skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let me get this straight: rich kid at Harvard gives his bright friend some money to rent servers to run a service that gets popular. Rich kid doesn't contribute any more. Rich kid gets cut out of company because he's not doing shit any more, then sues the company. Company sucks it up and pays him off. Then rich kid renounces citizenship and splits for a tax haven with all of that money, completely avoiding contributing anything further to the environment that made him billions of dollars.

And the popular narrative is that Zuckerberg is the asshole? Huh.
Excellent. Been looking for a Dropbox-easy way to move large amounts directly between machines (here's hoping it doesn't require passing all of it thru a central server) without having to park it in a size-limited cloud. There was a nifty USB gidget that was close, but required $99 hardware and did route everything (albeit encrypted) thru a host.

New iMac coming soon! great time to test Cubby.
I hope you never do a google news search for things like robberies and muggings.

Look, at the end of the day you're hearing only the exception not the norm. Its like people who watch the nightly news and think their little suburb is full of terrorist and murderers. Confirmation bias is a hellava drug.
I really like Cubby and I think it has a lot of potential. I've been using it for about 3 weeks now. The only problems I have seen is that it notifies you every time something is updated. This includes temp files. This gets rather annoying. I also wish I could start paying for a bigger plan now :P
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What's wrong with delegating all of these features into modular applications maintained separately, where they belong?

We already tried the monolithic "everything you might want to make a GUI plus a few kitchen sinks transported over a network" approach to display servers. It didn't work out very well - it created a gigantic, bloated mess, with forward-looking extensions bolted on (composite) and deprecated ideas from the early 1990s clinging on for dear life (everything related to fonts).

There's no reason a networked layer can't be implemented on top of Wayland. Plus, because Wayland is simply a "dumb pipe"-style compositor, several network abstractions can be implemented and duke it out for supremacy: with Wayland, one could write a server which ships GL commands to the client (enabling leveraging the fast render path of the client's video hardware), a server which ships rasterized video (a la VNC), or even a server which implements drawing primitives a la X (or X itself)!

Wayland does not preclude the idea of network transparency. It simply builds the base level of abstraction on which network transparency can be built.
No, it just means there was a monetary gain to be made.
I agree with the your first line. It espouses objectivity. But your second line goes in the opposite direction and make me sad.
I use git because of github, and not vice versa.
He made the same comments when he first moved some projects to GitHub. I believe the kernel.org servers were having issues at the time. In response to these comments, we pushed out several changes nearly immediately, including a completely redesigned Pull Request email notification.

We're always listening for feedback and are working on improving the experience for everyone. It's too bad that useful bits of feedback like this turn into another drama episode though.
An example of what is developing into my biggest problem with EFF: an organization doing incredibly important work that at the same time has seemingly no scruples about muddying the water to gain attention and gin up outrage. It's hard to escape the thought that Blizzard is on this list because nobody cares about German frozen food companies, but everyone recognizes Blizzard.
If you're trying to get tableview cells in iOS to "resize themselves" you're not quite getting how they're supposed to be built if you want them to scroll fast. The general way to achieve fast scrolling of complex, graphical cells is to precalculate the row heights once, as soon as you have the data. This should be no more difficult than adding some string and image heights together.
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Let's play 33 bits on this guy, my guess is that he's German, Austrian or Swiss based on the settings for his IRC client, that should knock about 6 bits off, 27 to go.
There is no lacking of tracking built into bitcoin. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Everything is tracked within bitcoin. The one exception is with stolen bitcoins, like what had happened. Those bitcoins show up as owned by the rightful owner... And when spent and tracked, would appear to have been spent by that person, instead of the thief.
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I agree. I like to pay Dropbox because in doing that I know what I am getting. I know they aren't selling my data, or my privacy because I actually know what I am purchasing. I am giving my money over to them for a service they offer. "Free, unlimited" is just something that I have a few concerns with. The first, would be that I have no idea how they make their money (probably advertisement?), but if not they are perhaps selling your data or privacy to third parties. Of course, there is an option that it is run by someone with just so much money that they don't mind giving it all away for free. But that is very rare. The second concern I have is how long can a free and unlimited service stay up. This is why I have moved my stuff out of Bitcasa after testing it, even though after an SSH I realized I had over 300 Terabytes to store items. I just can't justify those sorts of things though in my own sense. So yeah, I agree spidey-senses be a tinglin'.
What if they just restore from yesterday's backup?

If every Bitcoin user rolled back the block chain by a day then the theft essentially didn't happen. But you can't get everyone to agree to do that.

Is there a bitcoin equivalent of the ink packets regular banks use to track stolen cash?

All Bitcoin transactions are public, so it's possible to trace thefts. But when a transaction has both tainted and untainted inputs the output ends up partially tainted and you end up with a lot of innocent people holding BTC that's lightly tainted (sort of like having 100 $1 bills of which two were marked by police — what is the probability that you're a criminal?).

http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com/2011/07/bitcoin-is-... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800790
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56170.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67609.0
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2119/is-there-any...
I know it's unfeasible (and incredibly selfish of me) but I'd like to see them go the Wikipedia route.
No, it makes sense (not that it's necessarily the main or only reason) - it's much easier to break APIs when the only clients are internal.
Thanks. I am a calculus drop out and non programmer, so some of what goes on here is way over my head (which is part of why I hang here).
Retail banks are not routinely losing customer dollars to online breaches in their own systems; virtually all of them also have infrastructure in place to make any such potential losses immaterial to actual customers. The impression that Bitcoin's actual practical implementation on the web is seriously shady is probably not a product of cognitive bias.
On what grounds is Firefox not allowed in the App Store? Or does the restriction on JIT simply make performance unappealing?
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Legalese might hide problematic things without your knowing about it. It may very well take a lawyer to spot those issues in the first place, lines which you might gloss over as harmless.
You don't crack Tor you track people down based on info they released publicly, then confiscate their stuff to demonstrate they did it.
Depends on where you are. In SF, you're looking at a minimum of about $200 an hour (for a fairly inexperienced lawyer, who will take longer). If you want a 10 year lawyer who actually knows what he's doing, you're looking at about $300-$600 (depending on experience, what kind of firm he's at, etc.). Lawyers don't read much faster than you would, so you can basically do the math on what to expect, based on the size of the stack of documents you want read.

If it's a three page contract, and you don't have an existing relationship with the attorney, you'll probably just be charged a flat fee of a couple hundred bucks, or nothing, depending on what sort of other business you might bring in.
It's free with no plans to charge for anything, don't worry! "Get started for free" is simply a call-to-action to make that apparent. Cynicism warranted... that should've been more clearly explained.

email us at hello@trydesignlab with any questions or issues!
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However, they also have different concerns. It's only natural that the Linux kernel have stricter commit requirements than most of the projects on github. In the wide respect, you want things to be kinda fast, loose, and easy. However, I wouldn't be inclined to run a kernel with fast, loose, and easy standards.
the transaction in question: http://blockchain.info/tx-index/5416502/7a22917744aa9ed740fa...

it's like having cctv access to a robbery but being able to do nothing about it
Ouch my feelings are broken... I just wish you would live up to your image, but then again you're just an imperfect human too.
Apple forked KHTML to create WebKit. They kept it open source though and now lots of companies (Nokia, Google, etc.) contribute to it.
Things have come full circle. This sounds a lot like Foldershare.com -- they offered virtually unlimited syncing of folders between machines, but with no cloud backup. They were acquired by MS in 2005. I used Foldershare before I signed up for Dropbox, and in parallel with dropbox, for a while. :)
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Here's the official statement: http://bitcoinica.blogspot.com/
Github wasn't directly what made git big.

Linus using git for the linux kernel, the bitkeeper drama, and doing talks about why git is better and everything is broken made git popular.

Github has done a lot to push it, but even without github, git would still be huge.
Its totally informative.I like your style dear.
Based on little I'm thinking "it's Skype, but for data" where the service is driven by free point-to-point file transfer, but related buffering/storage or other "hey that's great but I'd pay for..." services tacked on (like Skype's X-to-phone paid services - dirt cheap, but cumulative).
Bitcoinica's official statement re being hacked. ~$100k USD stolen.
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I think the chinese dude needed some money and faked a hack. anyone can prove otherwise?
Rephrase to make it less offensive if the owners of such a system stole money, how could anyone tell?
Neat. I've been using http://instadj.com which has a single search engine rather than one for artists and individual songs.
Tagstand or someone needs to create an NFC ring I can wear to unlock my phone instead of the cumbersome patterns, etc.
It's instructive to read Linus's commits to his hobby project "subsurface":

https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/commits/master

Even if I can't code like Linus, I can at least try to write commit messages like his…
OK I simplified a little, but if there was ever any reason to move a rack and it could be done with zero downtime, the arguments against it are never going to be "but that's my space I rented".

I rent a furnished appartment, and while the company that owns it would never touch it without my permission, the contract is very specific about it being this building, they would never say "mind moving next door?" whereas with a rack in a data centre, not only does the contract not specify exactly where the rack is placed, it makes very little difference about it's exact location.
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> Git is a notoriously user-hostile piece of software

Then you probably didn't use any SCCS before git. Because CVS is even uglier, Bitkeeper is the reason Linus wrote git and every other I tried was more "user-hostile" than git.

> pretty much the only thing it has going for it on the usability front is Github.

You sound like a Visual Basic programmer who just saw C for the first time.

Edit: Bitkeeper, not bucket!
So, you are saying that if you were the maintainer of a project which required a feature such that the Github implementation was inadequate but the official git implementation was OK, you'd use the Github implementation anyway?
Not to mention, his block count on btcguild at a specified date.
dropbox, you've been really good to me, but the competition has really got you in the crosshairs....
(and i'm a linux user, which doesn't even work with this [yet?...or google drive], but the competition really has become pretty serious lately).
Thanks! That text has been there for at least 6 years and we've never noticed.
Git is a notoriously user-hostile piece
of software interface-wise

It's funny you say that, because Git is the only version control system where working with branches, forks and merges in big projects is not only doable, but in 90% of the cases painless. You can't really appreciate Git until you've tried doing the same tasks in Perforce, SVN and CVS. No other similar software has the same painless approach to branching and merging, not even other distributed systems.

Also, its interface is hostile because it requires the user to understand a little about its internals. You may disagree that this is good design, however it gives you unprecedented control over the repository, which you need often when the shit hits the fan. Also, Git is freakishly fast and efficient. Much like C, an interface done with taste, but that doesn't appeal to those with weak hearts. And the fact that such projects as Linux are maintained with Git, projects which have a huge number of contributers, it's a true testament to Git's awesomeness.

And btw, considering how version control is one of the most important tools at your disposal, if not the most important in big teams, stop reading those SVN 2 Git tutorials and go read a freaking manual. It's worth it, because you'd be amazed at how much power it has under the hood.
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I thought the same. I'd only been on the page about 30 seconds and I came back here to see if anyone had mentioned pricing.

Perhaps 'Get started, it's free' would be better suited.
Not really. StatusNet has (private, if desired) groups, photo uploads, events, URL sharing, and (on a local install, not on identi.ca) arbitrary-length status updates. I guess it's closer to the defunct Pownce than either Twitter or Facebook, but that puts them closer to Facebook than Twitter at this point in the game.
Amazon probably seemed like a ridiculous name when they started out... why would you name an online bookstore after a South American river? But I think they've done okay.

Though this only really works if you're doing something orthogonal to the original word and build enough of a brand to make it stick.
Synchronizing with the music is easy if you generate the music yourself.
There are roughly 1 million USD Bitcoin transactions per day.[1] The stolen transaction accounts for 10% of a single day's worth of transactions.

1. http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-u...)
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You're assuming he is leaving for tax purposes. If he doesn't live in the United States why would he retain his citizenship? He could be denouncing it for entirely unrelated reasons, someone stated below that to get citizenship in Singapore you must be a citizen of only Singapore. Nowhere has it been confirmed, this is all speculation. He hasn't just suddenly "split", he left the US almost 2 years ago. He already paid taxes on hundreds of millions, I really doubt that he hasn't paid his "fair share".
Still AGPLed and requires a contributor license agreement before submitting patches? Yeah sorry, but I'm not interested in doing your work for you so you can dual-license it and sell it to companies while I can't make my own proprietary extensions for it.

Oh well, back to Facebook.
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Man, now I feel like a total hack. I love the github pull request. I do insist that my devs use a good style (i.e. first line is a summary and wrap at 80 chars) but I love the user interface for looking at diffs and doing a code review. I had no idea it was inferior until reading this and now I find myself in the awkward position that I don't care. Have I really become the guy who values an efficient team process more that adherence to esoteric specifications. God, I can't believe it's come to that.
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Bitkeeper. Bitbucket (and Mercurial) did not exist when Linus started writing Git.
Why are they blocking FF? It seems to me Apple's inviting the same anti-trust problems Microsoft had. Just let FF on and compete.
I'm actually pretty sure he's not Chinese at all, but actually an alien from a planet in the Gliese 876 system. Can anyone prove otherwise?
A financial company run by one inexperienced person is pretty much a big "hack me" sign.
What is really missing is a set of decent data structures.
The problem is that the only documentation for the "required infrastructure" is the Linux source itself which is constantly changing.
Ok I'll go with that, let's say we're similar to or better off.

But just to be prepared, if it should turn out to be the other way around, or if this would happen in the future, what would you do if conditions suddenly are comparably a lot worse for non-established younger people?

How would you keep them motivated? Would you divide the economic hit equally? Start tearing up old rent controlled apartment leases? Lower pensions?

I think it's an interesting political and moral issue which seems not to have been considered.

If we are having economic problems and decide to raise the retirement age from 65 to 70 (as discussed in europe), should people who are 66 and just retired go back to work? Or should it only affect the younger people, and if so, why?
If you are a US Citizen, you have to pay taxes, regardless of where you live, so I am guessing taxes paid a role in his decision.
Comparing a teenager's site to a bank is being pretty disingenuous here. If you're saying its impossible to code a safe bitcoint repository on par with electric banking then I really need you to back that up with proof because its a pretty insane premise.

I can lose $20 right now and it would be impossible to trace back. Bitcoin really isn't any different than cash, except bitcoin users probably understand the risks a lot more than $random_consumer.
ugh, stop the name calling.

Surely you mean that bitkeeper is the reason Linus wrote git. Bitbucket didn't exist when he did.
This maintainer is a little more notable than most... And his opinion is a little more relevant :)
I was around during the time period you're talking about and in my personal experience, Microsoft had plenty of help in killing Netscape from Netscape itself.

I switched to MSIE3 not because of bundling or FUD but because it was a much better browser.

Microsoft has been a bad actor at times when it comes to business practices, but I think a lot of people overestimate how much that helped them and underestimate how much competitor mistakes helped them. Netscape Navigator post-2.0 was a piece of garbage until Firefox rolled around.
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How on Earth is this drivel at the top of HN?
The AGPL licence and requirement for contributor licensing agreements means they can prevent people from making closed-source extensions (like for example if you wanted to tie it into your own internal authentication system), UNLESS you are willing to pay them to license it to you under a dual license.
arguments of the form "why aren't you complaining as much when X does it?" are always lame. because (1) often they are, you just haven't noticed it (often because it hasn't resonated with a media echo chamber) and (2) so what.
No downloadable executable content. You can have an alternative programming language interpreter in your program (now), but it can only run scripts that are already in the application bundle.

It's a reasonable restriction from a user's point of view—you don't want to allow arbitrary code execution that may expose vulnerabilities in badly coded applications. It sucks from a developer's point of view.
I think Mozilla are absolutely right. and there is no hypocrisy. Microsoft are willing to, and have actually already, cause years of stagnation and harm to the internet with IE6. Presumably if they got the chance they would do it again on tablet too. Apple on the other hand don't appear so risky for two reasons:

1) they've never appeared to have an issue with other browsers on Mac OS

2) there's Android and its browser competing with iOS, so there is not a complete iOS-only monoculture like Microsoft had with Windows - there is still competition between mobile browsers (yes, switching browsers means you have to switch device, but that's better than nothing and will surely prevent one mobile browser from stagnating for five years).

I know this doesn't mean Apple wouldn't do it if they had the chance, but as another commenter pointed out, many people have bad memories of long weekends trying to work with IE6 for the long 5 years between IE6 and IE7. Microsoft have already offended, so they deserve extra special attention, especially with legal agreements possibly still in place due to the antitrust cases.
It's 2012 and we're still arguing about line breaks and 80-character lines?
Yeah - I thought I was doing fairly well back in the 70s when I wrote a (lossless) half-tone compression routine that got ~50% compression when there was only enough core [and some of the machines it ran on uses actual core] to hold one scan line. This stuff is amazing.
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Linus rubs people the wrong way all the time. It's just the way he is wired. He enjoys arguments and hyperbole. Once you understand that, you can choose to accept that and interact with him without undue suffering, or not.
X is rapidly becoming a system that only works well on Linux.
It always puzzled me why his commits (and in fact standard commits) ought to start with a verb that is not in its past form. When I started using git four months ago (such a newbie), I would write something like "Fixed this" instead of "Fix this". Anybody with more insights on this? I am just curious.
You forgot to add the rounded corners to the about page content area.
I agree Netscape helped kill itself, but the list of things Microsoft did is long and sordid.
I'm guessing they probably just p2p the files between the computers (with setup help from cubby's servers).. pretty neat way to offer a free feature
How do rising property values benefit people who rent?
To my knowledge, the bitcoin system itself has never been compromised. Unfortunately, there are a lot of services built /around/ the bitcoin system that have been set up by teenagers... If you were to deposit $100K of platinum in a reserve set up by teenagers, I wouldn't have much sympathy when you lose it. Doesn't mean platinum is useless, however.
How would you keep them motivated? Would you divide the economic hit equally? Start tearing up old rent controlled apartment leases? Lower pensions?

As a parent in such a situation I'd start redistributing my own money to my children before I die.

From a societal point of view the best thing to encourage that would be to get rid of any gift taxes et cetera which might discourage it.
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