skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no way to justify a system that rewards and promotes the most atrocious qualities of the human spirit. We can and must do better.
> For a long time it was dominated by white women who wanted more equality ignoring and sometimes even opposing equality for people and women of color

Some of the early suffragettes - including the first female senator in the US[0] - were not just racist, but outright white supremacists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Latimer_Felton#Racial_...
I freely agree that there is a lack of diversity in tech, and that we have to bear some of tbe blame ourselves, but this sort of approach is not helping.
While I fully agree, there's somewhat of a chicken-n-egg problem here though, because part of the profile shows contributions to other projects/repos, and that's more of a github thing, partly because their profile is designed differently to focus on that, and partly because there are just many more popular repos on github to begin with, so to contribute to those, an Atlasssian bitbucket profile doesn't help much, IF the primary intent is to 'show off' activity. Personally, I couldn't care less, I very much like the fact that Bitbucket offers free private repos, and I also prefer the tooling and cleaner UI of Bitbucket over github's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_effect
It's becoming the norm in some communities. For example, Mozilla/Rust has a lot of people like that, and one of the core team members has contributed to #hnwatch Twitter tag linked below.

People from that circle were proposing the idea of creating 'black lists' to make people unemployable for political reasons; they managed to get Brendan Eich expelled from Mozilla; they're pushing for "Codes of conducts", which again aim at expelling people from open source communities for political reasons - eg things they said in completely unrelated places, like their own Twitter feeds (see "Opalgate").

Also see PronounGate, DongleGate, past scandals at Github (meritocracy rug, Julie-Ann Horvath departure), discussions/scandals around CoC/"Contributor Covenant", etc etc etc.
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Is anyone else using it?

Yes:

Bitbucket

No:

Self hosted Gitlab instance
That depends on the founders' willingness to sell.

What the market will pay isn't equal to the price at which the owners will sell. It may have taken a large amount for them to sell at all, with Twitter being the only one to whom such a price was "worth it."
Does anyone know: If there are any pictures of "the chimney in the great hall of the chateau of Montargis"?

The the name of the name of the "popular melodrama" that was based on this story?
So yeah... github just lost an enterprise customer. And I will be making sure they will lose more.
Its not, but lawsuits are finally happening

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/yahoo-sued-over-e...
It's basically an ad for his services, nothing else!
A personal gitlab instance is always an option, it's 40$ a year though.
Serious question: why can't someone make a good Github replacement that is anywhere near feature parity?

I've tried both Bitbucket and GitLab, but their UIs continue to be leagues behind Github. It takes twice as long to do something in them (ex. find and blame a file) than it does with Github.

If they could just get the UI right, I'd migrate in a second. Hosting providers should enforce political opinions (beyond defending free speech).
For any non-technical folk, it's a very simple to setup and use service. Not the best option by any means.
Just to confirm this, I read a lot of time about black/asian people attacking those of the same ethnicity who don't agree on "white patriarchy" as being "just white inside!".

I even read of people claiming they are trans-black because they inside them feel black (and I am quoting literally) and so other people must see them that way.

You find this on tumblr, on pseudo-feminism propaganda sites, etc... a lot of this is collected in the subreddit reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction
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* I had to read the French wikipedia Judicial Combat section on the Dueling page in order to find that word.
With perhaps the rare exception for specific kinds of discrimination, can't Google pretty much terminate use of it's services to anyone, for any reason? Assuming they aren't paid customers, it's not like Google has a contractual obligation with said group. Of course these sorts of douche moves reflect poorly on a company and people may choose to boycott or campaign against in response, but that's about it.
Over the past year, we've moved to limit our exposure to GitHub by shifting repos over to Bitbucket, but it looks like that'll have to accelerate that now. The cultural and leadership turmoil described in the article sounds worse then those DDoS attacks last year. How can they stay focused on building a great product?
If you migrated to BitBucket just now then you must not have that much code on GitHub.
Don't see what the big deal is. The slide refers to spearheading a diversity program, not the company itself. Seems intuitive to me that such a program with only white, male managers might be problematic.
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Gitlab is a great alternative, if you're willing to host it yourself.
I don't know if you even need to see the whole presentation. A few of the full sentences on that one slide are more than enough to project a strong us vs them attitude of hatred and victim versus oppressor, especially the following bullets:

- "This is not work for white folks to lead"
- "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women"
- "we need solidarity with our Asian friends and colleagues"

This is blatantly racist language and policy.
Yeah, like AWS
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/214974911...

;)
Not surprising, they were about to do this a little while ago: https://hacked.com/github-promotes-reverse-racism-sexism/
Actually, the Chrome incognito mode isn't worth that much...

https://valve.github.io/fingerprintjs2/

Gives me the same fingerprint in my browser & incognito mode.
When's the last time you looked at GitLab? I've been using it since last February, and the UI improvements have been pretty dramatic.
Every human that has walked on the moon was born between 1930 and 1935 except for Alan Shepard, born 1923.
Value is only in the eye of the beholder.

There is no such thing as "inherent value" like taste, its all relative.

For example, $5 for a 1 litre bottle of water sounds expensive right? But if you're in the desert without any other water supply in range, its a bargain.

Twitter valued it because it convinced it's self it needed it. Its as simple as that, its the same logic that convinced HP to spunk out however much it was for autonomy, or News international for myspace.

Maybe they thought it was a good product, maybe they they knew the founders, maybe they talked a good game about facebook acquiring them. Either way it was valued that high not because it was a stunning product, but because twitter thought it needed that company and was prepared to spend 100million on it+.

+Yes that could be construed as cyclical login.
This is just gross. I've spent the last 10 years of my life listening to various minority leaders discriminate against whites with no consequence.

I hope someone stands up for themselves and sues GitHub for this type of behavior. First off, this is very irrational and not based in any facts. Second off, it's blatant racism and sexism.

I will probably migrate my repos to GitLab or even BitBucket shiver. We need to vote with our dollars if that's the only way to get a point across.
You could help gitlab getting better... It's open source.
In defense of github, they can create whatever culture they desire. Same with npm and every other company out there. If they succeed, they will be seen as a company who took ethics and equality very seriously. If they don't theyll be seen as racists and confused leftists.

They are making a big risk with no obvious gain (outside of hypothetical culture and numbers). But this is their risk to make. If it does well they will be considered heroes.
I'm just going to pretend I didn't read that.
Helpshift is doing a good job indeed. What differentiate us is that we offer one SDK and one dashboard to view bugs, feedback and crashes, and act accordingly on each one (i.e., assign bugs and crashes or forward them to a bug tracker, and reply to feedback). Plus Instabug captures far more details (screenshot, device details and user steps) to help developers trace bugs faster. I'd really love to hear your feedback once you try v3.0
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This is the same guy who won the Underhanded C competition earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032542

Edited: typos
I was refering to OPs use case where he mentioned the usage of private repos. Such commits won't show up in a Github profile either...
Yeah, I don't really give most of my work away. Only what I want to contribute openly is/was on there.
You can host it for free on gitlab.com
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Is this site good enough for Awwwards honorable mention?
Seems like another instance of "let the nerds build a company and then take over"...
> The issue is Apple cannot verify a secure touch ID replacement over a compromised touch ID replacement.

Couldn't they just ask the user? Use the backup password to authenticate.

If it's my device, I want to be the one who chooses what I trust.
Motion tracking and screen refresh.
Its a very high load on brain, because you have to make decision on every road. Also, its unclear how you handle insurance cases. In some countries road hog's insurance company pays money for recovery. Without clear rules its gonna be a mess.
NXDOMAIN hijhacking is really frustrating. I remember Verisign doing that back in the early 2000s to drive domain registrations into their hands. It was quickly fixed, but shows one of the major gaps in DNS.

I run my own DHCP and DNS at home mainly for performance reasons:
https://github.com/AlainODea/home_network

Prior to doing that I had serious issues with buffering on iTunes and Netflix. That was probably mostly a DHCP problem, but I figured getting names for local systems (getting numerous at that point) was worthwhile.

Fitting all of this into a Raspberry Pi as you have done is really compelling. I'm currently using a Dell Precision T3500 and it's not exactly light on power consumption. I'll have to give this a shot. Maybe I can convince my son to try it on his Kano :)
> an endless argument over who can and can't be racist

It blows my mind that some people really believe that only white people can be racist. It's like they completely redefined the meaning of the word "racist".
> I'd class it as a success if it paid for its own hosting and made me more than say $100 a month.

If you can "niche", absolutely. A market leader cannot be serving everyone's needs precisely.
They also have another history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_Acts
Ideological intolerance is part of it, but it's clearly not the only part, given that the very first point in her slide is "this is not work for white folks to lead", i.e. she doesn't want white allies. I don't see how much more explicit this lady can make the fact that she hates white people as such.

As for German or Russian philosophers - that seems far fetched. This is an American phenomenon, and in its explicit and mainstream form, it is a fairly recent one.
Unless you're incredibly smart (i.e. not me), you should be going for niches where money is already being made and there are clear leaders you can go after. Otherwise you don't know if people will pay for your thing and don't have any people to use for research or as customer personas.

That out of the way, an area like that covered by StatusPage will cause you grief, at least with doing it at 'business scale'. People expect a status page to never go down and to be available even when The Worst™ occurs. It's not merely a software challenge but a huge operational and customer service one. Good luck though!
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That's not true, this book [1] is written by a woman and got a lot of support :

[1] http://www.amazon.fr/CSS-Secrets-Lea-Verou/dp/1449372635

(it's really good btw)
Brickfy: data management for people counting sensors
As with any tech the best way to learn it is to use it. Work on a small project that you are interested in. Skim tutorials, other people's code and manuals to figure out how to do so.
No it is not. Either we are all allowed to discriminate or none at all. If only some must have power to discriminate - I prefer the status quo. Since I like the white male privilege. I am fine with society without privilege. I will fight tooth and nail against one in which my privilege is transferred to someone else.
That appears to be free repositories when you sign up for the $24/month personal plan, according to their Pricing page. That is a barrier to many people.

Edit: Hmm, there is also a page that talks about free repositories, but it requires an account. https://www.assembla.com/git/ In any event, they are confusing me.
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I am a young white male with no money, no job and bad health. Can I please have some of this mysterious magic power I am supposed to have?
I think it's my ISP's job to provide the advertised bandwidth between me and exchange points which offer access on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.

My nearest exchange point is probably London Internet Exchange. If an ISP advertises X Mbps, and Netflix can deliver X Mbps of data for me to the exchange point, it's my ISP's job to get that X Mbps of data to me.
"Because rent will rise by exactly whatever guaranteed minimum income becomes."

That seems unlikely, because of competition. Not merely of identical units, but of all alternatives. We are not terribly supply-constrained on housing, nationally or globally (some markets certainly are, actually or artificially).

"Same way college costs rise to whatever loans are available."

Money that is available only to a single purpose is a substantially different dynamic than money that can be put to other uses.
I agree it's quite good now, and still improving
Actual animation: http://dataplusscience.com/WOPR/wargamesusa2.html
Is your time at work worthwhile?
xVelocity is only a (small) part of SSAS and it has a very limited application compared to OLAP even in the upcoming 2016 edition which greatly enhances the columnar store functionality.
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fund as in finance?
> Assuming they aren't paid customers, it's not like Google has a contractual obligation with said group.

If you hold a monopoly, or near monopoly, you automatically get that obligation.
First screen after the intro was a log-in screen, deleted immediately
I don't think that's cynical, I think it's realistic.

I guess what I don't know is, given that, what can we learn from that?

Maybe the lesson is: Be in the right place at the right time with the right product. Which is too general to really make repeatable.
It seems like home prices are pretty high historically in a lot of places, not just a few.

They've bubbled up again not only in SF, but also in most every single area with job growth - SoCal, the whole I95 megalopolis, Denver, SE Florida, Dallas and Austin, Minneapolis, and the Pacific Northwest.

In fact, only parts in the rust belt, South, and Midwest remain affordable, based on historic standards. Unfortunately, the majority of job growth is not in these areas.

I do not see how homes can retain their value when Boomers begin dying and down sizing, as they own the majority of wealth in real estate and the next generation is loaded in debt already and not forming large households at the historic rate.
Hiring her to lead their diversity efforts doesn't count as endorsement of her views on diversity?
Humanity is the species that will never stop producing psychos who will throw people under the bus to get ahead. Moloch does it.
I wonder if they are just playing the waiting game, where for the average joe would get upset that they are missing out on this "free" video. They would then retort to saying that net neutrality is the issue at hand, and that it should be removed to allow for free lanes and paid lanes aka the issue we had at hand in the first place.
> Serious question: why can't someone make a good Github replacement that is anywhere near feature parity?

Time and Github executed well at the start giving them experience.

I get the feeling that a company starting out now and doing all of their development and management remotely through the site they are building might have a good chance at catching Github in capability. Getting buy-in from customers is the problem.
Should this be considered an example of entryism, or just opportunism?
While what I said was actually an amalgamation of true stories I've seen myself, I was certainly exaggerating a bit :)

I think a lot of things come together for this pattern, which definitely happens quite a lot. Best predictor for this scenario is a clear divide between product and BI people, usually exacerbated by the fact that non-technical people get hired for BI.

Group bias by backend engineers who see BI as "just some point and click" which isn't really that challenging (but usually much better paid, as they are catering sales/bizdev/C-level which is always closer to the money) also doesn't help.

Also, as you say, often times the value of BI doesn't trickle back down the chain and that way, tracking is at most a second thought for application engineers when going prod.

Having built two analytics stacks myself (and seen the perspectives from BI, backend, sales and marketing alike) these are exactly the drivers we tackled first at our current company.

Our recipes against this common failure are: Marketing directly working with product engineers for their tracking requirements (with just some coaching from tracking pros) - and dual-using our analytics stack (Snowplow -> Redshift) for both operations (user segmenting, push notifications) and business intelligence.

This is usually considered a big no-no in BI circles which all tend to duplicate data to be on the safe side, but it helps immensely to make sure product and engineering are just as interested in data quality as the BI guys, as they depend on the very same data.

It's certainly not for everyone, but for us, it works really well.
If the internet was 1 page 10years ago today it is 10 million pages. So today Google search is a lot better. Its not that Google search has detiorated its the web that has to much useless data.
I still am able to find what I am looking for in the first 5 results for most things. 10 years ago had to go to the 2nd or 3rd page for some obscure queries. Now it's a lot better at answering direct questions as well instead of just giving results.
Maybe because Sourceforge and Github are not open source.
Right - there's a tendency to see bad things that are done in crony capitalism, and then - in reaction to that - to entrench at the zero-sum fallacy.

I'm interested in this topic - what to do about corporations. Something I think about: if we don't have corporations what replaces them? How do you implement business that require commitments that are larger than family?

For example. Consider a digital social network that was oriented around commercial arrangements. You could form complex contracts in a group, and produce a reputation system formed from sets of people. There would be a deposit system, and an opt-in judiciary for dispute resolution. Could this - a digital upgrade of the icelandic commonwealth - be a more powerful mechanism than The Corporation?

There's a big difficulty in wanting to get rid of corporations, and that is that they emerged from a process of true evolution. The Dutch and then English East-India companies allowed humans to do things that had just not been viable previously. In fact, they were so successful that they could have obsoleted nation states. Certainly the East India company could have, and was reined in only because its shareholders and employees continued to show deference to the crown. Nation-states got scared at that point, and imposed significant political controls - corporations are not allowed to maintain standing armies. So I think it's important to appreciate what powerful tools they are. Any discussion about getting rid of them needs to consider - how do you implement large-scale projects in a hypothetical world without corporations?
What is "risky" about PayPal processing a transaction for someone to a VPN provider, that "may be used for copyright infringement"?

It's not risk. There may be / are reasons, but painting them as "high risk transactions" is entirely disingenuous.
Good point on the final goods distinction, thanks.

The distinction between consumption and income is not significant for a large fraction of the population, and if you are going to track just one number, it really shouldn't be consumption. If you do that, you have no hope of tracking changes in social structures or inequality or wealth accumulation. You would have to track wealth or income too.

Addressing your concern over volatile income is not that important and could compromise the usefulness of the metric. If you propose using GDP or any other linear function instead (rather a logarithm or power-law) then you cannot approximate utility and your number will be insensitive to changes in inequality. If incomes go up for the bottom half by 10%, then GDP would not change by much, though many would be better off. Income taxes are already calculated annually to smooth out these income fluctuations for seasonal workers.
That's certainly true. I thought the article focused more on car-car crashes, but those are obviously important, too. It seems like the considerations in suburban and rural areas are fairly different than urban areas.
People who think that high-level reasoning is easy compared to sensorimotor skills have successfully implemented neither and lack both.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Neural networks can be used to balance robots. They can't be used to generate Agda proofs of non-trivial theorems, or C programs that do something useful, etc.
Anybody use Microsoft's Team Services git hosting? Looks like they have unlimited free repos, although I don't know about public.
Poor article. Read "Assholes, a Theory"[1] for a serious look at the subject. This focuses on why society rewards assholes. That book makes the case that denial of reality and violating certain other social norms yields social advancement.

For a non-serious look at the subject read "TFM - Total Frat Move".[2] This is a very light book, but it captures the fraternity mindset at a party school. The frat is a training ground for assholes. The important item is in the introduction: "All but two US presidents since 1825, 76 percent of the U.S. Senate, most high-level executives, and all of the Apollo 11 astronauts were in fraternities."

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Assholes-A-Theory-Aaron-James/dp/08041...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Total-Frat-Move-W-Bolen/dp/1455515035
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Yes, of course there's an ass-covering provision in there that says they can shut you down at any time, with no recourse.

We'd still like to know why they did so, in this case.
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> I'd class it as a success if it paid for its own hosting and made me more than say $100 a month.

Then yes, absolutely!

Even if you were driven by revenue opportunity, it can still be worth starting a SaaS in a niche with a clear leader as long as you can clearly beat them in a few ways (ie. undercutting price, better UI / UX, etc).
Without an algorithmic feed, the utility of twitter maxes out once you start following more than about 200 people.

The point of the algorithm is to show the user the content he/she wanted to see in the first place but might not have had the patience to scroll for, or might have gotten fed up reading lower quality content and closed the app before reading.

An algorithmic feed will also help a lot with spam detection/prevention.