skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make an insightful point. Counter-intuitively, large businesses nurture the generation of ideas but not the execution of them.

A corollary: lots of resources helps concoct lots of wacky ideas and the execution of none of them, while startup culture makes extremely boring ideas but delivers.

Nevermind all the companies that fail of course...
You can push to both at the same time, no need for hooks.
No. Coffee/tea here and there along with a healthy diet and consistent exercise regimen. Nootropics don't work in my opinion if you are out of shape and lacking basic nutrients for normal body functions. Don't even get me started on energy drinks.
it was during a war. there was little food for everyone. he was also a strict vegetarian, which didn't help, and he was suffering from tb.
They do offer a free plan for students. I get 5 free private repos.

I can't get the link now since GitHub is down ha, but when it's back up, just have a quick google and you'll find a quick form to fill in and voila. It's great.
Well, they do exist as mass-produced devices that can be hacked. I am not inclined to do that. I've lived in that world in the past and it can be a minefield. Designs can change on you overnight and you are screwed.

Yes it is a bit of wishful thinking, agreed. I've been messing with embedded Linux for probably ten years on an off. It was very hard to get close to $100 in OEM board cost as early as three years ago. So, yeah, this ain't my first rodeo.

I posted the "wish" to HN because I've been out of the loop for about two years and just didn't know what's available. The iMX233 @ ~$5.00/100 (not thousand) is impressive enough. Still, not ethernet without going through USB first. That chip, as far as I can tell, seems to be the lowest cost potential to approach the $25 to $35 price range in reasonable quantities (100x to 500x boards).

The Olimex board:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLin...

goes for $54 through distribution

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Olimex-Ltd/iMX233-OLINUX...

A very quick calculation using mostly Mouser and Digikey --which are very expensive sources-- tells me that an iMS233 board should be doable for about $35 to $45. Keep in mind that this is by buying from the most expensive sources. I am always pleasantly surprised when I go to Avnet or Arrow for pricing. Sometimes your jaw drops to the floor. Digikey in particular is just about unusable for anything beyond prototyping. All of this tells me that the $25 number might be approachable with very smart and careful purchasing of all components and services. Going to China would certainly knock it down but you'd have to push larger quantities from the get-go.

I think I can consider an all-up cost of about $50, in the box and ready to go. This includes the assembled board in an very simple enclosure and a regulated wall adapter.

Right now I have a very mild itch I am thinking of scratching. Just looking around to see if it even makes sense.
.git/config

[remote "bitbucket"]
url = git@bitbucket.org:you/repo.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bitbucket/*

$ git push bitbucket

//edit after tinco's comment

+refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/ -> +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/bitbucket/
Indeed. Not only do they offer a paid service and private repos, but they offer a paid self-host version as well.
Right, I'm saying that's intentional on the part of the FSF, and an "any later version" clause doesn't let them do that. Obviously, that's not helpful for you, but if that's what they're trying to do, they need to be able to relicense in order to do it, which means either copyright assignment or agreement from the copyright holders.
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Last time I used TFS it would take 5, literally 5 minutes to time out for checkouts. The way TFS acts I don't even feel it's accurate to call it a DVCS.

The only SCM I like less than TFS is SourceDepot. The bane of my existence. It's sad when I can rant about it abstractly and my father can sympathize.
I have mixed feelings about this. I got terrible grades in college, and dropped out three times. The idea of ever going back makes me feel queasy. I hated it, and I wouldn't wish it upon anybody that feels like me.

Then again, nobody took me seriously before I graduated. I always had lots to offer, but no opportunities to offer it. Graduating gave me opportunities to meet people who could look past my grades and still see me as an intelligent, capable person. Those people ended up helping me to get my first "real" job...a job I got fired from for being "too technical", but nonetheless, a job which put an immense amount of experience on my resume in a short amount of time. In other words, college sucked ass, but it opened so many doors that I can't be too bitter about it.

I guess my true feelings on the matter are as follows: drop out, but make sure you are dropping out because you have an amazing opportunity...not because you don't like it.

Oh, and if you do drop out, never say to yourself "I don't care what anybody thinks of my decision". You do, and you are lying to yourself. You can't succeed anywhere without a decent subset of people trusting you. If you can earn their trust without a degree, awesome. If you can't, you either need to find a different subset of people, or you need to earn it the way that they expect.
Your comment looks just like snark to me since 1) the parent comment mentioned other distributed systems and 2) a random unreferenced jab at git for its allegedly bad memory consumption. I have no idea if it is true or not, but it is hardly relevant to the discussion.
The term unicorn actually comes from the fact that they run the 'unicorn' webserver. When a webapplication error occurs unicorn catches it and displays an error to the visitor. They prettied that error up with a pretty image of a unicorn and a small explanation that something went wrong.

So when they say 'we saw unicorns' they literally saw (reports of people seeing) pictures of unicorns. Now I understand that might confuse someone who does not regularily use github, but it is just a term that is in their jargon and I see no reason why they should market-speak that up in an intermediate status message. (Note that these status messages are not press releases but reports that engineers make during the discovery process)
Github does have academic plans. When I signed up, it was 2 years of a free Micro plan (5 private repos) if you signed up with a verified school email address. When they're back up, check out: https://github.com/edu
There's a picture of a unicorn on their error page. Via natural metonymy, seeing an increase in unicorns means they're seeing an increase in errors.

It's the exact same linguistic process that lets Americans refer to the executive branch of government as "the white house". I'd hardly call it unprofessional.
Yup. I wanted to do some coding before heading off, but I guess that's off the table now.
The problem at large companies is that the reward and feedback structures are completely broken.

Annual reviews are a lot less convincing and effective, in general, than 'we need to increase revenue 10% next month or you don't eat'
YouTube needs content to show ads against. Less content, and fewer views, fewer ads, and less money.
It's actually a discount. That way you can have a better account for $5 less each month. Although I should probably go turn that off having just graduated.
Ah but i meant a global service for public repos, instead of each owner setting up manually
Where are you getting these boards for $22? It looks like they are not manufacturing the device any more. They list a '702 but not a '703:

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?categoryid=&...

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR703N-Portable-802-11n-Wir...

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-802-11n-802-11g-Wireless-TL-WR...
Maybe they are and parent's detail-void complaint was actually about infringing content?
I've been on Modafinal (Provigil) for 8+ years. I have Excessive Daytime Somnolence (sleepiness) and I'd have a hard time functioning without it. I take one or two 200mg tablets each day, depending on how I'm feeling (usually just one). I still remember the first few days I was taking Modafinal: I felt like I could see in 360-degrees. I was super alert. That effect wore of quickly. Now, most days when I take Modafinal, I feel alert and ready to work; not perfect but much much better than before. Sometimes the effect doesn't kick-in. When this happens for more than a week in a row, I stop taking it for a few days. When I restart, it seems to kick back in. I see my doctor regularly to make sure everything is okay. I have noticed no strange side effects other than my up-coming Noble prize in astrophysics, my solution to N = NP, and my Sudoku solver written Brainfuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck). Personally, I would not recommend using Modafinal without the supervision of a doctor. It's also expensive, even with "good" health insurance.
unicorn is their web server for rails. http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
You mean something like this? https://github.com/edu
> Set and map constructor functions allow duplicates

Awesome, finally!
Am I using the same facebook? For me, pokes don't seem to contain any information other than who sent them, who the target is, and when it was sent. I know I've seen pokes older than two days. They stick around for months.
Randomness is about having a uniform probability of results

Well, you're still assuming the colloquial definition of "random," which implies "uniformly random." Of course, we can have a random process that is not uniformly random.
Come on, really?

Did you ever have a piece of code that should be impossible to reach under normal conditions? Did you put a message there to remind yourself that the case in question should never, ever occur?

That could be a unicorn.

For extra credit, if you have put these messages in your code, have you seen all of them at one time or another? I certainly have!
I think developer CEO's have a reputation for arrogance too..
There's a lot of truth in what you're saying. However, if maintaining shit code turned people into good coders, then there'd be a lot less bad code (because the precursor is so damn common). I think it also requires curiosity, desire to do things right, and access to the right information (which is now trivial if one knows where to look).

What I would actually say is: the differential in difficulty between writing good code and writing bad code should be minimal or, if possible, negative.
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The graph in the post indicates that unemployment in all sectors went up after the financial crash, some were just hit by it more than others. Specifically, those who worked in construction suffered the worst from a collapse in real estate.

Also, that jobs that require "worthless" college degrees and/or oversaturated professional degrees (e.g. law grads) still have more job security than those with little to no post-secondary education.

It would be interesting to see a similar graph-by-occupation when the dot-com bubble burst. Would you see the exact opposite trend?
words cannot describe how much I hate matplotlib
I value my privacy, so I do not have a Google account, and I cannot read this write up.
If they weren't ego padding, they wouldn't take time to imagine and insult a hypothetical low-intelligence user base.
Additionally they could be referring to their use of `Unicorn: Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix`

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?um=1&hl=en&...
I'm assuming by "they" he was referring to Google Code. (Wishing that Google Code offered a paid service.)
Other posters have noted where the terminology comes from.

But you should really learn to take the meaning of an unknown term from context if you don't know what it means.

As for the accusations of unprofessionalism -- I'll take vivid metaphor [1] like "seeing unicorns" over a dull monotone description like "our site is experiencing server errors."

[1] As other replies have pointed out, in this case it's not a metaphor; people are (or were, as the case may be) literally staring at pictures of unicorns.
Once the current issues are resolved, students can sign up for a free GitHub micro account (5 free private repositories with unlimited collaborators) via https://github.com/edu. You just need a verified, valid-looking email address i.e. joe@stanford.edu, jim@strath.ac.uk, etc.
Along these lines: placebo buttons, e.g. walk buttons at crosswalks, elevator door close buttons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
I think the behavior that you describe is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
You are right. The old school industrial(and cartesian) thinking of separate things by classes, but imposing them to people just leaded to bureocracy , and people who cant see the whole scenario well, leading to bad decisions being made..

Its sad that our education systems still are compartimentized by areas.. with some avant-garde leading from some institutions of course being the exception..

we need broad and sistemic abrangence of knowledge, information and perspective.. the world is much more complicated these days.. it cant stand the expert alienation neurosis anymore.. or we all gonna fail to excel and live in the human kind golden future we all spect
I never forget to pull before going remote, and today I did, and the one time I actually need github to be up and it's not. But I can't be upset, even if this wasn't my fault, it's github.
Also worth reading is a piece titled "Conceptualizing Privacy" by the same author, available here: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/californialawreview/vol9...
During the first long raid (Molten Core) the loot table had a weird deviance of being very similar depending on the player that created the raid, Blizzard said that was impossible but in reality guilds would just rotate the raid leader until they hit someone that "would", for example, drop the legendary bindings and stick with that RL for a while -- it worked for many people and 4 or 5 years later one dev finally answered the big question: "Is loot defined when you kill the mob" or "is loot defined when the raid is instanced" which is the second option, the sum of these plus some weird bug that they might have fixed silently at some point might have caused the RL rotation hoax.
You do not receive the Google Docs login prompt if your browser is not logged into Google at all.

You do, however, receive the login prompt if your browser is logged in through another Google service (like search). Check to make sure nobody has you logged into Google search or something.

This sort of half logged in status is very annoying.
Most of developers in my countries 're using SVN. I don't use SVN at all, and i'm failing to convince my partner that Git is better than SVN, just because i don't believe in hardware stability.
Git for large projects is not lightweight, nor do they claim to be. In fact, that's the basis of their philosophy - that they store full versions of the files as opposed to just storing the changes because data storage is considered inexpensive. The only time Git uses pointers in when the files have not changed.

I'm certainly not slamming Git for working exactly the way it was intended.
God, I hope not. It is a great language with amazing data types and features. I personally think evolutionary language design goes in the wrong direction when they are pushed in the directions demanded by a community of trend-seekers.
Facebook has launched a new image chat service also called Poke. It confuses me too.

"The Poke app for iPhone is a simple and fun way to say hello to your friends. You can send pokes, along with messages, photos and videos, to a friend or multiple friends at once. When you send messages, photos and videos, you can choose how long they'll be available for your friends to view up to 10 seconds. After that, they disappear from the app."

http://www.facebook.com/help/397568030328686/
If you care about provenance, as I do, let me save you some Googling:

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

Daniel J. Solove

George Washington University Law School

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 745, 2007

GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 289

(From: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565)
When I signed up around a year ago it wasn't a discount. It was a free micro account that lasts two years. I'm not sure if that's changed however.
Never thought I'd see the day I got something posted on HackerNews that I didn't post myself.

Definitely a high point in my life.
there's something that frustrates me about arguments like this.

I think that technology is inescapably taking us towards a future where anyone and everyone can record everything that any individual does, perpetually, and at arbitrary scale. In many ways we are already there, especially in certain domains (gmail, facebook, cell phones, creep shots, etc). It sounds pessimistic to say "this is inevitable" and I'm sure many people (myself included!) want that to be wrong, but given the technology we produce and the limited degree of control we have over its use, I don't see any alternative.

So the present and future allow for democratized mass surveillance, never mind what your government can do. What is our societal response? Make this illegal? I doubt the effectiveness of that, both against the common man / criminal and also against the government. If you are already terrified that the government will break any of its own laws to watch you (and perhaps this terror is justified), then how would the government passing laws limiting its own abilities allay any of your fears? I don't see how it would.

I'm then annoyed because we seem to be standing on the deck of the Titanic wishing virulently that water wasn't wet. This is the future, and it's coming, and the government will have these records, and private companies will have these records, and countless individuals will have these records. What are we meaningfully going to do? Pass laws? Are we simply going to will back the clock to when this wasn't possible? Or should we instead start to talk about what this future, recorded, society will look like?

I welcome an effective "call to action" response to turn back the tide of mass surveillance...
Your company runs its source revisions through Github without a backup solution? Do you really put all your eggs in a basket you have no control over?

I know that in theory a cloud solution should have a higher uptime than an amateuristic set up private server, but cloud solutions have a certain complexity and coherence that make them very vulnerable to these kinds of 'full failures' where nothing is in your control.

Maybe you should take this time to learn from this, and analyze what you could do to reduce the impact of this failure. For example, you could research what it would take for your company to move to another Git provider, perhaps even on your own server or a VM slice at some cloud provider.

I'm not saying you should drop github, because obviously they have great service, but be realistic about cloud service.

Cloud service is like RAID: it is not a backup.

The way RAID is nice for recovering from errors without downtime, there is a chance something bigger happens and you still lose your data cloud is nice for offering scalability and availability but there's a chance everything goes down and you still can't run your operations.
Be careful with model or even revision numbers, always check hardware compatibility lists. very often times the difference between something like a "653" and a "653+" can be an entirely different (and not supported) chipset.
I am not sure what would be the better thing here. To donate $500 million to charity or Let the little guys live to foster innovation and entrepreneurship ?
If you believe 60fps is better than 24fps, I have a really hard time believing there's something about our visual processing that makes 48fps worse than 24fps.
Yes.

http://www.facebook.com/help/304363929683337/
Yes, there is still a developer shortage, at least for certain technologies.

I'm in Columbus, Ohio, and its near impossible still to find a local Rails & Backbone developer who is looking for work and does a good job. I'm not going to work them to death, and i'd be willing to pay a decent salary.

Friends in NY, Boston, Austin, Chicago and DC have reported similar findings in looking for qualified individuals. These people aren't looking for rockstars, but often just someone who will do the job well.

If you're willing to hire remote, it still isn't always easy to find someone, but it does get much easier comparatively.
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Yes indeed, but it can be dangerous to intellectualize it. Encapsulating what people in that situation experience as "loss aversion" confuses reality for a model of reality, IMO.

I'm not saying you are, but most people I know who talk in those terms forget that. Ceci n'est pas une pipe, the map is not the terrain, etc. etc.

At the extreme, the subjective experience is something like this: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
I use both bitbucket.org (for unlimited private repos) and github (for public repos). You are not limited to use only one of them.
Pro-tip: when you want people to understand a comment you're making about the disk-consumption patterns of one piece of software vs another rather than memory-consumption, consider actually referring to it as "disk-consumption". Git is quite lightweight, if we're actually talking about memory.

Also, maybe don't confuse git with GitHub, as your original comment did.
There is an argument for a raise is when the replacement value is high. The key is to be indispensable by adding value.
Isn't a possible solution to up the game of makeup and set details? It seems like 48fps would increase the amount of possible detail and therefore control the film maker has over the experience.

If you up the amount of detail the viewer can see, and the details are flawed and phone looking, I wouldn't say the problem is necessarily that you allowed the viewer to see clearer.
Github switched to the Unicorn server (http://unicorn.bogomips.org) some time ago. Sorry if you don't like the name but, uhm well, it's the name of the server they use. Anyways. Error pages featured an "angry unicorn" since then, so when they are saying "we are seeing unicorns", most users know that this translates to errors..
I must not be very clever as it took me 3-4 attempts to understand the before last paragraph (e.g. that without Feather it took 20 minutes while with Feather only 2 minutes to load a video).
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This is a neat board but too expensive.
Right. It is. But you can upgrade your account and it acts like a $5 discount (the micro plan is $5...)
That snippet overrides your remotes/origin branch with what you pull from bitbucket.

This might not be what you want. Instead you probably should do:

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bitbucket/*

Unless you really know what you're doing and are just crazy like that :)
One of our summer Dev Bootcamp students moved back to Columbus, Ohio. Shoot me an email at jesse@devbootcamp.com and I'm happy to put you two in touch. :)

Can't promise he's what you or anyone you know is looking for in terms of a potential employee, but it might be nice from a community-building standpoint!
What's funny is the extent to which Github is being used as a centralized repository for many projects. I don't just mean for project discovery; the issues and gists and other services aren't replicated as often or easily as the code.

In fact, a lot of services depend on github for various reasons, all of which are probably borked now ...