skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You speak to counter the claim of downsides to having an American passport"

No, I spoke to counter this claim: "If you don't intend to return to the USA there are no benefits to US citizenship, only downsides."

I did not comment on the downsides. I spoke only of the benefits, which the parent comment said did not exist.
This. This first announcement is a great start to restoring a bit of reputation to SourceForge however I hope some of the next posts will announce the long-term vision of the new owners for the platform. Monetization is what brought SF down, without a definite plan it's hard to know what's going to stop SF from going back down later on.
Source Forge amazing? Tell me you are kidding!
I think asking a less litigious and confrontational question might be more productive such as "What do you think I could do/change/improve to make my next interview more successful?"
No Android will switch to newer OpenJDK so Scala 2.12 would be a valid target.
I do Java projects for more than 15 years. I know the times when XML-based configuration was the standard. Now, I am working on the MVP of my startup, with Dropwizard. The XML days feel like stories from a fairy tale.

But I have to say that XML is often blamed by people who think that complexity would magically vanish. Complexity does not vanish. It can only be shifted around. And it often requires lots of iterations to find an approach that is good enough for everyone. Back in the days, if tooling was right, I did not care about the amount of XML.
Joke's on you, the sole reason Github "community" exists is to attract customers to their enterprise plans. That's where the money is earned.
Impressive. At a glance, that's really well designed. Why haven't I heard of this before?

I like the emphasis on sample code, and that the pulldown on the front page let's you view quite a few samples to get a feel for the language.

The boundary between eC and Ecere isn't immediately clear, though. And the site felt a little shy of technical details. I think it outputs C which is then compiled with an outside compiler?

Presumably I'll find more details in the introductory manual, The Ecere Tao of Programming: http://ecere.org/tao.pdf
Yes, we need 10000 steps every day. Its very good to lead a healthy life..
Relying on interviews is not a great hiring strategy [1]

Better to use testing, either by psychometrics or assessment days (group tasks, short notice presentations etc.). [2]

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140606071003-7589947-no-cor...

[2] http://www.inc.com/articles/2002/01/23815.html
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No, Its not right. If you see the current status then in India most people like a slim girl than a fat girl...Most people love attrative things not natural things..
They weren’t spectacular. But Sourceforge was, at one time, respected and relied upon by the indie Open Source developer community. Much time has since passed, they ended up sullying their own name, but this retraction, even though it might be a tad late, is welcome. (I was glad to see it).
I didn't ask them to maintain it forever. I said they should prevent the insecure versions from running, which is what their current policy is anyway.
You should take a look at Phabricator, then: http://phabricator.org/

It has more features than Gitlab, anyway.
It is right there in the second paragraph on the about page: https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy3
Why should foreign stuff not be protected by copyright? Think about american movies or software written in america not being protected abroad.

It's also not the US that owns the copyright but the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, which got the copyright from her father.
Morality has nothing to do with money changing hands or not. People would consider it immoral for Google to fail to patch serious vulnerabilities in Chrome on supported platforms, even though Chrome is free. Why? Because Google advertises Chrome as being secure and failing to patch it leaves millions of people vulnerable to exploitation.

It's very disturbing that there are people in the tech industry who think that giving a product away for free absolves you of any moral responsibility.
And what if you are working with more than one person on the same private code base? You work on the same machine? Extreme programming?
The fact that the left (as you look it it) wing moves from shoulder to tip and the right from tip to shoulder breaks it for me.
Was it really bit by bit? In most of the world, the Berne convention - signed in 1886 - implemented a copyright length of author's life + 50 years. This was a massive leap for most countries.

Even in the US, the people behind the Sonny Bono Act (aka Mickey Mouse Protection Act) proposed indefinite copyright - MPAA's Jack Valenti actually suggested "forever less one day" to avoid the Constitutional restriction! The life + 50 years was the compromise they could reach.
I'd be happy to write a final version of Chrome for those platforms that was just a "This platform is no longer supported" message. I'd even do it for free.
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This seems like an excellent opportunity for SourceForge to become a better GitHub. GitHub, as good as it is, has quite a few weaknesses which they are in no hurry to address. SourceForge could change all that by going after GitHub's corporate business in order to monetize their business and improving every aspect of the free side of the business to match or exceed GitHub feature for feature.

SourceForge have stumbled, badly, but if they play their cards right, this could become a very exciting time for open source.
Xcode doesn't follow the rules that 3rd party apps must follow. It's not possible for a 3rd party to distribute an app like Xcode through the app store.
Unfortunately, this is a situation that requires zero-tolerance. The cost of a single candidate reinterpreting what you say and dragging you into court is too high to risk. Even if the case is complete BS, the cost of arguing over BS will make you regret every reasonable candidate that you tried to help.
For a git solution in python this is quite good: https://kallithea-scm.org/.
Where are these buried cache files? I need to check this out, and I'd like to either find them or be sure I don't have them.
It doesn't "overrule" it. NL copyright law applies to NL, not to the US.
Shapeoko forums and wiki hacked – obfuscated PHP found, we're trying to reverse
Is anyone around with experience reversing obfuscated PHP code?

We're trying to figure out what the code implanted by some hacker types in our forum pages does:

http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7659

Initial reversing of code here by jacob32123, one of our Community members:

http://pastebin.com/U6qwqhSX
(line 221+ has more decoded info)

If people are around with interest in this kind of thing, and time to assist... it would be really helpful. :)

http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7659&start=10#p60550
Ask HN: I'm bored. What's something you wanted coded up?
Ask, and I may just make it real.
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> The UI wasn't great but how many reliable alternatives were there at the time?

None. But when Github came around, there were also no reliable alternatives at the time (other than google code which sucked as well) and it was still a thousand times better than everything else.

Sourceforge was never "amazing". It was never "great". It used to be decent and the only player in the game. When Github came around, it quickly lost both those attributes.

I don't know why people fondly remember the "old sourceforge days" - I remember those days and they sucked.

Don't let the lack of competition forgive how bad something is.
My home directory looks something like this:

bin/ - scripts I use
build/ - software I build
doc/
biz/
taxes/
YYYY/
...
budgets/
receipts/
house/
travel/
personal/
notes/
...
projects/
projectA/
docs/
invoices/
contracts/
proposals/
presentations/
...
bin/
src/
repoA/
...
archive/ - old data
people/
johndoe/ - sent to me by someone else
YYYYMMDD/
...
...
...
projectN/
crap/ - Junk organized by date
YYYYMMDD/
...
Fastboot Mobile Announce the Future of Push Services: Ownpush Alternative to GCM
What bothered me the most is when the tenant does not warn of malfunctions and breakdowns.
very well put
BitBucket doesn't have code search. GG.
Because of the debt spiral induced imperative of growth.
You probably don't remember that CVS was a wonderful improvement over RCS just like Subversion was a big step forward from CVS. Git is awesome but someday it will be outdated too.
Any chance this is your kind of thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093339
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Creating new things that people like to spend their time on will help stop a bit of those funds getting to the bad actors. Until the bad actors figure out how to 'own' the new activity in some way.
I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but the only one of your acronyms I'm familiar with is UK. But perhaps that because my answer to your first question would be 'no'.
Lawsuits. They ruin everything.
Except that, in all but the most intangible possible metrics, at least in the US women officially get better educations, as measured by graduation rates, grades, and sanctions including most especially medical interventions (for ADD), for both K-12 and college. And in the former most of their teachers are women.
> I can't see one for Kotlin.

You can't see a future for a language that offers far more succinct code than Java, but maintains the ease of Java?
EU data protection does, but only if the notes are computerized.
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It's a trivial conversion from Java to Kotlin, as opposed to Scala or Clojure, so I wouldn't expect people to be hiring explicitly for it.

And the fact that 1.0 RC was just released this month might tell you other reasons why. How many Scala jobs did you see advertised when 1.0 was released in 2004?
There is not too much information on their home or github page. There's more hints an pointers in the documentation http://adhocracy3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/, but it would be interesting to see some kind of an overview with features, work flows etc.

It seems that they also have an older version running on Python2: https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy, docs: http://adhocracy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Would love to see tools like this and/or others [1][2] come more widespread and commonly used in the democratic decision making process. I am naively hoping it will help engaging more people in the democratic process again in Europe. Transparent democratic discussion and decision making is a hard problem to solve that doesn't scale well in real life. Figuring out how to scale-up the number of participants with the help of tools like this is democracy's only hope for a bright future.

[1] https://www.loomio.org/
[2] https://consider.it/

edit: typos
@loganabbott, How will you manage SF? It seems like a big job and if you already own hundreds of websites doesn't this spread you pretty thin? How much are you willing to spend on improving SF? Are you ultimately after ad revenue?
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create an app that allows me to find out what fun, interesting events are happening locally in the next few hours - days. Let me filter by my interests and distance. Make intelligent suggestions based upon artificial intelligence.
British teenager suspected of being mystery hacker who stole CIA boss emails
Understanding that...

I've used and known of Dice (sice it was a dialup BBS), Slashdot (before there were user accounts), and Sourceforge (when VA Research were kicking ideas around for how to host free software development). Knew the principles of the latter two personally.

All three of these companies were at one time useful, valuable to their respective communities, and had exceptionally high goodwill. All three squandered it.

I'm not saying it's impossible to return from a breach of trust such as that ... but it's awfully unlikely. There are reasons you don't cash in your reputation. It's almost always a one-time deal. And high-toned protestations that firms or pricipals have changed their ways are almost always not borne out. Spamford Wallace and Microsoft come to mind -- twenty and thirty years of dirty tricks later, they're still little trusted. IBM is a possible exception -- it's difficult to overstate just how loathed the company was at the end of the 1980s, and how much it had recovered by 2000 (much thanks to its role with Linux, Apache, and Perl).

It's looking as if rough weather is setting in to Silicon Valley, and among the mettle which will be tested are a slew of tech-heavy firms, many trusted with a great deal of personal information either intercepted from browsers and devices, or entrusted and offered directly by users. Temptation for existing or future business owners to cash in that trust will be high.

Slashdot and Sourceforge should stand as cautionary tales.
This simply looked at resting heart rate. Sure, you could do better then 10k step a day to improve that, but this does not mean there are no other benefits to 10k steps. As the article points out, there's no study of it.

For me personally, I find walking is fun, and simple to integrate in my routine. It burns an extra 300 cal a day, and forces me to spread my activity throughout the day. That last one is important, because there is a growing number of evidence that inactivity is very bad for you, and that exercise is not enough to counter the effect. What you need is to decrease your periods of inactivity. Finally, walking is very safe and easy on your body.

That's not to say any other alternate type of activity wouldn't be just as good, or better. When it comes to exercise though, anything is better then nothing, so if 10k works for you, keep at it.
Another option is to tax intellectual property at the rate of real property in the countries that they want to claim copyright in. The holder of the copyrighted material will have to declare how much the intellectual property is worth, and be forced to put it in the public domain (or maybe transfer ownership) if some entity pays the declared worth of that asset.
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Check our https://rhodecode.com it supports git, mercurial and subversion.
I agree SF was awesome in it's day. The Windows guys never really got on board which may be why some of the commentators here don't agree. It was an Open-Source thing before Open-Source was accepted by corporate America.

You can say the UI wasn't great but for it's time it was great. You have to remember this was way before any of the the Web tools people use today, except for PHP, but few use PHP now. These were the days when you had to support IE6 and every browser behaved somewhat differently.
DPA is the Data Protection Act, a law that governs how PI (Personal Information) can be stored, used and shared.
To be honest, designing a good programming language is not just collecting random good features from other languages and gluing them together. Particularly, adding new features to an old and mature language like Java or C++ is very hard if not impossible to do right. We have a few examples of this in happened already in Java world: half-broken generics or support for lambdas with no proper map/filter etc. on basic collections (forcing to do a lot of conversions to/from streams). Sure, it is better than no generics or no lambdas at all, but it is Java that really looks like a hack now, not Scala.

There is also stuff that probably can't be taken out from Java without major backwards compatibility issues. E.g. Scala has no distinction for primitive/box types, which makes it much simpler and more elegant for basic imperative/OOP programming than Java.

As for frustration working with Scala - I didn't notice, despite working on a few projects for a few years now. I've known only one programmer in my whole career who complained about introducing Scala into one project because "Scala was too complex" and guess what... he was one of the poorest Java programmers on that team at that time. Java did not save him either. Reading his Java code was probably much more frustrating than waiting 5 minutes for a full Scala build would be. Poor programmers do exist and you should not blame the tool just because someone can't properly learn how to operate it.
Seems like an interesting potential product/project.

The Blog seems a bit awkwardly worded - "is open source" instead of "is going open source", as there doesn't seem to be a code repository available yet, nor licensing info, (etc).

But, it sounds like you'll be off to a good start when you get those bits in place. :)
Unicorn has always been the perfect name. In the beginning it conjures pictures of a majestic, beautiful, and rare animal. And then later you realize it's just a pretend fantasy.
Because when their own bills go up, they have an incentive to vote for things that bring the cost of housing down. When they don't have to pay for the cost of housing, but instead personally benefit through increased housing value, they will of course vote for it.
Why, considering that US copyright laws are ones of the worst, Wikimedia Foundation is still based here? They should move to other jurisdiction.
The world has a few other languages besides Java, Python and Ruby. Not every language has a GIL, and its the damn 2010s and we've got other concurrency models worth trying beside the 90's staple of mutex-littered multithreaded apps or callback hell.
My morning routine back in the days where the classic asp/.NET v1 transition was happening:

• Read a bunch of RSS feeds in NetNewsWire.

• Catch up on recent activity at FreshMeat, and learn to understand the code.

• Catch up on recent activity at SourceForge, and learn to understand the code (often by simply retyping it into Visual Studio by hand, partly for muscle-memory, partly as a way to think through the problem).

• Maybe read more articles on how to use SVN.

I learned a lot about how to code just with this routine. It would be great to know that aspiring coders would be able to do the same in this day and age.

I wish you well, and hope that you become relevant again. SourceForge was a huge part of my learning experience as a budding developer.
I wouldn't be so sure. A bunch of Android developers are severely hurt from being stuck with Java 7. I'd expect many production apps to be written in Kotlin pretty soon, about as fast as the switch from Objective-C to Swift went.
There are no non-dumb politicians; dumbness is a feature of this occupation much more than of particular people involved.
ES6 is the variant of the language we will be using in the future (and many of us presently). It's not a fancy gewgaw that hipster devs use to look cool.
Lots of Java packages don't use XML. Just on the web app servers: Play, Vertx, Spring MVC, Dropwizard, and others don't use XML. The new crop of micro framework stirred clear of XML: Spark Framework, Pippo, Rapidoid, Blade, and Jodd.
I stand by my statements concerning Slashdot, DICE, and Sourceforge.

I had no idea what BIZX LLC was, and the press release DICE provided (linked from my post) gave no information. The travel / tourism information came from BIZX's own website: https://www.bizx.info/

https://www.bizx.info/about-bizx

As for the name, I call 'em as I see 'em. ".biz" as a TLD has negative equity so far as I'm aware, and BIZX is hardly an improvement on that. I'd suggest considering something more substantial sounding, specific, and trust inspiring.
It's worse than this. I believe gamification increases one's dependency on dopamine.

... and I would bet that dopamine addiction makes you extremely unhealthy, because you chase the satisfaction through your day: One more series, one more 9gag/facebook/HN page, one more cookie. Society rewards mental strength a lot: If you are so strong that you can clear your life from unnecessary immediate satisfactions, you'll be filled with time with friends, you'll be more focussed at work, you'll dominate situations, you'll love yourself.

If this interpretation were to be correct, then gamified apps/gamified fitness/rewards on a screen are harming your mental strength, which harms your fitness.
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The biggest reason I don't use Google Photos is the lack of a slideshow functionality. Think about it. It's a photo app and doesn't have fullscreen functionality, which is a requirement basically.

I'll continue to use Picasa.
> you do need good training to onboard the folks who don't have scala experience

I can see where you're coming from, however I noticed that people experienced in Java and some other different programming language, like Python, Ruby or C++, don't need much baby-sitting to learn Scala. I've been showing some of my Scala code to other peers who don't do Scala daily for review and I never heard a complaint "I can't understand what this code is doing". More often I hear it feels quite Pythonic, only with braces and type annotations...
Your making an assumption that tax rates are directly proportional to revenue. In fact, for elastic demand, tax rates are inversely proportional to revenue. This is why utilities such as water and power can essentially raise taxes at will because it hardly effects the demand. While online shopping.. If it's taxed more people would just find and alternative or just not buy at all.

If you lower taxes on something that means more people use it or buy it, which means there's a net gain of taxable activity as a rate approaches zero. Of course a zero tax doesn't follow those rules, but an increase of internet activity results in an increase of sales which means an increase in the amount of taxes paid by that business, an increase in the number of people hired and thus an increase in the amount those people pay in taxes.

So a zero Internet tax rate would necessarily increase economic activity resulting in an increase in overall revenue despite a lower effective rate.

The Keynesians ought there might disagree, but Friedman proved them wrong in the 1970s.

I know the left wing is in love with high taxes but that's based on the mistaken understanding that the government is a better arbiter of how to spend our money than we are as well as a political desire to give things to people that didn't earn them.
One can argue that it should be the opposite of an income tax.

If the value of your house goes up because you remodel the kitchen, then it seems fair that you should be able to pocket that value. You did the work, so your taxes should not increase.

If the value of your house goes up because the government opens a new light rail station nearby, then you did nothing to earn this, so it seems fair that society should be able to get higher taxes from you.

In a speculative bubble, you did nothing to earn the extra value, but---arguably!---neither did the government, so it is less clear cut.
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Sourceforge added svn and git later and also CVS was advanced when it was released. Funny or ironical GitHub also provides centralized version control like svn/cvs via pull requests, which I am not a very big fan of due to unlimited, useless fork lying around without real purpose. So actually github undo what git was set out to achieve, provide a distributed version control.

As stated earlier with the closure of Google code the viable alternative for github are not many, so more the competition better it is. Sourceforge project of the month and list of end-user project pages is nicer then Github. Also I use ohloh.net to compare multiple-project and their activity even if they are on github. If sourceforge can make similar analysis, will use them more.