skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I put all my personal projects on BitBucket and GitHub (and sometimes CodePlex for the comunities into that sort of thing) and just push to all of them. Never ever had both down at the same time (in fact I don't think BitBucket has gone down once since I started using it). There are multiple free git hosting sites no reason not to use them all at once.
Which ever one Tim Horton's uses!
In this case, I think one can. If they cause damages due to negligence (or malice), they are liable for those damages. Only the dumbest of dumb companies would refuse to reimburse overdraft fees in a case like this, because doing so will open them up to lawsuits from every single affected person, lawsuits which those people basically cannot lose.
The explanation I'd heard was that more people are using mobile devices and ads are less effective there.
Fastmail is nice, but I don't see how it removes the right to complain that Gmail is sneaking ads in as email without warning its users first.
I just use the Mail client in my mac. so I dont even see any change so far.
With software, this is a delicate line. It's also one that's taken me a LONG time to get my mind around. I always thought it was unethical to promise anything you haven't already done. Then Oracle came around and showed you can eventually get around to keeping good on the promises as long as you grow large enough to be the market standard. And they crushed a lot of firms that did business the "right way". The market operates in strange ways some times.
And how will Bitbucket magically handle DDOS? Please do share.

You are blaming Github for being attacked by DDOS?
If you have a co-worker with full copy of repository, isn't it already somewhat distributed? Of course it is not all attached to network.

The real problem that we should be talking about is - Pull request based workflow many companies (including mine) have adopted. Which doesn't work when github goes offline.

I hear from lot of teams, they have switched to using github issues for project managment entirely, so as pull request and tickets can be "seamlessly" linked. That goes out of window as well.
This is fantastic. It's the best thing since StarLogs (http://starlogs.net/#johnzachary/libcork)
I've trained Gmail to put my G+ Instant Upload Share notification into the spam box. It has a link on the email to manage subscriptions, I turned off every god damn email option in G+ yet I still get "You have X photos to share". I maybe shared 1% of the photos I take, like picasa before it I use G+ as a cloud back up of my photos.
They misspelled the name of Giovanni Falcone.
Also I'm not sure it's safe to call them "drones" if they're just RC planes with a bit of explosive on top.
I think "probe" in that conclusion was a shorthand for "self-replicating space probe built for the purpose of utilizing exponential growth for scouting galaxy in reasonable time"
Gotta say, I hadn't appreciated the elegance of Rust's type system in preventing modification during iteration scenarios. It's very pretty.
The fact that they even offer 200mb and 800mb plans makes it hard for me to take them seriously. Shame.
I heard an interesting counterpoint to the Fermi paradox recently: namely, that the first life form able to spread self-replicating robots (or whatever) to the stars will take over a galaxy so relatively rapidly, that a new intelligent species is pretty much guaranteed to wake up either to a completely empty sky, or a completely full one. It's a little like the anthropic principle in reverse.

I don't know that I buy it wholesale, but it does cast the improbability that we are first in our galaxy in a whole new light.
There comes a point where there isn't enough bandwidth you can buy...Reflection and amplification attacks can, very quickly, generate in the 100's of Gbps worth of traffic. IT simply isn't economical to keep that much bandwidth at hand all the time.
Everyone SMILE! Say cheese!
Casino games don't take credit cards, either.
Migrating away from Parse (Facebook)
After using Jira for a year (with Grasshopper), I can't imagine a company with more than a few developers maintaining everything with github issues. shudder

But yes, you are right. Being able to copy it from my neighbor is nice.
Yeah it's more a remote control missile than a drone.
Among HN readers maybe, but the hacker/open source community is much more than that.
I'm pretty sure I understand lexical scoping, and this ain't it:

function foo() {
window.c = "really?"
d = {};
function bar() {
var a = "var";
{
with (d) {
var a = b;
}
}

console.log(a);
}

d.b = c;
bar();
}

foo();
The main problem with abandoning Google is all the services associated with it, not only mail. And paid Gmail continues to offer mobile sync, which FastMail does not.

Yet, FastMail looks quite nice.
Looking at it another way. Considering the maturity of the bitcoin system, it's amazing how much attention and money has gone in.
Click on the + sign next to the tabs. Uncheck everything except "Primary" (which you can't uncheck anyway)
C. What's the upside for us by contacting them? There's nothing at stake for us, it doesn't matter.
Catholicism just absorbed the Big Bang (and even Darwinism) as another part of their dogma. Stephen Hawking tells how John Paul II once admonished him about new alternative theories that might interpret the big bang as "not really the beginning", such as the cyclic model, or Hoyle's steady state model, or multiverses, etc. Not different at all from previous popes approving current science like Ptolemy's and Aristotle's, making theology compatible with that, but then expecting the science to remain fixed.

In fact, even the traditional Big Bang theory never states that the big bang was an absolute beginning from absolutely nothing. Quite the opposite. But I think creationists can still accept it as long as the "pre-bang" state is highly chaotic (no organized matter; no time arrow as consequence of maximum entropy, etc.). All religious texts have this idea of a Great Chaos before the primordial god started the creation. But we may end up finding that the correct model is something like local big bangs, where each universe sprouts out from an older universe. This leaves zero opportunity for a creator, not even a Cartesian first-mover.
One could say that 22-44% is actually a much higher pass rate than most MOOCs, and this was a success. It's just that the school is stuck in an old way of thinking. What's wrong with using on-line courses to see where people stand out? Perhaps let them avoid Fs on their report card if they drop out soon enough. (This is true for many normal classes too) Designed right, the feedback mechanisms should empower the middle tier students too.
I too believe that the line between life and non-life is fuzzier than it looks, and that our four-dimensional information patterns are difficult to disentangle from the surrounding ecosystem, and the seemingly unalive habitat in which we dwell.

And as a member of that grand super-being called Life, I implore you on bended knee: Paragraphs. Please.
Why should he step down if he doesn't want to? If people are unhappy with him, they are free to fork it and set it up the way it pleases them.
That is true. When working at a project at work which uses SVN, I luckily have IntelliJ's great stashing/changelist features, acting like a local branch.

Many of our projects are using SVN just because it's the easier one (at least until lately) to configure and set up locally. So that's a small win for SVN, and removes the issue of GitHub being down.
American company, American servers, American jurisdiction. Sure they won't read your email, but the NSA will (just like Gmail.)

Update: hmm, so Opera aren't american? interesting. All the servers are definitely in the US though:

> "we have standard servers and a high speed connection in the US." - https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_about.html
Hrm... odd kind of article from a place called "The Aviatonist" I mean it is interesting but RC controlled UAVs have been around since the 70's, with prototypes going back to the 40's.

Only on February 26, 1973, during testimony before the
United States House Committee on Appropriations, the
U.S. military officially confirmed that they had been
utilizing UAVs in Southeast Asia (Vietnam).[13] Over
5,000 U.S. airmen had been killed and over 1,000 more
were either missing in action (MIA) or captured
(prisoners of war/POW). The USAF 100th Strategic
Reconnaissance Wing had flown approximately 3,435 UAV
missions during the war[14] at a cost of about 554
UAVs lost to all causes. In the words of USAF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle#History
I'm too old for this shit.
Really? You think they know what happened in the Americas post 1492?

And suppose that the people of that island began showing signs that they wished to make contact. What then?
This reminds me of a mission in GTA Vice City where you had to tear down a building this way. Great game.
In the post, I specifically said Scheme had lexical block scoping. So, even if JavaScript had full lexical scoping (which it does not, thanks to with() and the global object), it still wouldn't have block scope (thanks to hoisting, though addressed in ES6), which I think is a defining feature of Scheme's approach to scope.
Sounds like they should learn.
Governor Snyder Authorizes Detroit Bankruptcy Filing
Who? FastMail? They're not American.
Apple reportedly buys Locationary, a crowdsourced business data startup
4-5 seconds in FF here.
Sign up for a service that protects against DDoS such as CloudFlare.
> there have been no probe-building civilizations in the Milky Way in the last few million years or that the probes are so hi-tech we are unable to detect them

I think whoever build such probes is so hi-tech that we won't be able to detect them.

Can we detect Russell's Teapot yet? We are proud of our telescopes but we are basically blind to small objects. Especially since such probe could just make a pass through solar system at 10% light speed.
Wouldn't work in the least. Property tax delinquency in Detroit is already > 50% (http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/METRO01/30221037...)

You can't squeeze blood from a stone.
General Solicitation Rules: The Old Way Preserved Under 506(b), Or is it?
There seems to be a lot of cluelessness or uncertainty around what happens to the "old way" of fundraising from accredited investors after Title 2 of the JOBSAct is live.
The DDoS-proof solution is to put your repo on your own infrastructure.
The interesting thing here is that we have no idea if they have also solved infant mortality, but in a different way.

They've been around for so long, it's likely that they've solved some of the problems we have in unique ways.
While they were never exactly the same visually, they show up under the search field, have the same link and text structure...the only difference in the lightly shaded background
Well, thanks anyways. =)

Since I asked it, someone posted this to HN:

http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/

Which seems to suggest that it does have keyboard shortcuts. Not sure if they are the same as Gmails, but it's encouraging.

And, decided to actually just do a search, because, well yeah. I should. I discovered this:

http://fastmail.wikia.com/wiki/KeyboardShortcuts

Which from my initial review, seems to cover the shortcuts I routinely use!

Hopefully this helps others.
Reply to Forbes’ article “Open Source Software: The Hidden Cost of Free"
Fastmail is owned by Opera a Norwegian company. Nice try though to inject a completely worthless comment.
I think it's fair to assume that HN is a fairly technical community and could manage such a feat on its own, so these: "here is how to switch from [insert Google service] to its competitor" posts strike me as karma-bait (and they do get votes).

As to these ads you're so troubled by:

Twitter ads look like tweets, Facebook ads look like Facebook posts, and of course search ads look like search results, at least in Gmail they have their own designated area.
They replace the webclip ads when the "promotions" tab is enabled http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/ads-in-gmails-promo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069372

Also quoting some random Marco Arment anti-Google troll as though it has some weight or authority doesn't help your point.
If only this meant they're now more likely to implement PGP in Gmail.
Apple buys Toronto startup in rare foray into Canada
There seems to be a lot of cluelessness or uncertainty around what happens to the "old way" of fundraising from accredited investors after Title 2 of the JOBSAct is live.
Servers are in New York.
Pretty funny actually.

The tactical error the interviewee made was not addressing the misconception on a different play field and then misplaying the politics (assuming he wanted the job). He should have brought the question up in each subsequent interview and seen the reaction of the organization.

The way to address the misconception is to pose a slightly different question of the interviewer, namely, is this O(N) or O(N^2):

for (i=0; i<N; i++)
{
for (j=0; j<N; j++)
{
if (i==j) maxtrix[i,j] = 1;
}
}

and this

for (i=0; i<N; i++)
{
for (j=i; j<=i; j++)
{
matrix[i,j] = 1;
}
}
Push email isn't something I really want, but that's a good point if that is important to you.

The other thing I forgot to mention in the post is contact syncing. I'm honestly not sure if I like the contact pollution gmail does more or less than not having sync between FastMail and my phone.
Welcome to 95% of technical blogs.

And I don't fault the authors, because of course they want their creations widely known. But it isn't generally conceived as "I have this great epiphany and I must share it", but rather "I need to get some product pimping out, so what should I write about?" I've done it enough times myself.
Does anyone know of a simple utility to host a remote on your local machine so that a small team can take advantage of git's DVCS in the event that a service like GitHub goes down?
Apologies! I probably can't speak most of them anymore either, not with a passable accent...

Dialects are one of those things emigrants like me tend to romanticise. It is true that they're an actual hindrance in many cases (in places like Veneto you're shut out of most business communities if you can't speak the local lingo) and tend to be loudly represented by the most xenophobic elements. Still, they're part and parcel of the Italian culture and reflect local history much more than the artificial Italian language itself. Bolognese, for example, still maintains traces of Napoleonic soldiers (e.g. "avec" is used in Bolognese exactly like you'd use it in French), Southern dialects have Spanish and mooresque influences, and so on.
Prime Directive.
http://foaas.com/shakespeare/Falstaff/Prince%20Henry
Not OP, but my last project on github ran for about 6 months and had at least 3 outages on the order minutes or hours. Didn't shut down the project, but it was worrisome and I don't think they were DDoS attacks.
I get nervous when physicists wander too far from Physics. They're a smart lot, but look what happened when they went into Finance. :-) It takes a while to apply the math skills properly elsewhere.
Truthfully? Our PR guy is on his honeymoon. Not kidding.

Glad to hear you got the information you needed when you needed it - still a lot of work to do to resolve this to our customers' complete satisfaction.

We'll get it done.
Calculus is hard for most people.
Lexical block scope is broken in (at least) three ways in JS: the global object and with() break lexical scoping, and hoisting breaks block scoping.

Strict mode in ES 5 does address the first two, and "let" in ES 6 addresses the latter, so that's good. But at that point, you're talking about the future and not JavaScript as it is today.
infinite scroll is not a feature
Limited by the actual resources to support that exponential growth.
Meet the founders – Interview to SeeedStudio Founder Eric Pan | Open Electronics
Does it have to be really that "high tech" to be "undetectable"? Today we're happy if we can detect asteroids of thousands of tons as they're floating towards us. A probe meant for interstellar travel just doesn't have the energy to keep flashing all the time. I seriously doubt that we can detect a few tons of unspecified material, traveling at high speed in some distance from Earth, with big enough probability. Thus, the only statement we can make is "no probe designed to make contact was seen in our system in the last <100 years". This does not sound as such a huge paradox to me.
Thank you for this this great article!

I am currently trying to learn more about the hardware and lower-level aspects of computer, and this was a really interesting read.

You may be interested in checking out an emulator for original IBM computer my friend wrote:

https://github.com/Alegend45/IBM5150

It's in really early stages of development, and the BIOS barely boots. Nevertheless, I enjoy reading the code and trying to understand how it works.

I am trying to help him out with it, but I know very little about this kind of stuff (I am just starting out learning about hardware), so I haven't been of much help.

Since you are knowledgeable in this subject area you can help him hack on it if you're interested!
Adblock Plus blocks those YouTube ads, it skips over them seamlessly, so you aren't aware they are there.
Continuous Delivery for Meteor apps with Laika and wercker
This is great!

In case anyone without telnet wants to see: here are 46 insults from that telnet service. http://pastebin.com/6SP2PucG

I'm partial to "Your IQ is the same as the temperature in this room. And it's cold in here."
new http 403 msg
Github Company fight
While not as nice as hg serve, there's git daemon.
Any local machine may be problematic (if you have a dynamic IP), but git is really easy to host on a VPS or any box with a static IP -- just make sure you have everyone's SSH keys authorized (not on root unless you trust everyone with that), and use the following:

$ git remote add origin2 user@your-ip:/path/to/repo.git

To create repo.git:

$ mkdir repo.git
$ cd repo.git
$ git --bare init
At least the Russians weren't looking to nuke the Wiener Circle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wieners_Circle)
Before Twitter made them kill it, I used IFTTT to append all the tweets to a text file. Then I could massively filter it in vim - I gave it it's own filetype so I send macros and bindings to do this.

Now I use a Twitter vim plugin to do the same.
https://github.com/vim-scripts/TwitVim
Am I the only one here that doesn't care about Gmail ads? I don't even notice them.
If you're gonna pay, might as well stick with hushmail.
Sometimes I wonder why we don't do this ourselves...

If we start now (and I think we can reach faster than 10% of c) we can learn about 3 stars I guess in our lifetime!
3D Printing Affects Every Industry, Even Homebuilding
This sort of comment is exactly what is wrong what the world.

What is your expertise in this area? Are you a anthropologist??

I suspect you are just one of these sick people who like the idea mini zoos with humans in them.

These are human beings. They deserve access to modern medicines like the rest of us of the world even if you lose this precious zoo.

How are their women treated? That is the ones who don't die in child birth? Going off other primitive societies probably not great no matter what the Hollywood idea of how these societies operate and everything is great.

This sickness of how the majority of the population would never ever want to live like this if they had a choice but somehow the people living it are having the time of their lives is bizarre.

For all we know this island is just another North Korea and although I respect nations statehood I don't pretend it's somehow a moral decision not to get involved.
Their servers are located in the US according to the article.
I think they are like any other big industrial company.

They build out factories (datacenters, networks, etc) based on a projection of long-term growth. Once you start missing those growth targets, it's like compounded interest... the impact of a small miss in year 1 has a big impact on the year 5 bottom line.

They have a few issues IMO:

- The market is saturated... how many more tiny classified ads can you sell?

- The "less sophisticated" users who click on ads use Bing -- the Windows default.

- There are real competitors out there... Bing, Facebook, etc.

- They piss off their hardcore users too much. Google+: enough said.
which way is saturn at the moment? if it's only imaging for 15 mins, it surely can't see all of us!
Some people won't pay $50/year/user for email, I know my parents won't. I had a hell of a time even getting them to move away from ISP provided mail to GApps. Neither of them have managed to use more than 300MB in 3-4 years.

In any case, an account with 8 GB of email storage and 6 GB of file storage (Family account), or 10+2GB (personal account) is still cheaper than Googles 'one plan' service.

Google just aren't interested in marketing GApps to enthusiasts and families.
Linux is not a technically impressive project. What makes it impressive is the fact that it is built, collectively, by many different parties contributing for their mutual benefit, from tech companies to academic researchers to hobbyists. The fact that Linux ended up being the kernel that got this massive social support seems to suggest it has good leadership with good social skills.
I'm not a fan of languages designed "for children". They tend to be toy languages with limited expressibility, and libraries tend to be limited or nonexistent, severely limiting what the user can actually do with the language.

When I was in middle school, I first learned to program using BASIC. While BASIC was designed to be easier to use, it was still a full language designed for people to be productive in.

There are a whole host of languages that can be taught to (or independently learned by) children that have a clean, simple syntax. Why do we need to create another one with all the drawbacks a small, obscure language brings to the table when Ruby, Python, Scheme, etc exist and are just as easy to get started in, but much more powerful when you dig into them?
Isn't Cassini near Saturn? How is it going to image the Earth? Why are we waving?
US, unfortunately. I'm not convinced of the accuracy of the script's list of commonwealth countries. I could have sworn Canada was part of the commonwealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...
Over the years I've read some really asinine comments on HN, but this one takes the cake. Linus could do whatever the hell he wants. It is is project afterall. People are also more than free to take the source and do what they'd like with it.

Are you going to say that Linux is too important and needs to be nationalized next?
time to switch to ddg
Or worse. We might belong to the last, too late to the party.

Imagine we develop a bit of tech and find out that space has already been colonized and exploited. That all the fun is going on strong in the core. That we are too far away from that core, that there isn't enough energy to harvest to even travel there or even send something there. That we are born too late and too far.
JavaScript doesn't have complete lexical scope. Consider:

function foo() {
console.log(whereDidThisComeFrom);
}
window.whereDidThisComeFrom = "the damn global object";
foo();

And:

function foo() {
var a = {
whereDidThisComeFrom: "a, of all places"
};
with (a) {
console.log(whereDidThisComeFrom);
}
}
foo();

In both cases, you can't lexically resolve the identifier whereDidThisComeFrom.
The United States is 35th in infant mortality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mor...) - and the US is 33rd in life expectancy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...). You just said you didn't know their two statistics in those categories, but a hunch may be enough to go in and shake things up for them.