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Offering women free public repositories will expose more women to the open-source community. The idea is, of course, that they will slowly become more comfortable with the community and begin to open their work.

This could go either way, but I suspect this idea is correct. IMO, this was a good move by GitHub.
hey there, whether if you find it useful or not thank you for your interest which led the site down :)

people at designmodo are aware of this project and actually they mentioned it on their last blogpost http://designmodo.com/flat-design-colors/

it was not even a side project for me, the thing is I was obsessed with these colors and started to use them a lot, and got bored of the copy - paste progress. I did it because it was useful for me and I shared for those who like the flat ui color as much as I do and I didn't know that it was going to drew this much attention.

now moved a cloud server, hope DNS changes will affect soon.

at least it was fun to create some mini app mentioned in the hacker news :)
People have either totally forgotten that SV is highly cyclic, or else are 22 and were children during the last bust. The market will crash again, as SV does every decade or so.
Wow, this really is the best regex checker I've seen. Great work dude, you must be Russian or Romanian.
That is right. I don't like flash too.
If IIRC it's also software-patent-protected, which is severely hampering deployment across the greater Web.
Pretty cool - although you may want to host your images somewhere other than Dropbox - I think they put a limit on it after x number of hits.
Try searching their mailing list for "hang" and suchlike (of course they don't openly advertise such an easily triggered flaw).

LevelDB write rate initially seems amazing, since it's simply writing unsorted keys to an append-only file until the file hits 2MB or so. For bursty loads it feels great.

But the moment writes are sustained for longer than it can merge segments (say while doing a bulk load), per-write latency spikes appear (average op time jumps from <1ms to >30000ms for a single record), and eventually it'll get so far behind that all attempts to progress will hang entirely, waiting for the background compactor to free up room in the youngest generation. The effect seems to worsen exponentially with database size. To attempt to mitigate this, when LevelDB notices it's falling behind it begins sleeping for 0.1s every write.

It's especially easy to trigger on slow CPUs with spinning rust drives.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/leveldb/...
Unless its a small, easy-to-miss checkbox, I was only asked to log into my Google Account.
For any male software developers who may be feeling left out, bitbucket provides unlimited private repositories for free.

The headline strikes me as inflammatory. The move by GitHub is a bit like slapping a tar baby in the current sociopolitical environment, and is most likely going to lead to GitHub offering a limited number of private repos to all accounts.

Which would be a net win, unless it affects GitHub's financial viability, which I doubt it would.
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This is saying I should learn EmptyString, which is a pretty neat language since all programs are quines.

Ah, the joys of living in the boonies...
I thought the same thing.

When I first created a Google+ account, when I went to YouTube, it was just a hash. I imagine your gallery would be the same since it's all now one linked platform. And this is indeed not the Google we're all familiar with.

Google could land it real hot water; not the wrist slaps for privacy/monopoly violations we've seen so far that could actually be chalked up to oversight... if you tried hard enough. This would be a real low point in the company if pans out to be some sort of auto-upload feature that got enabled and to the wrong account.
Our company (www.radfan.com) was featured on BBC News Look North for 90 seconds (no web address mentioned so pure google searches) and I watched our google analytics real time climb to 1200 people simultaneous.

We were on BBC Radio 2 Drive Time the Friday before (web address mentioned this time) and we got about the same.

Shopify did an amazing job dealing with the traffic spike.

Good job getting on Click, that's awesome. We got lucky with the bad weather in March making our launch a relevant story.
Hurray, yet another snarky headline that borders on the edge of slander.

Can we, like, have a conversation about issues like this instead of leaping for the linguistic equivalent of a bunker buster? There are real people behind Github trying to do good, verbally lynching them does no one any good.

I'm so very sick and tired of how this community cannot disagree with one another without practically eviscerating each others' entrails.
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~3k when a Facebook app we were working on went viral.
Not sure why this is on HN.

I experienced this issue just now, if you keep trying the image will eventually get uploaded.
A blur acts as a low-pass filter, removing high-frequency information from the resultant image.

If the high-frequency data that was removed is unique enough that it can't be either guessed or recovered then a blur might be just fine.

If the high-frequency data is something that can be easily guessed, extrapolated, etc. then a blur does not provide much protection as far as the information content goes.
No idea how many at one time however I did get 50,000 hits for a post on my blog that sat in the HN top 10 for most of a day. That's like 34 hits a minute so I can safely assume I must have hit at least 10 at a time at some point during the day.
Oh, that is brilliant.
I actually thought this was a repost of a very old article when I first noticed it on the HN front page. Then I realized that Ruby wasn't around in the 80s. Oh.

I thought all modern dynamic languages use generational GC.
LMDB looks awesome. I lost a lot of performance (~5x) moving from a memory mapped architecture to LevelDB in a database I wrote (http://skydb.io/). I'll definitely be checking out lmdb to see if I can get that performance back. Thanks!
"because your clients are pointing to documents your program has created and saying that right here, there, and here too, the Word95-like autospacing is missing."

Firstly, I think it is way more likely they will point to documents they created earlier or that they received over the mail that your word processor does not show correctly (page breaks will change, which means textual references such as 'line 2 of page 3' will break).

Secondly, I doubt they will phrase it as "look, Word95-like autospacing is missing" it's more likely that they will say "MS Word is way better than your #%$! product".

You and I know this is part of some compatibility section of the spec, but if a customer has thousands of documents somewhat depending on those features, you must support it.

In summary: it may not be a matter of wanting to support that feature, but of having to support it.
Sometimes. But I've danced so now I'll say. The retail model was crummy to artists even when it worked. It's ending. Streaming isn't picking up the slack. Piracy isn't hurting as much as we're led to believe but it sure as hell isn't helping. I'm saying that we have a resposibilty to support the artists we like (and in some cases to figure out how best to do it) or we're all going to be listening to hobbyists. I'm arguing for a return to patronage. Connected 21st century patronage.
Oh boy! so many "idiots" and "dumb people" in your world, they don't deserve you believe me.

Next time call the Internet Police on those fkers!!

You are fantastic, cheers.
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Resource intensity in itself is unlikely to deter entry. A key factor determining industry concentration is the potential for economic profits (rents). You seem to be referring to electric utilities - while regulation is a more plausible entry barrier, the proximate cause is more likely the dearth of rents.
I've been thinking of growing indoor stawberries. Can never have enough strawberries. Red Alpine strawberries gives you fruit the whole year through. They are a bit smaller but they look awesome: http://imgur.com/8JzBPVr
Thanks for the clarification; this software look more useful in that case. It would be even nicer if it would enable me to remap my eject key, since I never use my optical drive.
Main Site: Around 2000 IIRC, before it crashed, anyway. This was back in the days of Digg, and less robust hosting. Average is 150-250 at a time, less at night, more during the day.

Micro-Site: We set up an experimental just-for-fun site with a bit of a viral edge and got 1.1 million visitors in one day, mostly from China - it apparently front-paged on a few major sites over there.
Because it's the near-equivalent of misspelling your name on an exam, at least when it's entering your own email address.

On the flipside I sometimes get mails intended for someone else with my name in Australia, but that is easy enough to assume that his friends/kids' teachers/etc. just manually typed in the address and messed it up.
Over a hundred thousand. I was the Senior Web Producer (head geek) at Bravo, the cable channel, and we did live voting during "Project Runway" first-run episode commercial breaks, where viewers would respond to on-air questions either through our site or through SMS. Vote tallies were displayed during later commercial breaks, after a competitor had been eliminated. People who voted would also be entered in contests to get prizes and their names splashed on screen during the live broadcasts.

Then we'd do it all again, live, for the West Coast airing of the episode, the same night.

Season finale episodes brought roughly a bajillion people to our site simultaneously, because everyone wanted to "participate" in telling the world which contestant they wanted to win the season.

Thank God for Akamai...
"if this were a pill"
The new term is Accountable Care Organization (ACO), and don't worry, an ACO is very different from an HMO. In fact, they changed two out of the three letters.

Seriously speaking you are right, this is a risk. I have asked this same question many times to senior folks involved with health reform. I haven't heard a 100% convincing answer, but I'm most of the way there.

Here are the key differences:

1. More MDs, fewer MBAs. HMOs were generally run by insurers (payers) far removed from patients. ACOs are being created primarily by hospital systems and physician groups, sometimes in partnership with a payer (which has more experience managing risk).

2. More/Big data. We have a lot more data, and we've gotten a lot smarter about how to analyze it. So instead of simply rationing care, we can identify and then focus on areas to improve quality and cut costs. Also, the (unsteady) march towards electronic health records (EHRs) should improve this even more.

3. Quality measures. We can leverage data to force providers to compete on quality. See http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/ for a simple example.

4. Freedom to change plans. In the past, once you had a pre-existing condition you were stuck because no other health plan would accept you. Once plans are prevented from doing this, patients will have the freedom to look elsewhere if they feel their care is being limited.

Update: Added additional info to point 2.
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Why not just offer one free private repository per account to everybody?

It would 'solve' the same problem this attempts to, without the attached stigma, plus it would keep a lot of people from moving to bitbucket just to have a private repo.
So if I am a woman I am supposed to be free from harsh criticism? Isn't this the OPPOSITE of feminism???
3000 years over 360 degrees.
I think you meant anti-socialist. While HN might or might not lean anti-social, I'm not sure it would have a clear effect on political arguments.
Well there needs to be some sort of artificial incentive if you're going to keep medicine profit-based. The best way to generate profit without those incentives is to keep as many people as sick as possible, because sick people are more profitable than healthy people.
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I cheated and used Chantix to quit after a 20 year pack-a-day habit. After dozens of failed attempts it was super-easy to quit on this drug. I'm not sure why everyone doesn't use it, it's a miracle drug.
If you look at http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180ztgSzm1g10zm2g... there certainly seems that a case can be made that the Cyprus fiasco had a huge effect on the value of Bitcoins.
> Obviously the sentence was not harsh enough

What? Does this mean that the death penalty isn't harsh enough because people still murder?

> It is impossible to predict the murders and overdose deaths that a drug kingpin ultimately causes.

A problem mentality indeed. The claim that a drug dealer "causes" overdose is just as ridiculous as the claim that a car salesman "causes" car crashes.

> Crime has fallen every year for the last 20 years. Why? They are harsh on crime unlike us wussy western nations. Many Asian countries share a similar story.

Correlation does not imply causation.

> The mindset someone of saying that a sentence like this is too harsh is weak, new age, wussified emotion (as opposed to sound and proven logic). Do you think that being a drug kingpin is something that you could ever do by accident? He made a conscious choice. A decision, over and over again until he was caught. His benefit outweighed the risk in his mind. If anything, the punishment should be heavier.

I cannot see where logic plays into any part of this argument. He knew he was dealing drugs and therefore should be punished exactly X amount? Being complicit in a crime is certainly more damning than being an unknowingly participant, but no part of your analysis uses "sound and proven logic" to derive a 25 year prison penalty.
I don't understand this - doesn't github already provide unlimited public repos? Can't someone (female or male or anything else) create a new, anonymous, account for stuff they are shy about sharing with the world? Then no one can know it is them, or what the account owner's gender is, etc.?

And if at some point they feel more comfortable, they can rewrite git history and change the authors in their commits, and push that to their official repo if they so choose?
I don't often go to the movies alone, but I have and I enjoy the experience. It seems like kind of a sad commentary on our society that it is so taboo to go to the movies alone. The service basically assumes "no one WANTS to go to the movies alone".

Now, obviously those that do want to go to the movies alone are probably not a target market for this service and it could be valuable for those that do want someone to go with.

It does seem like another form of encouraging extroversion in our society though.
So what you're telling me is I can't have complete knowledge or control over my life? How am I going to live forever, then??

Edit: but seriously, thanks for the response. I think a lot of people are torn by trying to make basic decisions like this, and making sense of conflicting findings is pretty frustrating. Seems like a lot of carbs is bad, though, so I'm going to go with that.
Thanks very much. And neat site - I actually have used this before!
But the measures that jailbreaking circumvents aren't intended to function as copy protection - they're doing something else entirely.

And even if those measures are protecting copyright in addition to locking down the device, has any court ever ruled on whether circumventing those measures without intending to breach copyright is a violation?

If a car manufacturer decided to lock the hoods of the cars they sell so that only authorized mechanics could access the engine, could they use the DMCA to outlaw users from circumventing the hood-locks on their own cars merely by printing some copyrighted text on the inside of the hood, and call it a copy-protection measure?
The latter is unlikely, as the oldest person still alive was born in 1897.
>The problem is, as you say, 95% of tech recruiters are utterly incompetent

The real problem is the barrier to entry for a recruiter is low. Companies will create a supplier portal and recruiting firms will take a req, and have Offshore "recruiters" troll dice, LinkedIn, etc and cold call on their crappy VOIP lines.
Our recent post on the Webpop blog about a/b testing a puppy photo (http://www.webpop.com/blog/2013/04/16/can-a-puppy-sell-a-cms) got to #2 as well.

Sat at a pretty constant 250 online visitors for hours. Pretty sure the brief peak must have been close to 700 as well.

Fortunately Webpop is built to handle that kind of traffic, so we never had to worry about the site crumbling under the load...
I'm just curious, do you eat potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, or cauliflower? If so, you are already ingesting that evil, evil nicotine[1]. In all honesty, I doubt we would be put more at risk by inhaling any trace amounts of nicotine in secondhand vap than we would from interacting with everything else in our everyday lives. Hell, sitting in front of this computer and typing this response is probably shortening my lifespan more than a minuscule amount of nicotine.

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/nicotine-in-vegetab...
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So how does one find the good ones? :)
I get bank statements and postpaid mobile bills. When I wrote a bank (Kotak, India) the executive's first reaction was - "please contact the user" - of course I had mentioned in the email that I've no idea who the intended recipient(Some one in Pune, India) is. I finally had to set a filter and take a vow that I can never be this bank's customer and I ought to quit if my firm decides to tie up with them for salary a/c.

There's Tata Docomo who sends me monthly postpaid bill. I've learened two things from their emails - that gentleman in Nagpur is very irresponsible in paying bills and that Tata Docomo's spam filters are so strong my email never made it them. They keep on sending. I guess they shall send me the calls records if I request to this email.

My fault? I've one of the most famous/common Indian/Hindi names on Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo and domain name too - both .in and .com.
Oh, you'll love this one. I was sent a notice that my car was ready to pick up, but it was for a guy that lives in Canada and has a similar name/email.

I respond saying the shop has the wrong email address. The shop owner (let's call him Bob) replies saying "that's the one you gave me" facepalm #1

I find the car owner and forward him the info on facebook. He responds back saying "Thanks, Bob." Even though the message is clearly from me. facepalm #2

Even if these people were completely tech illiterate... have they never heard of a wrong number?!?
Thanks, Dan. That came off more angry than I intended upon re-reading what I said.
God forbid anyone ask you to figure something out without spelling out every little detail. Hang on, the site's creator isn't even asking you to do anything. He or she just put something out there. Perhaps they are not even the person who posted it to hn. And even its freeness and obvious toy-ness isn't enough to prevent shrill, shallow complaints from annoying people on hn.
Ruby's internals are hilariously naive. 1.8 is an AST interpreter (!) and 1.9 and 2.0 are dumb bytecode interpreters, with no quickening or anything.

Not to knock it too much - if it gets the job done it gets the job done - but it would be nice if they considered adding at least some undergraduate level interpreter class optimisation techniques.
I like it. A nice use case would be a quiz, for example. "What place does this map show?"
Ya, Chantix (Champix in Canada) is great. I quit for several years on it, and it's pretty easy.

You smoke for a week or so when you start, and by the end of that period, you just don't care about cigarettes anymore.

Be careful when you're driving with it though, apparently there is a marked increase in car accidents:

http://www.topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/prescript...

Still safer than smoking probably ;)

I found it helps to drink a lot of water as well.
Except with none of the distributedness?
Kotaku has a nice breakdown of what may be really happening : http://kotaku.com/blame-photoshop-for-koreas-beauty-queen-cl...

"...They are actually the 2013 Miss Daegu contestants and not Miss Korea contestants. The winner of the Miss Daegu contest competes in the Miss Korea pageant. It's a bit like saying Miss Texas contestants are Miss America contestants. They're not."

And

"The assumption is now that the contestants wore their make-up in a similar style and, more likely, the same person Photoshopped the contestants. That would explain why all their smiles and faces are incredibly similar."

As in the article, I'm fairly certain that a number of these girls do have some work done (especially on the nose area), but there's more to the truth here.

That said, I never really understood the point of formality in beauty pageants. They could drop the charade and say "HERE! STARE AT THESE BLOBS OF FLESH AND WATCH ADS FROM OUR SPONSORS! BUY THIS JUNK FOOD, EVEN THOUGH THAT WILL ENSURE YOU'LL ENVER HAVE A BODY LIKE THIS."
I think what you're assuming will be relevant for old generation. Most object allocations should be short-lived so that memory should clear up.
I'm curious about what you mean by 'most amount of people you have had on your site at one time'. This can mean a few different things...

1) For monitoring applications like Chartbeat, IIRC they count a user as concurrent if they are on the site anytime within the past 30 seconds.
2) I've seen real-time monitoring systems count a concurrent user as any visitor in the last 5 seconds.
3) Lastly, the only real raw numbers that I've seen are the traffic hits through an F5 load balancer to a set of backend servers, and that is the only number that will give you an unbiased # hits per second in real-time. Unfortunately, this amounts to requests (HTML) to the server and may not be a 1:1 ratio with users.

So in terms of what I've seen, it depends on the type of calls and the application. For the EA forums (forums.ea.com) which I was in charge of up until March 2013...

For #1, forums would regularly reach 15,000 on the launch of a new game. We would sustain that for ~12 hours [1]. On just an average normal non-event day, it pushes 3000 concurrents.
For #2, I've seen something north of 3000 for EA forums.
For #3, the F5 would report peaks of 200 requests per second.

When I built the Campus Wide Login (http://www.cwl.ubc.ca) SSO auth system for UBC about 11 years ago (still in use today) we would have almost 50-75% of the full campus using it at once, which is about 30k concurrents (unfortunately I didn't have access to the numbers over the F5 LB). However, most of these calls were for the HTML which then went through an SOA (XML-RPC, ugh) architecture, so I'm sure the req/s was much higher on the XML-RPC backend.

[1] this is a feat in itself because most of the forum data is not cached because the business wanted the data in real-time, so the read databases would receive a lot of traffic when the web servers spiked.

Edit: formatting
That's too bad. I would have noticed if it didn't support it because I specifically check for this feature with Pink Floyd albums.

Out of curiousity, what format did you use? I keep my files in FLAC format.