skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I configured a Git server on my EC2 micro-instance and just use that.

I was a paying GitHub customer until I decided that I spent too much money on online subscriptions. But when I'll pay for a Git hosting service again, I'm going back to GitHub, as I'm still a happy user of their free account. GitHub rocks.

Sure, competition is good, but I don't get what codeplane.com is offering, considering that configuring your own in-the-cloud repository is so easy on a VPS (that you're likely to have anyway and be left unused to its full potential otherwise).
Whatever You Do, Don't Buy a Chromebook
That worked, thank you.
Have you looked at JungleDisk? I have never used Dropbox, but from what I can tell they are similar. JungleDisk works with S3 or RackSpace Cloud storage. You can store files encrypted or unencrypted. Everything is transmitted over SSL. My data can only be accessed with my S3 access keys. It can mount/map a drive, do automatic backups or keep directories in sync across multiple computers.

It does not look as easy as Dropbox (because there is a distinction between the JungleDisk software and the underlying storage), but it is not difficult either. I have been using it a little while and like it so far.

There is also no iPhone or Android app, but there is a pretty decent web interface.
Madhuri Dixit endorses Aquashine - a dishwashing liquid Some thoughts.
>As educated white people, you'll be fine.

Does that response change if the OP and his wife were educated, in the US but not white? (I am not asking for the heck of it, seriously interested in your thoughts)
Fair and Unbalanced: Dispelling The "Borlaug Hypothesis"
Is your website achieving what it should achieve?
Thank you, I don't find this site that useful but I was really perplexed at its home page, it looks like it was designed by someone suffering from schizophrenia.
Good for you for building this and then charging for it. There certainly is a place in the market for what you are doing and the price you are doing it.

Good job.
This is great, it let me quickly relocate mechanical_fish's classic "gone to the zoo" metaphor. Probably still the all-time best post I've read on HN: http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?limit=100&username=mechani...
Apple iCloud? Because no web way they handle encryption is great, simply specify protection level you want on a file.
You can set something like this up on any VPS with gitolite (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite) pretty easily. gitolite lets you set up very fine-grained per-user/repo/branch permissions, manage your users' SSH keys, and gives you nice clean git@git.you.com:repo-name access to your remotes.

I've done this for myself with a $48/year VPS from prgmr.com specifically because I needed more private repos than Github could offer (my setup instructions are here: https://gist.github.com/1035834).

Granted, if codeplane.com existed six months ago I probably wouldn't have bothered with gitolite. It appears they do nice things for you like backups.
> Someone the other day was commenting on the whole 'everyone wants to be a geek now' thing and wondering what to call true geeks now.

> I told him not to worry and that another word would soon be coined to make fun of the true geeks, as always happens. People just can't resist tormenting people who are different.

> I am a little surprised that it hasn't happened yet... But then, maybe I'm too old and not hip with the new slang.

I've heard/read the word 'neckbeard' used in this context.
GetResponse launches Everyone Wins promotion
Assembla is not really a GIT hosting, it's project management with repos. You can use tickets, wiki, internal forum, GIT/Mercurial/SVN repos and some build/deploy tools.

Admittedly some of their tools have small problems, but the team is responsive and improves it steadily.

I've used one of their paid programs for everything we do (must be about two years by now) and I would recommend it.

Assembla doesn't seem to have that social aspect like Github, but I find their combination of tickets, wiki, forum and repos more useful.
Women feel like they need to 'act like men' to succeed in IT
They should have made it so files can only be encrypted/decrypted client side. They sacrificed this security so that they could do two extra things.

1.) De-duplication
2.) Web access to the files.

They also sacrificed the security of the mobile clients by disabling SSL, in exchange for a small speed increase.

Those are the main reasons I have come to this conclusion.
To print all users from /etc/password from the command-line would probably not be done by writing a C program, by most (sane) people.

I used to work with a guy who would have done it that way. I do admit he was not entirely sane.

Personally I'd do it with two or three lines of python rather than awk, even though I theoretically know awk, because it's quicker for me to type the Python than to remember the syntax for the awk (wait, which brackets are which again?).

That's not an argument against learning awk, of course, that's an argument for why I should learn awk slightly better.
Spongiforma squarepantsii, a new species of gasteroid bolete from Borneo
What does the UI actually look like? Is it just the list of repositories? I'd be more likely to spend money if there was a tour, or an example project I could look at, or an annotated example session with the CLI tool.
No I'm not involved with it ... agreed, it still needs some work; it's still an interesting direction to go. Aza Raskin's privacy icons look great but similarly I'm not sure how easy they are for end users to understand. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem until they catch on ...
Television needs to do more, not merely clone (rather badly) a Twitter stream.

There are strengths television has and online doesn't. And vice versa.
What makes you think 'capacity' has anything to do with it? I'm sure those smart people you think work there could get security right, but that doesn't mean management has budgeted the resources for it.
I wasn't implying she wasn't talented. I think she is an example of someone that people might think they can "easily" copy.
Sounds interesting. If they produce an Android app I will give it a look.
While I'd understand this if the complaint was that gitorious is too complicated to setup and host, CodePlane doesn't seem to offer the rich web interface github and gitorious do. In the absence of that, how difficult is it to setup gitolite on a cheap VPS account? I mean, if you primarily use CLI interfaces anyway.

Need redundancy because those fly-by-night VPS providers disappear? Fine, pick up another VPS from lowendbox.com and rsync your git home directory. Done and done.

On a side note, you could consider all your repos on your primary machine your "backup," as with a relatively static IP from a cable or DSL account you can push and pull to your hearts delight from your home box. Not great for collab, but sometimes I feel like the D in DVCS gets forgotten about.
but at least an open source version does exist. IIRC, the reason there is an open and non-open source version of chromium/chrome is that chrome contains some proprietary 3rd party software that cannot be open sourced.
> If I don't need the web interface and public code sharing, why would I use this verse getting a Linode instance and installing git there.

Private code sharing. You have to install something like gitolite (see my other comment) to do private code sharing with git on a VPS, or you'd have to create a system-level user for every person you want to share code with.
Great to see this great idea now also on HackerNews :)
Yet Adobe has decided to feature 'badly working' apps in their showcase to display what's possible with their tools.

My interpretation as a developer considering their software to build iOS apps is that the apps in their showcase are indicative of what I'd be able to produce for iOS with Flash Builder/Flex.
I suspect what that comment means is that Dropbox have traded security for ease of use at a fundamental level - compared to something like tarsnap (which is dedicated to doing backups in a very secure way) Dropbox does look a lot less secure but it is also a lot easier to use and supports a much wider ranges of uses.

Edit: I am a pretty happy DropBox user, but I only store files there that I wouldn't really care too much if they were made public. DropBox to me is about convenience, not about security.

Edit2: I was a pretty happy DropBox user, now that I think about what having a system that is prone to "failing open" means I'm seriously thinking about closing my account. However, I'll wait and see what the "official" explanation is first.
http://blog.codeplane.com/
The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Internet Marketing
Well, this definitely cinches it. I had stuck with Dropbox thru the whole "your files aren't THAT encrypted" debacle because I have nothing worth hiding. But, this complete incompetence has convinced me that it isn't worth the risk!

I'm not as highly paid as the Dropbox guys are, I'm sure, but even I know to test authentication with automated tests. Oh, and not to let things that fail tests through to production!

What if I had archived my bank records there and someone go ahold of them? Thankfully I'm still just a little too paranoid for that.

I'm moving to Wuala or rsync.net; before I try the latter I want to test Wuala.
AIR and Flex have reputations for being slow even on desktops. It's just like Java on the desktop - yeah, it probably can be used to make nice-feeling stuff, but there's something going on with either the dev tools, the VM, the culture, or something that seems to make these apps tend to be, more often than not, really unpleasant.
> because it costs you money in the long term.

And makes lots more in the short term. The long term never seems to arrive for companies' current executives.
My Biggest Mistake
Doesn't that say more about your project than DDG?
Normally we don't like to crowd up our preferences page with a bunch of options that people don't use much, but you can turn off personalization by adding "&pws=0" to the end of the Google search url.
> Then they sent a DMCA takedown notification notification to someone they were just trying to censor...

That's not true. They used an admin control to disable public sharing of a file in DropBox; this procedure apparently is typically used when DropBox receives a DMCA request and it had a side-effect of (mistakenly) notifying the file's owner that DropBox received a DMCA notification. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483053. DropBox didn't send a DMCA takedown request to any service provider hosting the file.
Samsung Denies Apple Patent Lawsuit Negotiations
Then they sent a DMCA takedown notification notification to someone they were just trying to censor

It came out in the aftermath that the takedown notice was the result of an automated process that was accidentally triggered.
I tried Wuala recently, but it just repeatedly crashed on me. I might give it another look in 6 months.
I liked that I dont need to do this setup myself and that I can integrate with S3.
What is Disadvantages of VPN
VPN is the virtual private network which is the network that had been created for the purpose of telecommunication so that it can be carried out publically. VPN had been providing people with some of
Nice to see a bit more of the tech behind how they did it, albeit it's admittedly not much.

Side note, from their FAQs:

Is Google Chrome Frame open-source?

Google Chrome Frame is built from open source code in the Chromium project just like Google Chrome.

Does this sound like a non-answer to anyone else, or is it just me?
Global Internet body to unleash domain names
Efficient is not strictly synonymous with cheap.
Pay by ultrasound? PayPal 'very excited' by new tech
When talking of the time to write a Unix script, you have to factor-in the time to rewad the man page.
I understand that, but if the search results are not personalized for you, then they must be personalized for the common denominator, as in the hive, the majority's opinion, the status quo.

For general search queries, the long tail goes out the window anyway, and I haven't done or seen any quality metrics for DDG, but I doubt their search results are better for exploration or getting opinions different from your own.
> bashing awk

I know this was an unintentional pun, but I still thought it was funny.
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-06-03-insecurity-in-the...
Not that this at all the same, or that I support what Lolzsec is doing, but I think there were a lot of African Americans at the start of the Civil Rights movement who didn't want people to speak up for fear of there being harsh consequences.
> If Apple's got it patented, then I as an Android and Pentax user don't have to worry about it being stuffed into my devices.

Why, tech companies cross license patents all the time inorder to use "technology" that another company patented.

Occasionally you hear about it because it's the outcome of a lawsuit but most times it happens without becoming very public.
I see you comment without reading the entire thread. That link was already posted in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673525
Cloud Computing: Faster than Vegas can take your money away
Learn Emacs: align-regexp
Realize, silence is interpreted as consent. If you wait until the hardware has been produced and implemented into the product before voicing concern--then it's already too late.
Blizzard's Mobile Server Database Exposed by Warv0x (AKA Kaihoe)
I do this (also on prgmr) and manage backups with tarsnap+cron which with all my small repos costs nearly nothing even if I don't clean up old tarsnap archives.
Does this sound like a non-answer to anyone else, or is it just me?

Meh. Depends where you're coming from. I can see that being helpful for someone that doesn't realize it's just powering IE with Chrome behind the scenes, and wants access to the code for the rendering engine... but someone smart enough to want the source code probably wants the actual stuff that's working with IE under the hood..
Did We Just Become The United States of Idiocracy?
Apple Highlights iPad Versatility with “Now” Ad
Stargit - Browse the Github collaborations network
Ugh, assuming it's the same zrgiu who made Antivirus free, I really want to read what he has to say. That's what I get for being late. :(

Anybody mind reposting it in quotation marks if they happen to have it saved? Or if zrgiu himself could post of a summary of what he originally said, that would be grand.
>For example, people have said that the ability to compare two codes is important to see how close they are. They've said this without justification and it is not a use case for which I designed the code.

I've raised this objection, but I still think it is quite valid.

Compare "43 Montgomery St" to KN4 HNA M33B. First off, I'll tell you immediately which one I find more memorable! I can use any number of mnemonics to store the first; the second is near incomprehensible.

Ignoring even that, people have quite a bit of experiential knowledge of local street addresses. Give most people an address -- even an unfamiliar one -- and they can provide with some degree of accuracy what's around, a way to get there, etc.

For local use only, this encoding doesn't make sense to me. But, if we assume that the typical user of SOC would be a person who strictly uses their GPS to navigate from point to point, this encoding has some advantages.

Another possible use case would be for travelers. Costa Rican addresses are based on distances from landmarks, and as a traveler I quickly learned that many of the landmarks refer to buildings that were demolished in the 1970s! In that case, 75 m Norte de la Coca Cola means exactly as much to me as HFW QMJ BBBE, and this encoding could actually be entered into my GPS.
@pavel_lishin Excellent points, thanks for your constructive criticism.

I'll touch on the chat a little. Good idea or not, I'll let you guys be the judge. The chat feature was to connect everyone site wide. Then would be defined to location and friends if needed....Problem was integration. Without signing in through facebook/twitter it allowed users to create fake names which couldn't be allowed for obvious reasons. Plans to design new chat were in the works during this fiasco.

IDK, maybe future UI's for social networks will have this option. Personally I like this option, but understand it may be not for everyone.
I hadn't heard that form, but I like it. Its almost a reverse snowclone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
The Clinton Global Initiative comes stateside
Github's pricing model really is a painpoint for little consulting shops. We drive next to no traffic and storage on there, but we do a few projects every quarter. Haven't quite outgrown our paid plan yet, but we will in a bit.

Just wish Github would revise their pricing to support peeps like us, I hate to use different interfaces. May choose to just archive things to codeplane until then, keeping things we are actively developing on github.
> "Ironically, by preventing others from enacting the rights granted by the GNU GPL, AVM itself is in violation of the license terms. Therefore they have no right to distribute the software" says Till Jaeger.

Is there any more to this than the quote above? The GPL is viral. Sure, you own the copyright to any changes you've made to GPL'd software, but you give up a lot of those rights the moment you distribute. Don't like it? Look for something BSD/MIT licensed to modify and distribute.
You can change the email notifications, BUT:

I couldn't find it for 5 minutes!

A similar thing happened to me a few weeks ago when I was looking for a way to add more repositories to a project. Luckily I got an answer quickly on their support forum (and yes, it was there).

So yes, the UI and information hierarchy is lacking, but ultimately it can do a lot of things.

(For future reference, you can change the settings under Stream - Email Notifications).
HOW TO: Get rid of malware. For good.
Odd that this article doesn't mention that LNKD is down 35% from it's first-day highs: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
I know. I didn't bring that up to accuse them of malice as far the DMCA part, I brought that up as an example that dropbox employees don't understand what their own internal tools do.
I understand this is supposed to be funny but when I saw it, I was just like "WTF...". Coincidentally, I did just start a very similar Github project myself yesterday. If you're looking for a real boilerplate boilerplate, here it is: https://github.com/abi/boilerplate . Right now, it includes a meaningful .gitignore for people who use UNIX and a README.md with the MIT license body. It's really supposed to be just for my personal needs/dev environment but I hope it's useful for the others who were equally disappointed by the contents of origin post too.
Crowdsourcing, Linked Data, Humans, and Machines: Rediscovering a Lost Treasure
Also see this earlier post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673660
How to launch a startup and avoid ending up in jail
Man, I'd hate to be one of the models for one of these pictures. "Ohhhh yeah," say thousands of internet users. "That computer-generated version really is a lot better-looking than the real one due to those horrible flaws on that person's face". No thanks, I'd rather not see the difference between my face and a better-looking version of my face, it'd just make me feel bad.

On a broader point though, the human taste for "average-looking" faces is an interesting one. Aside from anything else it's an interesting Nash equilibrium -- I want to find a mate with an average-looking face so that we can produce children with average-looking faces who will be the most desirable breeding partners in the next generation.

What I really wonder is whether "average-looking" is hard-wired in, or whether we're programmed to spend our childhood scanning all the faces around us and mentally averaging them out to determine what a human face should look like. I suspect the latter -- it's a much more stable strategy over evolutionary timescales, and also explains things like why people often find people of their own race more attractive, and why mixed-race people are often unusually attractive.
Honestly the whole DMCA explanation from the executive team sounded like finding an explanation that fits. I hate that people read a comment like that then turn around and claim it to be the truth as you are doing.

You do not know what happened any more than the OP does so your usage of the word 'true' is weak at best. I'd be more okay with your comment if you had written "Drew explained" instead of "That's not true" as if you speak authoritatively.
I think CodePlane is very cool, but it seems to solve a different problem than the one advertised on the blog.

To save my repos "for posterity" on Github without incurring a $100/month bill, I simply create a master repo (say old-projects/) with all my unused repos in it.

On the other hand CodePlane seems to be a great solution for collaborative work on lots of private repos. This can save big bucks.

I love to see projects like this. I hope it gains some traction and forces Github to change their business model to a more manageable per-GB price.
How we almost killed our service business (and then recovered)
How exactly do you think the internet would be "less free". Would there be fines/jail time for sql injection? Port scanning? Issuing DDOS attacks? I guess you'd have less freedom to do these things but most of these are against ISP TOS any way. Are you worried about an internet police state enforcing the rules?

Make the punishment stiffer and/or secure your servers (not exactly possibly with DDOS) and these "problems" go away.

In the early/mid 90's there were lots of high speed chases in Los Angeles. The penalties got stiffer, the media stopped reporting it, no one really cared, and i guess the freeways/roads became "less free".
Thanks JD.

I appreciate your understanding and support.

I have learned a lesson that most won't. Aspirations grabbed me by the arm and pulled me into a pile of poop.
Didn't Adobe try something like this already, and Apple changed their policies to ban apps that used cross compiled code? Did Apple change their policies to allow this kind of tool after all, or is this somehow different from last time?
Groupon Tries to Defend Itself Without Violating SEC "Quiet Period"
Did you find out the reason Google bailed on the business? It's entirely possible you will get it built and run into the same obstacle.
The title of the page at www.codeplane.com is "Unlimited private Git hosting", yet it appears that you are limited to 2GB of repositories for your $9/month.

How is this unlimited? Are there other plans that you can sign up for? If so they seem impossible to find on the site.
Maybe wide acceptance isn't the use case!

It's okay to intend a tool for a specific purpose! It's okay to do one thing well.
That was my reason, cause I love to learn everything. Why not learn everything? :)

I'll update the page with a more compelling reason. Thanks for bringing this up.
Semantic Data, Schema.org & The Future of Search
Haiku OS Alpha 3 released
maybe ^^ actually it's Frogger and GTA in the mix :)
True, true. I am updating the page right now with a more appetizing example.

With C example I just wanted to illustrate how long the C program would be compared to Awk, and that it makes sense to learn a scripting language.

Yeah, the `cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd` works.
>but at least an open source version does exist.

So what? If the goal is to promote the users' freedom, what use is it to develop software they do not use?
Has anyone experienced any problems enabling chrome frame on a large scale web app? Any resistance from users when prompted to install Chrome Frame?
Car Dealer Reviews:Veracity Updates
Yeah, it's always hard when people say "unlimited". Here I believe they mean unlimited users and unlimited repositories within the 2GB.