skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where the author is coming from with his arguments, but I'll bet 10 bucks his project won't be seeing any pull requests moving forward. Github did not supplant git, it created the market for git. If it weren't for github, we'd all still be using SVN (yes yes and mercurial and blah blah other minor league players).
>place the onus on the contributor to make sure the contribution is packaged appropriately

appropriately according to the standards of that project.

if using GH pull requests was such a barrier to entry, contributors wouldn't and you'd see an exodus from using them.

I haven't seen this.
"That is how Dr. Fleischmann might have liked his obituary to read."
> But I think the thesis is there is the github way and then there is the goit cli way.

Which is, again, a false dichotomy. Github is a remote repo. In git you always also have your own local repo, and things like 'git am' and 'git send-email' (and 'git rebase --interactive', and 'git bisect', and any other non-trivial use of git) are operations that you would always want to be performing locally before pushing it out to a remote repository.

That there's no interface to perform these things on Github doesn't mean that Github is trying to engage in vendor lock-in, it's just a reflection of the reality of the fact that you should be doing that stuff to your local private repo, with your local client.
Have you actually looked at fittit? A lot of the most vocal and active contributors and moderators are credentialled to hell and back.

Silverhydra, for example, is considered a minor deity thereabouts. He's a registered dietitian, an amateur bodybuilder and is the co-founder of examine.com, for which he reads literally dozens of studies per month.
Two reasons why shows are not sold in DVD in India

[1] Too many channels, too many programs, no-one is interested in watching old shows again.
[2] DVDs will be copied and sold in shops. I doubt even a small percentage of sale will even reach the original producers.

YouTube is a better option for the producers.
It is simpler and easier to set up a new git repository on a webserver than it is to do the same on github. It is also simpler to set up post-receive hooks and the like when you want them to do sophisticated things. The ramp-up to get git working on a webserver is this: Do you have SSH connection? Are your contributors' umask okay? To compare this to the complexities of configuring good SMTP/IMAP/POP with SSL shows that you don't know very much about any of these matters, or that you are not thinking seriously about them.

P.S. I find great benefits of hosting my own email, chiefly, once again, that I can guarantee that my mail service is working, and that I get my mail very quickly. gmail has been offline more in the past four years than my mail server. I also don't have to worry about password resets, a webmail UI constantly in flux, or Gmail constantly hitting me up for my mobile phone number.
This will coincide perfectly with next year being the year of the linux desktop. I don't think its a coincidence either that reporters try to cover this up when writing about Mountain Lion and Windows 8.

You'll never see them link to the many articles that suggest next year will be the year of the linux desktop, despite the fact that these articles have existed since at least 1997.

Again, no reasons as to why, either linux doesn't work as a desktop, or their actively suppressing it to support Big Software.

The year after that, the 2nd version of the ecat will turn lead into gold instead of nickel into copper.
People always end up believing what they want to believe, even if it's illogical or totally insane.

But, no one has ever put on weight on a calorie deficit. NEVER.

This being said, you can get overweight or even obese if you eat too much, be it green beans or lard.

Similarly, you can lose weight eating "bad" foods, if you maintain a calorie deficit.

Obviously, for long term results, it's best to eat good food, exercise regularly and do both with moderation.

That is it. This is all there is to know on that topic.

PS: Anyone above 500 pounds can lose 100 pounds fairly quickly. Using such an achievement to prove that this or that miracle diet is best...is disingenuous.
This is a lazy, spiteful stereotype.
Example of a company saving a trillion dollars because of software?
Because as there's no evidence (and since all your claims are "allegedly", there's no way to reproduce this or to explain how it behaves, and this quote from the Wikipedia article: "Typically during demonstrations the device is covered up.") it's not at all credible, and certainly not worthy of the New York Times.
That article is misleading, I believe intentionally so.

> But that Perez Hilton video listing would get removed
> via the web search takedown system, as there is no
> Google Video removal. The YouTube one, as I’ve
> explained, would fall under the YouTube removal system.

The video he mentions is hosted on perezhilton.com, which has instructions at http://perezhilton.com/copyright-statement for requesting a copyright takedown. There is no reason to request its removal from Google unless perezhilton.com refused to comply with the request, which seems unlikely.

Further down the page, he includes a quote from Google which directly refutes the thesis of his article, but then says it must be a straight-up lie because it doesn't agree with his misconceptions about how the internet works.
It's not just profit.

It's hard to get funding for research into training. Nobody wants to be the public research administrator who put $$$ down for research into the effects of hypertrophy. So the studies that do get done tend to be small.

A lot of what is known about sports science relies on meta-studies, because so many training studies are of the form "we took 20 college-aged males and divided them into three groups ..."
Scaevolus's answer is exactly how I feel. It just very harsh sounding to my minds ear. It literally grates on my psyche every time I have to say it in my head.

And I'm with you on "hacker". I don't have a problem with the word itself, but its so overused in these circles to the point that its irritating every time I see someone try to stuff yet another everyday activity under the hacker term.
> In general, open-source projects place the onus on the contributor to make sure the contribution is packaged appropriately, for better or worse. Emailing patches around works very well, and modern VCSes have splendid support for it. If you want to contribute to a project on github, you need to abandon that.

Rather: if you want to contribute to a project on github, and that project does not accept emailed patches for contributions, you need to abandon that. If the project didn't accept pull requests, you'd need to abandon pull requests.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Github, and everything to do with the preferences of the project maintainers and the reality that if you want to contribute to something, it's up to you to conform to its standards, not it to conform to your preferences.

Pull requests are popular with project maintainers simply because they're a very low-friction way to accept contributions.
Skeptic magazine's online site keeps an interesting directory of articles on cold fusion claims,

http://www.skeptic.com/tag/cold-fusion/

and it is important to check those before being fooled by the next generation of cold fusion "researchers." If such a process actually existed in practically usable form, yielding more net energy than the process needed to control and harness the reaction, we would all be happy, but so far no one has demonstrated any form of cold fusion with a rigorous test.

The University of Google will teach you that lots and lots of people who aren't familiar with the scientific method

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

have made claims over the last three decades about nuclear fusion reactions at "low" temperatures, but all of those claims have fizzled out for lack of replication. The cheap way to generate electricity today is to burn natural gas to spin a turbine. For the moment, there is no credible prospect for cold fusion, however much we might desire the facts of science to be otherwise.
Github is not loyal to the Git way of life. They reinvent or add sugar to parts of Git that do not appeal to amateur developers.

For example, Github for Mac hides the Git workflow with semantics that are similar to Dropbox and SVN. They have also switched the default authentication from SSH-based to username and password based.

This is very intelligent on their part. Less scary = more developers = solidified Github as THE code repo of the Internet.
I think the difference is that gmail wasn't the first simplification (web-based or otherwise) of email.

Remember when people used to sign (and/or encrypt) their emails with PGP/GPG? I'm not aware of a way to do that in gmail in any realistic sense.

I do remember, however, many early webmail clients barely supporting even small attachments. Some didn't support multipart.

Eventually, as webmail providers improved, the userbase decided the trade-off of losing the low-level access for the usability advances was worthwhile. I think email is an apt analogy.

GitHub is the first highly-successful incarnation of its kind. There are already credible competitors (albeit with much smaller user counts), and there will be more. GH has made a business decision on what features they spend time on. Other competitors will arrive at different decisions.

Developers, along with popular open source projects, will go to the providers that support their needs.
I have little doubt that a great many of the programmers here adopted DVCS long before commercial web frontends became popular. You have it backwards: Github has git to thank, and not the other way around.
i haven't upgraded since 2.0.4
and with so little atmosphere, what would cause these dust storms? Would the wind at 1 kpa be able to do it alone?
BrowserDB - http://srirangan.github.com/browserdb
This is quite an audacious article, considering that the author's web-interface to his destination git repo is not set up properly:

http://git.bytbox.net/

<base href="http://localhost:8081:8081" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/gitweb.css"/>
<link rel="alternate" title="bytbox.net Git projects list" href="?a=project_index" type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="alternate" title="bytbox.net Git projects feeds" href="?a=opml" type="text/x-opml" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="static/git-favicon.png" type="image/png" />
We should exchange notes, I'm trying the same thing with BrowserDB - http://srirangan.github.com/browserdb - 'cept the API is inspired by MongoDB.
They've hit a sticky spot.

I'd much rather pay a couple dollars for ad-free software than use something with annoying ads in it. However, like most people I'd probably be illogically unwilling to suddenly pay for the same software I've been using for free.

In the short-term I'll probably just avoid updating, but in the long-term I'll migrate to another torrent client! This is probably the beginning of the end for uTorrent.
He's out of touch with reality.

Xanga, MySpace, Digg… the lists extends to infinity, and only fools could think that Twitter and Facebook, giants now, won’t be added to that list within the next five years.

I wonder if his tune will change in 5 years when Twitter and Facebook are still giants?

I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to bet that they'll still be "top dogs" in 10 years...

But asserting that "only fools could think they'll survive 5 more years" is crazy.
Perhaps the github people decided -- since in order to have a `git send-email` button you must first have actually committed a repo from your own machine, and that your CLI/local client has the facililty already -- that the feature being moaned about here was... what's the word?... optional.
Couldn't disagree more. Motivation implies some sort of personal failing or personal weakness, which leads me to believe that you buy into the"eat less, exercise more" mantra.

I would just like to point out a few things.

You state that "most people know what they need to do in order to lose weight" as if there is some cut and dry method to getting thin. Well, I suppose starvation diets ARE that easy, but nobody sticks to them, so they are useless in the long term. This brings me to my first point. If losing weight were as simple as following a specific regimen and the pounds fell off there would be no obesity problem. Nobody chooses to be fat. In fact fat people generally hate it and try incessantly to lose weight. I think the advice that these people get from their doctors, the government, the fitness gurus etc. is almost universally wrong. I could write much more on this subject, but consider that most people that want to lose weight try a variety of methods, and conspicuously none of them work. If this were isolated to just a few people I would say it is a personal defect, but since it is such a widespread phenomena (and growing) I must say I don't think it can simply be explained away as bad habits. People need good information on what to do, and by and large they aren't getting good info.

The other thing that I would like to point out is that the focus on exercise is a relatively recent development, and even though more people are exercising than ever before, there has been absolutely no slow down in obesity rates. Go to any gym and you will see an abundance of fat people trying to get fit. It simply doesn't work. They stay fat.
I think there have been a lot of other CEOs who are highly technical. CS wasn't a common major when 50 year olds were going to college (i.e. a common age for present day CEOs), but a fair number have technical degrees.

Gil Amelio, who Steve Jobs displaced when he came back to Apple, was apparently highly technical (physics, where a lot of early programmers came from).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Amelio
YouTube has 5x more requests there than Vimeo. So it seems like it should be demoted 5x more?

Possibly the answer is 0, so 5x more is still 0. And that would be ok.

But if the answer is anything other than 0, and YouTube is not demoted more than Vimeo, then that is different treatment.

Of course the problem is that we don't see what goes into search results, so we won't see these demotions. If we see Vimeo ranked lower than YouTube, it could be for other reasons. And given the extremely strong position of google.com, this is exactly the issue.
I got your point. I explained the same thing on my summary portion of my blog. I left eclipse for Vim was after seeing its advantage of basic mode based editing. All others are just additions, you can add them when ever required. Check this out also about my detailed explanation of how did that happen to me - http://haridas.in/how-i-came-in-to-vim.html
What is Goofy? DDoS cracker?
Which is a good thing, because just about every language sucks, but some languages realize it less than others. :-)
I won't speculate on HN's userbase, but that I'm confident GitHub is responsible for a much of git's gains both in the wider open-source community and within startups.
This raises an interesting question. I wonder if explicitly labeling itself as a Ponzi scheme precludes it from being technically classified as a Ponzi scheme.

Is it still technically fraud if you walk up to someone on the street and say: "Hey, I want to defraud you, so I'm pretending to be your bank. I need interest on that thing you did. Pay up please?"
How many spaces in a tab? 4 or 8?
I'm not sure that's an interesting argument. The author's claim is that _their_ sales have gone down. And of course there will be some customers interested in those sorts of things.

Unless you're arguing that there are better direct equivalents of those apps on the market these days and there's more competition from good apps, I don't see how "your products have always been poor and have not recently gotten worse" answers "our sales have gone down".
Looks like it's time to give Deluge another try. uTorrent started out great then they started bundling in malware and now they're adding in advertisements - as if they need the extra cash in the first place.
Good freelances get recommended word-of-mouth and are often approached for projects than being the ones approaching customers.

You service may be useful for beginners but being a long time freelancer myself, I don't see why I should use this service (or to be fair any other service to "bid").
Your Business Ideas Are Shit
>But, no one has ever put on weight on a calorie deficit. NEVER.

I want to be a pedant and correct that to "body fat" instead of "weight". A change in diet can stress the body into retaining extra water weight, causing a temporary increase in weight.
The real added value from Github is not Git support per se. It is the knowledge that you won't need to do what the author is about to do; maintain one more service by yourself.

It's not that it is a particularly daunting task, so isn't maintaining your own mail server, mailing list, NAS, blog... But it piles up, and at the end of the day you're probably better off not wasting your time supporting things that other people can do well enough (and probably cheaper).
Er, both are true.

Github is fundamentally a "value added" on top of git. It obviously owes a huge amount to git's fundamentally good design, and especially in the beginning, to a pre-existing git community (which jumped at a somewhat slicker way to set up git repos and interact with other git users).

But OTOH, github's slick layer on top of git really helped push git into areas that might have been a harder sell otherwise. [and that's what's amazing about git these days: not that it's popular amongst hackers (duh!) but that it has become popular amongst more conservative corporations and less technically inclined users.]

They help each other. Win-win.
I see your point, but practically speaking, for most people removing from google.com is removing from the internet. You can't visit what you can't find. So there isn't a fundamental difference between the two types of takedown requests given the dominance of a single search engine.

Given that, I imagine that copyright holders file takedowns where it has the quickest effect, either directly to the site or to google.com. But this is just a technical difference. It seems odd that it should affect search rankings, and it feel more wrong given that Google owns a major target of takedown notifications, so this isn't just Google objectively settings things in order - it has a huge inherent interest and bias here.
Taxpayers now funding anti-science Christian schools in Louisiana
The best client that I have used so far is by far Transmission for *nix systems. I learned about it when I got my first mac, and now it makes for a lovely headless seedbox.
Valid complaint. I felt this exact way when I first started using github 2 years ago, and I almost didn't use it because of that.

But everyone is on github. It won. Even if the article makes 100% valid points, that won't change anytime soon, and until then, I'll be on github. And despite the problems mentioned, it is still an awesome free service.
Another good article:

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evange...

I have no idea how they get away with this. If taxpayers cannot be required to pay for birth control, then how can they be required to pay for private schools that won't even meet testing standards?

I bet the schools won't even pay taxes themselves since they are under church exemption. So it's a double-blow to their economy.
It would be good to post the code for the performance tests in the slides. https://raw.github.com/pcpratts/rootbeer1/master/doc/hpcc_ro...
This is why I have high hopes for the Kotlin language. I think it makes a lot of sense to design a language with tooling in mind from the beginning to avoid nightmares like C++.

I think nobody really understands the pitfalls of language tooling better than the Jetbrains guys.
I dunno on that last point. Yes, silly excuses are bad, but if you are sick (more than just stuffy nose) or injured (more than just a paper cut), I'm pretty sure going to the gym can wind up being destructive. Especially if you pass out.
According to the links, YouTube receives two complaints per week, compared to one per week for Vimeo. The total number of complaints is 251 and 56, respectively.

Compare that to the top of the list, filestube.com, which receives almost 700 complaints per week and has a total of over sixty thousand complaints.

I would hope that this update would not affect either YouTube or Vimeo, or any other domain with such a vanishingly small number of complaints.
The problem with this is that it doesn't take much to tip the scales. As this: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/99356/files/SilversteinHMM... (admittedly old, but foundational) study shows, most web searchers stop after the first 10 results.

If a result is (wrongly) pushed off the first page, much less down to the 3rd or 4th, it may as well not be there for almost all users. That, combined with Google's dominant position in search means that pages may well effectively be erased from the internet as far as many users are concerned.
Wow. TorrentFreak has 48! bugs found with Ghostery. I think that is the highest I've ever seen. Speaking of a service that's supported by ads (and worse than ads).
Western medicine has historically never been focused on preventative medicine; their role has traditionally been to make you healthy, not keep you healthy. It's not the conspiracy some might suggest, it's just that historically you called a doctor when you were ill, not for lifestyle advice. When it comes to fitness, you still don't - unless you're talking to a sports doctor, you're not going to get a useful training programme tailored for your needs.

Regarding GPs in particular - they aren't really about keeping you trim and terrific. They're about dealing with niggling issues while flagging serious ones for referral to specialists. They do know about basic fitness and diet, but they're not specialists in the area - see sports doctors and dieticians.

Also consider that diet is a rapidly moving target at the moment - there's a lot of contradictory opinion and new info coming out all the time. It's not a GP's role to stay at the bleeding edge of medicine. That's what specialists do, and as the specialists settle on the right thing, it filters down to the non-specialists. You can of course find GPs who take special interests in certain areas, and may get lucky and find one that loves fitness and diet.

Also, 'palliative' doesn't mean 'after injury', it means 'relieve symtoms without attempting a cure', and most doctors would rather cure a problem than use the patient as a cash cow (there's enough work out there, even before you get to the ethical issues). Perhaps a better pair of terms would be preventative/proactive vs reactive care.
For the same reason, this one is awful:

What is your favourite colour?

(There are lots of colour names, but most people will stick to the most common ten or so.)
Motivation is important, but knowledge is important too, and most people only have a general idea what they should do. For example, I've known a number of folks who go to a class for the first time and way way overexert themselves. This is unhealthy, and really destroys motivation to go back in a way a more appropriate level of exercise does not.

Additionally, seeing results is motivating, so I'd argue that to some degree, picking effective routines is going to help long-term success. (You don't have to have the perfectly optimal routine, of course, just a decent one)
"Remember when people..." I have not forgotten, I still do.
Google to demote pirated content
Your logo should be just the shadow of some small, invasive, but endearing or sympathetic animal, to get the oppressed-and-underground-but-not-defeated overtone. I want to say a mouse or rat, or a mole, but none of those are quite right. You might get some kind of insect to work, like a wasp, depending on what kind of vibe you're looking for.