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This right on. Reading a lot of the comments here, I think people have already given up that freedom and just hope that no one makes them see what they've done. This discussion has certainly opened my eyes in regards to this. One freedom is always to go to a country which has different laws. Another freedom is to develop computers, OSes and networking protocols that better provide freedom. It seems that many are so used to building on frameworks that have inherent issues that they forget their are choices, basic choices, that still have to be made every day.
It's much better to ignore the files generated by your own tools with a global exclude file than to add them to every project's .gitignore.

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
Gitosis development is stone dead afaict. I would not suggest using it for new deploys.
Old news init? Thought this was announced at IO a month or so back.
Read the complete correspondence. It was fixed.
Apple has a lot of legitimate IP business. They have in-house IP counsel. They retain outside IP counsel. It's inevitable that this group and process has grown into a bureaucratic fiefdom that exists to secure patents and trademarks for their own purposes, regardless of their applicability to Apple's business or plans.

That they pursued such a patent and retained it is evidence of little more than the existence of a report somewhere that conflates the quantity of patents to the effectiveness of the group.

I mean, what's really easier to believe? That a corporate group is following the trajectory of every studied social construct of man [1]. Or that the only consumer-focused computer maker is conspiring to shaft their paying customers in deference to a (comparatively tiny) industry they've long treated with borderline-contempt?

[1] becoming focused on its own interests at the expense of those it was created to further
Google announced this recently during Google I/O.
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I'll ignore your undignified cheap shot. Without understanding this as a conscious goal then a directed systematic inquiry that becomes highly integrated into culture and the economic system will not develop. Inventing the printing press, for example, without a sufficiently rich ecosystem in which it can nurture and grow prevented any catalytic effects that might have otherwise formed.
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Webfaction actually allows you to create a git repo with web interface that can be shared privately.

It is one of their "one-click" installations and I have been pretty happy with it for my limited use.
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The hook on both side of Gdocs is definitively something we would consider. But I don't know yet how Gdocs copes with header and footers. We'll discover that soon I suspect ;)
Apple went back on that policy some time ago.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development...
pkrumins, out of curiosity (and the suspicion that you probably have ;-), have you written up you ebook publishing process?
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Even though I don't agree with raising $41 million for a "concept", you've got to give them credit where credit is due. Admitting all of your failures in a NYTimes article is a very brave thing to do.

I think Color is a lesson for any entrepreneur, just because you can raise a lot of money doesn't mean that your product will be successful. You really need to work on it and test it with real people to see if it's viable.
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Curious, why did you find PW managers too cumbersome to use?

I use one, but I feel like I'm more willing to use something cumbersome. But I think that most ppl feel the same way you do.

It seems like a huge startup opportunity to do what DropBox did, and make PW managers easy for average Joe. I think most people recognize the need.
http://www.commandlinefu.com/ does something close to this.
I think it's fair to assume that people want results in the same language as the search terms they entered.
One other thing to point out is that Gitosis is abandonware (last commit was made in September of 2009).

Gitolite on the otherhand is under active development, the documentation is great, and the author is generally available on the #git channel as are many other active users of the software.
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I find $12 a month to be really cheap.
That is pretty bad! :-(
Here's one way: http://themeforest.net/
please note: slsapp.com already has features you ask for. You have lots of archive repos. You are allowed (even on free account) unlimited view-only repositories and they charge mainly by space/active repos.

However I still see the value in this service, and I like it.
Thx -- we do have our own github crawl, but it needs to be updated more frequently. Duly noted and will fix.
PR stunt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673452

Previous submissions of the same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674600

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673804
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I have Google Web History turned off and I'm seeing a pretty good mix of things in my results. E.g., I'm heavily left-wing, somewhat pro-gun control, with no personal interest in shooting, but my results for 'gun' are pretty much all gun shops and fansites. For Barack Obama I get mostly official sites, although some of the top news is critical (I'm Canadian, if it matters). Egypt gives me a mix of travel, protests, general info and ancient history. I don't recall ever turning it off, so is it off by default? And if so, what's the problem here?
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Don't worry, recent news stories have demonstrated that you can have a completely insane business plan and STILL get 10's of millions in funding anyway.

Hype trumps reality in the short term but reality always bites back.
Sure, at least you take the worry of server management away, but I think your focus on CLI might not be well justified, as existing CLI tools are already very good and incredibly easy to set-up (aptitude install gitosis; git clone git@myserver.org:gitosis admin; done!) :)
And setup consists of:

sudo aptitude install gitolite
Announced at IO. Releasing now.
Ugh. I went to college with Mike. An email exchange I had with him a few years ago about the 'health scare' sounded more like a 'break with reality'.
I have been using Assembla for over a year now for all my projects, and I have been very happy with it and recommend it to everyone.
Great! Put a button on the search page. Will "pws=0" allow the engine to "learn" from my corrections? I'm pretty sure incognito won't. But allowing me to "correct" the personalization might be useful to you.
I agree. I would love to use github more but I want private repositories.
And then it's $25/user/month!!!
have you looked into something like http://hg-git.github.com/ ?
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Needing a high-end gaming machine to run Super Mario World or Space Invader at acceptable frame rates would be fun, for a change (-:
I think this site is better value: http://www.svnrepository.com

However you may well have something on the keeping it simpler approach.

I'm very happy that more people are going to compete with github :)
I too wish you luck!

What about security? If i sign up, is my code safe if I want to keep a repo only for me?
Good article. I had the chance to spend some time with Marcus Ranum back around that era and it was formative to my career focus in security. However, I think there there's a second part of this historical narrative you're laying out. It's that the government will fail to accomplish security of computer systems just like they've failed to accomplish security of physical locations. At that point that government will start looking like a really bad deal.

If this government wants to survive this coming era, it will not do what's feared. If it does do the sort of crackdowns people are fearing, it will not survive. Either it will be broken outright by the hackers and those who still care about freedom or it will fair to accomplish security and be broken by the people that still aren't safe.

The best chance is to actually address the issues by developing better technology in dialogue with the hackers and the security minded. This may make the short term harder but it will set the foundation for a superior nation built on something that can actually be defended.
I believe the change in policy was that you can now implement VMs/scripting engines but that /all/ of the bytecode/code that will run on them must be packaged within the app (i.e. you can't download more code to run dynamically).
Wow, milestones looks as if it is just the application I have been looking for for some time! If only I had an iPhone...
The main reason was the economic recession but the radio stations also feared that Google would turn the radio ads into commodities.
Just looking for a good enough solution that's easy enough to bundle into a small packaged sim. I'll review your recommendations, thanks for sharing them.
I think that anyone who complains about GitHub's price has gotten way too spoiled, or perhaps underestimates the amount of effort required to maintain a service of that quality and reliability. I find this to be another symptom of HN tunnel vision.
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I still use SVN for a lot of my own personal projects (don't judge me!) and sure I could setup my own SVN server no problem. But I pay a small fee ($50 a year I think.. or maybe $50/6-mos) for SVN hosting.

Same situation: I want private repo's. Past that, the only other thing I really want is not to have to worry about ANYTHING. It needs to be secure, backed-up, and quick, without me ever having to give it a 2nd thought.

For that, I'm happy to pay this small fee.
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I like to live in a fantasy land where everyone understands the basics of how the Internet works. The reality that many people don't have the faintest idea how to use a computer beyond the very, very basics -- and probably never will -- is unfortunate, IMO.
Agreed

What's even worse is the model that asks for additional friend e-mails after you provide yours to get an invite.
Cannot find mentioned Wired article.
Nobody says that! I love Github. I used to have a paid account. I still have 100+ repositories in there. I just can't afford Github for my private repositories, which I think it's not for me anymore.
>Chrome being a rebranding from stable releases of Chromium + proprietary codecs (which Google moved to eliminate with WebM).

It does not matter: would Stallman use Chrome? Chromium, like Darwin, is indeed as Free as it gets.

>Chromium versus Chrome is basically Fedora versus Red Hat.

RHEL is fully Free, and can be recompiled at leisure, cf. Scientific Linux and Oracle Linux. It is not quite analogous.

>If you're going to talk about battles and victories, show me the source code of Cocoa, show me the standard it is based on, show me another platform on top of which you can use it and show me what third-party contributors does it have (and no, Cocoa is not OpenStep). Also, show me how I can install OS X in a legal manner on top of non-Apple computers.

Who said I was endorsing Mac OS X?
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Gail McGovern, the CEO of the American Red Cross, makes $995,000. Charity Navigator gives the Red Cross 3 of 4 stars.

By contrast, Ophelia Dahl of the 4-star rated Partners in Health makes $86,000.

PIH is a smaller organization than the Red Cross, but there are people who could argue that PIH is also more impactful. It's also the case that part of the reason the Red Cross is so much larger is that it's a key mission of the Red Cross to be larger. It's not unlikely that charities with highly-compensated CEOs share that trait. You pay a CEO a lot of money because their market value is high. What makes a manager-type CEO's market value high? Sales and financing skill.

It's absolutely reasonable to point out and question the salary of a nonprofit's CEO.
I tried it on a Honeycomb tablet, works pretty smoothly, but "not for ios5" notification shows up for some reason.
Not for me ...

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Feature-cutting can be a dangerous process, and should be done with EXTREME caution. No one wants to be another Microsoft, who intelligently decided that the timeline "was not a vital feature" in its Movie Maker.

I would argue that if useful features that can definitely improve an user experience is not being fully taken advantage of, it's likely a case of poor implementation. In one of my projects, I remember adding a feature near the launch - but I (wrongfully) assumed people would be amazed and tell each other how great it was. A year and a half later, I had a giant thread on my forums with +1's asking for the exact same feature I had already implemented.
I use github for the network effects, but how does hg compare to git, speed-wise? I switched to git from bzr because bzr felt awesomely slow, although git is a real pain to use, even when you're familiar with it.

I understand that bzr and hg are almost identical, command-wise, but hg is about as fast as git, is that correct? What my workflow consists of is diffs/statuses/commits/pushes/pulls in projects with working trees of a few MB at most.
It's probably a great price for most dev shops but leaves a gaping hole for companies who have many small projects.
What Google is doing is no different only if you can, in your ensuing "conversations," correct a misinterpretation that may have happened somewhere along the way. If your ability to do that is hampered because the only way to do it is by clicking on something, you don't see the thing to click on which will do this, then the filtering is not helping (and actually works against Google's and my mutual interests).
> I've moved to rsync.net. Its uglier, but at least they know what the fuck they're doing.

How do you know? Could it just be that the only reason Dropbox has publicized exploits and rsync.net doesn't is because Dropbox has many, many more users? And thus more people trying to exploit it and more publicity when an exploit is found?
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> we (humans) are the only ones able to define "up" or "down".

No, you english speaking guys are the only ones able to define "up" or "down".
It's not strictly synonymous with "expensive" either. If it correlates, it probably correlates in the direction of "cheap", if only marginally. And any way you slice it, "expensive" is synonymous with "expensive".

Let's come up for air here and ask the simple question: do we believe we have better domain policy because we pay some guy at ICANN a 7-figure annual comp package?

I don't believe that. Do you?
I had the same question the other day, and it turned into a spontaneous all-company "why you should use awk" lesson. If this kind of thing sounds cool to you, drop me a resume at david at loggly.com. We're at 1st and Mission in SF.

Short answer, it's a baby programming language that's more powerful than sed, quicker to write than python, and less confusing than cut.
True that the resources for Windows apps can all reside in a single directory, but Mac OS wins because it enforced a more consistent standard with treating app bundles as self-contained applications and encouraging Mac developers to follow that example, which has yielded a more consistent user experience when installing and removing apps. Windows developers have had too many installation strategies to choose from, with little help from Microsoft (Microsoft once offered a weak setup toolkit on MSDN but Windows never really had a consistent built-in app installation API, not even a simple copyfile() function was provided by the OS) and thus every Windows app install and remove process is entirely different, there's even a market for competing app install toolkits in Windows, which describes the overall user experience in Windows: inconsistent.
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I have not yet written about it, but I will do that in a bit! The whole process was very interesting!
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If you've got 40 private repos, I assume you're at the very least a moderately experienced professional programmer. Let's say for the sake of a figure that you charge a low price of $50 per hour. So buying a GitHub Gold account is like two hours of extra work per month for you, and you'll probably have to spend more than that on CodePlane (as a user, not developer) because it's simply not as battle-tested and extensive as GitHub. So I don't think it's worth it.
Another reason why income taxes are silly.

Downvote? Do you enjoy bearing the burden?
The problem with your solution is that when you need to change all your password in 6 months, it's kind of a pain in the ass. A password manager with very strong passwords for everything is the way to go.

I've been using Password Safe for quite some time, it is fairly minimalist, very easy to use.
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Would there be a market for gitolite/gitosis hosting? Say, $1/mo for up to 1G of space, backed up, unlimited private/public repos, cli only, rudimentary web viewer for public repos via gitweb.

It's rather easy to set it up (as the comments here suggest), but seems like a lot of folks wouldn't want to go into trouble of learning about it and/or setting it all up properly, or don't have a server to put it on.
Looks like the NYPost is just sniffing the user agent. You can circumvent this with something like Mercury browser[1] by changing the user agent.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/app/mercury-web-browser-pro-the/id34...
It is not available on the web. It is in the print edition, and in the iPad version of the magazine. You can download the scan if you want to read it. I guess they make the articles available online a few days later than the print edition.
The purpose of search engines is filtering content to give us what we asked for. Unless they developed mind-reading technology, Google doesn't really know what I want and attempts at guessing it will lead to substandard results.

I think you really hit the crux of the issue here. My opinion is, these search engines are built around the UI paradigm of "type something into the box and go find that thing." The user doesn't have one box for finding discussion forums, one box for finding blogs that have people they agree with, one box for finding material that appeared in print publications, etc, and yet search engines are for finding all these things, if you want them.

As long as there's people typing "climate change" into Google, Google has to guess at what they are asking for because there ain't enough bits in the query to tell it. There's no a priori reason to expect that they are asking for the most informative and accurate links covering a wide variety of perspectives on climate change; many people probably aren't.

Regarding Wikipedia, well, that's why I said it was the ideal. You're never going to crowdsource perfect objectivity and truth from a million biased writers with ulterior motives, but they try, and they do an OK job on many topics.
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I'm looking for books on programming/technical subjects that can be read on a Kindle or in book form. Essentially, anything that does not have tutorials, or require me to have any thing other than the book; I.e. I don't need a computer to understand.

So far, all I've got it Godel Escher Bach. Any other suggestions? Obviously I won't learn how to program without actually programming, but I figure that I can learn some of the more abstract concepts and theory.
If you start a new TLD, ICANN wants you to at least stay in business for the foreseeable future so that your customers don't get screwed. You also need to be able to survive the inevitable natural and artificial disasters that befall infrastructure.
Note that it's only cool to call yourself a geek if you're not in any danger of being mistaken for an actual geek.

Hot guy/girl wearing glasses: cool.

Overweight unkempt dude in a sweaty t-shirt: still not cool regardless of whether wearing glasses or not.
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I don't get it, why is setting up a private git repository on your own server a hassle?

Assuming you have ssh access (compacted for clarity):

ssh server "git init --bare repo/project.git"
git clone server:repo/project.git

Am I missing something?

EDIT: mkdir superfluous
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Yes, I agree. But until I don't hear a confirmation from Dropbox I am going and assume that all this never really happened and it's just a prank. It seems too big and too weird to be true. edit: This is the guy who reported the "glitch" https://twitter.com/#!/csoghoian seems legit. I am shocked.
It's not strictly a topic for HN but I concur.
it really isn't anything that important. Anyway, here it is: http://pastebin.com/NVu6rhdV
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It's 2011. Why are people still surprised when some blatant hole is found in a site? Does everyone just delude themselves into thinking "oh, they HAVE to be secure"? That old cliche 'nothing is totally secure' is almost right: the reality is, everything is mostly-not secure.

Tips on never getting caught with your pants down by a 3rd party service:

1. Never ever rely on a service maintained by a 3rd party to remain secure. Just assume they will be compromised in the near future (including your password).

2. Make your password strong but don't reuse it; save it in your browser password cache or keyring. Use a memorized really-freaking-difficult master password for the browser cache/keyring.

3. Use NoScript and updated browsers to help prevent XSS and other simple attacks from compromising your cached cookies.

4. Encrypt all sensitive stored information yourself using a well-vetted tool such as gpg, openssl, etc and store the encrypted files on the 3rd party service.

5. Keep hard copies of your secure files, keys, etc in a secure location. 'The Cloud' is not a backup, it's a trap.