skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...or gitosis http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-e...

Gitosis does not have as fine grained control as gitolite nor is it as well documented (config file errors are hard to debug), but it works well within its limitations. Both are now available as Debian/Ubuntu packages (gitolite was not when I started using gitosis). The other obvious difference is that gitolite is written in Perl and gitosis is written in Python. This should be a superficial difference, but sometimes the world isn't rational.
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The one-repo-for-old-projects solution works in some cases, but not really for mine. As a contract developer I often have projects that are under active development for a few months and then go into "maintenance mode". In this case I want separate repos for when maintenance needs to happen. Otherwise that one repo is a mess.

I believe this is the kind of problem that CodePlane solves. And I agree with you that its great to see projects like this present competition and make GitHub better in the long run.
First U.S. patent laws were first to file, not first to invent
It would probably lose money considering the massive power bill; the FPUs and interconnect wouldn't be used at all.
Could Anonymous please direct their efforts towards dealing with these sociopaths? I would gladly donate.
Agreed. I wouldn't either 80% of the time. But often I'm making a very directed search that I would really like the "best" results for where best is usually defined as different than the results I'm getting.
It's also domain knowledge for system programming.
I wanted to solve both problems. I have 40+ repos, but about 50% are archives only. So, with 2GB I can store them and I also work on my current projects.
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The GPL is viral, but you're misapplying the term here. The viral nature of the GPL deals with how your own code (linked with the GPL) must be licensed, not with how you redistribute GPL'd code.
This is completely unfair to Drew and also out of line.

We do know what happened, because Drew told us what happened.

Years ago, when my wife thought her MacBook was stolen, I emailed Drew and asked if he would notify us if it connected to Dropbox, and he was happy to help. This was back when Dropbox was small. (My account is number 315, for example.)

Drew is a good person, and unless you have some basis for calling him a liar, don't.
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From what I can see the mobile clients do use SSL:

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=24507
Yeah, I'm working on it! Just had to do some things first before really working on "selling the product".
Yep, before I would even consider paying I want to see the docs for the command line tool, and at least a few screenshots of the web interface!

I does look good from what info is available though.
Indeed. Kurzweil is far from the only Singulitarian. And virtually all of them have more interesting things to say on the matter than he does.
Absolutely no money was earned or was expected.

If my intentions were money driven I could have thrown up ads or offers to try and convert (or just a simple lander with one signup offer). 42,200+ unique views yesterday would make most marketers very happy. Those weren't my intentions at any point.
While I do agree that Github leaves space for a model like this, I think the value of Github is that it offers a great community and awesome toolset (online and offline). Then I read this:

"I also wanted to do almost everything from my terminal, so I built a CLI, that you can use to manage repositories, public keys and collaborators. For daily usage, you probably won't have to go to our web interface ever again, and that's awesome!"

And I think "that's what I have with Gitosis on my VPS" (Gitosis uses git to manage user accounts and keys, so it pretty much doesn't get simpler than that). Companies pay for Github for the tools, developers who use CLI are probably not that interested in forking $9 a month for something they already have. Just my two cents, but I wish you the best of luck :)
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Great looking product and very much like your way of thinking in assigning space and not a set number of repos. I'm a github user and have been for a while but such competition would make me reconsider in the future. best of luck with it.
What is "out of line" is attacking me for operating on a default-untrusted policy instead of a default-trusted policy. We all don't share your happy Drew Houston story do we?

That is great that Drew helped you when the company was small. Facts are easy to distort when your company's reputation is getting flushed down the toilet and it is not a reflection upon Drew personally that I do not automatically trust him.

I tried believing in the best in people. It stopped working. Until shown otherwise I question every input and you would be stupid to do otherwise.
Can you get Chrome itself without admin rights? That would probably be as beneficial or more for circumventing draconian (and short-sighted) IT policies.
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As soon as GitHub introduces size-limited plans, will Codeplane be able to attract new customers?
I kicked this back and forth a bit. IMO, the idea has merit but the presentation wasn't narrowly tailored. It took me ~20 minutes, but I came up with a fairly strong use case: travel.

When I traveled to Costa Rica, I quickly learned that no formal addressing system exists, and instead everything is based on landmarks. This made use of GPSes extremely difficult, to the point that many people say using a GPS in Costa Rica is fairly worthless.

If I was back in Costa Rica, I'd love to be able to type HFW QMJ BBBE and be directed to my destination, rather than trying to parse "75 m Norte de la Coca Cola" -- first, where's "Coca Cola"? Wait, it's a bus station?! It was a Coca Cola plant back in the 1970s? Gee, that's helpful...

More generally: this is why everyone MUST narrow your idea's scope and build everything around that. When I hear "positioning code", my mind jumps to using this code to locate a new restaurant that opened downtown. That's worthless. Just tell me the damn street address instead.

But if you told me that this code could let me navigate to a restaurant in a city I've just traveled to for the first time, in a country that doesn't speak my native language, and doesn't do street addresses like I'd expect? I'd say you were an absolute genius.

This happens because the post focused on the idea, and barely spent a single line talking about the applications. Thus, I do what everyone else does -- I filled in the blanks. Don't let people fill in your idea's blanks!
Gitolite suffers from being well documented for an open source project yet still very hard to understand from a standing start - it's just not a very intuitive setup. I wrote a post on setting it up just to help me wrap my head around it.

http://www.exratione.com/2011/03/setting-up-an-access-contro...

Since I maintain my own sites anyway, keeping as many private repositories as I want is basically free once this is set up.
So the aim is to have something really simple first. The next features will certainly be a link with Basecamp, Backpack and Google Docs,

Yep, I could see this being pretty useful if it was easy to load documents to and from Google Docs. Part of the reason I say that, is simply because I use GDocs as a sort of lightweight DMS for my startup related docs in general... but also because the Fedex Online Printing service has a built in hook to GDocs, to make it easy to retrieve docs for printing.

Yeah, yeah, I know... "paperless office" and all that. But there are still times when you want hard-copy, and being able to pull stuff over from GDocs to Fedex, submit the print job, and then pick it up at the Fedex store, is pretty handy on those occasions.
Sadly, it's not a great solution.

It's not very user-friendly. Having stand-alone applications and double-clicking them is nice, having to extract and add your own shortcut to the executable isn't.

Distributing directories over the web sucks.

Both of these problems result in installers which encourage other undesirable behaviours (think: shared libraries, using the registry).

Users can't be sure that applications are standalone, meaning end users don't get most of the advantages of bundles because you can't rely on them working.

Without top-down guidance or enforcement, developers will do whatever the hell is convenient for them without regard to what's good for the end user. The New Old Thing has detailed this principle again and again over the years.

On top of that, many developers don't even like to accept that the shared dependency issue has, in practice, mostly been solved by not sharing dependencies and that the reasons against sharing libraries generally aren't comeplling anymore. I'm still grumbling that the developers of Haiku think that implementating a package manager with dependency resolution is a good idea when everyone else has figured out that it isn't years ago.

(Note: Linux is an exception. Package management with dependency resolution is necessary because Linux as an operating system is ultimately a web of interweaving dependencies rather than a coherent whole. It's a necessary, if not ideal, workaround for the problem.)
So I've been pondering the schema.org announcement for a while, and after chewing the cud with a bunch of various search, UX and general experty web people, composed this. Thoughts, opinions and feedback, as always, appreciated.
Phishing really? I have no intentions of going to Federal Prison. So I think phishing is absolutely out of any equation. However I know there are lot's of people who would.
The very title is wrong.

I can't double-click a directory to run the program contained inside that directory. The system also doesn't recognize a directory as a "program" at all, it's just a file system directory.

Windows doesn't have package management. Period. Trying to rename something to look like a "package" is disingenuous.
Most small business take 0 salary and all of it as profits.

Generally capitalist countries tax dividends (investment income) at a lower rate than salary (worker income) and you also avoid paying social insurance taxes.
It's a hack of course, but if the changes are really that occasional, the pain is negligible: all you need to do is to commit twice for every project change (once for a sub-directory containing the project repo, once for the root repo).

If a project becomes active again, simply take it out of the master repo and push it as a new repo.

It's really not that bad. But then again, things change if you have collaborators...
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Yeah! One can always set up the whole thing, but for small shops and freelancers it makes no sense to manage something like this.

Maybe for hackers like us... ;)
His way is bringing in money.

I use bitbucket, too, because of the unlimited private repositories.
Google most definitely does care about the TLD. It's well known that .edu pages are given more weight than others.
we need software which is truly Free

What is "Free"?

According to the FSF definition, Chromium is as Free as it gets, with Chrome being a rebranding from stable releases of Chromium + proprietary codecs (which Google moved to eliminate with WebM).

Chromium versus Chrome is basically Fedora versus Red Hat.

Google Chrome is no more open source than is Mac OS X

That's bollocks and you're either trying to spread FUD or you don't know what you're talking about.

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.
Bitbucket offers unlimited numbers of repos for free (they only care about number of committers).
Then the blog post should mention what it does well. In my case, I figured out one place where it would:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674732

This post left too many blanks, and we are trying to fill them in. If you don't show people why we should use your tool, and why it is better than the alternatives, people may not figure them out.
Thanks @rg

Couldn't agree with your comments more. Marketing and target audience was a bad idea from the beginning.
People have been slamming Dropbox quite a bit, and it's not all entirely unwarranted.

I think that part of this is how Dropbox is handling things, and the fact they appear to be growing faster than they can code.

I'd love to see them offer something like a free lifetime 50GB account for anyone the submits a high security reproducible bug like this. Sure, they may end up giving out a couple of terabytes of free space, but the intense QA they would get for free would likely be worthwhile.
A slight tangent...

I recently looked into password managers myself after the MtGox leak. I tried 1Password and LastPass. While both do what they say--I found them cumbersome to use.

I settled on a scheme like this:

E-mail: Very strong, completely unique. 2-factor auth. If you have my e-mail, it's game over.

Bank: Very strong, completely unique.

The rest of the passwords I've broken down into tiers. I've memorized a password for each tier combined with a hashing algorithm stored in my head.

The theory here being if an entire tier gets compromised (someone figures out my hashing scheme), at the very worst I lose the entire tier.

This does keep me safe from automated attacks, but not if someone singled me out individually. Which in that case, I've got other problems.

This isn't perfect, but it gives me a couple of things I really value:

- Keep all passwords in my head

- Unique passwords on each site

- Tiered passwords so if someone figures out my hashing scheme, they only get that tier

I like the idea of password managers, but in practice they were too much hassle for me.
After you make about 375k, you have to pay 35% tax on every extra dollar of salary too.
Not yet! Basecamp and some others tools like Pivotal Tracker will be integrated at the right time. ;)
This entire argument is simply without merit. Google is, and always has been, a filter.

If I type in "Barack Obama", it will not show me links about The Green Bay Packers NFL team. This is not because Google is conspiring to keep me from reading about the Green Bay Packers. It is because it is most likely that I am not looking for Packers links and will not click. The general idea is that Google starts with every single piece of content on the internet and filters to get the content it thinks I am looking for.

Now, this article complains that Google is flawed because it will more likely show some MSNBC over Fox News, or vice versa. The implication here is that you never click on Fox News when it is presented. Because if you did click on Fox News and its ilk from time to time, Google wouldn't start filtering it in the first place. The problem isn't that the search engine creates the "bubble", it is that the user does!

So if the scenario presented in this article offends you, then start changing your behavior and browsing more diverse
sites. Otherwise, don't blame Google for noting that you hang out in a very narrow corner of the internet, and presenting you links from that corner. It's just doing its job correctly in that case.
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how do these startups get beautiful page designs? hiring those level of designers would require lots of $$ if you ask me.
It's interesting that there's an overall theme here that the only action government takes is more laws. This is recognized as an issue right? But people just don't think there's anything to do about it? That scares the hell out of me. If the people here have given up on having substantial control over the legal context of their lives, something is very very wrong.
I can relate with "I tried believing in the best in people. It stopped working." I've had some nasty experiences as well. I've been burnt, badly, a lot. By both family and friends.

You're right. I was probably just clinging to the fantasy that YCombinator is the one pure group of people in a world of backstabbers. But I guess Airbnb already disproved that.

I don't distort facts. Neither did Feynman. Drew is an MIT alum, so I was assuming/hoping YCombinator consisted mostly of people with that type of scientific integrity.
Reliability is not trust. (but mutually assured destruction is)
Exactly my point! People can always set up their own stuff. The question is "is it worth?"
I don't know the specific tech that Adobe is using, but I'd look pretty carefully at the technology before committing to a platform like this as a true cross-platform development environment. "Cross-platform" can mean lots of different things.

We had a native app developed in Android. When we decided to create an iOS version, we selected Appcelerator after reviewing a few different options and seeing what we perceived to be good adoption of Appcelerator (and after talking to another firm that chose the same thing). And, we (mistakenly) thought that it's "generating native code", so, if anything goes wrong, we can always debug in the Objective-C. Right?

Wrong.

About 6 weeks into the development process, we were doing a round of testing to get a version out to Beta testers and found that we simply couldn't debug the code and get it to 100% stable. That's when we dug deeper (yes, a bit late for that...) and found that Appcelerator is essentially a VM running on top of the native stack. So crashes get logged to the same few lines of Appcelerator interpreter code--which is pretty much useless for debugging. For prototyping, it's great, but for production quality code, I would say stay away.

Shortly before we finalized this decision, we reached back out to the other firm whom we had originally spoken to before making the Appcelerator decision. They told us that they were in the same spot and had just made the decision to move off Appcelerator a couple days previous--for the same reason: stability and lag issues and no way to get to zero defects.

We moved to native Objective-C and the dev team is much happier. Crashes have full stack traces and we can identify exactly what to fix.

We got some benefit out of Appcelerator because the second round of development took less time, but given the choice (and knowing that we weren't just prototyping--we had a native Android app and we were generally happy with the screen flows) we would have gone native to begin with.
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They do now.

Here is a forum post where they admit that mobile SSL was impossible.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=10669
Do you have a pointer to a publicly visible reference to the definition of some of the other query string parameters Google uses? Just thought I'd ask, given the context. I've noted various references people have cobbled together, but perhaps there's something a bit more... "canonical". Thanks for the above.
Fog Creek has a product called Kiln, which is like Github, but is based on Mercurial. It's very polished and has lots of great features that focus on private repository management (but has public repos, too).

It's free for up to 2 users. Unlimited repos and disk space.
Not really. You can view the source code for both Chrome, Chrome OS and Chrome Frame in their repo: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome_frame...

As a side note, after having looked at the code for a few minutes, it appears they're doing some clever things with the Chrome Frame helper program: (tidy) DLL injection into Internet Explorer, together with dynamic BHO loading using the windowing API and the IWebBrowser2 interface (see http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome_frame... ).

The "right" way to do this is to register your BHO dll through regsvr32 (I believe this creates a registry entry as well.) If you have Administrative rights, the installer does this for you, and Internet Explorer will do everything on its own from there on.

It surprises me that their workaround actually works. One would think that aspects such as DLL injection and API interfacing would be blocked for non-administrative users. The code could actually prove inspirational for malware writers. I still wonder how they load the helper program at startup. Probably using a service, but setting a new service would require Administrative privileges, I believe...
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I am currently frustrated with Github's private repository hosting plans. When I switched from SVN to Git, what was initially one repository became six, because of Git's "you can't checkout part of a repo" philosophy. So now, I have to buy a fairly expensive plan even though my usage is pretty small.

Cheers, to you for adding some competition to the marketplace. I hope it provides some pricing pressure on Github one of these days.
It almost seems like DDG is trying to get me to think personalization == censorship. Sorry, but that ain't gonna fly.

You've just undermined your own search engine's potential to use such a feature in the future -- people will be spitting quotes back at DDG about how opposed on this feature they were. Know your audience.
Maybe putting something like "(Virtually) Unlimited private Git hosting"?
Although, native apps will likely always perform better, I think this is a step in the direction for small companies and startups that don't have the resources to build and support mobile applications for all platforms. As mobile platforms continue to evolve and change rapidly, the task continues to get more complex.

Since Adobe has the resources and a strong vested interest in securing a future for their Flash ecosystem, it will be very interesting to see how their tools evolve over time. The market opportunity for tools supporting write once, run anywhere mobile apps as well as tools for HTML5, Canvas, SVG and WebGL development is clearly growing and Adobe is one of the few companies capable of delivering this on a large scale. The question now is ... will they do it?
So wish I could use bitbucket, but switching off Git isn't an option for our team.
Chromium is used quite frequently on the Linux side of things. Distros like Arch Linux and Debian distribute only Chromium in their main repos.
It should be a coffeetable book that folds into a coffee table.
I like this business model better. You pay for what you use, not how you use it. Its moving away from the Microsoft plan of "to use this for business you must pay me double".

Its like a ford salesman asking you about how you plan on using your ford focus, oh you will be driving to work? Highway driving costs you 50% extra. Sorry. You can take our back-alley car for cheap though.

as arturadib mentioned, you can make the "old-projects" repo. But that's just a hack/workaround for a wrong business model. Though I am sure this business model is much more profitable.
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Bangalore Police ask Google to pull out Street View cars.
Also, ships are not solid (as in 'filled'), let alone uniform in density. On top of that, hydrodynamics imposes more important constraints on shape. You can make a ship pretty stable by loading its keel heavily.
Just curious... are you brazilian?
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Interesting. I thought Apple didn't allow VM's running on top of iOS.
The biggest advantage of tmux is if you want to go multi-user. It can be done with screen, but it involves some pretty heinous setuid hacks.

tmux doesn't invent its own permissions system; it just communicates over a socket. Anyone with permissions to read the socket can join. Anyone with permissions to write to the socket can interact. It's stupid easy.