skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really, this only becomes a problem when services like GitHub link the name up, making it look more legitimate than it is. If they enforced authentication as that user before providing the linking it would be better (perhaps allowing approval of the linking if posted by a different user). Currently it's trivial to make it look like any GitHub user is an actual committer to some sort of egregious or controversial project and users unaware of how GitHub maps this may easily be confused.

EDIT: This gets even more disturbing when you realize that GitHub is a site many people list on their resumes and if this association applies from their user page too this could get very bad.
Do you mean where I said, "which is not in question form..." I should've said, "that is not in question form..." My inner ear is not ringing any alarm bells there. Care to explain?

I like your example. Never mind about style. I can riff on that: "There's the table we put the apple on.", "Here's the bag I keep my laptop in." And so on. Nice!
I'm not sure I follow? All of your work is intact and committed as you, it's just done as a single (squashed) commit instead of N commits. The only difficulty that potentially arises (that we've encountered so far) is a lack of granularity for commit messages, which is why we try to keep PRs very small and focused.
.. what was their exact duties? posting on social media..
No, it gives the remote server use of your private keys during the lifetime of your connection through connection to your local agent.

Yes, it's really stupid to enable AgentForwarding.
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> That of course, will mean less money for NYCHA, which means fewer repairs, but I guess he doesn't care.

That is some highly faulty logic right there. The more money developers pay the more the city gets, but the idea that it'll just magically make its way into fixing apartments for poor people instead of being diverted and shunted off to other city priorities and friends of the political structure is delusional.

Presumably the residents of the public housing properties in question figure what will happen is they will start with buildings with parking lots, and end up with buildings with no parking lots and wealthy developers in the same space who now stand to profit even more from pushing their lower income family out, and the money for repairs having mysteriously evaporated into some sort of budget crisis.

Which, of course, is exactly what would likely happen in real life.
Oh, this is from 2013. I was getting excited to read about a new discovery.
No, but seriously, cities at this point require a large base of low-wage service labor to function. Ever-rising land and housing costs keep accelerating beyond their marginal wages and compensation.

We already went through this a century ago during the last Industrial Revolution. Jacob Riis photographed all the many people living in the tenements. Society decided this was a terrible thing and that we wanted to at least provide a basic standard of living in America's richest cities. Hence public housing came into being.

Unfortunately it was never properly funded. It used cut-rate materials to do a literal poor man's version of Modernist architecture. Exclusionary zoning meant it could never really be co-located with middle-class or even wealthier areas, so the children of these families never got access to the same quality of public services or schools. When the demographic composition of public housing shifted from poor white families to poor black families, public support for it was just decimated.
In other words, a lot of people haven't the slightest clue how Git works. Luckily Github record push history separately
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I spent 7 months of my life dedicated to solving this problem and let me say, it is not easy because I failed. But I learned something really important, we are all doing it wrong.

An index/offset based approach isn't the best solution, even with OT. Instead, we should have been looking at this problem as a linked list, where every character has a unique ID that can be pointed to. Doing operations this way is safe and becomes idempotent.

I'm busy building a database to back this type of data, but will be implementing a solution using this approach soon. Great work to everybody else hitting this problem, keep it up!
I couldn't agree more! There is a ton of things that you can do with the run time that just doesn't seem possible in swift.
Because I don't want to deal with scaling and I don't want to pay for the server for being up from midnight to 5 when no one is accessing the server, pay for what my users use.
Even better, his name is Harley (Brown)!
> Good managers/management are under appreciated by most engineers. It is hard to measure quality in management and it is one of those jobs that when you're doing it best it appears like you're not doing much...

Oh, the irony!

Can we just agree that any job that require expert judgment of context-rich situations to take decisions - versus the raw application of fixed rules - is simply not suited to Taylorist evaluations???
Another good article on git-signing: http://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story
It's a github 'social' issue , not really a git issue. It might also be a legal issue (identity theft). And i'm a bit surprised github let people impersonate others through their 'social' features.
There are already commercial operations using (or claiming to use) fMRI for lie detection [0]. I can understand the potential appeal of similar positions for applicants — there's a scarcity of academic jobs for even highly skilled cognitive neuroscience PhDs.

As I've posted elsewhere in these comments, the best available evidence suggests that fMRI is no more useful than polygraph for lie detection. Unfortunately, the power of brain images to induce credulity in otherwise intelligent people is well-known [e.g., 1].

[0] http://noliemri.com/

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-007-9003-3
Wordle is one such website.

http://www.wordle.net
Yeah this is known, and you can get yourself an awesome list of contributors if you want: https://github.com/zixan/uberfareestimator/graphs/contributo...

I think github should allow me as a user to confirm contributions made out of the system, at least the first time per repo.
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A post by by Terence Tao. What's new in 2015: "Gaps between primes". https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/gaps-between-prime...
I wouldn't go that far. You need both physical possibility and a good reason for doing something. Government dumping fake snow on Georgia is certainly possible, but much too expensive for no real reason whatsoever. Tapping all communications worldwide? Doable and there are parties with enough resources that would benefit greatly, so it's being done.
> If we think it's important to have such disparate classes living close together even in high cost of living areas, then great - maybe this is the best way to make that happen.

Yes. I think it's important to have disparate classes living together in a dense urban environment, rather than a homogeneity of wealth.

In fact, I believe that attention to this priority is one of the main reasons that NYC is the greatest city in the history of world civilization, versus the bland expanse of stripmalls, chain retail, and cultural drought that defines the American living experience in many other areas.
we even do not know if he REALLY did not commit this ;)
"He knowingly helped two undercover agents lie who disclosed crimes to him."

What crimes?
Similarly, nothing stops you altering the time claimed in the commit. Or -- for that matter -- from taking someone's diff and claiming credit for it.

For that reason, I jokingly created `git-upstage`, which streamlines the process of abusing commit edits and plagiarizing code! It squashes a branch, backdates it 5 minutes, and claims you wrote it.

https://github.com/SilasX/git-upstage

Edit: Looks like my last commit left the important stuff commented out and can't fix it at the moment. Ah well, you're going to use the tool to rip it off anyway ;-)
> The plan was bitterly opposed by residents who apparently value massively subsidized parking over non-falling-down buildings and/or believe that the money is going to magically appear in some other way.

This isn't a very charitable evaluation. After all, these blocks have parking lots because the residents (or a certain number of them) need some place to park! Yes, NYC has a vast public transportation network, and many people don't need to drive, but this transportation network is often weakest in areas of high poverty, and the poor are also especially likely to work in highly inconvenient locations. Presumably these residents hope that if they put up some resistance to having their parking spaces sold to developers, then maybe their elected officials will find a better way of coming up with the money. It's not as though selling parking lots is the only way policymakers have ever devised for raising money, so I'm not sure why you would describe this as "magic."

Look at it another way: these are the people who live in the buildings. If they would rather keep the parking lots than pay for building repairs, shouldn't their preference -- particularly given their privileged access to useful information like how bad the living conditions are and how badly they need the parking -- be entitled to some weight?

All this is not to say that the sale/lease of parking space isn't a good idea--I'm undecided, myself. I'm just puzzled by your tone, which would seem to take for granted, with little evidence, that this is the only possible money-raising plan, and that anyone who doesn't use it to raise the maximum possible amount is an idiot, without taking seriously the proposal's significant effects on residents.
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A friend of mine told me that he lost contact (ghosting) after a couple of interviews.
> EDIT: Check out this search: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ForwardAgent&type....

Holy mother of god, can we somehow return to the time when almost nobody used *nix and Microsoft was the one struggling to keep systems of these people secure?
It may be my (somewhat archaic) sense of crypto humor, but any time I read the term "Dual EC", my mind says "CE lauD", making it sound like someone saying the word "cloud" with an accent expressing a lot of disdain[1].

Anyway, the Dual EC backdoor, if real, along with the extra randomness, may yet prove to be part of "the gubment's" very own cloudbusting operation, to make cloud services rain users' secrets at the push of a button...

[1]: cf. "my butt"
How is it not an Apple spin on, say, Scala? Seems similar.
That's the problem with all these guys obsessed with clean commit history.
So a little poetic license, within the realm of reasonableness. :)
Just because something is a "soft skill" doesn't mean it's easy.

I suspect anybody that thinks effective management is easy would not do very well in that role. I've seen plenty of competent developers get chewed up and spit out as managers because they didn't understand what they needed to do to run successful teams.
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Also you may send email from any address you want if you put it in the “MAIL FROM” SMTP transaction.

Thankfully the Linux kernel project accepts only signed commits.
Yeah... I'm pretty certain the only code in iOS 9 that is written in Swift is the Calculator app, which was also the first app I remember Apple shipping that actually used their public version of UIKit; until iOS 4, when Apple dogfooding their library finally made UIKit "good", Apple was still using the as-yet-much-better private UIKit they had written for iOS 1 that shared very little... it even had its own UIScrollView called UIScroller and its own UITableView called UITable. While I'm sure the language keeps getting better as people provide feedback, the product isn't going to move past that "omg this is amazing" threshold until Apple dogfoods it, and until then Apple is just using everyone as guinea pigs ;P.

FWIW, I think Apple can't ship any base libraries that uses Swift until they finish ABI-compatibility, as they need to be working off the same base Swift runtime as the apps that would run against those libraries. Given that for the last year people have been shipping apps that link against an old-and-incompatible Swift runtime that Xcode bundles into your app, and given how the runtime is "intrusive" (putting stuff into the global Objective-C namespace, for example), it isn't even clear yet (so this may require more time on their end to build out more infrastructure) how they will be able to pull that off without saying "all Swift apps developed before now need to be reshipped or they will stop working on iOS 10".
Except for Hoffman’s last proposal, the extensions are cordoned off to the US Government. The sponsors of the standards and their authors make very little effort to provide a use case for normal Internet users.

If this were an X-Files episode, then the group who really runs the world would be forcing the USG to subvert it's own crypto.
I really liked the concept of your project and it's in my bookmarks already. I can share, can you add me in twitter it's ramonck, I'll write down a paper in Medium sharing the details, I already wrote down the concept of a mobile product I did with Gulp and Lambda I'm about to share in Medium as well, I'll also be glad to share the indepth details of the technology, but I think it will be more productive for you and for others to have it in a single spot. Add me there I'll share in the next week or so.

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I have nothing against femininity. There are some tomboys who essentially tie their very identity to "hates girly things" and they are still girls and should still feel included in a place like this. Django Girls place too much emphasis on the femininity of everything, as if someone is questioning if they are girly enough because they're "nerds doing tech things". It's bizarre to me and I'd feel uncomfortable. I've also had some time to speak to a few coworkers and, with no surprise to me, the more tomboyish ones would feel weird or unwelcome because femininity is too much of a focus.

A tech conference should not be the time or place to play on gender norms. If you are not interested in technology for technologies' sake then you shouldn't be there! Go do something you're interested in. If an all-tech place is too boring for you to attend that speaks more about you than tech.

I'd also like to clarify it's perfectly fine to love glitter, art, sparkles, and Python. If your goal isn't to be inclusive, it's fine to host an event loving all 4 at once! But if you want to be inclusive, you should focus more on the Python and less on the glitter, art, and sparkles.
Can you expand as that? Did they break out via the service runtime, or through an implementation defect in the validator?

I recall that Chris Rohlf presented an implementation defect in one of the two at a Black Hat conference some years back, but the sandboxing is otherwise solid.
I say "your code belongs to them" in the sense that they are the new LinkedIn-for-developers. The code you put there is your new resume (I kind of disagree with that, but this is a narrative that is very much around). If they ban you you lose access to a big share of the market.

Have fun with your fallacies. (especially the "slippery slope" one has be debunked many times http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/slippery.pdf) If you don't understand the concept of precedence what do you want me to say? We'll reconvene after their next PR move if you want. I was highlighting the fact that as a private company they can do as they please, yesterday they targeted the 'retard' repo, tomorrow who knows.

"Can you explain how they are posturing?" Really? You are telling me that they're all marketing isn't to represent themselves as the platform for OS? There's nothing wrong with this strategy, but that's what they do.

Funny that you completely ignored my main point: their platform is not open source, it's not hard to see how OS fans may take offense in that.
Just to be totally sure that nothing is retained, one can use Tor-ramdisk from CD on a diskless box.[0]

[0] http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk
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I guess my sense is that in some fields – software development specifically – the management track is generally starved. Sure people enter management, but they do so reluctantly (which itself causes many problems), or for the wrong reasons, and that's in part because there's not enough people interested in entering that track.
it(swift) feels that way to me too.. my first impressions were 'scala'.
So, commute all prison sentences to STEM scholarships, and problem solved?
Daytona(http://www.research.att.com/projects/Daytona/index.html ), mainly developed by Rick Greer in 1990's, does the same thing. They have implemented superset of SQL; and this SQL is compiled into machine code. Daytona in those days used to parse call records for AT&T. They were processing Terabytes of data when the average laptop had a 20GB hard drive. Rick wrote a paper titled "Daytona
And The Fourth-Generation Language Cymbal".

You should contact Rick, if you guys need to pick his mind. He is very down to earth man. And he is retired, lives in Morristown, NJ area.
I added IdentitiesOnly to my config recently. Partially for security. But also because an non-Github git service would bail whenever too many incorrect identity files were attempted. I've also had SSH servers bail when trying too many keys/identities.
Who do you expect to work construction building housing only for the rich? To work at bars and restaurants? Basically anything other than jobs that can be done sitting in your underwear at home?

Even if you aren't a bleeding heart, even if you accept greed as positive virtue, you can't expect to live completely separate from the poor, esp the working poor who actually do jobs in the actual city, and many of whom probably start work earlier than you wake up. Do you really want your trash collector to commute in?
It's surprising that both of us found game patents for old games we like at nearly the same time. I found this one for Tokyo Xtreme Racer (1999, Dreamcast) just a few days ago.

https://www.google.com/patents/US6422939?dq=inassignee:%22Ge...
Or just plain stupid.
Here in the UK, once you're in social housing (which we call council housing) you're in for life - which leads to situations like the late Bob Crow earning £150k/year (probably $250k/year equiv) and yet getting his rent paid by taxes levied on people earning a fraction as much. This, he was fond of saying, was in accordance with his socialist principles.

I'd like to see a system where a council house is on a fixed term, say 5 years or 10 years, then it goes to the next person on the waiting list, and you can rejoin the queue at the back if you so desire. That's more than enough time for anyone to make a smooth transition to the rental or homeowner sector.
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This is jawsome. I feel like you're cheating on the "no server" bit with some AWS semantics but you're not the first so, whatever, nice job.
Certainly everyone has the responsibility to make sure that they like the deal they entered into and ask for more compensation when appropriate.

I think that good management realizes that things will end badly for them if they don't compensate employees well, but I for one though have never seen a corporate dashboard that tracked how fairly the developers are being paid. Management often seems genuinely surprised that they can't just replace the talented technical person who left and that they can't hire top talent for median wages.
This is an extremely shallow work on education. All they know about Chinese-style education is "note-taking and repetition", "copy notes". Really? Do you really believe this is how Chinese students can be best at PISA assessment? Was PISA assessment designed based on Chinese students' notes?

Chinese/Asian students do work harder than western students, on average. But hard-working is not rote learning, nor does this mean rote learning is everything about "Chinese-style education". Equalizing Asian education to rote learning is a misconception has been denied by tons of studies. See examples:

- http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1004036826490

- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X84...

Just search "rote learning asian" in google scholar, you will see.

The "experiment" / report superficially based on this stereotype won't produce much meaningful results.
There is a huge UX problem with validating the legitimacy of anything online. I have to know that credentials are available, and I have to know that it's possible to validate them. How do I even know if a particular set of credentials are legit? I'd have to know where to find validation for them. That's a whole other ball of wax in itself.

And we default to not requiring such authentication because the means we have are either completely useless (i.e. passwords) or so onerous (I always have to Google when I setup cryptographic credentials on anything, and we expect lay users to do this?) that they ruin adoption rates for software and services.

State-of-the-art secure credentialing should be as easy as passwords. Easier, even. Yet they're currently as "easy" as configuring Apache.
If you think you can replace managers with Trello, you clearly have had some very awful bosses in your career.

I don't need anyone to tell me to keep working on my TODO list. On the other hand, someone who grasp the big picture is useful to have around to tell me in what order to tackle the task in the TODO list. Its even better when said someone has the clout to go poke a 3rd party that is blocking me so I can keep working on the TODO list.

But the very best managers I have had are the ones that are willing to bite the bullet and say "No, X cannot go into the TODO list as it is now. Let's work together to define what realistic actionable items need to happen for X to be accomplished and then we can put those in the TODO list."
What's wrong with having a clean commit history?

I think it's something people take too lightly.
Can you explain more about what you mean by "dominate tech culture", and "...experiencing a growing societal backlash". What are you looking at to determine the culture? How are you measuring the growth of any backlash? What backlash are you referring to? Is there a reliable method for detecting when one is in an echo chamber?
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