skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not completely different things, they are related. How can you claim to have a right without some means of keeping it?
Weather isn't "their" fault. With United for example, unless you are 1k status, they won't cover hotels due to flight cancellations or delays due to weather. They give you a scrap of paper with "discounts on hotels". Thankfully, I am 1K, but I've seen many an irate customer in Chicago affected by this.
iOS 9.3 has a feature called "Night Shift": "Night Shift uses your iOS device’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location. Then it automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum, making it easier on your eyes. In the morning, it returns the display to its regular settings."

http://www.apple.com/ios/preview/
It isn't.

Circumventing the content creators wishes just because you can do so without getting arrested, because you are too cheap, or some other nonsense excuse is entitled.
Thank you for posting that. I think it's definitely important to recognize that if you like art, and want it to continue to exist, then it should be worth paying for.

Even acknowledging that musicians are exempt from a lot of what I consider good arguments in that piracy is effectively a marketing cost (because piracy does help them attract new fans, who might go to shows they can't pirate, etc., etc.), it just never seemed right to me to use other people's things in ways they did not want me to.
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http://www.apple.com/ios/preview , search the page for Night Shift.

Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882261
The ignorant EU cookie law
GitHub is a service, not a contracted vendor for work. There's a big difference.
Thanks, as I said to the other commenter 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.

And the police doesn't make those request so lightly... they would need to know you actually uploaded and shared a tons of movies/copyrighted material linking to them on some public accessible site to even think about asking a judge permission to investigate further.
A shame that GitHub aren't more responsive to the community that enables their success when they make such a big deal of their openness. It is also our own fault that we have allowed ourselves to become dependent on a single provider of a relatively simple service.

That said, I'm extremely grateful to the platform for enabling collaboration on open source and to the company for its work on Git, Resque etc.

GitHub's strategy is to open source everything except the business critical stuff, but it seems to me that their business is in enterprise support rather than in actual software. Perhaps they should just open source the whole platform and count on their service business being enough to carry the company?
Best github support thread ever : https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/9 (scroll down)
> 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.
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Google Timeline does this automatically now, without the need to checkin:

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline

> To determine popular times, Google uses data from users who have chosen to store their location information on Google servers. Popular times are based on average popularity over the last several weeks. Not all businesses will have a popular times graph; the graph will only appear for businesses whose hours are listed on Google and about which Google has sufficient popularity data.
Seriously. At least try!
Yup, I love GH, use it every day, but issue management is the pits.

It'd be really nice if I could custom sort the queue of issues so that I know what's next up in my queue of things to do; right now I've got 5 tags called NextUp:1 -> NextUp:5 on each repo; this takes way more manual updating than a simple drag/drop widget.

Like they mentioned, having a voting system would be super useful for knowing what matters -- I cringe every time I leave a +1, so I've gotten into the habit of at least adding a comment after it --- but the premise and the pain are the same.
Since they're both near the top we might as well treat the later post (which is the other one) as the duplicate.
A word of warning about NLP. Practitioners can be somewhat cultish. NLP is really about learning techniques to get people to do what you want then to do. Once they realise that you are doing that to them, they start to hate you for it.

Once you have practised it for some time, you start to forget that you are doing it. Before long people hate you and you don't even know why.

Imagine being able to hypnotise people using words to get them to do things that they might not really want to do. That's NLP. It's not sold like that though. It's sold as a way to empower yourself. Unfortunately, it is on other people's behalves.
I really wish we could get rid of the hipster / buzzword / fashionista aspect of our industry. Way too much churn as a result.
I would far rather spend time honing SQL skills to perfection rather than having to learn another NoSQL database. Unfortunately job descriptions prefer the latter.
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For one, if the data still exists, you can expect its entire history to eventually get datamined via facial recognition because "think of the children" or "we need to identify people's routines so we can spot outliers" or "the terrorists might have taken a train 12 years ago," and eventually used for god knows what else. Not a fan of that idea.

And two, can you actually trust the transit people to keep a pile of petabytes of footage secure forever? I certainly don't. So we should assume that the person datamining all of those records will actually be an adversary.

Third, who's going to pay for it? Video (or even stills) at a useful resolution take up space.
My experience with Github support is terrible, if not one of the worst, I once had an issue and contacted their support and it took them 1 month to respond to me (literally) I was really surprised by that.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904671.
Agreed. The digitization of communication (both public and private) has some fascinating self-censorship impacts.
> They're selling location trend data to anyone who will buy it.

Is this the same trend data Google is showing in location search engine results?

https://support.google.com/business/answer/6263531?hl=en

> Popular times

> Google Search shows users the most popular times for some of their favorite businesses and institutions. When users search for places like a restaurant, bar, or gym on Google, they’ll see when their destination typically draws the largest crowds.

> To determine popular times, Google uses data from users who have chosen to store their location information on Google servers. Popular times are based on average popularity over the last several weeks. Not all businesses will have a popular times graph; the graph will only appear for businesses whose hours are listed on Google and about which Google has sufficient popularity data.
Private trackers.
GitHub got to where it is today thanks to the network effect that the undersigned helped create. If open source were to do a mass migration to another provider, many of the contributors whom are paying for private repositories and other features would most likely follow.
The Bitcoin Core team does have a roadmap: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases-faq
Netflix cracks down on customers using VPNs, proxies, and unblockers
That's exactly my thought as well. Even if you look at some of those sites like: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ the main thing they highlight to me is how incredibly superior jQuery's API still is for many basic operations. It's kind of sad 10 years later the standard DOM API is so clumsy and there is no significant update in sight that I'm aware of.
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The guy in the article linked an article, whose author (Dan Luu) seems to think that $250k (total compensation) is pretty much a given for anyone with 5 years of experience working for a big company (i.e. Google or Facebook or Microsoft), and claims that anyone who thinks you can't make that much talk to the tens of thousands of engineers that do. Is it really that common?

When I was interviewing in San Francisco and Seattle at big companies (Zynga and Disney) a couple of years ago, they were wanting to pay me around $130k for a senior position, which didn't seem worth the move.

I also interviewed at Google and while I didn't get as far as salary negotiations, I was lead to believe by the recruiter, I think, that it would start around $110k-ish, although it also wasn't for a senior role.

I don't see how Dan Luu is thinking $200k+ salary is on the low end out there. If I could expect to get that I might actually consider moving to the west coast.
Github kills Bitbucket with this one feature: uptime
>It is possible to have a kickass, satisfying job which also pays really well.

And it's possible to leave a kickass, satisfying job that pays well and end up at a job that pays better but isn't as satisfying, or has unforeseen tradeoffs. My point isn't that it's an either/or proposition -- it's that there are other things to consider besides money, and the culture around here doesn't seem to value that. Leaving one job for the next one is a calculated risk. The more times you do it, the more chances you end up in a place that doesn't hit all the sweet spots.
So they copied what f.lux did and released it as a homegrown feature?
Failure. Doesn't say WTF f.lux is. Not even on their homepage.
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To be fair, GitHub has to make money.

None of the complaints are about the GitHub business model, which is IMO pretty fair.
I do not operate a popular OSS project, but I have experienced the +1 spam and it sucks. The suggestions, in my opinion seem rational.

Interesting side note: With the exception of Selenium, most of signees are maintainers of JS/HTML OSS projects. I wonder if we could objectively compare JS to <lang> projects in terms of the problems mentioned in the document. For example, there is a strong correlation between +1'ers and JS repos vs. Python or vice versa. Perhaps, we could walk away with JS devs are more chatty than CPP developers when discussing issues... I don't know, just a thought.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/analytics-mysql?utm_medium=em...

Ok, they are comparing MySQL to Excel, so in relative terms the data could be bigger...

:(
I would be so much angrier than this post is. Dude thinks they might want to team up after Apple fucked them in 2x in a row.
GitHub's success is based on its community. Simple fairness says the community should be respected and listened to, simple business says if the community doesn't get something back, it will get pissed and go somewhere else.
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Curious as to why this site shows a “Registered domain / Geregistreerd domein” page and no content when cookies are disabled. What is it about this page that cries out for persistent client-side storage?
As supplement to right to defend self, maybe, but to replace right to defend self: no.
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That's the story for a lot of ex-pirates.
For context (and correct me if I have this wrong), f.lux was using a non-standard way to allow people to install the app on their phones (allowing them to install it using Xcode) and Apple banned that method. A few months later, Apple announced an iOS feature that does exactly what f.lux does.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Foursquare, but am fond of some people who do.

Checking in is definitely pretty dead - but the personal value of Foursquare for me is that they track where I go without any input from me. You can view your "location history" in the app, and for me it's ~90% accurate, and this data can be used to improve recommendations.

Anecdotally Foursquare's food/drink recommendations for me are far superior to Yelp and way less painful. I can trust the rating (Yelp's star ratings are a special kind of messed up hell) and the user-submitted tips is pretty great for quickly getting info on what to order and what to avoid.

I can search Foursquare with a keyword and go to the top 3 results and have a 95%+ odds of really enjoying myself. I can't say the same for Yelp.
They can find all of our repositories here: https://github.com/18F

And our blog, which details many of our projects, is here: https://18f.gsa.gov/blog/

We occasionally hold hackathons but the best way to get involved is through our repos! They can also fork/adapt any of the projects they see there.
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The bullet points of complaints feel like a continuation of Linus Torvald's refusal of github pull requests in May 2012.[1]

Taken all together, it seems like github is on a path of alienating their most valuable members. Github was unresponsive to Linus' feature requests and it turns out that theme continues almost 3 years later.

If github plans to evolve into a full-featured ALM[2] like MS Team Foundation or JIRA instead of being relegated to being just a "dumb" disk backup node for repositories, they have to get these UI workflow issues fixed.

[1]https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_lifecycle_manageme...
Classy response. I was cringing before I even opened the link expecting whining but I am pleasantly surprised. I use f.lux on my Mac and find it has really improved my sleep. I hope Apple brings Night Shift to Mac as having the feature built-in will help more people. Personally I don't see them changing their policy towards f.lux on iOS until at least iOS 10 as the API's it requires to function are currently private. Maybe with the introduction of Night Shift they'll start to stabilise those and open it up.
Note that the example was changed as a result of my initial comment.
If Harvard is made free, than fuck everyone else who paid for it. Same with every other college university.
That an incredibly gracious post! wow.
My dad used to run a few similar passive income businesses. The thing you are asking is exactly the valuable information that isn't going to be publicly shared. At least in my dad's case, the execution of the business plan was trivial, the only difficult part was the marked research to know what product areas were valuable.
The same question about JS repos struck me. I suspect that if you write a shared letter then you just ask your network to sign it instead of <random other person from different ecosystem>, but I would be curious to know if these grievances are disproportionate in different communities.
By five years you should already have a system. I went from calling things "xStuff" to "xUtils".

A level up is where you can write names in such a way it detects bugs:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
I don't think a +1 button would help.

Google Code had stars in order to encourage people to +1 something without creating noise and then instead of +1 comments you got +1 comments AND people yelling at them for using it wrong.
There's lies, damned lies, and statistics. Without knowing the breakdown by school, the result can easily be the result of an effect like Simpson's paradox[1].

The AEI source even acknowledges that Simpson's paradox prevents one from drawing conclusions (also please note the rhetorical quotation marks):

> The AAMC doesn’t provide acceptance data by individual medical school, so we can’t conclude that any of the four medical schools at public universities in Michigan (University of Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State and Oakland University) are practicing illegal “affirmative discrimination” or “racial profiling” in admissions

But quickly pivots, pretending like this doesn't matter:

> "Based on national data, is there any conclusion other than the obvious one – that US medical schools are granting special preferences for admissions on the basis of race for certain preferred minority groups (blacks and Hispanics) over other non-preferred minority groups (Asians) and whites"

Yes. Simpson's paradox. The data is consistent with schools being discriminatory in favor of whites if white people tend to apply only to selective schools, for example. This is why I don't bother with the playschool polemical bullshit that comes out of AEI. They ignore basic facts about statistical inference in order to push their views.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

P.S. Looks like I got roped into reading their blog post anyway. I guess my plan to save my time and patience failed.
I mean that's what Ph.D's do in most fields, the whole point of getting a Ph.D is so that you can do research in that field. Learning how to write well researched white papers that can withstand peer review.

Prior to that, you can do some research as perhaps with a Master's or as a graduate student, but usually you're assisting on a Ph.D's project.

The process of getting a Ph.D in many fields is basically the process of learning how to research and report your research.

So the idea of limiting high level research tools to those who've proven to be capable of high level research isn't that ridiculous to me.

If you want to research for a living and report it, is it so ridiculous to ask that you train traditionally in researching and reporting?
How have you managed the community in the Slack room while keeping up with your own work?
Keith Rabois in 2013 to Dennis Crowley.

Maybe Hail Mary Bebo-style acquisition will bail you out.

https://twitter.com/rabois/status/312974304155422721

http://www.businessinsider.com/keith-rabois-bashes-square-on...
I have mixed feelings about these requests. Yes it would be nice to have these extra features in GitHub. Its issue handling has always been a bit light on the workflow side—but IMHO has made up for it with a pleasant way to organize conversation around issues. The simple and smooth UX is part of what makes GitHub so great.

For the opposite side of the spectrum, there's the Bitbucket+Jira combo. It is customizable to a PM's heart's content, and in the process can become a mess of a tool.
I once worked for a guy who wouldn't buy anything that didn't say Cisco on it, even when the networking guys made a solid case for something different. I often wondered if it was more than a "nice dinner" that he was getting.
Very close to it, yes (but also, this is something platforms often do).
Extremely targeted Facebook ads. It will cost you like $10.00 but you might have credit from some hosting plan or email promo anyway

Also sent a fake "Exteme Marketing" Pizza Hut promo email to a colleague a few years back. It looked mostly normal but had lines like "BEST FUCKING PIZZA EVER"
There's a video further down demonstrating it adjusting to different lighting conditions; you can see a slight lag.
Yes, actor. On a site about programming ( or derogatory slang: hacking). On first page, first item. It's not even science, let alone computer science.
A CGI article would be more on topic.
I think the issue was that that app was using private API's, users may not be fully aware of the implications of this, install via the Xcode method and then end up with issues when/if Apple messes with the API. So although it might look like Apple preventing holding down competition there are very valid reasons for the original response. (Not 100% sure that's what you were implying).
They aren't a charity, but they have positioned themselves in that direction by targeting (and capturing) so many open source projects.
I'd suggest a few approaches:

- solicit money from rich donors (as seems to be the case here)

- adopt policies to drive down the cost of quality education, instead of making it more expensive as has been the case for the past many years

- establish charitable scholarships, funded by donations, sponsorships, etc.

- establish non-profit mutual societies to lend money to students at cost price

There are many options that don't involve holding a gun to people to demand they pay for the education of others.
Well for some background, I'm an IT guy at a public library.

We often get requests, but no/little reasoning behind them. We also don't get to meet (officially) with other departments and discuss what they want/need from us, other than maybe a few minutes to chat here and there. There's also no interdepartmental "suggestions box" sort of idea. I'd love to share ideas with and from other staff members. Connecting that with point #2 above, we have a committee that controls all policy and procedures, it's not the departments themselves that get to make it. As an IT department we have no onboarding/offboarding policy+procedure or a well defined updated policy for our public computers.

I've been trying to push something like Slack to my manager but he's fairly apathetic to the idea. Even just more of an ability to suggest and get suggestions would be awesome.
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Thanks, good to hear.

As people can use GitLab Pages on GitLab.com for free, we felt the ability to host your own static pages was more interesting for larger teams, hence our decision to bring it to GitLab Enterprise Edition.
The HN crowd hates affirmative action and believe that tech is meritocratic. People don't want to believe discrimination exists.
This, I feel, is the most important bug, even though it precedes the list:

> We’ve gone through the only support channel that you have given us either to receive an empty response or even no response at all. We have no visibility into what has happened with our requests, or whether GitHub is working on them.

I'd like to call out that the GitHub user @isaacs maintains an unofficial repository[1] where the issues are "Issues for GitHub". It's not much more than a token of goodwill from a user to open a place like that to organize bugs (GitHub: you are lucky you have such a userbase!), but it's the best thing I know of for "has someone else thought of this?"[2]. Many of the issues that have been filed there are excellent ideas.

[1]: https://github.com/isaacs/github

[2]: though I'd say if you also think about it, you should also go through the official channel, even if just to spam them so they know people want that feature.
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The post with ~110 points was killed in favor of the ~50 point post at the time. In that case using time as the tie breaker might not be the best since people will have to upvote again.
Burkina Faso has only existed (under that name) for 31 years (although independent for 55 years).
Thanks for taking the time to respond; it's hard to get that perspective in the U.S. and on HN.

> As with any other news channel, AJ Arabic has a clear agenda.

> The way I see it is that there simply is no neutral news source.

While it's literally true (there is no perfectly neutral news source) I disagree. There are large differences of degree. Similarly we could say that neighborhood A as a burglary rate of 1% and neighborhood B has a rate of 0.01%, therefore all neighborhoods are dangerous. While literally true, the statement obscures the facts.

In the U.S., Fox News is much more biased than the NY Times (or AJAM), but of course the latter sources do have some bias.
The hosted version at Gitlab.com is running EE, so it'll be just like Github.com is.
No, because the former lessens the possibility of being able to sell the content at a later time.
I like your theory a lot. What are your thoughts on why gold isn't playing this role?

Gold is actually down.