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For me, it was this: http://try.github.com/

I've been on the verge wanting to learn Git and GitHub for a long time, but that was what pushed me over the edge.
It was bad a decade ago when I was applying and seems to have gotten worse. At this point it's such a crapshoot that you basically have no choice but to apply to 10+ schools and pray that you luck out on one of your top choices.

edit: you're right, this is a pretty good (and funny) article.
The "Rap" in the name
might have clued you to the game
Indeed - 'capitalism' is about the allocation of saved capital to investment in a largely unregulated marketplace of goods and services. The rise of capitalism and free markets spawned shared capital markets as investments got too large for even the wealthiest invididuals to solely fund.

The instant-casino-trading side of things came much later along the road. It's not crucial to capitalism to the level people might think it is.

The arch-capitalist Warren Buffet regularly says he'd be happy for markets to close for a year. Though that refers to equities and not forex, which obviously does need to stay open to allow trade to happen.
Wait, why can't I see a downvote button?
Thanks, that's an interesting example. Yes, I can absolutely see that for truly collaborative projects where multiple programming tasks over the same code portions run in parallel, git becomes a real time saver. I just haven't run into such a project yet myself.
Firstly, that's amazing--congrats on finishing. Secondly, really well written piece!

Never boarded to be honest but these type of stories always put a smile on my face and I'm glad stories like this do get on HN's main feed. There is a lot more to these type of stories than the actual journey itself, yours especially. Congrats again! Since you never will do that exact trip again, maybe another is a possibility?!
I want to know how he got back :-)
Kudos on using a real skateboard for this ridiculous mission.
It doesn't have anything to do with Parse's business. Visit the link.
InfoQ - Excellent presentations.
Considering how volatile bitcoins are, any downtime DDoS or not, affect users a great deal. Unlike NASDAQ that can rollback/shutdown the market, MtGox has to maintain 24/7/365. I dare say their market's uptime is more critical than the regular stock market.
I wonder how their stack is setup. Anyone from MtGox?
>"Mozilla has truly hit its stride in recent years"

Sure the Memshrink project was a great success. It's the reason I have switched from Chrome back to FF on my netbook. However, on my desktops and home Chrome remains default.

Mozilla had their chance with the electrolysis multiprocessing architecture, but killed it off to focus on Firefox OS, the Mobile OS that none wants. So their desktop browser, their bread and butter, is gimped compared to modern multithreaded browsers like IE and Chrome. Everytime I give FF another shot on my desktops, it's always the same result. The UI starts lagging when I view heavy duty JavaScript/HMTL5 pages.

Also in their petty battles with Google, they have refused to implement some great features like WebP. Mozilla gave a list of features missing, and yet when Google addressed them all in the next WebP revision, they still refused to add the patch.

Memshrink kept FF in the game, but in recent years Mozilla has consistently made poor long term strategic decisions.
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Well when everyone only trades through one website this is what happens.
the same birthday for Meteor(http://meteor.com/)
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Marijuana and heroin were both legal in the USA at one point. Heroin itself is (was?) a trademarked brandname.

My point being that governments will allow somethign up until the point that a group of politicians either see a threat or some votes in banning it.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not...
Trains from Wollongong to Sydney are pretty reliable, so I'm guessing he did that.
> what does git do for you more than a local SVN server?

It does less than a local SVN server, there is no server.

Git is peer-to-peer, which is a huge advantage. Because it is decentralized you can access your whole repo and its history while off-line. That and easy branching are the main selling points of Git though over time you discover more and more ways in which Git is subtly superior.

If I could start over again on my main repo I'd do it in Git but I already have all my files dating back a long time in an svn repository so the cost of transiting is huge. (it is a very large repository). But anything new is stored in Git. Maybe one day I'll work up the courage to do a proper transition.
Theymos (main bitcointalk admin) is seeing very high traffic to the forums: 250 requests per second. He thinks this is legit traffic, not a DDoS: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172672.msg1799471#ms...
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Rice from India had the least arsenic, but apparently now they have lead!

I'm not sure there is anyplace that is safe.
Taking inspiration from Star Trek, a new impact factor could be invented to teleport the reputation of a known publication to an alternate publication based on the editorial board. If the board of mathematics reviewers agree to move their effort to another platform, then it follows that the reputation follows the people, not the name of the publication.
I'm a harmonica player. I don't play a chromatic instrument; I play diatonic instruments in various keys and tunings. The harmonicas I play most are in the Melody Maker tuning [1], which has a major diatonic scale in the "cross position" that harp players like to use.

When I read a score, the first thing I need to know is which harp to pick up, and whether it will be playable at all on this kind of harmonica.

Looking at the Hummingbird notation, how do I figure out which harp to play? I have to study the whole piece to see which sharps and flats it uses, and then translate that pattern back into a likely key for the piece. After I do that, I have to go over the sharps and flats a second time to understand which ones will be normal notes on that harp and which will be bends or overblows or impossible.

I guess I could look at the end to see what note it resolves on, but that wouldn't tell me whether it's in a major or minor key. And even if you told me what key the piece is in, I'd still have to study the entire thing to sort out which of the sharps and flats I can ignore and which I have to worry about.

Switching to the traditional notation, I can see from the key signature that the piece is either in Eb major or that key's relative minor, and I'd use the Eb Melody Maker for either. Also, I can see at a glance that all the notes in the treble clef follow the Eb major scale except for those E naturals in the middle. Those would be trouble, but the alto part looks easy enough.

It may not turn out to be a good harmonica piece anyway, but I immediately know which harp to play. And other than the accidentals, I know the notes will be the ones in my scale, so I can start noodling with it right away.

Traditional notation isn't great for a diatonic harmonica player. I don't really think in absolute scale notes at all, since I change harps to change keys. I think in terms of relative scale notes. Letter notes may be anywhere on a harp depending on what key the harp is, but the tonic is always going to be the draw 2, blow 6, and blow 9 regardless of the key.

So the ideal notation would be one I could always transpose to match the key of the instrument I'm playing. Maybe Hummingbird would be OK if it was only used on computers and always transposed on the fly. But give me a printed score and I'd be lost. At least with traditional notation I've got a chance.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=melody+maker+harmonica+tunin...
Well it is published on racialicious.com...IMO a select (and quite excellent) quote of the article is all that is needed:

"Plus, in singling out diversity as your issue, you're eliminating half the college applying population from your debate. By your logic, if a white girl with your background doesn't get into an Ivy League college, it’s because there weren't enough spots for white students that year. But, if a non-white girl with an identical profile is rejected, who do they blame? No one."
Updated the app with some goodies like links to summaries, ability to summarize all types of urls (not just feed urls) and a "spiffy" new logo :) Also did some css fixes etc.
In which ways do you contribute to OSS on github without being a coder? Through issues?
I'm not convinced length is translated in a superior manner. Any spacing based rhythmic notation quickly gets ridiculous when you combine long and short notes. Space your demi-semi-quavers out far enough to read them (especially if you have to annotate them with hummingbird accidentals) then see how far apart the minims and semibreves are. Traditional notation tends to be set so the rhythm is suggested by the spacing but isn't prescribed.
I have a skateboard but not that good. I'm considering getting a long board because I don't do tricks that much. I just want to free ride using any board. And I think it's better to use long board if just free riding.

Anyways, he's amazing. Even though he get back twice, he still continue his plan and do it. Roadblocks didn't stop him.
BitCoin Drama Continues After Hours
Thanks. Glad to know it's possible :)
I don't think this is really true.

Sure, you have to learn the (absurdly simple) model that git uses behind the scenes, but after you do that, who really cares about the standard CLI interface? That interface sucks in the same way a dashboard might suck on an all-terrian vehicle. Sure it looks like shit, all the knobs are in the wrong place and don't turn in consistent ways, and that analog clock seems really out of place in a car... but who really cares? It doesn't impede actual use.

Those "internal details of its implementation" are in fact what git actually is. "Learning git" without learning that stuff is not in fact learning git.
@rotub, if you care "Bald Hill" is where the Hang-gliders launch from Stanwell Tops.

And going down that hill on your skateboard after having already travelled (I'm guessing) ~50km for ~8hours, is impressive and totally crazy.

https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=-34.223424,150.99456&n...
I find it very disappointing that, in trying to show how conceited the "whiney" white girl is, the author's own vanity comes to light. Don't get me wrong, I think Miss Weiss is totally off base in thinking that affirmative action had anything to do with the rejection of a person as egocentric as herself. But let's not play the "my life was harder than yours" game. It just makes you look self absorbed.
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i don't care what race you are, i don't like people who feel entitled to things. life is a motherfuckin bitch, grow up.

as far as the whole black/white thing, black people definitely still have to deal with the racism of past and present, and it's in our social structure and political structures and legal structures and economic structures and on and on. i certainly acknowledge it, but i still can't help but be annoyed by this article's presumption that white people just 'have it made'. bitch i didn't even dream of ivy league. local public college was the top of my scope of college ambition. stop worrying about the next person's lot and tend to your own.

in my experience, when i was rejected, i went on my own and proved that i can make it just fine without whatever organization/institution/group that rejected me - their loss! life is full of rejection, take it gracefully and show them up with your own accomplishments. the author of the article seems to hold that point of view so kudos to her. she gets it.

lastly i'll say no one cares what college you went to, and if they do - congratulations! you made your way into some elitist, 'exclusive' high society circle jerk. only thing that matters in this field (this is hacker news, right?) is skills, wherever you got em.
Github mainly succeeded because of the various shortcomings in Gits command line interface. Github made certain models of cooperative development incredibly easy, and since most or almost all of the open source development is just that the time was 100% ripe for something like github.

Still, it is an incredible achievement and I hope that github will be around for a very long time to come.

For a laugh:

http://svnhub.com/
>Just set the optimal number of cabs by fiat.

There is no person, committee or even algorithm that can set the correct supply better than a freely trading market. This has been known for a long time.

>In some respects, this is a natural monopoly.

No, it's an artificial monopoly. What we are talking about here is exchanging rides for money. That is the market - paying someone to drive you on a point-to-point basis.

If the market were left to it's own devices, and the only regulations were around traceability, security and the usual laws against blackmail etc, then you'd have a floating market with different prices per time of day and per trip. This would actually work against congestion by pricing it in.

Instead we have a central government committee deciding supply by whatever they use, and fixing prices. The natural outcome of fixed supply and fixed prices is sub-standard service and a shortage of available product. Which is exactly what cab users everywhere experience.
I found learning git to be very similar to learning vim.

Nothing felt intuitive. The interface for vim might in fact be unintuitive and that might make learning it take longer.

But once you learn it, the un-intuitiveness is no longer a barrier.

I don't argue that learning git is difficult no matter what your background is. But that's the nature of a tool that's almost 100% un-opinionated on how you do something.

I don't disagree with your comment but I think that's inevitable for this type of tool.
Throwing anything from a moving vehicle should lead to instant driving license annihilation. You make light of it but people get killed that way.

If you can't control your impulses to throw stuff out of your car in fits of rage then you don't belong on the road. It's a shared resource, and using it is conditional on your behaviour.
Not quite sure that's the question he's asking about. In the case of Pinterest, the page isn't scrollable--the image appears to be cut in half by the bottom of the page. In the case of Delicious, the image is cut off by the right side of the page. You can't scroll horizontally here. On A List Apart, the top of the title is cut off, and you can't scroll up to see the rest of it.

I think the reason for this is it gives them impression that there's a lot more to the website (even if there really isn't), by not being confined to exist entirely within the page. Also, by cutting off sections of the graphics and text, you are saving yourself a little bit of screen real estate while simultaneously doing something different and eye catching.

Just my $.02 though.
Which is more, paying x% on 1BTC of x% a hundred times on 0.01BTC?
Why? Is it really that much worse than a pad and pen?
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This seems like 'innovation' for the sake of 'innovation'.

What's wrong with good old .com. It's not like anybody really cares about the other gTLDs (which few exceptions).
When everyone has that "bubble ready to pop" feeling, any slight hint of bad news will send it straight into the ground. Whether or not the bad news was real or created doesn't matter, the effect is the same. It's inevitable.
Spam or any other phony domain is dangerous to purchase. Such domain could have been serving root document with cache expiration date long in a future that iframes index.html (so the site looks normal) and includes a malicious js controlled by the previous domain owner.
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Then what is the reason for the mass panic/selling?
Except for the "untreated industrial effluent" part, which is the scarier bit and presumably how the lead would get in.
Thanks so much mate. I have always been a shortboard skateboarder - never been a fan of longboards, so I forced myself to use my every day board.

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it :)
For SaaS startups I found this post by David Skok to be very informative and comprehensive http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/ . It is a bit old now but is still very relevant. Author talks about David Skok in the article too.

Edit: Added ref to David Skok
So, Google operates the search TLD as a redirect to the search engine of choice, but then they get all the info on what the search was for as they redirect. That's a huge advantage for Google.
I have lived without a car for a few years, so I have walked in rain like that a few times. I can't imagine skateboarding in it, but then I can barely stand on a board. At one point, I tried to learn but it didn't really go anywhere.

Good piece.
It is taking a lot of time to recover but I will get there. Thanks!
Mtgox the exchange (not Bitcointalk the forum) is under DDoS which caused the panic selling.
I don't really understand what stealing trucks full of gold has to do with any of this. He said that the US is "totally fine with side markets that they cannot control directly" and that "Your other argument also fails to convince me that the government would want to declare Bitcoin illegal." and I have to agree.
Thanks a lot - i'm glad people are picking up on the fact that I chose to use a shortboard rather than a longboard. It was a conscious decision.

Cheers for replying!
I disagree. Meteor and Deployd can definitely provide an interesting solution to certain kind of apps, but not all. That is the beauty of the web. This market is very very new, the best is yet to come in the web arena.
Volume really jumped up - eyeballing it, conservatively, about $15mm in the last 24 hours of trading volume:

http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/widget/chart/
January 11, 2008. User id 4[1] :D

[1]: https://api.github.com/users/wycats
Yeah caught a train back. 2-3 hours train ride. Slept most the way
A .cloud TLD for "projects hosted in cloud platforms" sounds like an incredibly pointless and stupid idea. We never had .nix, .win32, .php, .asp, .intel or .amd TLDs to signify server properties no user should have to know about in the olden days of not worshipping the cloud. Why do we need that now?
I love how a cool website and some videos can turn any shitty idea into seeming "revolutionary". +1 for marketing ability, but that's it.
> Bitcoin has gotten significant press in the pass week, but not enough to bump registrations by 10x

I don't know, well publicised offers of free money might actually result in quite high uptake.
To be clear - latency on transactions was at around 600 seconds in the middle of the day - that is, an order to "buy" at the market, or "sell" at the market, took 600+ seconds to execute.

For about 20 minutes, they buy/sell buttons were non-responsive. You could click on them - but nothing happened. I have a suspicion (without evidence other than observation) that at one point today the buy/sell functions were disabled.
You should try out 99designs.com, I have gotten quite good results from them in the past and they're not bad. Also, you shouldn't be posting this on HN, its not news.
Thanks - I really appreciate your words. Thanks for recognizing that stories like this do go further than the actual journey itself. Nothing specific planned but if something arises that makes me want it that bad again, I won't say no. Cheers
One thing normal notation is great for is hand writing score during composition. The filled in quavers become a diagonal line (running bottom left to top right). Whole notes a little circle. And the rhythms and slurs are easy to draw. In fact I think this is why classical notation is how it is. In medieval times the scores would have been hand written.

I would hate to handwrite with this during composition.
That would be the ideal notation for a diatonic harmonica player like me. I never really have an idea of what letter note I'm playing, unless I think about what key I'm in, and then I have to count. But I always know exactly where on the scale I am.

It's funny, before I read your comment I wrote a longwinded harmonica player's lament elsewhere in the thread, and I was thinking the same thing: A relative notation would be perfect.
Ah yes, that hill was a killer. My knees and ankle/s were not happy. Thanks!
What's correlated?

Are you saying that pages with great content typically have few spammy links? If so, the jury is out on that thesis, as many of the most popular sites have hundreds to thousands of spam sites that scrape just about everything the do & many of those scraper spam sites do link to the original source. And just by ranking for valuable keywords, over time you will likely get some spammy inbound links from sites that are scraping the Google search results.
Mercurial is like a git designed for humans. Basically the same design (distributed, branching and merging is very easy) but with slightly higher-level command line options that removes some of the rough edges. I kind of wish it had won over git.
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Except aren't the "spammy" links the ones Google doesn't show in search results? So is your prospective domain not showing up much in Google because there aren't many links to it, or because there are tons of spammy links to it?
You lost me when you casually addressed the author as "bitch."

What do you think this is, the set of The Wire?

> this article's presumption that white people just 'have it made'. bitch i didn't even dream of ivy league
Imagine a time when during the install you needed to know all the details about your hardware intimately. For example by making a wrong choice during the install you could destroy your monitor.

User groups had install parties so users would have a positive experience with Linux and not give up.
I'm not familiar with the cost structure, but if there were a per-transaction cost then it would be:

which is more, paying x% + y once on 1 BTC or paying x% + y a hundred times on 0.01 BTC?

Clearly the latter is more, assuming of course that `y` is positive (and it would be a very strange market that inverted the structure)
The hard part about building a sustainable publishing business model online that avoids the largest single channel is that margins matter & if you have 5% margins or such, a competitor that clones your model AND is in Google's good graces can use their search-driven profits to noise up other channels and drive your margins into negative territory. (In social media competitors can target ads at just your followers, competitors can buy your branded keywords in Google, etc. ... most of the big platforms sell access across that way.)

It is not uncommon to see market participants take profits from one line of business or one channel & use it to undermine competitors who were succeeding in other channels.

So lets say you avoid search entirely...how do you sustainably compete against a competitor who has a similar footprint to you AND is leveraging search-driven profits to come after you?
Wow, I had no idea Github had 158 employees. I guess I mostly hear about their engineering team here on HN, and didn't realize the rest of the team was that big. Congrats on 5 years guys, it's a great service!
Amazing! Congrats. These are the kind of things we should do for just the heck of it, and of course for happiness and satisfaction that we get out of it :)

This reminded me of a guy who cycled 100 miles to meet his first customer.

http://www.cyclelove.net/2012/11/why-i-cycled-a-hundred-mile...