skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make a very important point that I haven't seen in any of the other comments: There are lots of goods that are not traded within the economy.

The original comment is valid, many people are not relevant to the economy and indeed there are lots of articles on how we are all just wasting our time in meaningless jobs. Some studies have even found that certain jobs (like investment banking) have a net negative creation value.

Isn't the kind of activity like reading your child a story, working for free in a social group and the entire maker movement targeted at the kinds of goods that are both great and beautiful and desirable but also non-essential? Exactly the kinds of goods that people will stop paying for when they have less money to spend.

So maybe we just need to find a way to distribute the essentials and some money differently so that we can all work on beautiful but useless things instead of trying to get us all the kind of job that everybody will immediately admit they don't even want.

Just some random thoughts. ;)
> Atlassian has very opinionated product managers

I'd say that's a good thing. A product can't be all things to all people and when it tries it ends up as a big hogde-podge of compromises that make no-one happy (either that, or being a beast to configure, thus making support painful).

Now, I don't know what the particular issue over forks are (related to branches?) and whether it's reasonable, but the fact that they were eventually convincible only makes it seem better.
You raise good points, no question that this solution will not work for everyone.

It would be up to the developer to tailor the this to their needs. For instance, adding an unload event to prevent sync issues.

Sometimes improving performance requires a more complex solution, sometimes a less complex solution. It all depends how bad you want to avoid that AJAX call!
I agree, that's probably more sensible than organizing another conglomerate. The question is, why hasn't this been done?
So because I'm paid (poorly) to help women run their businesses, I'm exploiting them? I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.
Looks like it uses JGit.
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If you accept the idea that 70% (and rising) of the population is "useless" (presumably from only an economic view), then the idea of a basic income guarantee becomes difficult to fund I would think.
It would be a great way of learning Scala.
We know, you cannot get informed of every single trade made because of the P2P architecture. But you can still use the exchange if there are enough trades that you are informed of!
Esp. their design reminds me rather of Stargate's good old Replicators than Terminator ;)
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> so a shared flat in a cheap-to-average part of town.

mind sharing the cheap-to-average parts of town? I am just curious how far out they are. thank you.
Works well? You must have low expectations.
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Oh, come on. Bitbucket and GitHub both emerged at the same time; neither is a copy of the other, nor do GitHub's founders think that.
OK, and what does the Widevine CDM entail? Does it run on all operating systems?
If you follow the official mit.edu link, you can find that statement in the last paragrah.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-as...
this is totally uninteresting to me - there are tons of services providing hosting to go with the software used for hosting.

what i really want is a source control client that doesn't suck. that is a problem which actually needs solving and where there is a potential market to steal from perforce...

(why do i not just make this?!?)
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> tends to provoke Internet feminists into hurling overheated accusations of being the next thing to a slave factor.

If it ever actually became a problem, I'd point the women I work with at them. One of them is a gender studies major and perfectly willing to systematically dismantle "think of the poor defenseless women" arguments about the adult industry.
Levison's conduct in prior incidents shows that he had cooperated with the gov't when the scope was limited to a single account. It is only when the gov't pushed for the ability to decrypt all customers' data that he refused.
Or any active content! Why would Amazon sell apps in only North America?!
I think she needs some sort of enclosure (with skirts?) that gives a minimal footprint and doesn't squash the grass flat.
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The bottom of the page slides in with some details including this image showing her doing the scanning - http://leannewijnsma.nl/refresh/7/about.jpg.
Nah, just watch whatever you want and donate to those who deserve it.
Where I'm from Tech means Virginia Tech. We beat Georgia Tech in football this year too ;)

Just joking... thanks for that write-up. I'd rather keep the Internet away from Radio (it's too centralized). I much prefer station to station communication over the air rather than packets over some government/corporate controlled network.
From my very brief look at GitBucket, at least one thing jumps out at me: ease of install. Just drop one .war file in a directory and go.
Mistook self-assembling for self-replicating and became unduly alarmed.
Isn't it supposed to be the other way around: proved?
These would be perfect office desk toys. Right up until they combine and take over the office of course.
No, jail or other punitive response is not a necessary condition of civil disobedience.
It's called geoblocking. The Australian Senate held hearings into it. Fun fact: I was looking to buy Cowboy Bebop and Star Trek: The Next Generation on iTunes. Not available, but definitely available in the U.S. App Store.
If they're trying to attract users you are certainly right. But if they're trying to attract developers/contributors (which seems plausible for a new project), language choice certainly matters.
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Which, ironically, is what happens when you implement DRM systems. Often, no one gets paid.
So the Disney Vault is an actual physical vault with human security guards? Wow! I thought it was just a scheme for introducing artificial scarcity.
I'm pretty sure I have read of a similar self assembling cubes concept in a science magazine when I was a kid (i.e. 20 years ago). The concept was only rendered in 3D (which was a piece of cake even then for it was only cubes).
Pretty neat to see that come to reality.
I don't 100% understand this project. From the screenshots [1] it looks exactly like GitHub so why would I want to use this product over GitHub, GitHub Private, or GitHub Enterprise? Both GitHub and Bitbucket are community, pages, hosting, public repos, third party integration, new features, innovation and support. While this looks like a cool programming challenge, I need to be sold on why I should use it as a product.

Edit: Someone pointed out that they may be looking for developers to hack on the project which makes sense.

[1] - http://takezoe.blogspot.jp/2013/09/gitbucket-15-released.htm...
OP here. This is one of the reasons to mention Scala in the title. Not just Scala, but also an opportunity to learn frameworks like Scalatra.

I was actually evaluating different Scala frameworks and stumbled upon this project as well as another neat one: https://github.com/ornicar/lila
This is awesome! Go open source hardware!
What if all content was under DRM? What if I owned all the land on earth, charged huge taxes, then told you 'you can choose not to live here'?
Wow, it will open more possibilities a lot of companies I know of (and some projects of mine too :) ).

Off the top of my head, I know of a company that's trying to tackle online complaints (VozDirecta.com), another that feeds "what they're saying about your company"...
For example when you don't want to rely on GitHub being available/online? Or if you just don't trust 3rd party service providers with your data?
> Children watch movies VERY MANY TIMES. They also manage to destroy the physical media.

100% agreed and can personally attest to that!!
You're missing the point: people can't touch anything until the shutdown ends. You put up that disclaimer and go home for awhile. Tomorrow, you have drive fail or someone defaces it tomorrow and you cannot – by federal law – fix it until the budget passes, so you're basically hoping the essential staff — who, remember, are juggling a ton of new responsibilities – notice and can at least pull shut it down without causing too much extra damage.
There are quite a few places where water won't be cheap for much longer. Underground aquifers are being depleted very fast.
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I think he was talking about the whole Apple/iOS/iTunes thing which is worse by an order of magnitude than any DRM that has ever existed or will ever exist. So, yes, of course you can advocate for open source from the convenient position of your walled garden, it just makes you a hypocrite.
Tiny bit too breathless and too much hype.

I've seen children's toys that used internal momentum via a counterweight back in the 80s.
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The bit of David Friedman's book that stretches credulity beyond breaking point and into the realms of the laughable is where he explains how profit-motivated "Rights Enforcement Agencies" can solve all the difficult problems, like banding together to fight really dangerous enemies and contracting "fair" dispute resolution, and yet fails to explain why they wouldn't collude in simple ways that actually push their profits up, like forcing fresh entrants out of the market and fixing price demands and "territories"... the sort of things that protection rackets actually do.
This is fascinating b/c Github initially provided a powerful UX for something that is actually a p2p system.
What does everyone think about energy use and storage? Are magnetic devices energy efficient enough for this to work some day?

Maybe they could attach them to an external power supply?

Seems like it could be a constraint that needs to be solved for this to be useful
It's open source. You could fork and add more features to it. For example, I am going to try and add a file navigator in the PR interface.
Another is, voting for an issue without adding a +1 in the comments. This is the biggest pain point in GitHub for me.
Will it make learning Scala easier than ever
That Wikipedia article scares me more than the Serial Killer one. This dumb SOB is still a cop & was installed in a leadership position. Where the F#?k is Dexter when you need him?
Yes. But needs some improvement
This is HUGE. So many companies are trying to use sentiment analysis as their marketing tool for how they parse social media. With an open source tool, it would make it easier for regular developers who man not know much about NLP to tap into that part of the industry.

As I'm reading though the article I see that it says the algorithm can understand "Human Language." By this I'm guessing they mean English. One thing I learned about sentiment analysis is that analyzing other languages may prove to be a bit more difficult.

Another question I have is to run it up against this very basic sentiment analysis engine that my old manager built which basically had 13 positive words and 13 negative words and was about 80% accurate as well: no neural networks, AI or machine learning needed.
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> Oddly, Keller was the person who sprang to mind for me too.

Then you will probably enjoy http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.co.uk/ whose author made every single recipe in the French Laundry Cookbook. (Good writing, too.)
I would very much like to use Docker/containers to provision and deploy my software stacks on a beefy server I have. The ideal for me would be a whole VM in a container (nginx/uwsgi/redis/postgres/etc), but Docker can't currently do that (it only runs a single process).

Is there a practical/good way to easily do what I want, with Docker or another tool?
Does this force the other major PaaS providers like Heroku to support Docker? Seems like you'd need more providers on board for true portability. Awesome news though.
How is this really any different than solving problems utilizing the raw speed of computers? That is, simply enumerating all possibilities of a problem might not really tell you much more than whether there is an answer, either. However, armed with that some folks may be able to find more.

To take your cat example. Now hook up and improve this algorithm in cameras out in the wild and it will become much easier to track where cats are found. Want a rough count of the unique stray cats in an area? Is there a camera that covers it? :)

That is to say, sometimes we simply need the data that these algorithms can provide in order to feed other decisions. This is really no different than any other situation where you have to infer a wider truth from limited data. We are just expanding our ability to do so, now. Not necessarily by finding the fundamental equation to something, but by applying simpler equations to more and more data. Right?
> I need to be sold on why I should use it as a product.

What about self-hosting for public and private repos? (Internet or intranet)?

It's main usage is for small teams and projects that don't want to put theirs source on external servers, nor do have the money for GitHub Enterprise.
As if you couldn't improve your skills everyday 9 to 5...
I think the better way to define simple is the number of "assumptions" an animal makes of its environment in order to survive/thrive.
absolutely , for example i didn't knew stylate which is pretty cool imo.
It appears it runs on Linux and Windows, but not on ARM devices.
Your statement is as wrong technically as stating that encryption cannot be open source. What matters are the keys, not the code.
The process docker runs in the container can be /sbin/init, which spawns an entire OS. Its just not how its normally used.
Impressive indeed. A post by the author in the main NodeJS group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nodejs) would be great.
It's not really limited to one process you can just run a bash script to start everything or ideally some daemon management program.
In general I agree, but "forking" would be considered as a very essential feature by many in a product like Stash. I don't think dozens of users were needed to argue that it be included.

Another example of a crazy bug/feature in JIRA:
https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/84349/rapid-board-ti...
It seems that they have yet to analyse that more deeply. For now all they know is how it's possible that they have it in the first place.
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Do you own all the land on earth, and are you ever likely to?
Fine, U.S. and U.K., my point still sticks.
Yup: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/cue-acquired-for-over-40m-l...
> Are this kind of full clones legal?

This is not a "full clone" but "something like GitHub" but for your own private server.

> I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box

No, it's not. The serverside is implemented in Scala using a JGit as a GIT library for the files and H2 database for saving the metadata.
Needed a 2nd attempt for it to accept mine. Regardless, it's disappointing they're only offering paypal.
That's not entirely the full story. Any browser that supports EME will still not be able to play content unless a Content Decryption Module (CDM) is built for it.
List is good. But, I'm not sure why the author is recommending costly HTMLBoutique instead of cssilize ($35 + pms + w3c standards)
I think these robots are missing a few things that would make it actually useful. They need a latching mechanism to increase strength when they are in position. And they need a manipulator that can bend while locked onto two other cubes.

When I see these I think of a flexible exoskeleton or simulated bones. They are missing what would be the cartilage and muscle of a moving being. But who knows this could be a great step in that direction.
I can't read the site on my mobile because of some fixed with absolute floating gimmick. I'm just going to assume this is link bait because the voice behind a software product was. "Finally revealed!!"
I really hope so, with the work that Red Hat and dotCloud are doing it will be possible for a Docker container to run on any Linux OS - which is a significant first step towards ubiquity.
Whether Heroku's Buildpacks are then able to be layered on top of a Docker container is the question, not impossible as they are open source but will Heroku come on board?
It seems Red Hat's OpenShift is making the moves towards this being possible with their cartridges which are the equivalent of the Heroku Buildpacks.
The key bit is that the community seems to be converging around some standards that could lead to true application portability for PaaS, something we don't really have yet.
Does Firebug pretty print minified JavaScript now?
> GitHub Enterprise is self-hosted

It is, but it costs more than many small teams can afford.
It is already illegal to access certain websites. It's just that those websites are generally considered morally abhorrent. I'm not necessarily arguing against your point, except to say that slippery slopes are generally more complicated than the people warning against them think they are.
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This project is marketing the community aspect, not the availability of privacy aspect. This doesn't provide any better availability/privacy than GitHub Enterprise or GitLab and it doest provide anymore trust than those two services. If you're looking to learn Scala or hack on an open-source Scala project, then I could see why this is cool.
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Just because a browser implements EME doesn't mean it can still play content. It needs a CDM written for it first. What if that CDM requires an underlying DRM system that only runs on one OS?
I haven't seen many people do in-app messaging effectively, but I think it's an awesome idea. Looking forward to seeing the tech that makes this work!
I guess the major advantage of this solution over github is its source availability under a FOSS license (Apache).

The story's title might indeed be more informative by stating that instead of focusing on the implementation language.
I'm happy that Linux doesn't have MS SQL drivers. The increasing cost of SQL Server licensing is the driving force towards PostgreSQL for many of our projects. The larger clients can afford the costs and seem to enjoy being treated as cash cows by Redmond.
it's 10/10 for my current employer :)
Google's NaCl set out to solve this same problem (pretty much), but I'm beginning to think Grun's Arc might completely shadow Google's work here for many reasons, not the least of which is total flexibility of development environment (i.e. no need for a special "sdk", except to communicate with the browser).

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I've certainly noticed some people do that, but in essence isn't that just a way to get other people to do their development work for them for free, without giving those developers any of the benefits that come from true open source software in exchange?
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I don't understand the point of combining DuckDuckGo with Yahoo and Bing, since it's already combined in its results [1].

[1] https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/results/sources
Did you try Dokku[1] (git hook + Heroku buildpacks + Docker)? You can build/deploy several apps to docker containers using git push. It has PostgreSQL plugin and exposes your app via nginx. Of course it wouldn't be 100% usable as-is, but its codebase is very hackable — around 150LOC.

For example I've forked it to built a μPaaS[2] — it has out-of-the-box integration with upstart (for supervision and logging) and replaced Heroku buildpacks with the ability to define stack in Dockerfile (which is much simpler).

[1]: https://github.com/progrium/dokku
[2]: https://github.com/andreypopp/upaas
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UI as far as I know is not copyrightable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_v._Borland
Fair question to ask! Although would agree with 'subset of Facebook' argument but therein also lies its beauty. If we look at Facebook today and filter marginal things away its used primarily to 1) Share updates and 2) Share pics. Twitter took the first point and made it better. Instagram took 2nd point and made it better. Both did well. So sometimes (in fact most of the times) its about taking only one feature and doing it extremely well and I will give credit to Twitter for this. As for the question related to a stable user base is concerned it feels people will find usage for both kind of platforms, general ones and very specific ones!
Because most of us are developers, the medium of a software product is considered interesting as well as the finished product. This should hardly be surprising and I'm glad there's a forum whose interests span beyond an ends-justify-the-means approach to software.
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Try buying your smartphones from China, from places like AliExpress.

I just bought a Samsung Mega clone, 1.2 GHz quad core, 1G ram, 16GB storage, 2 sim cards, 2 batteries. Camera's even better than the Samsung offerings too. $200 US. And they come unlocked and prerooted, ready for your hackings and exploits.*

You just have to be smart where you do business. Our US dollars really are an effective weapon to wield against other entities. Especially in cases of locked devices, there are answers we can respond to. You just have to be aware that those choices exist, rather than say the Galaxy Note 3 with region SIM locking.

And I also have 0 problems with piracy, at all. I haven't a problem with paying for content and services. I've paid for a fair share of DVDs, VHS, CDs, tapes, and other forms of media... many times over. And then, they want me to pay for it again just because it's in another format? Nope. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I take matters in my own hands.

*http://www.aliexpress.com/item/new-arrival-in-may-6-Haipai-N...
If you use Gnome, they [recently added high DPI display support][1].

[1]: http://www.gnome.org/press/2013/09/gnome-foundation-announce...
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And what do you do when the payment provider you use sucks, and you want to move to a new one?
Oh right! Every existing customer have to sign up again, and input the same info again.

That's the reason to aim for PCI compliance your self.
DRM'd content isn't accessible and that's the entire problem. Adding a standardized hook for DRM modules to use creates the illusion that things got accessible that previously weren't.

Try exercising your fair-use rights on those DRM'd bits for example.