skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds very similar to the copy-on-write-friendly b-trees used in Btrfs, originally researched by by Ohad Rodeh: http://liw.fi/larch/ohad-btrees-shadowing-clones.pdf
I can testify from my agency days, we had more than one client pass on them as a tech solution because of the goofy branding.
That link doesn't work for me either.
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If you had to put this line in your FAQ:

> I hate blind dates. Can I see some screenshots?

> You can see some screenshots of GitKraken’s UI here.

You may want to rethink the design of your homepage.
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In addition to everyone else's replies, React Native is starting to take off as a next-generation Cordova: Javascript code using native APIs and native UI components rather than using JS and HTML in WebView using native APIs.
Yes, but if they're already downloaded the last decade of your email history... well, I'm not sure how much it helps that you're blocking them from further access. What if they start emailing "helpful" links, invitations, whatever to everyone in your contact list? What if they are rather less strict about how they secure their (your) data, and they're employees spend lunch breaks poking around for public figures who might have interesting histories?

These sharing mistakes are hugely easy to make, and sometimes have unpleasant consequences even with no malice intended on the app company's side.

Someone in our company tried out do.com several months ago, and granted it access to our company directory in Google along the way. We didn't end up using the service; but unfortunately after a while of inactivity they started sending "invitation" emails to not just users on our own domain, but also Google Groups we have set up... some of which include customers of ours who were not at all amused to see that (it appeared) we had exposed their addresses to some random 3rd party without permission.

Apologies all around, of course, but these days it's simply hard to be paranoid enough about this sort of thing. Gmail & Google Apps have tons of useful apps you can add with a few clicks; but what are you actually risking, using them?
GitHub now has a build (we have about 12 builds per github push) that runs all the tests with all feature flags enabled. This doesn't hit problems that only appear in the matrix of some enabled, some disabled, but in practice has worked pretty well and found a few minor issues.
?? Keep dreaming.
Thanks that would be the one. I get this feeling that encryption protocols and standards often end up and all sorts of dank corners of the web infrastructure and finding and updating all of these is really messy task. And I suspect service providers and their customers haven't been really good at keeping track of everything.
What about the name is so negative for you? Do you feel the same about other companies like MailChimp?

In Australia the name is synonymous with online surveys - it wasn't until I moved to the US that I realized that some people think it's such a strange name.
The grandparent comment is an Exhibit A "pull up the ladders" sort of attitude. It's a good thing, not a bad thing, that motivated people can grab the lowest rung and pull themselves up. I started out writing BASIC, moved on to C and PHP, and am now working in Python and JavaScript. It's a good thing that I didn't listen to advice that said "you have to be a computer science student to write programs." I could study algorithms while I was doing entry-level work, and do things like read CLRS and Skiena.
That's pretty shocking even for America. Malad City is pretty remote (population around 2000), but I've never seen a more literal example of "clinging to guns and religion."
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No need to fire anyone. They should hire a legal team that either 1) makes sure the company is able to provide data requested by the Brazilian justice system requests, 2) enables the company to legally refuse such requests.

Though maybe your point is that it is the VP that has the responsibility of taking care of that? In that case I'd agree with you.
They also support sending out unbranded links from research.net.
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Lots of interesting stuff in this session.

"We are a rule-of-law country. The FBI is not cracking into your phone or listening to your communications except under the rule of law," says Comey (1:37). I suppose that's the NSA's job...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-america-doesnt-control-br...
For this one case you're right because the FBI will allow Apple to lock the special OS build to this device's ID. The problem is if the FBI can force Apple to create a special build to order, with features specified by the FBI, they can also be ordered by the FBI to create an OS build that isn't locked to one device. And if the FBI can make them do this, so can any law enforcement or government agency capable of finding an amenable judge, such as say the CIA, the DEA, the NSA, or any random public prosecutor. THAT is the problem.
Apteligent (xCrittercism) campaign (?) against Crashlytics
Thanks, this was at the edge of my memory, but I was struggling to recall :-)

I think Fabrice's demo is much more interesting, as it's significantly denser information.
> OAuth is an authorization system, not a mere authentication system

You're right. Sorry for my sloppy use of AuthN and AuthZ. My point is that for day to day authentication into 3rd party sites which is what I think most people use "Sign in with Google" and the like for might be better served by a 3rd party with less or no data. Less chance of accidents like the subject of this HN thread.

Of course as others have suggested Google could implement a more serious authorization system for elevated or unusual privileges in order to get users, such as this one, to pay attention.
Actually not too surprised. The customer service of SurveyMonkey (and Fluid Survey that they acquired recently) is of D grade now. Getting some rudimentary information about service and internals took years. Now we are looking for other tools as my work publishes few surveys everyday. Their product has not changed in years and seems likes company is confused about the future direction.
Ha ha not really sure you can describe Ben Titzer as a contemporary of Whitfield Diffie. Not really the same age range.
I have high hopes for it, then. ScreenHero remains my favorite screensharing application. Among my circles, its usage has been growing even though you can now only register an account by invitation.
> and a lot of process just to ship out one migration.

I would have agreed with you before working at GitHub, but the end result is that deploying is so easy that 3 deploys does not feel like "a lot of process." On most of our applications I can do this in 15 minutes or less.
Systems of meaning all in flames
> The US "poverty line" is at the ~80th percentile of world income

Is that after adjusting for cost of living?
This attack vector also assumes that 100% of the phone state is in the NAND chip -- is that known to be true? The phone has a lot of modules.

The article is interesting, but it presents a hypotheses with far more confidence than it deserves. People finding the article, and not this discussion, will be misled.
The BBC is state TV.

They care for you on articles about salt intake or the lack of bees. State business they would sell you out in a flash.
Whoa thanks! I'll take a look.
Almost exclusively a command-line user too. The one GUI tool I sometimes use is tig -- I like its status view for staging parts of files at a time if I made too many changes at once.
> genuine mission beyond profit

This may not be entirely clear to you yet, but most (there are exceptions) of the f2p and "social gaming" online games (regardless of whether they're in a browser, mobile phone, or sometimes even on the desktop) do not by design have any mission whatsoever other than profit. The opposite, they are designed to abuse "bugs" of the human psyche (read up on sunk cost fallacy among others) to maximize profits while staying just barely legal.

Zynga and others, quite frankly, are some of the first companies i'd love see crushed by class action lawsuits. I'm sure they've ruined lives with the product they knowingly produce to be as addictive as possible.
Ok, point taken. It depends on context, if people are in the mood for constructive discussion in the first place.

What's interesting is that Lincoln and the Republican Party in the 19th century fought to democratize industry, they condemned wage labour as wage slavery.
I don't use email to have lengthy period conversations.. Didn't even know it was a thing until now!

Almost all of my conversations are over chat and my primary usage of email is to sign up with sites or receive updates on my orders on Amazon/whatever. I haven't felt it as a curse so far. YMMV
What they also really need is being able to manage all slack servers you are in. Something like what discord has.
Same Day ACH has been in talks in the US for years. It may actually come this year.

https://www.nacha.org/rules/same-day-ach-moving-payments-fas...
Regarding open source drivers: Intel's Vulkan driver for Linux is open source. This page has details:

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/blogs/jekstrand/2016/open-sourc...

There's also an older open source driver developed by LunarG and shipped as part of the Vulkan SDK. It's for Intel GPUs too and is deprecated now.
The Nature of Computer Programming
And even Github often gets complaints that you can't limit it to e.g. a single repo.
Go is lighter than the other two. It can run on lesser hardware (or resources) and is pretty much reliable. The code is easy to write and simple. I don't get to "enjoy" too many smart hacks from others in Go. Its a nice language for what it was meant to do: systems programming. Although Elixir is really shaping up to be a solid competitor. Elixir's syntax and idioms are easier to read, IMO.
It's the role of all three branches of government to interpret and obey the Constitution. The courts are just the ones with the final say on which interpretation gets accepted.
I don't see a politically feasible basic income plan of that scale happening anytime soon. But allowing a single mother to cut hours down to 20-30 hours a week from 50 would be a huge win for quality-of-life.

Really, most people who read HN would notice the difference of an extra 5 grand in their pocket each year, and they are on average much wealthier than the people I'm thinking of.
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What you wrote makes no sense. Renouncing citizenship does not remove the legal obligation to pay owed taxes. Quoting http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal-consideratio... :

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Its actually completely seperate from the state, and for good reason. That being said it's biased on Some topics, this included.
"Technology has essentially ziplined past all the difficult social contract and legal infrastructure and face-to-face accountability that led us to negotiate limits on day-to-day expression."

A diverse twitter workforce might have mitigate this earlier.
I said it the other day. The fall of the UK would be highly beneficial for the working man. They are at the heart of surveillance and at the heart of money laundering / tax avoidance globally.

They are the oldest landlords.

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Even V8 javascript implementation is actually quite slow. And it's hard to parallelize.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...
A gentle reminder that Django can be as minimal as you want it to be
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Serious question, never used a git GUI in my life, is there a practical point to it ? I just can't see myself doing it without zsh, my nested .dotfiles, fasd and so on. And worst case scenario, I can always git them back.
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Why was Merkle not included?
As far as I'm concerned, when you renounce your citizenship you no longer have the obligation to pay (new) US taxes regardless of what the US government thinks.

Even under US law after ten years you no longer have to pay income taxes.
> My point is that for day to day authentication into 3rd party sites which is what I think most people use "Sign in with Google" and the like for might be better served by a 3rd party with less or no data.

Or just an AuthN-only protocol, like OpenID.
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Come on, people. Why so many people ITT automatically associating this with "spying" (really?) or even overreach?

Our government aren't making requests secretly. They aren't requesting data in bulk. They aren't asking for a backdoor.

They are requesting data about specific people who are suspects in a specific case. Essentially using a search warrant.
I thought there might be some interest in knowing how people who were in both the 1st and 5th Congresses voted on the Alien and Sedition Acts. This actually consists of four distinct acts, and I chose to focus on An Act concerning Aliens (the second of the four acts).

The short answer is: Federalists voted for it, and Democratic-Republicans voted against it.

If I'm reading the House and Senate Journals correctly, the relevant legislative history is as follows:

1. 1798-06-08: The Senate approves the bill. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsj&fileName=0... https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/5-2/s99

The bill passed by a vote of 17-6 (GovTrack reports this as 16-7 for some reason). Of the 12 members of the 1st US Congress who were senators in the 5th US Congress, two (John Henry and John Vining) had resigned well before the summer of 1798, and four (James Gunn, John Langdon, Philip Schuyler, and Theodore Sedgwick) did not vote on the bill. The remainder voted on straight party lines:

* Affirmative: Theodore Foster, Benjamin Goodhue, John Laurance, Samuel Livermore. (Federalists)

* Negative: Timothy Bloodworth, John Brown. (Democratic-Republicans)

2. 1798-06-21: The House approves the bill, with amendments. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llhj&fileName=0... https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/5-2/h90

The bill passed by a vote of 46-40. Of the 9 members of the 1st US Congress who were representatives in the 5th US Congress, one (William L. Smith) had already resigned at the time the bill was considered, and two others (Thomas Hartley and Josiah Parker) did not vote. The remainder voted as follows:

* Affirmative: Abiel Foster, James Schureman, Thomas Sinnickson, George Thatcher. (Federalists)

* Negative: Abraham Baldwin, Thomas Sumter. (Democratic-Republicans)

3. 1798-06-22: The Senate concurs in the amendments. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsj&fileName=0...):%230020505&linkText=1

Either there was no vote here, or the yays and nays were not requested. The Senate Journal just says that they took into consideration the amendments and resolved that they concur in the amendments.
Thank you! Yes, that's right! I'm not familiar with React Router yet though :(
They already have node which is a mix of javascript, C++ (v8) and c(libuv.) Go is a fine language, and it's ok to want to write infrastructure code in go, but they shouldn't be giving false reasons.
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We abandoned hipchat because the latest app was horrible; constant signouts, lost configurations, sso issues.

Skype is also a mess right now; with chat application bugs, UX issues (why does the freakin' mute button move around) calls that can't be joined or start cyloning, participants are suddenly dropped mid call. Throw in the spying allegations ...

Hangouts is great for video but is a really clunky experience otherwise.

With everbody dropping the ball, there certainly is room for Slack to come in and take control of this space.
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Wow!

This guy really gets it, unlike the clowns running Bank of America.
It’s fascinating to me how many laypeople are saying “public security is important, therefore we should unlock the phone” while many technologists are saying “public security is important, therefore we should absolutely not unlock the phone”.
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There could be some of those, but at least in my circles, the people falling in that category are interested in keeping their U.S. citizenship to keep a future employment door open. Especially in tech, the possibility of being able to work in Silicon Valley (or start a business there) without dealing with H1B sponsorship has some value, even if you have no immediate plans to exercise it.

I do know a few Denmark-U.S. dual citizens (by birth, never lived in the U.S.) who renounced their U.S. citizenship, but that was because of Danish rather than American laws. Until September 2015, Denmark had a public policy against dual citizenship, which among other things required children who were born as dual citizens to choose one when they turned 21, and renounce the other one. Since that requirement was just abolished, I would guess renunciations of U.S. (and Canadian) citizenship by Danes are now going to drop.
i use a gui for two things:

1. interactive staging and committing of only part of a local change. git-cola is way better than the command line flow for this

2. gitk's tree viewing and filtering options are nice. i usually end up just using tig for speed of opening, but if there's a large set of changes i want to navigate through i launch gitk. also it's the easiest way i've found to branch at a particular commit.
Again, I wasn't talking about what's it in "proper english" -- but how it's used in benchmarks.

Kevin Decker, who did the site in TFA, is a native english speaker, and yet he writes "1.5x faster" to mean baseline1.5 (and not baseline + 1.5baseline).

So clearly it's not so "unambiguous" whether you can use faster in this way or not. And in fact, I've never seen any of those benchmarks where "Nx" doesn't mean the final value is N*baseline.