn't free.

Of course, if it's part of your compensation, it should probably be taxed as such... maybe I should keep my mouth shut.
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Most of their code is third-party code.
That wasn't "better" :)
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This special syntax should be discouraged for any strings that shall be translated in the future. Different languages have different syntax, so the order can change, with this kind of syntax, you will be in big trouble very soon!
Am I reading this right: for 1 gal of water, we get 8.2 calories from Watermelon, 7 from Almonds (&etc.) and .. 0.2 calories, per gallon of water, from Beef?
Yes, Orion-like bomb propulsion will do it. Looks like explosions can be contained in a steel tube, and the resulting fall-out is almost nill (a giant, nuclear, rocket throwing gun!).

Launch-loops may also compose well with chemical rockets. That'll take much more adnvanced tech than simply using rockets, but the laws of physics permit them. (A smaller, electric, rocket throwing gun...)

Those civs won't be able to construct a space elevator. It's boderline impossible on Earth already, on any bigger planet it'll be completely impossible.
What about the water cycle? "Using" water doesn't mean "using it up" – if you water a field from a well, some portion of that water goes back into the ground from whence it came, largely unmolested. For that matter, when I flush my toilet the water isn't destroyed, it just goes to be cleaned up and released back into the wild. I'm still not sure if the cleaning process is a challenge because of the quantity of the liquid or the quantity of the contaminant (with low-flow toilets not changing the contamination of the water at all).

What are the real bottlenecks in our water system?
Quite synonymous with the word hacking as well. My feelings are equally synonymous. Especially with those who implore "growth hacking" techniques that otherwise are not very virtuous. Where do you draw the line?
Dairy cows produce milk to feed their you g. This, dairy cows are continuously bred through their lives. The female calves go on to be dairy cows. The male calves go on to be veal or low grade meat or animal food.

Once the dairy cow has finished being a dairy cow they're sold off as low grade meat.
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software engineers are also a cost centers.
Anyone who currently stores large files in git already has this problem; git-lfs is strictly better than plain old git in this case.

Format-specific diffing and merging tools that are aware of git-lfs would probably help, and those can come later.
Crush the Castle! I used to play that game during classes on my netbook back when WebOS was still a thing. Is it even possible to be nostalgic about something that happened 5 years ago?
This man is cancer. The fact that he is back at Zynga shows just how far they've fallen. They've lost all of their good execs - people from ea, from google, etc and now it's just the dregs. And the bung hole plug has finally returned, but after the keg has drained.

edit: sorry, but I thought about it some more and Zynga is probably hopeless without someone aggressive like Pincus at the helm. However, I don't think he's going to be able to hire anyone good after the disaster of the last few years.

They'll have to start over. He can hire some new talented people. Rebuild their marketing team, hire some good engineers, and then when they're on the verge of making it big fire them all and take their options while hiring big names from bay area companies...
So because everyone did, that makes it okay?
https://github.com/construct/construct This is the best thing I have ever used for parsing binary file formats.
OP article itself says 3000-5000gal/lb. I split the difference and used 4000. The USDA says 1lb of 85/15 ground beef has 975cal/lb: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/7554?man=&lfacet=&cou...
Once you add the context that California grows all of the US's and most of the world's almonds it doesn't seem so ridiculous.
The problem is that almonds and watermelons are exported from California, exiting it's water cycle.