skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, a number of reasons.

hg interface makes sense. there's clear distinction in semantics between commands and flags. that is not the case with git. git demands being a wizard to be excellent; hg doesn't.

hg repos typically are clones of each other: it takes work to not have all changesets replicated everywhere. the implication of that is that there's no forgetting branches; ergo, there's no confusion about what piece of the dag is pushed and what isn't. it's all pushed.

hg branches are 'true' branches, as opposed to refs. I could go into depth into how that plays out in better ways than git, but that's more of an actual essay.

hg extensions give hg more power - if you really want to get complicated, it's not unbelievably difficult.

hg project makes certain guarantees about stability of interface; tooling is easy to develop around that. tooling makes life better, often.

as a general rule of thumb, the hg project and experience adopts a principled way of choices; this flows out into the code and experience. it's a very clean and "better is better" way of working.
:: spreads hands ::

That's just like, your opinion, man. I don't have significant issues...

(and it's not terribly hard to do per project configuration)
Let's put it in other terms.

You run a business in the 1800s that frees blacks from the South and transports them to the North. If caught, you risk some severe penalties, maybe even death.

Someone finds out and blackmails you. What do you do?
Hey Friend,

That sucks to hear. You are young yet, you can beat this. At risk of sounding like a snake-oil salesman. You should look into a Green/Vegan diet. I'm talking about wheat grass and kale. Mix it up, juice it, doesn't taste all that bad.

I don't think you should worry about your co-workers premiums. It's all money, honestly who can't go without an extra $50-300 a month or whatever. People spend what they have usually, it'll all work it. It'll all work out.

It's called Insurance for a reason. Don't worry about the Insurance companies. Focus on getting well, and staying stress-free as possible.

Good luck my friend.
> It is "the web" that can be credited to the LHC.

I've missed something. Could you elaborate?
You might find it interesting that crème de cassis is the top mixer in Japan. Nearly every bar and drinking place serves crème de cassis and orange juice as well as crème de cassis and oolong tea. Both are great and I'm a little surprised crème de cassis is so rare in the USA. Many bars have a bottle but it is rarely used.
> based on the "wisdom" of people who were written about hundreds of years before the rise of the concept of a spherical earth.

This might be true for the West, but not to the east:

Multiverse, relativity and quantum theory.
“Both Bohr and Schrödinger, the founders of quantum physics, were avid readers of the Vedic texts and
observed that their experiments in quantum physics were consistent with what they had read in the Vedas.”
Bohr received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922, for his theory of atomic structure (Quantum Theory).
He is on record as saying that he goes into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Alan Watts, a professor, graduate school dean and research fellow of Harvard University, drew heavily on the insights of Vedanta. Watts became well known in the 1960s as a pioneer in bringing Eastern philosophy to the West. He wrote:
“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, ( A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”

0]: https://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/quantum-consisten...
1]: http://www.hinduwisdom.info/quotes141_160.htm
They might consider killing someone who has threatened to reveal information to a brigade of killers that will kidnap and imprison, or outright kill people who have trusted and relied upon them to protect those people from such actions as at the very least worthy of consideration.

That was the situation here; party A attempts to blackmail party B with revealing the identities of group C to entity D which will then ruin the lives of all people within group C. Is it definitely right or wrong to hire somebody to kill party A? What duty of care does party B owe group C? Entity D exists and is not going away and will continue to behave in the fashion which party A relies upon as the stick in the equation. Attacking entity D directly is suicidal and ineffective.

If party A was directly threatening to kidnap and imprison or murder all the people in group C, I think aggressive action against them would be much less questionable, and effectively that is what they are actually doing, given the behaviour of entity D.

Putting all those pieces in place already, what is the appropriate response supposed to actually be?

Any way you look at it, it's certainly an interesting situation that people who otherwise would think there was no problem here must take into account. It's all well and good to believe the state is a gang of thieves and murderers writ large (disclaimer; I certainly do), and go about constructing a parallel strategy to circumvent them, but that strategy can't just ignore them, or the consequences of their existence, either.
> My argument would be: whether firewalls are "stupid crap" or not, they certainly do seem to matter right now.

Which would be the hard nut of the matter. Just as security guards at a checkpoint to a military base provide some value in at least awareness of a threat. But if we take the article at face value then we have to believe that the role of the firewall will become greatly diminished to something more sentry like rather than something that aspires to be a portcullis. And while the ability of the gateway infrastructure to prevent an attack from occurring arrives it may be able to raise the cost of mounting an attack by the network equivalent of ASLR on the stack by intentionally re-routing some parts of the network connect to avoid things like bogus source routing, or confusing CBC ciphers in private protocols.
I remember having to buy a firewire PCI port just to use my first iPod with Windows. It only worked sometimes, and I had to use some third party tool to upload music to it (or winamp, I think, had some limited support).
Had been using the SMS notification feature to monitor various files and websites for availability.

Now no longer possible :(
Couldn't it be a natural-gas generator, did anyone get a model number?

http://www.doosanportablepower.com/en/products/generators

It might not be an official station, since it's purpose was to test the battery swapping, so the cost of connecting to the main grid might have been too expensive.
This is funny, reading this sipping on a cheap Californian wine I got at the local grocery store because it was too late to hit the SAQ ( you see, good wine is the prerogative of government retailing in the Belle Province (Quebec), a bit like the Sweedish poster I just read. There's good sides and bad sides to that, one of the bad sides is government workers dont tend to work long hours... oh well).

Not sayin californians have not learned a thing or two about wines in the last 100 years; in fact I've drank IMHO outstanding wines from the west coast, especially from Walla Walla valley. The've also nailed the champagne technique 100% in my books.

Just saying that the guys in Bordeaux and in Piedmont have been at the red wine thing for the last 2000 years, pre any marketing-to-unsuspecting-masses techniques. The best analogy I've read here is music; sometimes musak is fine (the elevator, the grocery store etc) sometimes I wish I could tune it out. YMMV. But I just cant stop telling Charlie Parker or Dave Brubeck from the rest; so dont listen to them if you dont want to be disappointed on your next elevator ride!

:-)

Cheers!!
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This. Read "Tripping over the truth" by Travis Christofferson and "cancer as a metabolic disease" by Seyfried.

I'd start with a 3 day water-only fast and then stay low calorie keto for a long time.
Thankfully, beer isn't so inflated. You can try almost every interesting beer out there under $30.
I wrote an ad system that was in part used to backfill Ask in a few countries and even with just backfill I was amazed at how much traffic they were still doing. Though I'm pretty sure most of it was toolbar traffic.
I'm not very familiar with the literature. I found a Guardian article[0] citing a number of studies that "debunked" wine tasting. But the studies didn't seem conclusive to me. I'm wary of both connoisseurs and academics, as both have psychological and monetary incentives to exaggerate how exact their knowledge is.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tas...
"All professions are conspiracies against the laity"
-- GBS
Well, according to the judges of a wine tasting competition in California, a $2 bottle of wine is the absolute best you can get. [1] I've seen countless reports of cheap wine outperforming or equalling expensive wines in blind taste tests, but I've yet to see a report of people preferring expensive wine without knowing the price beforehand.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Shaw_wine#Awards
It actually isn't. Sometimes data has too much purity. Noise can actually help.
Adsense might not pay a lot for most things but there are still a lot of high paying keywords you can target and certainly enough money to be made to draw out bad actors.
Not in the long run. If Google ad customers aren't seeing value for their ad spend, they'll take their dollars elsewhere.
Apps can register custom URL schemes to enable other apps to open them, pass them data and even deep-link to within them. There is an official API called canOpenUrl: which will let you check if a particular URL scheme is registered on a particular device. So that, along with a database of public URL schemes published by other apps, lets you detect which apps are installed.

I wasn't aware of this before but apparently you can also use sysctl() to check the names of running processes (which is less reliable as processes will get bumped off if the foreground app requires more memory).

More here: http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/2/16/how-to-detect-install...
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That's the case. Monsti is influenced by Kotti which is influenced by Plone which is based on Zope which uses @@ for "actions" (or whatever they call them). Monsti uses @@ to distinguish actions from regular URLs.
Is there some sort of guarantee that Google won't just start killing features (including this) if its not a hit? Lot's of people here have been burned.

Also: there's no mention of conflict resolution which will be a lot more prevalent with the long disconnects, what are the available options for handling it?
Your experience is not universal. :)

There are ways to make clicks worth more. Be from a US IP address. Stuff your browser with retargeting cookies by visiting high-value brand sites (e.g. car manufacturers, insurance websites, loan products, ecommerce stores).

I've worked on the network side of ad ops and seen fraud. Amateur, easily detected and squelched fraud. It amounted to several thousand dollars a day. If you were the right combination of talented and not-overly-greedy, you could make a comfortable living by doing this fraudulently.

> The primary beneficiary of the fraudulent clicks that are good enough to evade Google's detection is....Google.

The primary beneficiary is the person getting the lion's share of the ad dollar, which often isn't Google. Don't get me wrong, Google has some perverse incentives here, too, but I suspect they'd be way more happy with a 0% fraud world than with the status quo.
I don't work for Microsoft, and it's sad that you assume anyone with a different opinion from yourself is a fanboy.
You may want prototype based inheritance like in Javascript/ES6:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming
I agree. Once you develop a taste for wine the difference between a cheap bottle and $10-$15 bottle is noticeable. Perhaps I drink too much wine.
Printing money lessens the value of the dollar and makes lower class dollars worth less. Mostly because they are paying interest and many don't or can't invest in the market which sees offsetting gains when the value of currency goes down.

Short answer: when you print money, borrowers and non investors lose money, while lenders and investors gain more. It creates more imbalance.

Printing money does not get to consumers to spend, the 90% we are talking about, not the upper class which already knows how to make money when more money is being printed.

Our economy is heavily consumer focused, there aren't enough wealthy people to spend needed amounts to account for the whole populace/economy. Wealth by nature is hoarding/saving and only investing for returns.

If you look at it like a distributed system, giving money to lower class to improve the economy is to bittorrent/distributed decentralization where giving money to banks and the wealthy only is more like a centralized single point of failure that leaves many out.

When you do a stimulus for the lower 90% you will have guaranteed spend and increased buying from all areas of the economy, when you do a stimulus for banks and wealthy you only fund endpoints (wealth centers/investment/loans) throughout that have too much demand on each endpoint. The lower will spend at any time, even in down turns, the wealthy only spend in booms or extreme busts due to the nature of investing. If we looked at stimulus more like a distributed system, we might be better off.

Side note: The Iraq war cost for instance 1.7 trillion and will go up to 6 trillion:

The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said [1]

There is 1.2 trillion in student debt. What was a better purchase? Iraq war or paying off student loans here that will turn into a huge lower end stimulus? It isn't just an offset either, the country has 1.2 trillion in student loan debt and upwards of 6 trillion in Iraq only war debt. So really we have 7-8 trillion in debt out there between just those two things, because we aren't making good choices.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-annive...
Again, I don't think reflective coatings are a lone solution, but I do think that they enhance other tactics, and as such, are a key aspect of defense in depth. However, those contributions are key to those other systems working at all.

For example, the typical bullet rotates at ~200,000RPM. This is about 3,000 revolutions a second, or about 300 microseconds a revolution. Figuring a larger projectile could only rotate about a tenth of the rate, we get about 3 milliseconds per rotation on a shell.

At 3 seconds per revolution, I suspect that we're inside of the timing windows that talking about the efficiency of energy absorption and dissipation in the coating that the laser is striking is relevant, and we can begin to talk about the laser energy being dissipated over more than a single fixed point.

However, I suspect that such tactics (as high velocity spinning) can only mitigate the effects of the lasers and not stop them in isolation. It needs to be tied together with a coherent plan to dissipate the energy that areas do absorb and scatter the beam's focus using ablated coating.

In terms of energy absorption rates, energy dissipation rates, and ablative properties, picking the right coating for your mortars trying to pierce laser defenses is essential.

tl;dr: It's a synergy thing, since the low-absorption coating reduces the demands on screwing up their targeting, and screwing up their targeting reduces the demand on a protective coating.
From a statistical analysis of wine competitions, found at http://www.letastevin.org/Hodgson%202009%20Analysis%20of%20c... :

"An examination of the results of 13 U.S. wine competitions shows that (1) there is almost no consensus among the 13 wine competitions regarding wine quality, (2) for wines receiving a Gold medal in one or more competitions, it is very likely that the same wine received no award at another, (3) the likelihood of receiving a Gold medal can be statistically explained by chance alone."

I'm not a 'wine person', so don't find this issue interesting. Different people, even 'expert judges', have different subjective experiences for a variety of reasons. Even if 'greater enjoyment' is simply a product of cognitive bias, the reasons are largely irrelevant. The relevant part is that they do enjoy it more, even if others might consider the reason 'irrational'.

I think this issue only becomes interesting (and objective facts important) if there's some ethical line being crossed (like wilful misleading conduct by the producer e.g. monster cables).
Google search, GMail, Youtube are not platforms. They don't rely on an ecosystem of external developers. Android is, but it is generally considered less developer friendly than iOS.
> medical costs should be socialized

I couldn't agree more. Most importantly, our career choices shouldn't be coupled to our health needs. It's ridiculous, and it's even more amazing that the US health care industry has somehow convinced conservatives that this is a good situation. As we can see from the OP, the coupling of job to health care in the US literally stifles innovation and job mobility.
I'm as committed a rationalist as they come, and am the first to call bullshit when it comes to professional bullshit artists wanking over the "personality" of an $80 bottle of wine. Most of my time spent at tasting rooms consists of mentally rolling my eyes at the conversations I'm overhearing. So, as a self-identified wine skeptic who just really happens to like wine, I've gotta admit: there is a huge difference between a good $15-$18 bottle of wine and a good $5-$7 bottle of wine. To me. My spouse and I have even played "guess the bottle" in this price range, and believe me it's not as hard as you'd think. My tastes have, annoyingly, elevated over the years--annoying because $18 nightly bottles are out my budget. It's as though I crossed some sort of wine rubicon. I would agree with the point you are making at a higher price range, but mere mortals really can appreciate spending an extra $10 on a cheap bottle of wine, I claim. I'll say one thing though--the author is spot on about how much cheaper good wine is in Europe. Trying to buy wine at a Carrefour in Valencia last summer, we searched high and low for anything in our "splurge range" (~15 euros) before realizing that maybe the fact that 90% of the shelf was priced at a third that was trying to tell us something.
Totally agree with you, didn't know you were also a wine fan. In Italy I would drink "Andrea Occhipinti" and other natural radical stuff all day long... here in the states their bottles are around 25 USD, but in Italy they are way cheaper, and the work of artists.

French wine can be found among the same lines, just have to check less 'popcorn' regions, like Jura, Beaujolais, Loire and Languedoc.

In short, the price of a wine, is not correlated to it's quality most of the time. Like the cover of a book is not correlated with what's written in it. The most exciting wines being made today, the most radical guys, in search of true terroir, are making wines that are not that expensive.

PS: Gallo's wines are shit, avoid those chemical bombs.
>You are mistaken, Israel is not an occupying power within Gaza.

well, technically you're right. Since the withdrawal, Israel is the occupying power _around_ Gaza as it controls all access to the Gaza - by land, sea and air.

While i'm completely pro-Israel, in the sense that i fully support right of Jewish people for their state (where it is now, whatever way it happened, it has already happened), i can't understand while the same standard - the right for their own state - isn't applied to Palestinians, nor by Israel (themselves being huge beneficiary of such a right) nor by the rest of the world. Palestinians' hate toward Israel can't be a valid reason to deny their own state to Palestinians as for example nobody denies the right of statehood to Iran who officially hates Israel, nor such right was denied to Egypt back when Egypt waged a war against Israel.
Sure, if you are looking for a beverage, then buy cheap wine, have a soda, or drink some water. All are tasty and thirst quenching!

If you are fascinated by wine as art, though, you are going to be looking for something /interesting/-- unique and handcrafted. And those qualities always cost money, because you are paying for somebody's effort and talent. If you love good cooking, for example, you don't eat instant ramen every night. You go out to have fun and see what the most inventive chefs are doing.

Bare Bottle is a startup trying to bring this creative aspect to the fore, by pairing great winemakers and designers (http://barebottle.com). Both artists involved are "great" because they are creative originals who make something unique, not merely because they produce something acceptable to wash down your ramen.

Disclosure: I am a co-founder of Bare Bottle.
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Weapons were never on silk road, iirc.
Would harmonic product spectrum would work here? In my experience, it works very well for detecting the note frequency of guitar, piano etc.
Encounter at Farpoint.
> means that a person has developed an arbitrary
> preference drive by the wine industry ... I don't buy
> this at all

You should talk to a wine expert then, who'll happily tell you that different grapes come in to and out of fashion, and hence are priced differently. Riesling as a great example of a great grape that's "underpriced" because it's not so fashionable.
I had a great and likely subsidized Lafite wine in Vegas. The bouquet went into my nose like a tasty explosion filling my entire head. This is even when I had issue with sinusitis. It changed my view of wines forever with one glass. If I find a cheap wine like this...
If you were my sibling, I would probably entertain a discussion similar to the following:
0) I am sorry
1) if you think about cancer like most people, then you are looking death in the face ... Do so. Let it focus you on what is truly important.
http://paulgraham.com/todo.html
2) define the problem to the greatest degree of specificity possible - this likely means biopsy and pathological analysis and discussion of further workup at an academic medical center or somewhere that genomic sequencing would be possible, if indicated
3) as stated elsewhere - start indicated treatment as soon as you have an answer for #2
4) if cancer is the answer, then two things (depending on the type) the outcomes may be better than you think, however, find a second oncologist - the running joke is that oncologists keep giving chemo after their patients are dead - find another experienced voice (not neccessarily an expert in YOUR cancer type) who seems comfortable with hospice as a possibility -- not all are -- a life well lived and fighting tooth and nail to the bitter end are not neccessarily the same thing.
5) get all of the insurance you can asap - don't worthy about the premiums
Doesn't all red wine taste the same if you combine it with cola? :-)
And the banks already get a handout with the mortgage tax deduction.

We should have said, listen you fucks, collectively, across the board, you are writing off a massive amount of debt owed. They get money at 0 to negative rates and screw over the public at the same time.
Well, there's this:
http://www.jollausers.com/2015/05/sailfish-os-to-become-russ...

My personal bias tells me that can't be without some compromises...
Reminds me of the Western Europe chip cards with Sun MicroJava runnung in it.