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Disagreement over an important technical decision gets politicized and spirals out of control. An anonymous DDoS and death threats against developers fan the flames, and key figures bow out.

Who did that?

There is a significant contingent of people promoting Bitcoin as a force that will eventually undermine the power of governments. This can hardly have escaped their notice. Perhaps one of them saw a conflict brewing, and decided to opportunistically fan the flames?
I like GitHub issues as they are. I wouldn't like to force people to adhere to a particular format when reporting problems.

I find it strange that some project maintainers get annoyed when people use the issues section to post questions. What's wrong with that?
A question can reveal design failures about your software... Maybe if your software was better designed, people wouldn't be asking the question to begin with.

I do think there should be a +1/like button though.
A New Code License: The MIT, This Time with Attribution Required
Congratulations are in order, whether or not the credential helped you get the gig :-)

Based on your comment it almost sounds like your "portfolio" is what got you the job, not the certificate itself. But I guess where the coursework comes in is giving you a project that's a) feasible at one's current level of skill b) able to be completed in a reasonable timeframe c) demonstrates real development chops. Kind of a sweet spot that you might not get to without some external nudging.

Personally I'm in a marketing role with some development aspects, but I'm trying to move into a more technical role in future and while I "feel" qualified to be a Python data hacker, I have nothing other than personal projects to show my skills. Might take a look at this.
Yes. They had to, because it couldn't go through the App Store due to the use of Private APIs.
you can side load it if you still have the code/binary. that's what I've done.

how it updates the screen with notifications is a little hacky though so I'm glad they are bringing a native implementation.

hopefully this comes to OS X as well.
Honest question. Have you read the article?

> But they have tied the notion to another equally provocative question: Does Harvard shortchange Asian-American applicants in admissions?
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True, I guess with Atlassian it's different as their actual flagship product is Jira (and I assume the people who buy the paid-for BB packages are loyal to BB due to things like the free repos so it evens itself out).
already posted within the hour with original title:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904397
While I applaud the initiative, it's also a pretty strong indictment of the JavaScript / node.js community that there is not even a single non-male OSS maintainer on this list of important JS projects.

What is being done in the JS community by those who lead it to make progress on this and who is leading that charge? If the answer is "Nobody", why is that true?
AMEN, totally correct.

The failure to designate controls as controls instead of static text has driven computer interaction backward decades. So now we're supposed to roll over, click on, or tap every text character on the screen to see if it's a hidden goodie?

The G in GUI stands for GRAPHICAL. If there's no graphic, there's no control indication. Period.

Apple doesn't even remember that you're supposed to GREY THINGS OUT when they're not applicable; you're not supposed to make them disappear entirely. When they're just missing, the user has no idea the function even exists, and does not learn where to find it for future use.

Next article should tell site designers to STOP DISABLING ZOOMING.
Netflix has really good compression though. Torrenting takes hours, makes the internet unusable in the whole house, and the quality is much worse. Netflix just works, even if multiple people are using it. And it goes straight to the TV.
Newspaper[0] forked Goose and added a number of improvements. Haven't used it in anger however so can't comment on its quality.

https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper
Nope, Apple has actually taken a pretty strong stance against such practices, but being in the ad business meant there has been pressure on Apple to do just that (after all, more personalised ads perform better, and Apple has all the means to provide advertisers the data they need to offer them). Now that they have left the advertising business, that pressure is hopefully also gone.
The reality is that Apple doesn't need them and their company was built on a single feature. It sucks, but the harsh reality is that most startups today are just that—features. They aren't companies. They aren't businesses. They are a missing feature to another product.

Even companies like Spotify become redundant once someone like Apple decides to get into the game. They can hang on for a while because of their service, loyal fanbase, or particular implementation–but they can no longer grow. All of the growth as a result of new users and population growth just ends up going to the Apple product.

Companies are about growth, and if someone like Apple can throw their hat into the ring and completely freeze your growth then chances are you weren't really a company to begin with.

Much of the startup world is based on selling before people figure this out.
I switched to verdana a couple of years ago and am very happy with that.

Mono space fonts are hard to read, especially when skimming. So verdana just makes the whole experience of looking at my code more enjoyable and natural.
You would lose the issues.
I think it's just monkey see->monkey do. As soon as one person said +1, everyone that saw it thought that that's just how you voted for stuff. It's the same reason you see comments on HN or reddit that just say "This." or that if you leave your shoes by the door, everyone else will do the same. I doubt these people keep doing it if you ask them not to.
Wikibon Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast, 2020
Did you read the article? It seems like they are providing data on the stories people clicked, and at what time, so you can draw temporal and recommendation hypotheses. Some device and location specifics are provided. Scraping can only tell the scraper's story. This data tells millions of people's stories.
Home equity loans, friend!
posted earlier today, 215+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10898802
The team at CoreOS came to a similar conclusion:

> Docker has demonstrated that it is on a path to include many facilities beyond basic container management, turning it into a complex platform.

More than a year ago on their blog, https://coreos.com/blog/rocket/
Three people were shot in cars on I-80 in Richmond on the same day that this person was shot on a BART train. There are as far as we have been made aware no photos or videos of the event or the perpetrator. Strangely the press is ignoring this other "security gap".
I hope f.lux gets their chance with Apple. Their application is great and helps so many people. Btw, Michael Herf is the guy who built Picassa. He is a brilliant programmer and be sure knows a lot about graphics and colors.
Setting the desktop background to a screenshot of the desktop, then hiding all the icons and the start bar.
You'll have to explain why you think they are a charity, because I see no application of that term in a rational way.
Hahahahahahah....hahahahah! Wasn't expecting that question. No, we were barely middle class. There were months that we went without cable tv. I was already moved out and living on my own at that point, too.
The alternative is that the owners of the content sell it/rent it to them. Result profit.
I find the ability to create recurring emails even more useful: everyJun16@fut.io or every17days@fut.io

Besides the obvious, I use this for remembering to do things that are nice to do every once in a while, but not required. Like checking local event schedules, lists of new Netflix movies, reminders that subscriptions are coming for renewal, etc.
I agree that the suggestions are great; I'm also generally happy to see a letter like this take a clear tone without being aggressive or overtly confrontational. Re: the prevalence JS/HTML projects, I think that may just be a matter of simple base popularity; the web is the most popular development platform, and JS is the most used language on github (githut.info has great stats on this). If the letter gains steam, I'm sure we could expect project maintainers from other ecosystems to get on board.
This is an actual thing: "ghost units" - empty police cars placed around to stop people from speeding.

http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20130730/ARTICLES/13073995...
There's really no need to add unfounded conspiracy theories like yours to the public discussion.
The First Images of Elon Musk's Hyperloop Track Are Out
I used to use Neep Alt, back when bitmap fonts made sense and screens had relatively low resolution. I found it incredibly readable.

These days, I just use the standard DejaVu Sans Mono for everything.
There's been no mention of phabricator yet so I thought I'd give it a shout out. It's used by LLVM, FreeBSD, Blender, Wikimedia and others and I love it. It's under very active development and even if it doesn't solve every issue in this letter, by using an open source tool for development you of course have the option to customize it to the needs of your community.
That's awesome, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. This is great for a person who knows what they want to do or is already a developer, but I have more entrepreneurial minded people that I feel wouldn't know what to do if I sent them this link. I may be wrong, but I think something more in the vein of an 'current government problems' page or a way to submit your ideas would be interesting. Maybe a network where people can find cofounders and ideate with like minded individuals. I want them to feel like making an idea happen in the government is just as awesome and scalable as a 'standard' startup idea.
I'd like to see all font previews in the same format with mouseover for comparison.
I understand, but that's just not an option for us. I don't resent them at all, they've every right to decide which features are restricted to EE licenses, but I can lament it all the same.
I don't like the general feel of these suggestions. It sounds like more bureaucratic features, the lack of which is a big part of why GitHub is so pleasant.

Making an issue or a pull request feels like having a casual chat with the project maintainers. Adding fields and other hoops to jump through puts distance between people.
I wonder what if Foursquare did the opposite of what they did with Swarm. Keeping Check-in in Foursquare and creating a new app to find places (like yelp), people will leave the notion of check-ins behind in the Foursquare app and the new app will be a clean slate for a discovery app.
The USDOT is trying to fix self-driving rules before they break
But it's arguable if it's a good one. It's main proposal, "soft fork segwit" isn't really a soft fork. It reduces the security of every single existing node to "Accept every transaction miner says, don't do valifation". That's because existing nodes don't know SegWit, and would by default reject these transactions as designed.

So the core devs are proposing to reuse "Anyone can spend" op codes to "SegWit", just so old nodes won't complain. That means a malicious miner can spend Bitcoin they don't own and nodes will happily accept it.

Why do they want soft fork SegWit? Because if they hard fork, they might as well as simply increase the block size. And some "core developers", with a strong correlation to those employed by a company named Blockstream Inc, absolutely oppose it.

What does Blockstream do? They're making a "layer 3" transaction network called "Lightning" that bypasses the Bitcoin network and charges it's own set of fees.
Does Flux have a real business? Do they make any money? Just because they created something doesn't mean they have a company.
From the perspective of a passionate user of Ember, jQuery is still relevant. The DOM API may be more consistent between browsers today than it was in 2006, but it is still needlessly verbose:

document.getElementById(id)

vs.

$('#' + id)

Let's not forget the lack of chainability in DOM element method calls:

el = document.getElementById(id)

el.method1()

el.method2()

vs.

$('#' + id).method1().method2()

Yes--to me at least--conciseness and elegance matter, now more than ever. A better DOM API does not mean the end of jQuery. In a similar vein, ES6 does not spell the end for CoffeeScript.
The request was to allow maintainers to define a template or have the ability to add fields. So the formats would be on a project by project basis.

> Maybe if your software was better designed, people wouldn't be asking the question to begin with.

This is just silly.
California is non-recourse. You don't have to declare bankruptcy to walk away from a house. The bank gets the house, but the most you can lose is whatever you've paid into it (which can still be a lot).
One assumes they will issue new options grants to employees in this type of situation
You say that like it is a bad thing...
Google tracks your location in android without having to have an app open.
There are lot of tools to migrate them. Example, github.com/babel/babel has migrated their issues to phabricator.babeljs.io
You should probably either tune your wireless AP (increase max connections, decrease linger time) or change ISP. Torrenting should absolutely not make the internet unusable.
I just wish that bitbucket's UI was half as smooth as Github. Sure, it's not terrible, but it has a lot of rough edges.
Public (Open Source) repositories on Bitbucket do not have a limit to the number of contributors.
Obama Wants to Spend $4B to Fill Our Roads with Autonomous Vehicles
"it doesn't say every city listed meets that criteria"

But it does list San Jose first, implying that it is (most?) representative.

...

"Also, I don't quite see the argument on emergency services... Emergency services need to go from any random point to the nearest hospital"

Exactly! And what is the fastest way to the nearest hospital with an open emergency room (let alone a real trauma center) in such areas? I don't know, but I assume that most cities lack real hospitals within fast access of downtown by surface streets (due to traffic, if not also distance). In the San Jose case, you're talking VMC, which would be 20+ minutes away by surface streets but maybe 8 minutes using 280.

In San Francisco, the only hospital South of Market is SF General. (Technically South or East of Market, but SOMA is a well-known term).
I wouldn't say anything to the municipality if it was shown to be a cost-effective measure to improve the situation. It sounds like you presuppose there is also a lack of emergency response capacity, but that is a separate issue.
It sounds like you might have had some bad experiences. If so, I'm sorry that happened.

From a discussion-quality point of view, though, your comment seems an example of what I'm talking about. Hype inevitably leads to cynicism, but neither gives a balanced view and neither is good for curiosity.
That's why we have government, to save me and my friends. See: HARP.
...and speed in my experience. Both the web UI and push/pull.
GitHub also does not allow deletion of bullshit issues.
My Experience With the Great Firewall of China
I mean the preference for other races besides Asian when academic performance is held equal. Which I guess would fall under 'affirmative action.' The typical argument is that colleges want kids who are more 'well-rounded' and Asian kids are stereotyped to be less so.
I am pretty sure that a potential competitor will use GitHub's APIs to import issues as well.
Question about private api's:

What makes a private api private? Is it merely undocumented, but still usable in the exact same way as a "public" api? I.e., in my code I invoke it like normal, but I just need to know the name?

Or do I have to fiddle with the compiled code of my app to get it to call the instruction location of the otherwise invisible function?

If they were meant to be private, why can't the app, which surely runs in some underpriviledged mode, be blocked from calling the function, which knows it itself is privileged?
ScaleFT's Response to OpenSSH Client Security Issue CVE-2016-0777
The suggestion was not PKI though. I'd be happy with that. I already have a PKI in place. The suggestion was for a 1 key per box.
NASA adds 3rd company to list of space station shippers
I don't think there's any claims that it did. The paper and the talk both made it clear that Cassandra outperformed it. I think MongoDB is the only one it beat. But I think the point is that it's able to perform well while being consistent, not that it's faster than "weakly consistent" storage systems like Cassandra.
In economic terms, this would be known as "barrier to entry" if you don't have the money to enter the market. In business terms, it's known as "the cost of doing business." Not having the money to push packets is bad when you're in the packet pushing business. That's like trying to run a high frequency trading shop from Alaska and blaming your ISP instead of the speed of light.

That said, you can buy a ton of good gear cheap on the secondhand market. This is extremely popular in the lower end of the hosting market. It's cheap. It works. It's a known quantity. You can get secondary support from companies like NHR. You don't have to buy gear new.

Used gear was probably a much better decision than new gear here.
Never understood how people sleep in warm rooms. 15 C is ideal for me, hell, I usually leave my window open at night to keep the room nice and cool.

I guess it doesn't get too cold where I am (high of 9 C, low of -1 usually in winter), but my place doesn't have any insulation at all, or double glazed windows, and I use the heater for only 30 minutes a day usually in winter, because I just put on more clothes.
Frequent switching between teams and the judicious use of @username/@channel :/

Other than that, prioritizing what's important and needs to get done in both.
This (obviously biased) text has an entirely different take http://questioncopyright.org/promise

"The first copyright law was a censorship law. It was not about protecting the rights of authors, or encouraging them to produce new works. Authors' rights were in little danger in sixteenth-century England, and the recent arrival of the printing press (the world's first copying machine) was if anything energizing to writers. So energizing, in fact, that the English government grew concerned about too many works being produced, not too few. The new technology was making seditious reading material widely available for the first time, and the government urgently needed to control the flood of printed matter, censorship being as legitimate an administrative function then as building roads."
I do like Github, and I understand how it makes the entire process of maintaining a code repo a lot easier, but what I'd genuinely like to know is why don't big projects just move to their own thing? I understand that there isn't a single solution that exactly matches what Github has, and that maintaining your own git server + git management/issues/etc.. app is a pain, but I see it as the only real solution. Developing in the open can't be done on platforms where restrictions apply, and they do apply. I'm saying this with no intention of sounding like a jerk, but 18 project maintainers and/or developer need to write an open letter to get Github to give'em a "me too" button? I understand the issue, but i still find it rather silly.

The only aspect I could think of where Github has the pro is the community of developers it has, but does it really matter that much? Especially for established/big projects that probably don't care about the fork/stars numbers, or the random look around-ers that pass by.
I found the fact that it automatically "pins" such emails when they come back to be too annoying. Just because I postponed it doesn't mean it was an important deadline or something. I like to postpone things I hope I'll get around to as well.
Google Code has primarily been used for Chromium's issue tracker, but they have a star system for exactly this reason.

You can sort something by stars, but it's bad etiquette there for a user to comment +1 rather than just star.
Although it wouldn't explicitly allow that, it's a short leap to make. That would be even more difficult to enforce though, and would mostly only impact those who are frequently arrested (pretty much the same downsides as the current issue, but on a more exaggerated scale).
Sometimes even in the same company. After the NY Times story on Amazon, a lot of Amazonians here posted that they had both really good experiences and really terrible ones.
Did the f.lux team just seriously imply that dimming your monitor at night can prevent cancer?
After the whole incident where they deleted forks of a project without notice, due to their belief on what is and is not appropriate words to use in code without an apology I think we really need to re-assess GitHub in general.

Their 'control' of code and lack of respect to the people running projects is very disappointing and they seem to not want to move forward on the issues.

I'm surprised the open community is allowing this de-facto ownership of the worlds code and how it's written to take place, I'm not so sure they are a benevolent dictator.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150802/20330431831/githu...
My point is that Apple doesn't need them. At all. Whether they are a company or a product or whatever they call themselves. They are now irrelevant.
Umm... mind telling me what country you're in?
It's my project, why can't I just delete issues like any other bug tracker?
How do banks create money?
How are you making over 300k in the Midwest? Surely it's not a purely software engineering role, from my (admittedly limited) experience those roles top out at 180-200k base in Chicago.
Agreed. This is the point of git. There is no centralized repository.
> 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.

Not sure about iOS, but every Android device can do this by default: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline.
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I've come to really like terminus
There's an old story about this man who stood quietly next to a closed door in Moscow, said nothing to no one, and did nothing else of interest. Eventually others joined him, and before long a queue has formed. No one knew what they were standing in line for.

Monkey see - monkey do.
Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving cars
I'm increasingly impressed with CoreOS, especially etcd, and more generally, using systemd for init. Not that difficult to get up and running either.
It's a closed-source color temperature changer on a timer. I don't think it's gotten any new features in years, and they didn't patent this feature so sucks to be them.
Erlang Style Actors Are All About Locking (2009)
Secret TPP Tribunal Court
waffle.io does this, but having to run on top of GitHub means it can't really fix problems like voting. But it can offer better search and things like that
I'm not sure how this would change the gap between top schools and super top schools. Most of the top students at A tier schools already applied and got rejected by S tier schools in the current environment. So the quality of students theoretically doesn't change. What am I missing in your logic here?
If it makes you feel any better, in chat most of us call it k8s (kates).
The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
Okay.

EDIT: Oh, the irony.