skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Paglia considers herself "a transgender being" and supports the right for everyone "to modify their body at will" (http://bit.ly/1rFwGRx). She also claims to have struggled with gender identity her whole life."

That still don't give her a pass for saying a bigoted crap. She can be Uncle Ruckus all day but that don't take away the Uncle Ruckus crap she's done. I think you need to accept that and move on.

"She wasn't eloquent, and I guess I can imagine how the 30 seconds might be mildly upsetting. But transphobic? A bigot? As just one expression of an inner darkness so vile that all she might ever say is poisoned?"

She misgenders Chaz. She deadnames Chaz. Yeah.... that's Transphobia 101. Denying the actual gender identity of Chaz or any trans person _is_ transphobia and you can't wave a wand to make it into something else. The fact you're defending deadnaming and misgendering is hilarious to me. Do you often deadname and misgender trans friends? Or do you even have any?

"There's plenty of room to disagree with her here and lots of needed expansion, but surely she gives a reasonable enough start to a conversation?"

Unless you're a family member or a _licensed therapist_ which someone has come to for advice you and her have zero say in the lives of trans people. You and her have no moral nor legal right to interfere in our lives and to treat our lives as some sort of academic exercise in my opinion is the lowest most base thing you can do.

And if you were to do it to me personally (if we knew each other) that would definitely end whatever relationship (acquaintance or friendship) we had. If that seems extreme understand that I and many other trans people have endured this sort of thing for _years_ and we get tired of justifying and explaining ourselves when it's pretty clear we're not going to change. So being patronized, belittled, armchair psycho-analyzed, and so on is just not welcome. That's exactly what people like Camille Paglia do.

She's just one tiny example out of millions of jerks that's done the same or worse. IMO, she's the least offensive of the jerks that think they know best for trans people, but none the less she's a vocal one. And she deserves every little bit of criticism and mockery that comes her way. When she admits once in her life that maybe she's wrong when it comes to criticizing trans people's mere existence then we can talk issues respectfully. But that's a non-negotiable condition. Human dignity and common courtesy should not be negotiated, ever.
As a solo developer who had currently paid up for monthly access annually, I feel obligated to feed back that this is pretty good news for me. Go github.

The 5 private repositories was a bit grating and making me considering a move elsewhere. I was going to have to consider changing how I stored/structured my projects in order to stay under what seemed to me to a relatively arbitrary limit, which interfered with some of my automated tools and how I'd set them up to assume a separate repository for each project.

I realise there are a number of bigger organisations for whom this realistically means a hike in prices, and I'm winning relative to their losing, but as someone who wants to keep advantages to the little guys (that's the genuinely little guys, not a bunch of 50-100 guys bankrolled by several SV millionaires/billionaires)...well, I feel its my duty to weigh in with positive feedback against what is probably going to be some negativity from the bigger guys...
FPGA is not magic. SPARC implemented on FPGA will never be competitive with consumer-level x86's
Anti-choice.
Projects that consider "testability" as a requirement tend to produce systems that are perfectly testable, but this is orthogonal to whether the architecture makes sense and can be composed with something else.
1980-2000s: Reagan removes the Fairness Doctrine...

TIL Rush Limbaugh will cause the end of the world. Hilarious.
You have 300 employees and an extra $6/mo/em is going to break you? How much do you spend on toilet paper? :)
It would have been nice to warn beforehand that support for InfluxDB-0.8.X may be broken. I'm having the same issue as https://github.com/grafana/influxdb-08-datasource/issues/3 so if you are still using 0.8.x be careful with this upgrade!
Good handwritten Asm is extremely different from compiler output. For a class that is likely to be "mimic what a compiler does" (which isn't the point of using Asm, but I digress...), probably not.
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> This is a good deal for small organizations that like to have many small repositories (for internal libraries, utilities, micro services, modules, etc).

I'm a small contracting shop: makes more sense to me. I might have 100 repos, but I can only develop so fast. Now all I'm costing GitHub is a little diskspace (which is insanely cheap, especially for text).
Though I can't think of anything strongly against Switzerland at the moment, this is another reason for me to despise governments and law... where one can't even aid someone in ending their unnecessary, completely pointless suffering without getting their life ruined? Yet states often reserve the hypocritical "right" to execute the death penalty.
A sad read, worth it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659474
I was joking
An old friend of mine suggested I try out Viber or Whatsapp to contact her. I had a look at them, but they want full access to all the contacts on your phone, its all or nothing, you cant use either to communicate with select people. So I elected not to use them. Just gonna use email.
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you are doing it wrong. If you want issue management you will buy Jira from the same company which is superior to github. Bitbucket is one tool of many for Atlassian.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668069
Yes everything is a string on the web, but IMO it's not the primitive data types that I'm concerned about so much - it's about the data structure (classes / interfaces). If I refer to my item's description property as `item.descripition`, statically typed language will scream that I have mistyped the property name before letting me run that code or, God forbid, releasing it.
"That's why I'm insulted by your characterization of Ms. Paglia. You haven't lived her experience. You don't know what it is like to be her, yet you consider yourself competent to judge based on your assumptions of her knowledge - and they are assumptions. You simply don't know."

Is she a licensed therapist? If not, then she needs to kindly STFU about issues she has no expertise in. Dunning-Kruger is definitely in full effect with her when it comes to psychology. Especially since her expertise largely revolves around literature and art. Not psychology, not biology, not neurology: art. Think about that for a moment. An Art major is telling trans people they're "deluded" when she doesn't even have the chops to deal with the basics of developmental psychology. So why should anyone that's trans listen to her, exactly?

"She never asked for your opinion of her or your assumptions."

And I didn't ask for her bigoted opinions to be treated as factual currency for how to mistreat trans people. Her words can affect and harm trans people because she's touted as an "expert" where as my words are that of a stranger, a nobody, a nada, thus they're not given the same weight or affect on policy. She knows this and that's why she says the things she says. Both to get seen in print and to possibly gain the favor of the powers that be that are sympathetic to her views.
I prefer to "snooze" tabs using the Tab Snooze Chrome Extension. That way they reappear when I can hopefully give them attention. I can tell the extension to put tabs to sleep until this evening, tomorrow, this weekend, next week (my fave), next month, someday (I haven't tried that one, too scary), or a specific date. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia...
I personally like the bitbucket method.

I get my private repos free, but I can only work with 5 people on them before I have to start paying.
I've only had a cursory glance over it but there's Moira for creating alerts based off graphite metrics

http://moira.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Vastly preferable of course, but that is not in the best interest of Facebook, so why would they? The goodwill (marketing) generated by doing so has to outweigh the loss of control (and income). It appears it doesn't, or they would have done it.

The only other reason to adapt open standards and an open protocol would be government pressure and legislation in the US or the EU.
You seem to be ignoring the comments to the contrary made on your original comment when stating this.

Sure it's going to cost some orgs more, and it makes sense that it does. I'd wager that data at rest (lots of repos) costs a hell of lot less to run than active requests (lots of users).

Personally my bill will be going down from $25 to $7, and I'm fine with that.

My companies bill will be going down from $650/month to $583/month.
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If you manipulated consumption to be identical, you'd still have status - it'd just be based on good looks or other such things.

In fact, realistically, status already is based on things like this. A friend of mine (roughly top 1-2%) complained to me last night that no matter how much effort he puts in, he still won't be as tall or non-bald as I am. And realistically, a hot woman earning $25/year has much higher status than both of us 1-2%ers.

I hardly think it's that simple.

It was your theory that being the richest person in the neighborhood raises your status, not mine. I'm glad we've mutually rejected that theory.

Deluded people move to New York and LA frequently, often to their own detriment, because of the status of residing in such glamorous places.

Why do you believe that they do so for status rather than for other amenities (e.g. access to jobs, NY/LA lifestyle, a desire to be near people they identify with)?

If you are really concerned about such things, the right solution is a pigouvian signalling task - apply a tax to status goods to internalize the externality. E.g., we should tax things like education, suits, good looks, and loudly criticizing Trump on twitter/facebook.
It is interesting to see the development of new patterns of working caused by the features introduced in Swift.

There is so much here I wish I had when I struggled with many software design issues in C++.
Very related: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Bitbucket is ok for private repos. I think private repos are relatively secure there because Atlassian has much of reputation to loose if there is a security breach. Another plus for Bitbucket is the integration with Jira and other Atlassians tools.
Beside that plus points I will rather go to GitLab.com (more features, better UI and integration with 3rd party) but my trust in private repos is lower there than on Bitbucket. I wished we could measure security somehow for private repos between Bitbucket, GitHub and Gitlab.com
Internet has worked before the age of widespread advertising. It will prevail. It might just not be the internet we are having right now. Perhaps it's time to go back to p2p services, simple lightweight websites hosted from home.
Ask HN: Why do companies expect above average talent for average salaries?
Most software companies offer "market rate" and "competitive" salaries. But all of them want exceptional candidates. It's like they're shopping for a Porsche with Hyundai money. I get the idea of dreaming big and trying to catch an offer. But this is just ridiculous.

Before you tell me to look for another company, I did. All of them know the market rate and all of them set their max salary to it. Ask more than that and the guy across the table will look at you like you're insane.

Shouldn't above average talent be paid with above average salaries? I fell like I'm taking crazy pills.

I feel more and more that contracting is the future. Software developers are becoming the new factory workers.
It's the branding that allows Red Hat to effectively restrict distribution of binaries, due to trademarks. Since the source is still available, GPL is fulfilled.
I'm going to assume this is sarcasm and upvote.
It's pretty simple really.

I have a branching factor > 1.0 which means for every tab I open, upon reading that tab, I find at least one more interesting link, and up another tab comes.

It would converge to infinity if my computer didn't crash in a manner causing chrome to be unable to reload, or I didn't periodically hit chrome bugs in the O(1000)'s tab range.
At least as indicated in the video of his death, none of this is relevant. He didn't assault any police officers when he was killed and he didn't appear to be resisting or committing larceny.

Also, you do know that "resisting arrest" just means "the cops don't like this guy", right? (I suppose it's easy for folks who don't interact with the police not to know this.)
As others said, Gitlabs business comes mostly from clients who want or have to have their own on premise solution.
Just tested it on Orange Pi, it's too easy. Does that means that all Allwiner based tablets and phones are vulnerable?
Requisite XCKD reference included. Nerds never fail to be predictable.
I did. Now please explain what you mean. Acting as though anyone who can not read your mind is some sort of mentally defective reject not worth bothering with is in rather poor taste.
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I would recommend you try Tab Outliner[0]. It has a bit of a learning curve and adjust your workflow.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
It's actually 2500% more expensive for the first 5 users. Github will never learn.
You should check out gitlab.com
It seems to me that much of the article can be boiled down to the fact that the standards are being set by people writing software that

a) has to be usable by users with the lowest common denominator of tech savvy and

b) doesn't have to parse URLs out of other text because it encounters URLs only in defined fields

As a result, this software is written to be lenient about trying to interpret URLs input by the user. So it already has to have facilities to transform URLs with improperly encoded special characters such as spaces. This allows it to in turn be more lenient about what it accepts from servers.

With no clear standard for these transformations and the browser makers not sharing their parsing and transformation libraries, the writers of other software that has to deal with URLs are left playing catch-up and trying to reverse-engineer the browsers' undocumented hacks for dealing with not-very-well-formed URLs.

Moreover, many have the additional burden of having to be able to parse URLs out of other text where the delineation of URL start/end may not be clear. Some of the forms supported by browser makers (who don't have to do this) can't reasonably be supported in this context, leading to frustration for developers (let alone users).
Per repo pricing was why we didn't go with github.

Atlassian was our only option till we shopped around till we found Visual Studio Team Services.

For a team of 4. Simply great. No need to pay for Jira or anything at this point.

Now, I won't go back to github even if it was completely free. The value Atlassian gives makes it a much better and attractive offering if you don't like Microsoft.
The Netherlands has the most liberal requirements—depression alone is considered a sufficient justification

To offer additional explanation here: the Dutch euthanasia legislation doesn't explicitly enumerate allowed conditions for termination, it merely requires the patient to be experiencing irremediable suffering.

While that may qualify as "most liberal" for the patient, I'm not convinced our legislation is really that progressive: the legislation merely shields a practitioner from homicide charges iff proper procedure is observed. But "proper procedure" cannot be vetted or signed-off before the act; a criminal investigation will always be opened (as it is required for all non-natural deaths), but will be dropped if a medical ethics board agrees (post facto!) with the practitioner's decision.

From the NVVE site (Dutch Society for Voluntary Termination) [1], a practitioner must:

- be convinced the patient's decision is voluntary and well-informed
- be convinced the patient is experiencing irremediable suffering
(literally "indefinite and unbearable suffering")
- inform the patient about their situation and prognosis
- agree with the patient that no acceptable alternatives exist
- collect at least one second opinion (from a non-treating phycisian)
that agrees with all the above
- perform the procedure according to medical standards

[1] https://www.nvve.nl/wat-euthanasie/zorgvuldige-uitvoering
Terry Tao blogged about this: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/l-functions-and-mo...
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I have all my private projects in gitlab for quite some time, and only my public projects in github..
Your confusing politicians letting inflation kill minimum wage with having minimum wage fail.

Second you completely ignored millions of people who can't be significantly educated or handle significant responsibility, but can hold down low skill repetitive jobs.

Put down your blinders and try looking at the real world.
also thanks from the countless numbers of additional people who mostly read this site and don't comment much
That makes too much sense! Honestly though, the fact that that seemingly obvious suggestion is actually quite difficult means there's something wrong with me or our team culture... something to think about I guess.
The number of very small teams or individuals this encourages to start using github probably allows every organization who can't afford this to leave and github to still increase the money they're making. It seems like a good move based on my imagined profile of their user base. 1 million teens and young 20-somethings just decided they'll give 7$ a month to github.

For bigger organizations, this is practically no money compared to other software they're using. So they'll just take the hit.

Sounds like the only customers being lost were those using github for no-commit users. Is that really a huge segment? If so they just need a special account status to fix this.

I think the question is why this took so long.
It's mostly a vestige of religion. Life is considered sacred and it is not supposed to be your own choice whether you want to live or die but up to god in some form or other.

This then became enshrined in law as well as in medical practice (though in medicine there has long been a recognition that not all life extending medical practice is compatible with medical ethics doctors are still bound by the laws of the land and in plenty of cases doctors that assisted with suicide have been charged with murder).

Quite a few countries have now moved to the point where in the case of grave illness or pain you have the ability to request an end to your life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia
> "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - St. Tomas Aquinas

And yet, when a new explanation is available that conflicts with faith, faith does not give way to it. That's simply wrong.
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>People don't want to pay for quality journalism despite what journalists and media like to tell themselves.

I'm not sure that's really true. We simply have no option. There is no quality journalism online, there are a bunch of crooked people trying to push different agendas, and an unfortunately large group of people willing to pretend whichever trash rags are pushing the agendas they like are "quality".
"However, you need to pick an epoch (zero point), and any choice of epoch is going to feel much more arbitrary than the system as a whole."

How about the best estimation for the 13.8 billion years old Big Bang event? Expressed through the number of galactic revolutions, of course.
> Before you tell me to look for another company, I did. All of them know the market rate and all of them set their max salary to it.

Where are you looking for companies? This matters greatly as to whether or not they have the resources/inclination to actually hire above average talent. No company is going to admit that they actually want employees who are "meh" because they don't actually have much money to spend on development and that their projects are uninteresting and that they don't solve hard problems, but that is sometimes the case.

If you look at the American midwest, it's pretty much what you're describing. If you look at Silicon Valley, NYC, Chicago, Austin, Boston, etc. you'll find huge salary ranges, with compensation easily matching talent (and beyond, in some situations).
It seems most users here don't have gitlab.com in their radar and only mentioning Bitbucket as competitor. I've recently switched all my private personal repos to gitlab.com which also allows unlimited private repositories because gitlab.com seems to have better UI and more features than Bitbucket (when not buying any additional Atlassian Jira etc. products).
yes, but you are comparing apples to oranges. If you had to jump from 125 to 300 users in ONE step as per the current pricing model instead of paying only for the marginal next user.

Recognizing the repository steps are a pain for customers and not moving towards a pricing per _single_ repository, say between 1$ or 2$ per private repository - is just plain misleading. They could have still thrown in the personal plan with a large number of private repositories and fewer collaborators.
We won't live to see any of those things happen except maybe number 3 (although it could be more specific, i.e. which data or index shows the cooling trend and for how long).

And I think you may have missed my point. The hypothetical evidence you listed is mostly "proof of X" and "confirmation of Y" which suggests we disagree about how science works. I'm of the opinion that science does not advance by proving new theories correct, it advances by proving old theories incorrect. A new theory that cannot itself be proven incorrect is not scientific. The empirical evidence you have suggested with number 3 is one possible way to falsify the AGW theory, but it is somewhat vague and might mean waiting for a long time. Additionally, without the AGW theory we have no good reason to expect either warming or cooling in particular, so either one is not what Popper called a "risky prediction".

I get the impression that you want me to go along with political action and engineering projects that I don't agree with. Perhaps you will continue to do so until some as yet unspecified temperature measurement shows a cooling trend for some as yet unspecified period of time, or we are both dead.

From my perspective the theory has not made any risky predictions, and that has to happen before we can speak of confirming it. The situation is fundamentally biased against the activist politics. Not surprisingly, lots of the same activists have been trying to declare Popper "obsolete" for some time. I encourage you to read his essay and consider for yourself:

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.htm...

"Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if, unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have expected an event which was incompatible with the theory — an event which would have refuted the theory."

It is an interesting question though - what risky prediction can be or has been made based on the AGW theory? The "polar ice will disappear by X year" statements are the closest thing I can think of.
Snowden interview: Why the media isn't doing its job
Market going down 20% is what, going back to mid 2013 levels? Hardly a scary crash.