skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not stupidity. It's statistics. There' s 1 million plus in projects, 2 million plus in repositories, and 1 million plus in users using the product over a stretch of nearly 5 years.

If those searches had uncovered no passwords whatsoever - now that would be surprising. This is just what would be expected - just by sheer chance. And yes - it is Github's responsibility to protect its users from their own stupidity.

Github's sole value is in its community - any of the technical issues that they have to deal with are commodity and have already been dealt with before else where. Github's net worth is in its community good will and path dependence.

Killing search for now is the right decision to keep the gravy train running.
From a quick check of their homepage and blog, I found no mention of the issue. If they were indeed giving the users a "grace period," wouldn't they want to publicize that?
I'll be the pedant to mention that a pendant is worn around the neck.

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Appreciated!

I need some help getting the word out. Could you tell people in your network about it? Thank you.
Sorry, sentence does not parse.

EDIT: I got it - you want me to tweet your link? Sure (not that I have many followers).

EDIT2: DONE - https://twitter.com/chewxy/status/294684615086592000
Now please add mouse-hover hint box, dropdown list for auto completion and I am sold
Google search works just as well ... site:github.com id_rsa
great now you're making my wanderlust even worse! ;-)
If you "know" a company is going to grow 5x, other people are going to know that too. And if I know a company's stock price will soon be 5x what it is today, I'll happily pay 2x for it; 2.5x return is still amazing. Hell, I'd pay 4x today's price, because a 20% return is nothing to sneeze at. Other people will too. Pretty soon today's price becomes tomorrow's (estimated) price, with various discounts applied for risk and whatnot.
Here https://sites.google.com/site/taldewandroid/ is an overview on how to install OpenWrt on Android without root. This includes a package system too, with dependency management and binary repositories.
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Well think of it this way. If a high profile hack occurs because of this, even though we all know it's the fault of the committing developers, what do you think the tech headlines are going to be:

"Poor software engineering practices lead to exposed vulnerabilities again"

Or: "Hackers use Github to launch destructive attack on tech companies' databases"?

That kind of headline would make it especially hard for code teams to convince corporate IT to let them have a github account, even for private repos.

Github did the most sensible thing...it's too hard to come up with a provably effective filter that prevents the compromise of inadvertently exposed data.
If only TextWrangler had auto-completion and auto-pairing of brackets and quotes.
It says here that it's a technical problem. https://status.github.com/
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They fixed it by killing search.
Elaborate on the hover hint box, please
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Routers will traditionally have more than a 180MHz CPU to deal with all the duties a router must contend with, they also have more than one Ethernet port, you know for WAN and for Wired LAN. This will only work as a Router if every device on your network is wireless, either that or you have no internet.
I just clicked through a few on Google.. Obviously it's up to users to protect themselves:

https://github.com/Cerberus98/ssh_keys/blob/master/id_rsa
My guess is Twitter/Vine anticipated Facebook would likely block them, and built the feature in any way. If they didn't get blocked, gravy. If they did they gain some sympathy points (points they have been losing lately).
a blog about nothings: http://www.runtime-era.blogspot.com

ill be interested in reading everyone's responses!
Still putting together the approach to take?
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From the article, the argument isn't that Apple is hurting, but it's market position is weak against newcomers because there are many vectors to compete on. While it holds a very strong position now, it's very conceivable that some brand can come up and compete on all aspects of design, quality and price.

Amazon then, can be considered to have a more stable position because newcomers cannot beat them on price, but merely match them.
It also turned up a pedophile from a .zsh_history file:

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/177g0c/the_new_githu...

Edit: Looks like GitHub staff disabled the repository in question. Covering for pedophiles, really? Please tell me it isn't what it looks like. Although the guy was already reported.

Edit 2: Looks like this whole thread has been nuked off of HN. WTF?
Oh yes, I know this feeling very well. First, I try to google sites with people who had a similar problem. If I wasn't lucky I check Stackoverflow more extensively, then the api documentation. When I still stuck, I try to find other examples try to run them and try to read and understand their code and finally I am reading the sources of the respective api. If it still doesn't help direct questions on IRC or Stackoverflow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1lJFlB-89Q
No, I never wanted to write C that way. That looks too much like C++, with its std::for_each and things that look potentially useful, until you actually try finding a use for them.

What I have wanted is closures that you can stick data inside. But they can't be done in a reasonable way in a language like C. The C++ version falls short of usefulness.
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This is awesome. I'm using http://ace.ajax.org/ right now in production and it's a huge heavyweight pain (but still the best thing out there). If only this had syntax highlighting i'd switch in an instant.
That's an interesting webpage. Thanks for sharing!
I kind of hope so because the new search was a lot better than the old search.

I'd hate to think a small group of people ruined it for everybody by uploading files they shouldn't have.
The actual truth is that legacy code is code that works well enough for people to care about
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> 2:15 UTC Search remains unavailable. The cluster is
> recovering slowly and we continue to monitor its progress.
> Well provide further updates as they become available.

Recovering from what? Was it DoS'd?
Ask HN: What do you think of this blue button?
Are you a developer working on an open-source, server type, project ? Then what do you think of this button which enables your users to easily deploy your application on their server, and even test drive the application for free in the cloud ?

Example integration here: http://storytlr.org

This is our first prototype, any feedback is appreciated ! The project I'm working for (and hosting the button) is http://comodit.com. Ping me if you want this button for your project: @eschnou.
Seems like a clean and nice solution from the screenshots. Were you not able to find any app on the store that did what you needed? What do you want to make simpler than say, convertbot? http://tapbots.com/software/convertbot/
What blogging platform do you use?
Inspired by the recent post about "What's your blog?", what blogging platform do you use?

We started a (WP hosted on WPengine) blog for our startup at http://blog.octanenation.com/ and there are some behind-the-scenes posts that I would like to write that I don't think would fit well on the 'business' blog, similar to what Patio11 has done.

Where do you blog about these things? I'm not crazy about hosting/installing/maintaining a WP installation. Though I'm active on FB it's too closed and not the right 'vibe'.

What do you suggest? Tumblr? Blogspot? Wordpress.com? etc?

Thanks for all the suggestions!
Has anyone else noticed a trend of powerful people writing with poor syntax? Is this a way of asserting dominance? ("i have so much power i can spell like this...thanks eric")
This article is just wrong, we are in no way removing code search. Basically, we got more traffic than we anticipated and our elastic search clusters fell over.

We have developers currently working late into the night fixing it, any updates will be posted here https://status.github.com/
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I just said it because sooner or later someone is going to barge in and say "Hey whats the big deal here ? I did this way back in data structures 101 ! "
I've often used both for different projects, depending on the wrappers provided.

Most of the PHP CMS world was all about MySQL first and foremost, which isn't a bad thing. But, if you ran into a MySQL limitation, you were pretty much stuck with trying to work around it -- see some of the notes about WP.

Moving to an ORM layer or a level (or two) up from direct DB calls can result in more generic SQL and potentially a performance impact.
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Not sure I agree with his description of the GPL license:

The archetypal bearded, sandal-clad free software license. Your code can never be used in any proprietary program, ever! Take that, capitalism!

You can totally use it in any proprietary program, you just have to provide the source as well.
I think that Apple could reduce iPhone pricing to close to iPod Touch pricing if they wanted to. My suspicion is that the high price of unlocked iPhones is a concession to carriers.
Furthermore, if a small retailer gives me the option of buying from their website or buying through amazon.com, I will take the amazon.com offer.
blogging about programming topics and nyc. current topic is "jQuery without jQuery"

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On a related note, what blogging platform does everyone recommend for discussing your startup? Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5114239
Have you tried Mikrotik Routerboard? I know they are cheap and wireless oriented too (but they use proprietary router sw) but I've never had the opportunity to try one.
http://www.mikrotik.com/ http://routerboard.com/
CORBA springs to mind.
Just wanting a simple yes or no. Or "not sure". SSRIs, pointless or not, in your opinion/fact-based-knowledge/divine-guidance/whatever. Thanks.
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I think the market is thinking more about selling high and buying low, and many AAPL owners are very, very high right now. :)
Maybe things have changed in the last several months, but:

"94.2% of iPhone users plan to buy an iPhone for their next phone, improving upon last year's rate of 93%."

"Android phones were measured at a re-buy rate of 60%, up from 47% last year."

(Source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/17/piper-jaffray-80-mill...)

"Delving deeper into the retention and user metrics, iPhone and iPad users are 52% more loyal to their apps than Android users. A healthy 35% of Apple iOS users launched an app more than 10 times after downloading, compared to 23% of Android users."

(Source: http://www.localytics.com/blog/2012/app-user-loyalty-increas...)

"Google paid App devs approximately $320 million through end of January. At that time Apple reported it had paid out $4 billion."

(Source: https://twitter.com/asymco/status/199127829550612481)

I'm finding conflicting numbers on mobile browser share, but none of them are making the iPhone look particularly weak either.

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I see two scenarios that could theoretically actually hurt Apple (not just in a slowed growth kind of way, but by actually causing their revenue to fall): iPhone users ditch the platform for something else they like better, or another platform becomes more lucrative to develop for, causing developers to abandon the iOS App Store and leading users to abandon the iPhone over the lack of new and updated apps.

From the bits of data I can dig up, that doesn't look like a terribly immediate threat: iPhone users are still ridiculously loyal to the platform and still far more willing to spend money on apps. Some of this is old data and things change quickly, so life could be worse for Apple than I realize.

That said, the closest things I could find to reasons to worry: Android users do seem to be becoming increasingly happy with their phones, or at least the platform, and they're downloading apps at a rate approaching what Apple's App Store sees, even if it hasn't led to the same developer revenues iOS produces yet. Apple's dominance profit-wise is far from guaranteed, and Android is a legitimate threat that could eventually bring down the empire.

I'm having a hard time believing Apple's hurting at the moment though in any way besides a drop in share price. Revenue is healthy and growing. iPhone sales are healthy and growing. Profit is healthy if a bit stagnant. (Ironically enough, it's a decline in margins hurting Apple right now, not sales.) iPhone users seem to like their phones enough to buy upgrades, and to buy and use apps on them, and Apple is still winning new converts.

If this is what hurting is, Apple sure makes hurting look attractive.
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Really not sure what to think about this. Had my fingers crossed for Whedon or Tarantino.
My experience -- admittedly not parental, and certainly skewed towards highly functional families -- has been that young children tend to be about as responsible as they need to be to get what they want. Not to say that we're going to obsolete parents any time soon, but I do think we can make our world safe enough that we won't need to watch them as much.
What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013?
Abandoned in space
I had a Dlink ADSL router (in the 100 Euro range) and it died after 2-3 years (i think 2004-2006). Then I bought a Draytek router (because I needed VPN features), it was pricey (250 Euro) but it has since lasted for years (I'm still using it after 6-7 years).
For SoHo I think an Alix or similar hw running Pfsense could be a good choice.
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Whoa. I am super impressed. I thought the title was a bit grandiose, but the ability to perform advanced almost natural like sentence searches that were showcased in the blog post is phenomenal. Expect these guys to get snapped up by the likes of Google or Facebook sometime soon. It looks like 2013 is shaping up to be the year of search especially with the release of Facebook's Open Graph search which operates basically the same.
Stack Overflow, google search. I also go through the mailing lists which often will not show up in google results.

I develop apps using Android, so I have two workspaces, one for the product and another one to test the individual functionality so that I don't screw up the existing code.

Cheers
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Adioso is fantastic! A shout out to Tom, Fenn and the team. Great work guys.
One article I've found helpful with A/B testing is [1] which also describes some common statistical problems (e.g. Simpson's paradox as it applies to A/B testing) based on case studies. It's written as a research paper by some folks at Microsoft, but it's definitely very readable.

[1]: http://www.exp-platform.com/Documents/2009-ExPpitfalls.pdf
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Maybe it's shut down for customer security and privacy reasons and they knew it would be a huge news story if people found that out why, so they gave another reason.
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> Expect these guys to get snapped up by the likes of Google or Facebook sometime soon.

That would be sad.
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Bitcoin provides me more utility than Dwolla at this point.
This is completely normal for development work, so its like asking, "what do you do when everything is normal." In your case you have a tricky bug, so tests are the best bet. When you are making the test, the cause of the bug will probably become apparent before you finish writing the code.
I agree with you, the latest products were quite limited.
My brother bought one of their ADSL routers: the wireless range was limited (a lot less than my draytek and i think less than the old dlink we had), some features were crippled (usb port cannot be used for printer sharing but only for disk sharing, the disk should be fat and not ntfs, the sharing feature was basic) and wifi was continuosly freezing also with latest firmware 'til we searched on google and find some wifi parameter tuning hints on a forum
Not the first time, Facebook cuts off almost all APIs to Wechat. At one time Wechat even cannot use the access token to get user's id for login verification. Every API returns "data:[]".
As it does for most Bitcoiners, just gotta be careful how you use Dwolla now, apparently, unless you don't care if they close your account any more.
Architecture is a big part of it IMHO.

Products exist like Oracle MySQL cluster or Percona XtraDB which allow you to do scale horizontally e.g. multi-master and have good support as you do grow. Nothing really exists for PostgreSQL on either front. But if you are planning to scale vertically then PostgreSQL seems the clear winner.
> var editor = new Behave({

> var editor = Behave({

Is it a constructor or not?
so would you switch your efforts to another marketplace if it charged 5% and could bring you $1M per year in sales? Do you feel that 20% of your money to Amazon is a fair cut? if not, what % would be fair?
Just went through the paper (relevant sections only). Have gotten a some feel for what it is doing. Thanks so much.
That was it exactly, sorry I didn't have time to draw the proper conclusion myself. Glad tcwc figured it out quickly though.
Okay,

suppose this line:

result = someFunction(param1, param2='ok')

mouse over to `someFunction`, a small box shows brief description of function, what it does, how many parameters are required, what does optional parameters do.

It's basically a richer version of <span title="text" alt="text"</span>
> their competition isn't going away any time soon.

That's where the investors disagree with you. Amazon is trying to do to big box stores what big box stores did to mom and pop stores. I buy everything from $2 batteries to $5000 electronics on Amazon. Only reason I go to local stores is groceries or emergency goods (meds, last-minute-gifts). Nobody knows what will happen to Office Depot or Kohls in 20 years but unless Amazon royally screws something up, I am certain they will remain significant for decades to come.
People remember the commercial.

It was two days earlier.
I rarely say "Wow." I just shared this with 5 people in less than 2 minutes. This is EXACTLY how travel search should be. EXACTLY. I hate the rigidity of having to select days. And then mess with 2/3 day flexible windows on both ends to find cheaper fares. "Travel to Brazil next month for 14 days" is exactly how my vacation planning works, so that's how I want to search it.

I have a lot of praise. Only negative is the site is really slow (at least right now).
the writedown from $500M to whatever they sold it for will have to appear somewhere in the next set of accounts
Awesome stuff! Great work.
Hey guys--

I LOVE your product but I consistently get way-slower-than-it-should-be load times on all your pages and searches. Just now I got a 502 Bad Gateway. Looks like you have some growing pains, which is great, but I highly recommend investing in a cloud server :)
Overzealous patrol of fraud activities is how payment providers survive, but it also decrease utility, which allows cryptocurrency like bitcoin a niche in all sort of areas.
Just curious who is the person in the background page?
Don't think of a platform: First think of your goal, then select a platform.

If you're a startup and you want a branded official news source then it's hard to beat a WP install on your own domain. Can you use another platform? Sure you can, but don't over think it because you should be working on your product.

If you're looking to reach a community, then think about who is the community that you want to reach? Then pick the platform based upon that. Want to meet tech geeks into Android? Well G+ seems to be the place. Want to meet hipsters who love to swap images images? Tumblr seems to be a good place for that. So play on the playground where you want to make some friends.
A friend bought a Quake III for Linux tin box from the discount bin because they had put a sticker on it saying it also worked for Windows.

Inside was a instruction sheet informing Linux users how they could use CVS to pull and compile 3D support, depending on their distribution. I thought it was rather funny that someone felt they could market a game to people who were compiling their own operating system. I guess that's why it was in the discount bin.
Or a release on Linux two weeks earlier..
This is fantastic.

can we search something like this?

Leaving in 3 days to a coastal city speaking English with hotel room prices from x to y with a beach window and a swimming pool.
What do you use as an exchange to buy bitcoins? Have you just been mining for a long time so you've accumulated a bunch? Do you use Mt. Gox?
I think your iconography is backwards: mobile phones have taught people that a target cursor means "I am here." You should use that for the From, and perhaps the Place icon you're currently using for From instead for To.

Also, your filters should be smart enough to enforce their own constraints. I should never have to wait until the results page to get this:

"Please reduce the range of trip lengths you are searching for, and we'll be able to find you results."

For the record, I got a 502 Bad Gateway nginx on one search results page, but it went away on refresh.

I like the ideas you guys are bringing to the table (and the personality of your announcement). Not only are the searches you've demoed here clever, but the filters (afternoon flights shorter than N hours) are nicely integrated. Scrolling feels a bit janky though.

Good luck!
On further inspection, it must be a constructor.

The second case is incorrect. The function assigns to "this", which would be undefined in strict mode, or the global object. Very bad either way.

Remember kids: objects are your friend.
Tell us something we don't know. I think anyone on Hacker News worth their salt knows the entire history of Apple, Steve Jobs, and the Macintosh. But then maybe 1990's kids won't understand the reference?
Have enjoyed watching Adioso develop and evolve over time, continuing to improve. Good job team. But, for me, the lack of additional airline data renders it completely unusable still, to have so many missing - I just can't get the whole picture price OR schedule-wise.

I always felt that travel search was a big pain point that I was invested in solving. It also has some very obnoxious data lockdowns after scale. Anyone here have a ready blueprint for some great resources to test and hack around different travel search and booking engines with helpful APIs? I know some offer odds and ends...

Everything is running extremely sluggishly for me right now - including the wingtip time reported on the page? - dunno if HN is a contributor but FYI! Totally unusable even vs. doing month-wide ITA Matrix searches.
https://www.google.com/search?q=austin+powers
And "triple digits" growth in China. And premium resselers going from 200 to 400 in China. And 2.5x increase of iPhone points of sales.