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Putting aside the completely unsourced FUD in your comment

Which of my claims are you questioning?

My question was why would you consider a network that is openly financed by Qatar objective, and an organization that is not financed by Israel "Israeli PR"?

I think Al Jazeera is relatively objective (compared to other news networks) because they often include people with opposing views on their shows. Beyond that, I don't think objectivity is the be-all and end-all of news networks. I can't watch CNN because its programming is directed towards children: lots of flashy opinion, idiotic conventional wisdom, a shockingly limited window of acceptable discourse, very little actual news content regarding issues that matter (as opposed to celebrity 'news'), etc. I'd hesitate to trust Al Jazeera's reporting on Qatar, but Qatar isn't a very important country and Al Jazeera has managed to piss off a lot of middle eastern dictatorships and monarchies.

In contrast, MEMRI has been strongly criticized by scholars like Juan Cole: http://www.juancole.com/2004/11/intimidation-by-israeli-link... Beyond that, how do you know that MEMRI isn't financed by Israel?
Either it's: intentional, or they just don't give a damn.

Considering the sources of most of their revenues, I'd say #2 is most likely. Companies that have been in Enterprise that long, making hand-over-fist money from mediocre products, acquired IP, and vendor lock-in often have a "quaint rag-tag" view of the FOSS development community.

I tend to think it's a myopic viewpoint, but then again we are a tiny indie shop, and they are multi-billion dollar company.
I have two repos living in "Repository temporarily unavailable" status for several days now. I understand that shit happens, but what's really frustration is inquiry about what can or will be done about it and getting no response.

Do I wait? Do I just move stuff to my own server? Go back to Gitorious?

It's not that I can't keep working, but the main reason I use Github is to make my OSS projects available. For other things I run my own server and my own git host. Having a project unavailable to people for days, when I'm trying to get bug fixes and such out, is not so good.
I'm a student, and I make a new git repo for each assignment or class. Github would become extremely expensive if I was to do this.

And my model for working on git projects is not distributed. We use a centralized model (which is totally viable and one of the many uses) instead of pull requests and branches. On small projects, I find this faster and easier for people to use.

Yes, I have backups, but when my centralized repo goes down, it's annoying to tell people to start pushing and pulling to a USB drive. Workflow is the issue, not losing work.
Not to mention apparently being complete dicks to Kohsuke Kawaguchi; who not only founded the project, was the primary contributor while at Sun, and remains the primary contributor since leaving; but also has a rep for being a very nice person. Apparently Oracle / some oracle VP Ted were big enough assholes that KK declined to work with them in any capacity in the future [1].

So yeah, Oracle continues making friends with open source folks.

[1] http://kohsuke.org/2011/01/26/one-last-plea-for-hudsonjenkin...
In that case, also recall that the "net impact" that he has already had on the world economy in terms of jobs created, sales taxes on products sold etc. is probably much larger than whatever you would tax his income "fairly".
more importantly, why can't people OUTSIDE the US watch hulu?
Another difference is the human eye's retina is built the wrong way around with respect to nerves - light has to go through the nerve layer and capillaries to reach the photosensitive cells.

There's more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina
Ambitious and completely impractical. All that it requires is that everyone change everything they do.

Here's a better idea, invest in efficiency. If we insulated buildings properly they wouldn't need any heating/cooling - See passivhaus. If we designed cars properly they'd get 50+mpg already (See europe). If we did things bit by bit to improve efficiency we could easily become energy independent and even an exporter.

Have a look at the rejected energy portion of that graph. The worry isn't creating more energy, it's doing more with what we already have.

1. https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/en...
Well, every resource is locally on some physical machine somewhere. I think his point is that Github is often treated by its users as a "local" resource, in that it takes the place of what would otherwise be a local server running a Git front end or repository.

Now, Github probably wouldn't encourage total reliance on their service. Git is fundamentally distributed, so this doesn't have to be a problem. Still, the Github service is an integral part of many developers' workflow, and I do agree with the above commenter that I'm not sold on the idea of trusting remote servers with integral steps in my workflow.
It's not like that.

I offer you $150k to take anytime within the next few months. You can take them now...or wait and see if you get a better deal in a few weeks. The $150k is still here. For you, if you need it.

Just don't rush is all I'm saying.
Well, it's only weak evidence if you're not also a scammer.
You mentioned Github would be prohibitively expensive if you were to use it for all of your school assignments?

Github actually has a program where if you tell them you are a student/professor you can get free private repo's.
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Unfortunately, first-year users will only vote on what they see, and if they don't consistently use the classic view - which I expect very few would - then they will most likely only vote on what everyone else has voted on. Thus, classic wouldn't be expected to be significantly different from the regular home page, and thus it cannot measure the decline.
Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh knew how to take care of the rich. They just killed them and took all the money.

The totally uneducated and illiterate Chingis Khan took a different tact. He conquered territories and then collected taxes from and "protected" the commercial caravans that traversed his extensive real estate holdings. Chingis had his problems but his dynasty lasted longer than the others for sure.
It's interesting to hear about these emerging hybrid niches. Clearly the idea of hybrid positions extends beyond just art and engineering. It can span across many different kinds of disciplines: content, instructional design, business, programming. Those that can cross between these different areas can really tie together the threads of communication and understanding across different parts of a project.

That said, I think it's also really crucial for every member to be a specialist in something. The most productive group dynamics I've been in have been the ones where each member clearly understands their role and can execute it with flourish. Most of the talented bright people I know are usually hybrids in some regard anyway but above all, they are outstanding in a specific way which the other team members recognize.

If I had to choose between 5 people each with their respective DEPTH of knowledge and ability vs. 5 hybrids with breadth, I'll take depth in a heartbeat. Although, it might be cool to have 1 hybrid with excellent communication skills and 4 specialists!
I don't think I follow the whole story. What exactly did you pay for? Did you pay him for his time, because when you say "I paid for that, plus some sort of marketing campaign..." I wonder what that is. If you paid for advertising, who got the contract? Is there no invoice?

Are you sure the terms were clear? If the other party kept the money in exchange for his efforts--and that seems likely--then I don't think there's a lot too this.

If the money was for an advertising campaign, I'm not sure why you feel that you're owed the money. What you're doing comes with risk of failure.

Perhaps I missed something in there. I think it's awfully aggressive to make public accusations of wrongdoing without explaining the arrangements that were made.

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I re-read your account, just to make sure I didn't miss the point, and I pretty sure I did not. This really sounds like you offered money for a stake in something that didn't take off, and you admit that you were not diligent in entering into this deal. That's the game. I suppose it's up to how your contract is written.
If you still have the money, forget about this programmer and go find a new one. Make sure you meet with the new programmer and find if he/she will be committed to the project. Get to know them, then hire them.
exactly. just like the history channel wouldn't date to show long feature history instead of opinions and repetition of a non-fact theory.

or the discovery showing something scientific, and not red neck soap opera while they chop bikes or trees.
"GitHub is just another place to have a hosted version of your repo, with a nice UI and social features."

The main point of Github is the social aspect; git just makes that easier.

They were other public git hosts before, but they didn't get the traction of GitHub because they didn't offer the same magic as The Place to share code.

It's git hub for a reason.
sounds like knighthood titles and special last name salutations (I don't speak Polish, but my understanding is that last names ending with a "tzky" indicate some royal/lord designations). Some of these are transferrable.
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I don't get CNN International or BBC News on Comcast, but I do think it's amusing that every time CNN needs real reporting (like when the Egypt story broke), they just cut to CNN International, where at least some level of real reporting is happening.
Thingiview actually grew out of another project I'm working on to do just that called CloudSCAD: http://blog.cloudscad.com
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Just posted to the support page.

"Sorry guys, there was a Javascript error displaying an error when there was none. We've deployed a fix for this and everything should be good to go."
I've heard the line several times: "Costs the same so long as you add in total system cost." Then they proceed with estimates for everything from accidents to climate change related costs. This sounds like handwaving to me. You could make anything cost competitive with variables that large.

What is the total system cost from throwing out an entire nation's infrastructure?
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Whenever I see comments to this effect, I always wonder if people are familiar with their history.

Note, I'm not accusing you of this, just saying it makes me wonder. Silicon Valley, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Fairchild Semiconductor..HP..all these things were funded with federal defense money way back in the day. Just saying Ca may be "bailing out" the rest of the country, but the rest of the country invested a great deal in Ca as well.

Don't get me wrong - I love this place and see where you're coming from.
This seems to be fixed now - for my repo at least.

The GitHub guy saying it was a "JavaScript display error" is incorrect though. I was pulling a repo and getting an old version.

EDIT: I'm not getting the javaScript display error, but I'm still missing my commit, so I guess these errors are unrelated :/
You met someone on the internet. You sent them money. Presumably, you have no contract (at least you didn't mention it). The person who has your money isn't doing what you want. You've realized doing this was amazingly stupid.

Consider the money you've spent and the time you've wasted extra credit for your "how to do business" degree. Seriously, you should know better. If you want to start and build a company stop looking for people to implement your ideas and go find a true collaborator. Find someone you can sit down with over coffee and look in the eye. Find someone that shares your vision and complements your skills. Don't just be the "guy with an idea and money" because those guys get taken by slime balls like this. Be the guy that recruits a team, manages the business, forms the company, drives the team, finds early customers, gets the logo designed for nothing by hustling hard--the guy that does everything else. This guy is useful to coders. IMO, your money and your ideas are worthless to people with good intentions. You have to bring more to the table than that. The good news is "all the other stuff" requires only that you have a brain and work really hard to make things happen.

Don't waste another moment worrying about this. Drop it. Move on. Spend your time and energy on creating something positive and always remember why this happened.

Assholes are everywhere. Starting a business is risky and hard. The ONLY risk you can conceivably reduce (never eliminate) is the interpersonal risk between you and the people you choose to spend your countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears with.
Are suicide rates higher among 'the rich and famous' than among average people?

If not, this really has no merit. People kill themselves because they have mental health issues, not because they come to realize that success isn't the secret to happiness.
"This is the only reason I decided to use Github after avoiding Sourceforge and their ilk for the past decade and a half."

But why github? Why not gitorious.org?

If github goes away, I still have my code, but I lose any issues people have filed on the site, and I lose being able to easily check on forks of my projects where people might be doing interesting stuff.

I had been using gitorius.org, but moved to github for all the things other than git that makes one public git host different from another.
This is Github's subdomain pointing to Amazon CloudFront. No news here, move along.
This is a straw man argument. The question isn't whether Git could be more intuitive/user-friendly (Hint: It should be, in fact I bet my company on it [see my profile]), or whether it is more secure/cheap to host your own repo.

If you have a million people `pull`ing from your repo, of course you should have be hosting your own public access point. But, in 80% of cases, people can't be bothered to figure out how to set up Gitosis, pay for slices, mess with DNS, etc. just to host a repo.

To put it another way, see: Heroku vs. EC2
About fame: I consider being famous a curse. If you are a celebrity you have no privacy. You can't go to a restaurant without noticing the people whispering about you. At least that's how I would imagine it would be.

I think fame within your field is best. Take DHH, for example. He's got a great reputation as a programmer but he can still eat his lunch in peace.
The article reminded me of this quotation from JFK: "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
The source poem the embedded song references (by Edwin Arlington Robinson): (\ns for stanza breaks)

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Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean-favoured and imperially slim.

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And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good Morning!" and he glittered when he walked.

(\n)

And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine -- we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

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So on we worked and waited for the light,

And went without the meat and cursed the bread,

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet in his head.
But git-over-http is just a normal http client, and http supports redirects. So while nobody does this, it's possible to load-balance http clients to "valid" servers just like you would with any other http-based app.

ssh:// and git:// are more difficult, but project contributers with commit access can just ping you on irc to see what's up with the repo and where to push to today.
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There is an opportunity for Al Jazeera in the USA because the signal to garbage ratio on our local networks has become intolerable.

Most thinkers in this country get their news from the web, but live TV still has it's merits and there is a cavernous gap in the market for quality international news coverage right now.

If Al Jazeera manage to capture some of that market, they could attract a more educated (and wealthier) demographic than CNN, CNBC and Fox. i.e. a more lucrative market for advertisers.

Because they're streaming online, there really is very little standing in their way. If I was a major US network, I'd sit up and take notice.

Al Jazeera reaches over 100 million homes:

http://english.aljazeera.net/aboutus/2007/10/200852518483043...

It wouldn't take much to become the most popular international network in the country.

Prime time viewers over the age of 2:

Fox News: 2.1 million

MSNBC: 950k

CNN: 483k

CNBC: 303k

HLN: 462k

Source: Nielsen, Jan 28, 2011.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/01/28/cable-news-ratin...
Out of curiosity, how much money did you invest in this?
No, everything claimed is easy to verify. Races aren't segregated, racism isn't taught (as in, it's not part of the curriculum.) All races are equal under Israeli law. Your education on this subject had to have been seriously skewed to think otherwise.
Git has full cryptographic history (and data) authentication, so any changes to the history would be easily detectable. And you can sign known-good commits, so that even if you've never pulled before, you can still verify the part of the history that's been signed.

SVN and CVS are missing this key feature, which is why the sf.net hacking is scary.
What better deal? This turns into an extra $150k of investment in any future deal you get.

If someone takes this and then Sequoia knocks on their door the next day offering them $20M at a $100M valuation, the fact that they took this deal just means that they get $20M+$150k at a $100M valuation.
I didn't know that, thanks! Free is always nice :)
Voting based on agreement has been going on since at least 1078 days ago (which is before when I registered as a user, after about a year of lurking beforehand).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
http://friendfeed.com/ -- Less really is more. Remember how Gmail looked before featuritis? The rare right-side menu, and it's customizable. The original mouseover profile cards, later implemented on Twitter and Facebook. Simple theming.

Tweetdeck -- In a world of white, this web app dares to be dark grey. Skinny columns for a dense matrix of information. I just wish it would snap to columns when scrolling horizontally.

http://arstechnica.com/ -- Pretty standard blog layout, yet tasteful from the maroon banner to the neat category logos. And a lot of elements just seem to line up. The writing's not bad either.
I also want to know, because the sites look so unprofessional.
What makes you say it was modified because "it didn't work too well," and what does that even mean?
Could having more substantive conversations (vs small talk) make you happier?
The article makes some big assumptions. Like for example the idea that switching to the renewable energy sources referenced in the article would solve the phenomenon of global warming. The article references human inertia as the only obstacle left but one of the fundamental assumptions made is that simply switching to the alternative sources referred to would allow the environment to recover before it collapses. That's another kind of "inertia" (karma). I have never seen any any solid proof presented by mainstream scientists about the actual cause of global warming. Is there a concrete chain of cause and effect that relates by quantity the amount of emissions with the exact changes in Earth surface temperature?

Besides all this, lots of the renewable energy sources turn out to require more energy to produce and set up than they are able to recover over the span of decades (like wind farming, which is very costly to mine the materials, ship them out, set up, and get going). The article mentions the fiscal cost of setting up these alternative sources but apparently that's not the only thing standing in the way either.

My point is that this article paints a highly idealistic portrait. We don't have enough time left for that!
they have a very distinct pro-Arab bias. It's readily apparent if you watch their reporting on the occupation of Kurdistan

Since the Kurds are not Arabs, I'm assuming the bias is against the Kurds?
Actually, I think the interesting point is all the theory and practice around secure systems is pretty sound but one very simple human error can cause it all to tumble down. I imagine just have one or two more eyes on the problem would have caught this and then the PS3 would have remained secure.
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> A better option for California would be to secede from the rest of the United States. California could cut taxes and afford to pay its public service workers their inflated salaries (and then some), if it wasn't bailing out the rest of the country to the tune of $50B each year.

Some states that paid more in federal taxes than they saw returned to them in federal spending have tried this before. It didn't exactly work out. (Of course circumstances are different now, in that it's the urbanized states on the losing side of the deal, plus there isn't a massive human-rights issue alongside the economic disparity.)
What makes me laugh is how often we make the same mistakes.

For years computing has been a conflict between users wanting their computer do everything and their sysadmin telling them to limit it to essentials only.

The only reason the ipad is a success and vista a failure is due to expectations. If microsoft had developed the ipad rather than vista there would have been riots. Where's flash? What's this proprietary hardware bs? Why can't I plug in my monitor?
In an accounting sense, but it will start drawing from income sources other than payroll taxes as soon as outlays exceed those incomes, which will happen a lot sooner. The trust fund is an accounting fiction, and a debt to yourself is not an asset.
"I would say the fund raising thoughts, conversations, meetings stole 3-4 solid weeks of time that we could have been focusing on building an even better product."

- This is HUGE. If this speaks for the other companies then it means that everyone will have 25%-33% more time to build their product / customers / business.

"Funny thing is, anyone could have done this deal with the YC companies. You have to hand it to Yuri for stepping up and taking this risk. It will be a huge win for him and it is already a huge win for YC and the future of entrepreneurship in general. Congrats."

- Awesome.
He's getting much worse terms, but he's also doing a lot less work. YC picks the companies, does office hours, finds speakers for dinners, cooks the dinners, works out deals like this one and the Facebook one, etc.
as fruitless as those dreams might be, they still give us hope

This is why I prefer befriending gorgeous women I could never date to avoiding them to save myself the longing.

When I was younger, I thought the success was the best part. Now I've come to feel the longing and dreaming of success to be all the sweeter.