skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go to the bank and get four $100 bills. Using a xacto knife, cut out all of the serial numbers of the bills. Then, cut off 1/4 of each bill in the follow method:

* Cut 1/4 off the left hand side of the first bill.
* Cut a rectangle out of the next bill using these coordinates: Top: 1px, Height: 100%-2px, Left: 25%, Width: 25% ... where 1px is about 1/8 inch.
* Cut a rectangle out of the third bill using these coordinates: Top: 1px, Height: 100%-2px, Left: 50%, Width: 25%

You now have:

* One bill with the left quadrant cut off.
* One bill with a big rectangle cut out... but is still barely in tact.
* Another bill with a big rectangle cut out.
* Three 1/4 pieces that you tape together to create a 4th mutilated $100 bill.

Go to the bank, and retrieve your hard earned $400.

Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Will_a_bank_replace_a_half_ten_dol...
Would be good to see github do something about it. Was looking to use github for some new projects but after reading this now I might have a look at alternatives
My washing machine or dish washer is programmable at the moment. They often wash in the night. I don't mind when they are washing given them a target finishing time. My 2 thermal heat pumps for hot water and heating could easily take the price into their on/off calculations without any nuisance. They just store the heat energy in the house / water bowl when electric is cheap. If I am going to buy an electric car or a plug hybrid, I don't mind when it is charging, I just want that the batteries are full at 7 am. There is a lot of room for intelligence in our energy consumption.
Owning my own battery buffer could also become profitable.

The volatile wholesale price is there at the moment, what is missing is a volatile consumer price and an XML / JSON whatever webservice with the current price information and some WIFI chips and logic in my hardware.
Not a big deal actually.
I would be shocked if any GitHub employee is "in" on this.
Love Zed, Hate Zed or neither, it is disappointing if Github really allows this type of abuse to happen with no repercussions.

...and I have been a major Github fanboi from day 1, so it sucks for me to see such pettiness.

Quite frankly, I am not a big fan of Zed Shaw either...his hissy fits tend to get on my nerves....but come on man Github.

You are a damn company!
I believe he's speaking about the curator of HackerNewsTips, who from the last few tweets, sounds like he might be the GitHub employee who had to deal with the wrath of Zed.
Broad generalities like "Ruby hipsters" are just as juvenile as the stupid dick jokes that begot the stereotype.
It seems unfair to put the abuse of one user on the ruby community as a whole.

Let's remind everybody zed published a rails is a ghetto rant that has since been taken down. He's already got much hate for the ruby community
Banning people is not enough, at least not if you only do it via technical means. If you let the banned user know that further interaction with the company's services will lead to legal action, you might have something that could work, but I doubt that too.

Github should take a clue from Facebook and other social network sites. Those sites often work in a explicitly-include-someone-in-my-social-sphere way instead of the other way.
Absolutely! But performance in most applications is not determined at the bit level. Most apps performance needs are met at the architectural level (prevent blocking on whatever). Fewer apps performance needs are met at the algorithmic level (O(log n) is much faster than O(n log n)). It is a rare app that finds it's performance requirements in the ops and bits (Highly math-centric apps. Others exist, I'm sure).

I've generally found that's the order I go in meeting performance requirements. When I've failed to meet those requirements, I've generally worked backwards up the list, with each step getting more expensive in an exponential fashion.
You can't. Maybe Github lets you, git just says "fatal: 'doesnotexist' does not point to a commit."
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This seems like the super-productive kind of disagreement to have on HN: "I tried this and it didn't work and here's what did work for me".

Which version control system you use, yeah. But cheap ways to get a decent-looking web app up quick? That seems relevant.
He surely can do a lot worse, I have no doubt he will.
Warning to Github, really? The mighty Zed is not going to recommend it to anyone, how scary.
While interesting, this seems like an insignificant piece of minutia, considering the title.
When I lock the door when I leave the house, I am not "prematurely optimizing" against burglaries. The lock is there, I just have to turn it. I'm expending a minimal amount of effort for a comparatively large payoff. When I spend 10,000$ on an alarm system to protect my 50$ stereo...that's prematurely optimizing.

Most of the stuff I'm talking about is the default. There are a million and one tools to handle this stuff for you...there's a couple switches to flip in your server config, etc. It's not like you have to go out of the way to do these things, you almost have to go out of the way not to.

I mean, this is a pretty simple page...and it has a loading screen that takes a couple seconds? Maybe implementing some of these best practices could take care of that.

Little effort, good payoff.

>I also find it to be very inelegant.

HTTP requests cost. Putting the images together and then selecting them with CSS is a very elegant solution to that problem IMHO. It's also very simple to do.

You're entitled to your opinion of course.

Anyway, if you want to impress a prospective employer, I think it's a good idea to try and impress instead of just doing the absolute minimum. (not saying that Loren didn't impress or slacked off..this thing is beautiful looking and well written, but I mean hypothetically if I was doing something like this I'd want to know I did the best possible job for the effort spent)
Probably most of them, even if you are experienced with electronics, with today's electronics fixing them is more of a hobby than economically viable. Something has to be worth a very large amount before it makes more sense for the regular person to seek out a professional to fix something like this.
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'doesnotexist' wouldn't be a valid commit though, yes? From @zedshaw, when I asked him: '@edropple Yep, you can just push randomness in various ways, my favorite is: git push -f origin master:BIGASSHEX'

http://twitter.com/#!/zedshaw/statuses/75423197192921088

I don't have any git projects on my machine (migrated off of github and git a while ago), so I can't try.
WHO CARES. Hit this author over the head with Bitbucket or whatever and he's not going to disagree with you; in all likelihood he'll just say "anything that gets your code out there so that people can interact with it and build on it is going to build currency for your project".

We really, really don't have to get in a big Git vs. Mercurial fight over this. They're all fine. It does not matter. In fact, Patrick will tell you not to use any of them and host your own code, if you care about SEO.
So I agree that cities want to control who can rent what, and where, and that AirBNB is trying to disrupt this.

As you point out, there are negative consequences to this. These are serious, and I don't want to dispute any of them. But I do want to point out a positive consequence.

Recently I needed to stay for two weeks in Princeton, New Jersey for a mathematics conference. I learned to my horror that the only hotel within walking distance of the university is uber-fancy, and costs like $200 a night. If it wasn't for services like AirBNB (I used Craigslist, but would use AirBNB now), I would have had to pay $2800 for accomodation, or rent a car which I would have otherwise had no use for. (Or perhaps there are other options of which I am ignorant.)

Pardon my cynicism, but this is what I believe the people living in Princeton want. They enjoy the small town ambiance, even if it is vaguely faked, and presumably through their city council they push strong zoning regulations which make it impossible to build hotels, and therefore impractical to visit on business.

(N.B. None of this is even remotely unique to Princeton, but that is the one experience I have personally had which sticks out.)

There is a flip side to this (if I bought a $500K house perhaps I would want strict zoning too), but I still hate it. With AirBNB, rentals cost what the market will bear. AirBNB is bringing good old-fashioned free market capitalism where, IMHO, it belongs. I hope they are a wild success.
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It should be noted that GitHub does allow users to remove themselves from collab'd repos (the article stated otherwise.)

Being a collab on a repo has no affect (public or private), other than the fact that it will show up in your personal repo list when you're logged in.

GitHub has also banned users in the past for abusing the service. I'm sure they would have acted accordingly if a complaint was filed.
As far as I can tell the only side effect of being added to a project, is that it shows up in your list of your repositories on your [private] dashboard.

Edit: see http://github.com/zedshaw , he's not listed on the dongml project, because that link only shows your forks, not repos you have commit access to

Edit 2: Why the downvotes, am I wrong?
He could have found the same SMT diode as he was replacing had he tried...he rigged it because it was the same part (electrically) just a Through-hole part.

Just because a device is "dense" or heavily populated does not mean it cannot be repaired if done properly, if the schematic is provided (and accurate per revision) and you can still source the part it can be repaired. Even IC's can be removed it just takes different tools (i.e. solder pot, hot air pen, hot plate, etc).

I assure you there is no difference between troubleshooting old tech and newer stuff its just different. An IC is just that an "integrated circuit", meaning they just took what used to be an entire daughter board and made it on a silicon chip. I would actually argue that it could be easier in some cases to find an issue on newer stuff since if a chip is failed you just replace it (if you can get it, which is the real problem).

It's just like he said in the article use the datasheets if you don't have a schematic typically they are just using some circuit that someone designed 20 years ago and put in the datasheet as an example.

I understand the labor cost involved in fixing an item but I would argue the long term cost of replacement/improper disposal (even recycling...have you seen the little kids with the campfires of circuit boards in india/africa that are trying to reclaim the valuable metals...that is the cost I am talking about).

As an electronics tech I can tell you that I have worked on many complex circuits in the field and in production and I have never had a problem with the complexity...but I have had many issues with finding "one off" IC's and schematics.

Things are not always about money...sometimes its best to fix things just to fix them (and hopefully learn something at the same time).

Also, consumer electronics are built to fail. If they were not the manufacturers would require some IPC class, nobody wants quality though...they want cheap.
I think that's Zed's assumption, but it also seems to be completely unwarranted. The HackerNewsTips guy was making (funny, accurate) jokes that are in keeping with the tone of the rest of the feed.
For server side development, I've found that Jetty has a good websockets API. I had difficulty getting the server and browser to agree a few months ago when I tried it (common libs in python and C# were tested). Moving to Jetty got it working. I'm not sure how current it is though.
My best "open stuff up and make them do things it was not intended for" war story is from 1988. I had just purchased a Mephisto 68000 dedicated chess computer for my own recreational enjoyment. The embedded dev lab where I worked won a new contract and the hardware dudes decided a 68000 was the way to go. Not content to wait weeks, maybe months for first hardware, I decided to get some early experience by hacking at my chess computer. Basically I opened it up, reverse engineered the keyboard scanning hardware (which was implemented with standard jellybean CMOS logic), and commandeered a couple of inputs and outputs for my own purposes. I hooked these up to the printer port of my PC.\

Then I worked out a simple serial bit twiddling scheme to exchange bytes a bit at a time and coded it up in C as a kind of software serial port. On the PC side I ended up with something that looked just like a simple terminal that happened to talk out the printer port. On the Mephisto side, I replaced the 64K byte EPROM with a 128K byte EPROM. I changed the cold boot vector to point at "my" 64K, which first checked to see if the printer port was hooked up. If it was hooked up, then the CPU stayed in "my" area and ran a monitor I had coded up for the occasion. If it wasn't hooked up it vectored back to the original boot code and the chess computer worked as well as it ever did. I layered a loader on top of everything and had the incredible satisfaction of running standard C sieve of Erasthonese (sp?) on my new 68K computer, (complete with 16K RAM).

Ah good times. Pretty hard to do stuff like this today when everything gets packaged into mega chips, not to mention the tiny scale of everything these days.
While it would've been better to just ignore him, I must say, fighting back with working code lends Zed some amount of class.
It actually doesn't use WebSockets, media is sent browser-to-browser over UDP. This has the benefit of low latency.
Use fossil, it comes highly recommended from zed.... until recently
Are you at liberty to speculate why those sites may have seen a big dip in Google referrals, or would that be giving away too much of your spam fighting wizardry?
Livejournal had this problem a few years ago. You could add anyone to a community, and everyone's profile page had a list of all the communities they were in...

Zed should absolutely get off Github; he's enough of a troll magnet that people will figure out ways to mess with him even after this is fixed. It's easy enough to set up a bare repository on a random machine you have SSH access to.
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You're wrong.

It shows your forks, not projects you have commit access to.
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rimantas, I think you're missing the point -- Zed knows that his "recommendation" holds relatively little weight; however, sometimes it's good to remind a company that they can still lose customers, and how easy it can be to do so.
It can be. What if the project you were added to had illegal materials in it? You could be prosecuted for being a part of that.
Ah, ok then, my bad.
What? I loved the video. 1 min / concise / detailed. Having run remote teams and managed time off, something like this would have helped tremendously. Good luck, and well done.
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What if I put a link to my github account on my resume. And a potential employer sees me being a member what someone thought of as a joke? Losing potential jobs is a big deal.
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Its a language, get over yourself. The rails guys != all ruby users. This is just Zed wanting a confirm step so someone with a grudge stops annoying him.
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The article assumes that mathematicians are produced by schools, whereas I think in reality neither schools nor even individuals can reliably create/become mathematicians by an act of will.

The best thing most people can do for those who are deeply interested in advanced subjects is not to damage them.
It shows your forks not your repos you have commit access to. So it wouldn't show repos other people added you to
I wouldn't mind finding out more about the whole story. Did Zed try to contact someone at github to try to get a fix for this problem before writing his little script? To get this person banned? Whatever it takes for him to stop showing up as a collaborator, regardless of what dick obsession github employees might have?

Or is the extent of his github contact just passive aggressively trolling a troll and then blaming github for doing nothing when he did nothing to work with them?

All I'm reading is assumptions and more assumptions in his post about who might be the author of @HackerNewsTips and github employees liking dicks therefore they won't help him and will just laugh. That's not terribly convincing.
I've been EOMing for about 2 years. Its a great tip, I recommend it.

No, I don't think most people have seen it before, but they seem to figure it out and several of my clients have adopted the habit. No one has been annoyed, or confused.

Getting over my fear of people reading too much into my email tone has been a huge productivity boost in general.
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Go ahead and continue the negative talk about me in regards to licensing violation claims if you must. So be it. But as mentioned earlier, I posted this as to why Google responded the way they did. And it had nothing to do with open source violations.

To respond to some posts here. I generally don't charge for emulators. An example of profit sharing for ones I do, gpSPhone is done with an arrangement between the original author and I. It is licensed accordingly.

Though not an excuse these apps are largely an overblown hobby for me. I've come to learn how seriously people take this licensing. I always tended to do a lot of incremental updates, sometimes multiple ones to multiple products a day. Source control was a mess up until recently. Like I said, this was hobby-grade.

For those talking about a quick buck. If you think I'm getting rich off these emulators, you're sorely mistaken. I can easily focus AppStore and do better.
Really all I wanted to do was take peoples requests for ports since the Tapwave Zodiac, GBA, and GP2X days, and give them something to play with.

I've heard enough bashing of my name over the past year, that I haven't touched much at all since then. There's a laundry list of updates I want to do, but there's so much involved now it's not worth the grief. I had way too many ports being worked on, and spread way too thin.

I'm sure someone else will come along, step up, and do a lot of great work for emulation and homebrew in general on mobile devices. Just remember they do this out of love, either for free or unsustainable pay, and deal with tons of support questions and requests daily. Don't burn them out on politics.

I will gladly respond to concerns, as I have before. Though none of this will be needed to be discussed soon enough.
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You are correct. This was not about open source violations, as that was not the reason Google removed our apps and followed through with removing our accounts.
I think the larger community has to shun this kind of behavior from Github. It's unacceptable and unprofessional.

Although I don't like how Zed is repeatedly qualifying the homophobic Martini as a Ruby guy, as if Ruby made him this way, Martini is a douche from his behavior. This has nothing to do with languages.

I'm with Zed on this.
Look at it this way; they are thrashing and see photos as a natural extension of the tweet format as the photos are singular pieces of content, but they are far far larger than a tweet.

If there is anything we know from twitters past; uptime will be minimal with a bandwidth intensive service such as this.
That doesn't actually do anything though. It pushes your local master branch to a remote branch called BIGASSHEX (creating it if it doesn't exist). So if you generate a new bigass hex each time you'll end up with a ton of randomly-named branches that all point to the same commit, so they use no space.

I think he found a way to take down Github (having to do with having too many branches in a project), but not actually a hole in Git.
That's part of the discussion I intended for. This wasn't about licensing. And they could take down the apps in question. But why remove our entire accounts? The treatment involved by robo-emails and no human support was scary.
If you don't quit the project all the time folks will assume you're associated/endorsing the repo.

"You've just been given commit rights to kkk/meeting-minutes" wouldn't be a good message to get after you've told a prospective employer to have a look at your Github profile.
The author names were the reason for removing those posts, as I noted in my comment. Really that post has nothing to do with open source, and these matters can be handled by emailing me directly if it's such a concern, as I noted.
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I've been spending my time in SF lately, though I make it back to Redmond every couple of months.
I think his sentiment resonates with the numerous outsiders who are amazed that this kind of drama always seems to bubble up from the Ruby community.
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I'd really like a list of these companies with HR departments that are going to allow an exception to the standard contract because we just really need this guy.

You're absolutely right that companies would be better off in attracting talent by revising portions of their contract. You're absolutely wrong to suppose that they're necessarily going to do that.
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