skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Samsung close all apps button not available on pure Android as according to Google you are not supposed to.
Google people are great engineers but sometimes they don't get not needing something doesn't people don't want it.
The other side of the table had some good negotiators, clearly.
When cycling in a painted cycle lane I am consistently treated far worse than when cycling on a road without one. Well, used to be. I no longer cycle in them at all - I am forced to use the entire lane because it is unsafe to use a painted cycle lane. I'd rather get beeped at by one motorist than be endangered by five close passes.

Edit: I am in the UK, and usually cycle in towns.
Strictly speaking that's the widest modern usage Roman prime under 4000.

The actual Romans were inconsistent in their use of the subtractive principle, see http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1371/what-is-the-pr...

So there might be ways to construct a wider one.
Well, then make them pay for themselves then insead of limiting the range of activities they are allowed to do.
Why?

I mean, I'm always happy to see competition keeping companies on their toes, but why do you actively want people to leave GitHub?
I remember the time the internet went mainstream and the general public (non-tech people) were very receptive to media spelling out all the negative horrors ... about all the potentially dark corners ... all the porn ... people dating online ... all which ultimately leading to a meltdown of society.

In reality we sorted a lot of the problems out as we went along. We have muddled through somehow. The process I think was hardly linear or deterministic. And I think it never will be. Look at InfoSec where it is a constant game of catching up. Yet somehow our ancient technology stacks (DNS, SMTP, HTTP, ...) still seem to work and our world has not yet imploded. Society not yet collapsed. Our children who grew up with the Internet have turned out pretty well (people today seem a lot smarter than most of the guys I grew up with in the 70ies/80ies mainly because of the Internet)

Seems that every time we're on the verge to discovering something totally radical (crypto currencies, big-data, IoT, ...) fear is strong. The only place (people) I have seen where the mainstream approaches technologies with an open mind is Japan. There even old people think robots are cute and innovation is ultimately good. In the rest of the world technology is something potentially evil that must be regulated at all cost before it is even invented.

What if we succeed in creating a decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO)[0] or an economy that doesn't answer to the state. We are pretty close to having the tools for it, and I'm sure this is scary as hell for a lot of nation states. See also the latest news about UK government creating their own version of a blockchain by removing the best feature (decentralization [1]). I doubt though that any of this will lead to anarchy (unless our system/society is already so broken that it was due to be replaced with a healthier model anyway).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...

[1] http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/01/19/uk-government-to-develop-a...
Not for Tesla http://www.wired.com/2015/10/tesla-self-driving-over-air-upd...
Dogs have less fear, because they don't know the inevitable outcome if they lose the fight.
Lets see. They are arogant fascists who think they know better than their customers. They charge a lot more but do not provide anything more than their competitors and often less. The company lives and dies on marketting and perception. They are the micrsoft of the Unix world and I hope they go to 0 because they are bad for progress and bad for technological diversity.
Did you hit any limitations (ex. authentication) without Shiny Server Pro?

https://www.rstudio.com/pricing/
Twitter has been my "home" on the web for years for the qualities that made it unique. Now it's about to go away and that sucks. I've lost favorite forums/sites before but never anything I valued as much as Twitter.

There's a corollary to the network effect. Once a community reaches its ideal size and identity it keeps trying to grow and both the influx of more users and the attempt to chase more users ruins what made it unique and ideal.
Yes, must be the 2nd time ever I have experienced any downtime
1GB for $30? Are you joking me? Even we Germans, with 20x the data pricing of mainstream Europe, don't pay this much.
My mistake, added that part into the parent post. The coverage of this story is all over the place and it's hard to keep track.

You are right though, allowing users to update/restore but disabling the sensor is a better solution. I'm not too sure why Apple chose this route. They haven't commented on the technical reasons behind it so it's hard to say for sure.
>Sorting the visas by salary will work just as well.

what abt TCS working around this with paying high salary for the first year and then lowering the wage following year.
Nah. None of that is science; it just has a few sciencey-sounding words in it. My guess would be they were trying to come up with a post-hoc "scientific basis" for their branding decisions?

The last page is particularly awful. Not only does it contain a glaring scientific error ("1 light year = 671 million miles per hour"), but it's completely meaningless from a branding perspective. I mean, what does "dimensionalize exponentially" even mean?
uhm... So a company that is an enabler of developers working from anywhere and collaborating on code doesn't have at its core value working remotely? I find that a bit hard to believe, but I guess I've heard stranger things.

I guess I just expect as a matter of dogfooding that a company that strives to do great distributed source code control and all the activities surroundings that would live the remove lifestyle.
would it be in their shareholders interest to pay much more than the market value of their company?

if nobody else would be willing to pay half as much, isn't someone to blame for overpaying? are there any consequences for this?
You got downvoted by people promoting the companies they work for. Altasian stuff is hideous and Gitlab I heard is a horror show.

This will be downvoted too but honestly who cares. Despite all of Github's problems no one comes anywhere close in terms of adoption and developer mindshare and there is a reason for that.
I don't like them because they put someones opinions/values above technical skills.

https://hacked.com/github-promotes-reverse-racism-sexism/
http://dancerscode.com/blog/why-the-open-code-of-conduct-isn...
I have Facebook bookmarked with the following extras on the URL:

https://www.facebook.com/home.php?m2w&sk=h_chr

m2w forces it to display in desktop mode on my Nexus 5 and sk=h_chr forces the Newsfeed to display in chronological order.

Presumably Twitter's web page UI would allow for a similar manipulation.

I don't use the FB android app because it inserts ads between Newsfeed content, as does the mobile Web view. Viewing FB in desktop mode on my mobile allows me to zoom the middle column (the newsfeed) to the width of my screen, pushing the advert column to the right, off screen.

I would probably switch away from the twitter app if they made this change.
Yes. I work in a legal cannabis facility in Colorado. We wear full gear before coming in contact with any plants.
I'm administrating a small-ish Gitlab server and we have to reboot it every week or else it will fail in random and weird ways due to OOM - the machine has 8GB of RAM and 20 active users, so WTF? Isn't the entire point of git to have one pretty dumb server acting as a file server and letting the client do the work?!
> That's different from the UK, where many car drivers feel the road is entirely theirs and anyone else shouldn't be on the road.

I'm not sure what happens elsewhere but in the UK we pay a vehicle tax (or excise duty), colloquially known as 'road tax'.

It's a common (misguided) belief that the roads are funded exclusively via this tax, hence the sense of entitlement.

Ref: Is there any such thing as 'road tax'?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23694438
Given the amount of news talking about SV companies losing stock market value it seems the bubble is popping
> "We’re trying to build a new kind of enterprise company where the playbooks of old won’t always work"

By replacing flat meritocracy and remote work with traditional top-down management?

> "don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon, so let's limit their scope of damage"

So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist.
You are correct about the Gresham's law situation - TIL :)

And to clarify, I wasn't strictly referring to government when I said "public organizations". I think any public institution is more or less constantly under threat from private interests, and when parts of a government are captured (as in your examples), I no longer consider that part of them a public institution.

Though the fact that there's a range in the degree of capture, with the USA not doing well and a place like Switzerland doing well, I don't see it necessarily as an inevitably large property of government itself.

What I find unconvincing in both anarchist and libertarian philosophies is their solutions for preventing the same sort of capture of their institutions - given that (at the very least) natural monopolies exist, and in both scenarios the institutions that are explicitly public aren't especially strong.
> had to clock out even to use the bathroom (illegal practice that the company just broke the law on).

Assuming you're in the US, what's the relevant law?
2016: Analyzing Security Trends Using RSA Exhibitor Descriptions
I used bitbucket for a long time because it did the job and it provided private repos. But after I had to start looking for another job, many employers wanted to see my github profile.
I think the clue was in "Truly Open", github isn't open source and is fairly expensive for small teams with private repo's (compared to bitbucket for example).

It's network effects are large but beyond that the product doesn't really do anything that others don't do just as well.
Events like these will change that step by step.
I do not like the centralization of anything

GitHub is becoming too large, and code is becoming too centralized, that is dangerous.
You're assuming an unwanted, unborn baby has value. Not only does it not have value, but it's actually a burden to society. Utilitarianism would consider the damage that unwanted, unborn baby will inflict on society and decide to abort it every single time. Social welfare, orphanage, and especially criminal costs are incredibly likely and incredibly high. The chance that the baby will amount to anything worthwhile enough to offset those costs is incredibly low for an unwanted baby and thus not worth the risk to society. Here in the US we have seen the criminal costs of outlawing abortion with the high crime rates of the 70's, 80's, and early 90's finally coming down in the last two decades due to legal abortion. Other countries like Romania know this equally well. That doesn't even begin to take into account the rest of the social costs of forcing unwanted babies to be born.
The frequent bitbucket downtime is what got me to switch my company's stuff to github.
> You can be entering a bunch of convulted rules into a GUI based system or you can be writing them in code.

There are more options than just these two. The best way is to write your rules in a nice, readable, dense DSL, designed specifically for that domain experts who know the rules but are afraid of code. And such a DSL can be very much free form and forgiving, helping a lot along the way, so the experts won't need much assistance.

With such an approach, developers (i.e., those who are not afraid of code) are either not needed or only concerned with maintaining this DSL, while the experts can code their rules directly. It eliminates unnecessary elements of a chain, and cuts costs quite significantly.
I'm sure no nation-state level actor would ever infiltrate this process..
I believe that that is more of a Ruby runtime issue than a Gitlab issue.
Not sure how you can equate using money to beat down others (exploit them, leveraging wealth against their relatively weaker position to maximize profits) with things like funding single payer health care. There is no contradiction there. The logic is actually quite consistent. Spending money to help people is not the same as spending money to hurt them.
A big part of that is the corner-building tendencies that US civil engineers have. Often they'll build the corner in a broad sweep that makes it easier to turn at high speed. If it was built aggressively to force traffic to slow, it'd also be a shorter distance for pedestrians to cross.
Sea Level Rise and the Future of the Netherlands
Sell whatever you own if any. Advice from someone thats been around.
"Nowhere have I seen any social democratic reformer argue for artisanal crafts and decentralized governance"

I hear you but, the way you've expressed this could use some improvement. If one of them did, they would cease to be a social democrat; social democracy implies central control.

Please elaborate on the idea of ending the monopoly on ccy, and the model of small communities you have. Could your idea of community be a subset within a formal association (e.g. church group with a membership, elected board and minor constitution). Or could it be a subset of a limited company?
Well why implement it in Ruby then if it's known that the environment is sensitive to OOM?
And it sucks to get a bad meal at a restaurant, or poor quality customer service. So we have yelp and google reviews for businesses to try and avoid these situations. We don't need government licensing protect us from every having a bad experience with a business.

Liability should be motivation enough for any business to not let unskilled barbers handle a straight razor.
Pedestrians also really need to pay attention. I have never had a close call because I treat traffic as the highly dangerous place it is. Yet, I see plenty of people practically throw themselves into oncoming traffic the instant the crosswalk changes.
Usually a non-compete would be void if you were laid off.
I found that cars passing me would drive closer to me when I wore a high vis jacket than when I didn't.
This is the only talk online by the visionary who conceived and funded the Internet. It's quite amazing, though it needs a bit of patience at first; stick with it. Licklider was everybody's genius absent-minded uncle, and this is your chance to join the family.

He covers a myriad of ideas about interactive computing, many of which are still futuristic. He strongly defends 'open' software and talks about Moore's Law under a different name. You get glimpses into how his mind works. He mentions dozens of different researchers and now-forgotten strands of work. He tells great stories, such as how he was walking in the dark, fell into an open grave, had trouble getting out so sat down to think instead, and came up with the idea of the personal workstation. The bits about analog computers are fascinating. There are cameos by Butler Lampson and others.

Licklider was the sort of prophet whose vision usually remains unexecuted, but he turned out to be a social genius too, with an unmatched eye for talent. Some spacetime wormhole landed him at DARPA with a budget in 1962 and he played his cards brilliantly. It's an if-only story that actually worked out. We all owe this guy.

It's Saturday. Take some time and watch this—it's a rare window into the background of our world. Watch it all the way to the end and you'll get to hear Alan Perlis quip that the historical purpose of AT&T was Bell Labs.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I found it via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10989390. Thanks, whistlerbrk!
Anyone can do brain surgery or pilot a Boeing 767?
I find this pretty interesting (from the FAQ):

"What type of electronic certificate is attached to my document?

In accordance with the governing Virginia statutes, Notarize attaches a X509 PKI security certificate to each notarized document. This certificate is unique to each agent, enabling any recipient of a Notarize document to confirm the validity of the document and verify the authority of the notary agent."
These ISPs still simply have far too much power. The consumer is the only one that suffers from their unapologetic greed.
To be brutally honest: yes, that is how it is in the real world right now. Non-voters are invisible to democratic governments, apart from how they influence voters.
I'll correct some things: 1) The speaker said projection, not survey. 2) I interchanged "developers" and "programmers" at the top of the slide, but the speaker lumps "programming like things" into the 90M "end users," which among others include pretty much all the web people (scripting languages, database interfacing, web server security, etc).

Please see the relevant part at 49:50 [1], but I'll bring it in next.

The speaker pretty much defines "end users"/casual developers as people who do programming like things; "There are something like 90M people out there who are doing 'programming like things'; they are building databases, they are building spreadsheets, they are using scripting languages, they are building sophisticated websites--what are we doing to help them?"

It's a broad category, but I think the confusion is that programming is not simply about writing code, it also includes the overall architecture, and design of a system.

So what I get from this is that end users means anyone who didn't go through the academic channels to learn the engineering aspects, and that's who they need to reach. The speaker had a link to their software engineering programs at CMU [2] in an earlier slide.

Also, see the context in view of the stackoverlow survey--which doesn't add up if you look at the numbers, but the speaker explains it's because some people reported in more than once.--It sought to be an example of how "end users" end up doing "programming like things."

[1] Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLnsi522LS8

[2] Software Engineering Masters Programs
http://mse.isri.cmu.edu/software-engineering/
It shouldn't even be necessary to bring in net neutrality. This should fail on anti-competitive grounds alone.
You can easily make your bitbucket projects public and show them off. No need to be conformed into using a given service.
> So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist.

I had the same reaction. I'm surprised nobody else has noticed this and made a comment about it.
Look at a merchant account agreement sometime, there are all sorts of businesses deemed too risky for conventional payment processors. It's not unique to PayPal and you would be almost instantly in bankruptcy if you didn't set restrictions on the types of businesses you process for.

https://www.braintreepayments.com/legal/acceptable-use-polic...

Restricted activities include some obvious sketchy areas (check cashing) and some less obvious sketchy areas (human hair, fake hair or hair-extensions).
That's interesting how the profit seekers get all credit, but you leave out things like public education that train the professionals and do much of the research.

Also interesting how you think in binary, things are either good or bad, assholes or saints. Could it be that some good can come from more access to college, while other negative effects like administrators taking advantage of unlimited financing to naive students that results in crippling lifetime debt happen at the same time?
I am not the GP. To me, supporting GitHub is like supporting Jetbrains. I know they're good people. I know they're trying to do good things. However, I will always have a nagging feeling that wishes that the universe was somehow different and that their business model made it possible for them to freely and openly offer all their software.

I guess I can include things like Aerospike and even Gitlab in that group. I don't actively wish for them to succeed either. I am glad they exist and I actively use their products but I would not cheer for any of them.
It wasn't very clear to me how google could "shut down" a site. So I checked the archive of the site in the wayback machine, linked in the article. Here's the url:

https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/

So they were running on Google site's. The site violated that TOS. While I don't know the particulars, this seems like less of a story than if Google had somehow wiped an ordinary domain from search results.
NASA has released thousands of photos from the Apollo Misson
GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket etc are not simply a GitServer, if that is all you want then there are better projects out there for that. hell basic ssh or http server can be used a gitserver with no front end at all or gitweb http://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb.html

GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket etc are project Management platforms that enable Bug Tracking, Documentation, Social networking all on top of and around basic git functions
I do the same in germany. I try to accomodate cars, but in a narrow single-lane road with parked cars and a high curb to me right, sorry to the cars behind me, but until i can safely get out of the way, you have to deal with going a bit slower.
Use immigration policy to fund government programs?
Anecdata (from the US). I drive an electric longboard. The biggest impact on my safety came from one small change: start wearing a full-face helmet. It looks like a motorcycle helmet, but is lighter.

As soon as I started doing that, cars cyclists and just about everyone started taking me seriously. Cars no longer pass super closely. They no longer honk when I take the entire lane. Many even use indicators when passing me with a wide berth.

I think they basically treat me as a motorbike because the helmet makes them realize that I am a proper participant in traffic.

This is the helmet: http://triple8.com/product/the-t8-racer/
check out gogs https://gogs.io/
This article could have been written better. It has two themes going on. Github is restructuring and the lack of diversity in tech.

Why did they unnecessarily mention diversity in the context of the reorganization of github? Because that is the corporate BS that is popular to spout when you are redefining power within your company. Make no mistake github is doing restructuring to position themselves for large corporate contracts, NOT to be a more diverse workplace.

Using injustice to whitewash your redefined power structure is disingenuous.

sad to see github losing its way = (
Shame they lack any way to discover active forks that is as useful as the GitHub network graph widget.
I'll take you at your word that you're not trying to be clever, and that you're genuinely curious, and thus not interested in an argument that must be won. And, so, I'll do my best to elucidate in an attempt to satisfy that curiosity.

I suspect that the poster is referring to the whole of his experience as the pool of contexts in question, and thus can state that he knows of no one who is comfortable with the word choice - given that most people don't use the word "retarded" as the past tense of the verb "retard", which means to hold back or slow down, I'm inclined to agree.

Retardant is not in question. The use of retard as a verb as it's intended to be used is not in question. The vast majority of utterances of "retarded" are used as a pejorative adjective, so while I see your point, I think you're missing his: The reality is that the adjective form of retarded is, in nearly all common-use cases, a careless diminution of those with developmental or learning disabilities, as it serves to suggest the idea/thing/person could only have come from someone with such a developmental or learning disability.
You are thinking of Tom Mabe. Hilarious. He had a whole album (maybe more).
"Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."

edit : also : "it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white'"