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Agreed. My motivation for making this was the complete lack of detail in my peers' commit messages. They had no problem writing a semi-descriptive commit title, but glossed over numerous (yet small) changes entirely.

Ironically, this project I would not use myself! Mostly because I am in the practice of the Git workflow.

My goal was to make something which was easy to use, and gets someone in the habit of thinking about/listing all changes in a commit.

I certainly hope I'm not encouraging the bad behavior I'm trying to prevent!
Foursquare has to dangle a carrot for people to actually install and then use their apps. What's in it for them? Two+ years ago, I would see Foursquare check-ins on my social media feeds daily. Lately, not so much. As the novelty of checking into places continues to wind down, their data will get more and more stale.

Why should a user click "Allow" when the app asks to "access your location even when you are not using the app?"
Those reasons are because of negotiating local deals, or to prevent access to the content immediately to push up prices artificially. We do actually know the reasons, and it doesn't make things any better.
I feel like there is a great opportunity right now for anyone to make a Github replacement. Sounds like a lot of these features are sorely needed at the moment. Why has Github been complacent?
This argument leads to the idea that all decoys are security gaps. Yet it's quite the opposite. No matter how many cameras you have, it's not a gap to have decoys. Because decoys are always cheaper than adding cameras, and security is always resource-constrained.
Once again, I was speaking of digital content. The "distribution cost" of a 600-4000MB file is effectively nil.
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But the data isn't broken down into schools. There is probably (although I don't know for sure), a difference in accept rate between a tier-1 vs bottom-tier medical school. They should control for that too. At least I didn't see that in the data.
No, that's not why I won't bother reading. I won't bother reading it because I've found AEI to be garbage before and I have a finite supply of energy and time to verify claims which I thus prioritize based on my perceived quality of the source.

To take it to an extreme, I don't bother verifying claims made by neonazis. AEI is obviously not that bad, but it's also not good enough for me to care.

What kind of amateur mistakes can AEI make? Well for one, I bet this analysis of the data falls victim to Simpson's paradox. Basic shit like that happens all the time in their analyses.
Issue spam (in the literal sense) definitely needs addressed as well: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYI31g1UQAUXQbs.png
Being a maintainer on a project with some minor community on GitHub is such a garbage experience.

It’s pretty neat as a general user, but at least you get the impression with BitBucket that they prioritize productivity and project management. And the task system hasn't received any significant updates since their inception - which is a shame, because tasks are an awesome invention, they just have to be implemented awfully with issues.

I also remember that we recently had to move the entire decision-making process to Slack instead where I suggested we just use the emoji voting system to make our decisions with.

What really gets to me is how adamantly GitHub has ignored all the people who've gone on about this forever. Last time they seemed to care marginally was when jacobian finally managed to twist their arm and get them to implement the Close Issue feature, because one repo issue was a radioactive pit of abuse and invective.
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Congratulations ! I've met one of your co-worker recently in my hometown and had a quick glimpse of the project itself. Looks really good, keep up the good work !
I am a full time Linux user for over ten years. I prefer it because I know where to look when things go wrong, but I am past the stage of too much tweaking. I can probably fix stuff if there is good reason to, but most of the time I can't be bothered these days. Quite happy with a system that works more or less out of the box (don't say that I should get a Mac or Windows as those have at least as many problems as Linux).
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Hey there!

Quang, CEO of Birdly here. We are on a mission to let you use your enterprise softwares (CRM, accounting, Customer support... ) from messaging apps.

Birdly is a bot that lets your team have a 360° view on your customers. Now, your whole team can access customer data right from where they spend most of their time : Slack.

Take a minute to connect your favorite enterprise software and apps (Salesforce, Stripe, Zendesk…) and ask the bot insightful questions about your customers.

We have plenty of plans to improve the product : more integrations, more actions, more messaging platforms (SMS, emails…) and we would be happy to have your feedback !

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Will do, thank you!
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Sounds like you weren't the only person in that room who is posting here today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10903725

:)
Whether the mind is equivalent to the brain is an open question. If someone built an artificial mind, that would massively raise my belief in the possibility that the mind is purely physical. But I hold that this is vastly more difficult than assumed.

My point with the Lord of the Rings was precisely that you give the books to a person who hasn't read them, and give them a few weeks to work through them. A Chinese Room would take vastly longer to "process" the book and it's "understanding" (represented symbolically) would take up vastly more room than the book itself. Even to understand simple word problems (to do with arranging blocks, for example), the algorithm used by the Room would have to explicitly encode our implicit knowledge of spatial relationships, and be able to apply this knowledge to arbitrary problems. To understand literature at a human level, the algorithm would have to encode standard knowledge of human psychology, society, physics, etc.

In principle this could all be performed with a giant lookup table -- but such a table would be the size of several solar systems' worth of matter. So I don't hold that a Chinese Room is impossible in principle, but I do hold that building a practical AI would require great advances in the understanding of our own consciousness.
Woah, this is great. Thanks!
Wait, I always thought Netflix was a payed service?
Actually cybernetics originates from kubernetes.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cybernetics
This is correct.

Most employees have a stock strike price that is say $2.00 when the company is valued at $20.00.

So if each Foursquare stock was worth $20 and is now worth $10, the strike price of $2 still allows employees to make $8 per share now.

If you are granted 100,000 shares and wait it out and build the company back up to $20 you will make $18 per share times 100,000 shares for a nice little $1.8M bonus for putting in the hard work.

Maybe because you stuck it out you not only increased the price to $50 per share, but you were also granted 100,00 more stock because you didn't care what TechCrunch said. $9.6M isn't bad for 4 years of hard work...
Better system: interest free student loans.

That way user pays, but user doesn't get gouged.

It works well enough here in New Zealand. Your student loan is interest free here, unless you go overseas for more than 6 months.
I agree that one intended effect of QE was to reinflate the housing market. One problem was homes being way overvalued. After prices somewhat balanced out, the problem was a lack of credit available for most people wanting to buy into the market.
So many changes have happened over the past few years to the U.S. and global economies that I seriously question the understanding behind modern inflation and deflation.
We have been fighting a deflationary spiral since 2008 and it seems like we have almost run out of ammo.
Because Github succeeded in being the Git repo host. I think you're on track with saying their complacency is an opportunity and I wouldn't doubt to see a Github killer born this year.
Can you recommend good seedbox providers?
Well I have an automated credentials and authentication infrastructure in place. The point is that if I have 50 hosts (and my infrastructure has considerably more) and 3 employees with 50 keys each, there will be 2 key changes a day on a 90 day rotation.

Are my guys going to spend 5 minutes every morning making and pushing keys?

What if my hosts auto provision themselves and there are 5 new hosts every morning?

Am I going to make keys as part of infrastructure deployments and push them back to the workstations and update other peoples ssh configs?

I'm just saying if you've worked at scale, you'll realize that a key per box won't scale. I mean, anything can scale if you put enough effort into it. But the chances of disaster in lack of access or security breach, from over complication is way to high here.

Automating bad processes just makes it easier for them to fuck you.
It's not quite the same (although they will throttle torrents frequently). Basically some firm gets hired by a media conglomerate to look at a torrent swarm for one of their shows or movies, and log the IP addresses that are sharing the data.

Then they look up the IPs, see that 123.456.78.90 was connected through a Comcast account. They send a big pile of requests to Comcast with all of the Comcast IPs and ask "hey, who had the IP 123.456.78.90 on January 14th, 2016 at 4:50pm?"

Not sure how often they actually bother suing actual users these days but either way, the ISP got the complaint and turns around and sends you a letter saying "hey, stop downloading tv shows and movies over torrents or we will have to cut off your service."

I'm sure the details of how this works change and are more complex but that's the essence. Even if you aren't sued, your ISP will cut you off if you keep torrenting stuff and generating complaints from rights holders.
They've pretty much been profitable since the start unlike other start-ups who may be more eager to please users/customers.
No, not them specifically
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drones plus non-lethal weapons?

why store anything at your house if it can store it in a warehouse and bring it to you when you need it?

if it had arms you would have very interesting tele-presence.
On an unrelated note, do you know why that page was removed from wikipedia?
That really sucks. I hate the whole attitude that you need to be a Ph.D. To do research.
Bitbucket kills GitHub issues with these two features:

- Multiple assignees for an issue
- An "Approve" button so that maintainers can stamp a PR with the seal of approval
Do you mean the preference for white upper middle-class kids, or the affirmative action-like preferences?
HN has no real name policy. Why not sign up for another account that you use to discuss riskier topics? As long as you're careful to not include identifying details in posts, you should be okay.

Missing out on substantive discourse simply because of fear would make me sad.
It's also annoying that Github sometimes is missing some basic features like attachments to bug reports and comments for instsance. All mature bug trackers have such feature.
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It's my understanding that if a 409A valuation is not in line with market valuations (which pretty much means projections based on funding rounds for startups), the IRS will treat the difference more like an ISO. I've seen this first-hand, but I'm no tax law expert.
Why not bitbucket?
I don't know the numbers, but I have anecdotal experience.

Most people seem to be not using 4sq. It varies a lot by location, and NYC seems like it would have the highest user penetration.

Out of the registered users, a subset of 4sq users (including myself) check-in very consistently (multiple times a day). For myself, it's useful in a quasi-lifelogging role.
3 more startups have been added to the list:
http://blog.500miles.io/2016/01/06/launch-your-tech-career-i...
> I feel like there is a great opportunity right now for anyone to make a Github replacement.

There is GitLab, which is good and is FOSS in addition.
No, but if someone from the project contacts us (hn@ycombinator.com) we'll invite them to do a Show HN. Failing that, I'll send a repost invite to the user who first posted the project here (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wallabag.org).
They aren't talking about blocking the torrent protocol.

A rights-holder watches a torrent swarm for one of their copyrighted works and records the IP of people who are sharing it.

They then contact your ISP (just asking nicely) telling them what they saw. The ISP will usually send you a warning or two before cutting off your service.

Alternatively the rights holder can get a judge to issue a subpoena obligating the ISP to give up your name.

So, since no one is watching Ubuntu swarms and reporting the uploaders, that's not really a concern.
Because those features are not ones from the people paying money to Github?

Most of these features are ones that only affect public projects. You're not customers of Github, you're the product. Or rather, the advertising.
It's fascinating to me that someone paid the Russian hacker to develop such a comprehensive and powerful solution to kill XT. That couldn't have been cheap. But it also wouldn't make sense for a large GPU/ASIC miner to block the move to XT, as it would have favored their hardware over those mining on regular CPUs.

So it must have been an ideologically-driven attack? But it defeats the main ideological purpose of the protocol - democratic consensus as nodes decide to accept or reject changes to the client. Weird and paradoxical.
Then we have some great opportunities requiring 15+ years of JQuery experience in your area. As you're able to dress yourself these are not remote roles. =)

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What announcement? I missed it.
Thanks, that was the part I was missing. In my country ISPs cannot tell _anyone_ which user has a specific ip at a specific time, they need a order from a judge based on a police request.
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Not sure about React, Ember, or Angular 2, but Angular 1 actually includes JQuery, albeit in a reduced version IIRC.
Singapore has been at that price for a while, with the technical skill and English ability to match Canadians.

If you want a further discount, a really good Malaysian or Filipino programmer goes for $16k market rate. Similar culture to USA. Pay $30k and they'll happily code for you at night shifts forever.
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That sounds like the kind of thing that no public agency has the budget for. Even at relatively low resolution, X kb/s * Y cameras * 60 * 60 * 24 adds up to a whole lot of data accumulating every day. Why store all of that data forever when it's vastly unlikely to ever be used after the first 30 days. Even 30 days is probably generous. How often are police not going to have any idea that a crime was committed in the general vicinity of a camera for an entire month, much less two or three or more?
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I have a copy of a book called the Death of Cancer. It is written by one of the best oncologists in history. I think his book would strongly suggest the contrary -- that ample funding, paired with organizational & regulatory improvements -- would put "curing cancer" within reach.

Human success in treating cancer so far has largely depended on government support, and the text does this story justice.

Want the copy? I'll mail it to you free of charge.
Do the undersigned send any money to github? It might be better to phrase your demand in the form of a question, "how much can we pay you to do this work for us?"
I would love to have f.lux on my un-jailbroken iPhone. Currently I use Twilight App on a Nexus by my nightstand during the night because of how harsh the iPhone screen is in the dark (even with brightness turned down all the way).
Surprised I didn't see my personal favourite mentioned - the unlimited free private repos!
Working with numbers as small as 2^-122,look closer at things you thought were 0
They seem pretty common on London buses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTHFSuPirXY
The same reason YouTube is so popular. Neither GitHub or YouTube are big because of their technology, it's their community that keeps people there.

It's a huge tax on attention and contributions if a project decides not to use GitHub. There are many GitHub replacements but none of them have the community of GitHub.
iOS 9.3 includes a f.lux copy. http://www.apple.com/ios/preview/
NB: Duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904693
By their very nature, git repos are one of the easiest things to migrate. Simply point at a new remote and push, and that's really it. It means that, unlike many other services, I could see GitHub being completely abandoned almost over night. If something better came along.
There are several low cost VPNs that generally don't keep records of who is assigned what IP at a given time. I'm sure that if some serious law enforcement shit went down (like if someone was a serious mass murder suspect) they'd be able to get your identity but for common copyright infringement, there's no easy way for a rights holder to tie a given IP in a torrent swarm to an individual.

In a nutshell, you pay $30-40/year for a VPN account and when you feel like doing something you don't want easily tracked (like joining a torrent swarm) you enable the VPN and route all traffic through their servers.
Bitbucket requires payment for larger numbers of collaborators. Github requires payment for private repositories. Open source requires unlimited collaborators, and no one wants to pay.
My car honestly. Or from the stairs of someone else's office building. Just feels gritty that way.
Good point, the constant (constant!) maintenance aspect means there would need to be a sustainable plan. On the other hand, if lots of projects started depending on the library, you'd at least get a steady supply of notifications about breakage, and perhaps fixes as well.
Is there an issue tracking system out there that works on top of the Github issue system?
>Gabe Newell: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

And yet trackers are filled with content available on Steam, iTunes, Amazon instant, etc.

The idea that piracy is only a service problem is just as big of a myth as the idea that it is purely a pricing issue. It's can be both or either depending on the person.
I'm maintaining a GitLab instance for my team at work and it's been really great for us. I am pretty disappointed that the CE version doesn't include GitLab Pages, though, as that was the one feature I missed most from GitHub and GitLab Enterprise is outside of our budget at this time.
Another problem with "dummy cameras" for PUBLIC institutions is that they are basically lying to the taxpayer about what level of security is being funded and provided.

What would you say about a municipality where half the circulating police-cars were secretly fakes "to deter crime", and which would not respond to any emergency?

P.S.: I think as time goes people will be less-accepting of fake-cameras, because they'll assume the operator has a social or legal obligation to provide footage in certain circumstances. For example, to see the license-plates of a hit-and-run in the company parking-lot, or the face of the guy who stole a purse at a restaurant.
I suspect they are focusing on developing their enterprise offering.

Anyway, I found that http://feathub.com/ addressed my frustration about the absence of a voting system.
Nice to finally see it in writing: "Throughout this investigation Docker has made it clear that they’re not very open to ideas that deviate from their current course or that delegate control"
While I don't maintain Ansible anymore, +9 billion on this. GitHub is hard at scale.

GitHub is fantastic because everyone is on it, but the issue system has not improved since inception - and I felt the UI changes have actually stepped back.

We had to implement our own bot to comment on tickets that did not appear to follow a template, and I would have given a kingdom for a template that let people filter their own tickets into whether they were bugs or feature requests or doc items.

We also had a repo of common replies we copy and pasted manually (this because there was so much traffic and me replying quickly would likely tick someone off - but this too could have been eliminated mostly with a good template system). Having this built-in (maybe I could have picked a web extension) would have also been helpful.

So many hours lost that could have been features or bugfixes - and by many, I mean totally weeks, if not cumulative months.

GitHub does the world a great service, and I love it, but this would help tons.

I always got a response when I filed a ticket - ALWAYS - but a lot of them were in the "we'll take that under consideration" type vein.

I feel opening GitHub RFEs up to votes is probably not the answer to serve the maintainer side of the equation, since users outnumber maintainers, but these needs to be done and would greatly improve OSS just based on expediting velocity.

If you don't use the GitHub tracker you lose out on a lot of useful tickets. However, if you use it, you are pretty much using the most unsophisticated tracker out there.

It's good because there's a low barrier to entry, but just having a template system - a very very very basic one, would do wonders.

A final idea is that GitHub really should have a mailing list or discussion system. Google Groups sucks for moderation, and I THINK you could probably make something awesome. Think about how Trac and the Wiki were integrated, for instance, and how you could automatically hyperlink between threads and tickets. The reason I say this is often GitHub creates a "throw code at project" methodology, which is bound to upset both contributor and maintainer - when often a "how should I do this" discussion first saves work. Yet joining a Google Group is a lot of commitment for people, and they probably don't want the email. Something to think about, perhaps.

Also think about StackOverflow. It's kind of a wasteland of questions, but if there was a users-helping-users type area, it would reduce tickets that were not really bugs, but really requests for help. These take time to triage, and "please instead ask over here and join this list" causes people pain.

I love all the work to keep up site reliability, maybe I'd appreciate more/better analytics, but I totally say this wearing a GitHub octocat shirt at the moment.
> In that framing, giving away natural resources below market rates is a definite subsidy.

So...what's the "market rate" for taxes on a new well in the UK's territorial waters in the North Sea? Given that the UK has a monopoly on allowing wells to be drilled in that area, isn't the market rate whatever the UK says it is, and thus there is always zero subsidy by definition?

Or should we compare to what other countries charge for other wells in other areas? Should we adjust for, eg, the difficulty of drilling in the North Sea compared to, eg, off the coast of Brazil and if so, how? Should we only compare to EU countries, or only to rich countries, or do we compare to everyone? And if, as is the case, the UK has relatively high taxes compared to others, in what way would it be accurate to call it a subsidy?
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