skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably couldn't, but he's still right: link says "available to everyone for free", which isn't exactly what it happens to be. It's not about being greedy or something, it just about fair headlines.
For the more pragmatic ones you might want to look into Fossil SCM by Dr Richard Hipp, author of SQLite.

* Distributed VCS, tickets and wiki
* You can link artifacts together
* Single statically linked binary
* Works on Linux, Mac and Windows
* Not dependent on Javascript
* Easily themeable, looks good (important, this means you
can slap in the logo and colors from the company web
site and avoid lots of questions.)
* Easily hackable

(That said, I don't think the template system is aiming for any awards in the near future.)
$19/month isn't much to you, but to a 15 year old tinkerer, or the 19 year old college freshman, it's good money.

Throughout its history, the best innovations in gaming have come from such people, the most recent being Palmer Luckey.
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This is, of course, equivalent to curl | sudo sh in terms of security properties.

(Which is not a complaint; I'm pretty okay with curl | sudo sh, because I'm okay with so many other equivalent things, like this.)
Right; I meant only that cost has no bearing on the price set by the company. The two things you mentioned (competitive landscape and demand forecasts) are both ways of measuring the market.

Marginal cost only plays into the equation when the marginal cost of the product is higher than the maximum price/pricing structure the market is willing to bear over the time horizon you're considering. Amazon just has a longer time horizon than most companies.
I tend to avoid plugins so that really has never happened to me. I can see how that would be annoying to those that do though.
They could have used a GET method with a request body.

Although it's debatable whether it's a better solution (semantically a request body should not influence the result of an HTTP GET response), but saying that "GET requests don’t have a request body" is false.
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You have a point but there are alternatives short of outright political disassociation. Namely devolution. American Federalism needs to find its Goldilocks moment. The first era of federalism was too decentralized, then the second era beginning with the Civil War witnessed too much centralization. There's a better balance to be struck that devolves most goverance to the local and state level, while preserving the Federal government's role as interstate arbiter, international face, and ultimate guarantor of civil rights and liberties.
I just interpret "experiment and learn" as something that would stay small scale forever, like an academic experiment or a playground for their developers.

However they're continually expanding to new cities and doing Fiber for actual business value. Yes it's a slow rollout but I think "experiment and learn" is an understatement, similar to this wireless announcement.

FYI, source of Fiber announcement, 2010: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-ou...
Related NY Times article:
On Nantucket, Surf’s Up, if You’re Part Penguin
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/science/nantucket-frozen-w...
It's the Gmail storage theory.

Very few people could access Gmail initially. If it's out there, and people start to hear about 1gbps internet service (Google is tremendous with PR), it becomes an idea in the public consciousness. That immediately changes everything, even if the reach only ends up being 5%. Perception can be incredibly valuable. Your average person has no idea what the Google Fiber reach is, they do not care; they've heard about it though, and now they know that 1gbps Internet is possible and exists for the $70 they're already paying for 25mbps.

When the first iPhone came out, I didn't think much of it, but I had heard of it. I wasn't much of an Apple fan. Then I saw a guy play a nice video on it, from a trip he took to Tibet. Even though my carrier didn't have the iPhone circa 2007, that video's quality immediately changed everything about how I perceived phones and what I wanted out of them. My expectations were forever shifted upon seeing / knowing that was out there.
I also was a teenager throughout most of the 90s and I admit to having a huge fascination with this work. I believe the very first thing I made was homemade napalm and burned down a tree, which led to firefighters being called, my mom being questioned while she was cooking which then led to part of my house burning down. I still have this fascination even today, in a curious-how-does-it-work sort of way.
Take a look on ruxit https://ruxit.com/ . It brings together all the factors that are mentioned in the article, plus there a concept of a problem - if something goes wrong, you don't need to with tens of alerts to figure out what is the root cause of the problem. They will tell you automatically.
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You want to talk about shameful misrepresentation in the same post you're trying to defend this website? Really?

If anything's as shameful misrepresentation it's calling these people out as creeps and pervent, shaming them on a public website, now syndicated to the hundreds of thousands of readers of Hacker News, for simply hitting on a girl (in a not-so-creepy way, if I might add). Wrong venue, sure. But does it call for this?
I bought a Thinkpad x220 tablet off ebay as a "poor man's Cintiq" and put an old SSD in it. The thing is like a developer Swiss Army Knife. I can use the very nice keyboard for real programming work. I can use the Wacom stylus for pixel art and graphics. Makes me think that Apple is aiming at dominating the common-person's "workstation" form factor, while Lenovo is aiming more squarely at guys like us.
I think that makes sense. It would also explain the articles I see about Microsoft's new ceo Nadella. Thanks
Interesting:

Shortly after we purchased Gen Re, it was beset by problems that caused some commentators --- and me as well, briefly --- to believe I'd made a huge mistake. That day is now long gone. General Re is now a gem.

And, regarding Clayton Homes (their mobile-home manufacturer which also offers mortages both to Clayton homeowners and owners of other manufactured homes):

Many of our buyers how low incomes and mediocre FICO scores.. our blue-collar borrowers have often proved to be much better credit risks than their higher-income brethren.

This is interesting as it is apparently true, by the numbers, and also a slap at investment bankers.

I also love that the person who manages the annual shareholder meetings, "Woodstock for Capitalists", is a 30 year old that was hired 6 years ago.

Also, does anyone have color on went wrong with Tesco? Buffett writes that he lost faith in the management team, which seems like an unusually direct condemnation given all the other way he had to explain their exit from that position.
Because scaling would be phenomenally expensive.
Yeah, but as far as I know, they are usually repo agreements, buying MBS is something new.
> If Google decides to mandate phones contain minimal bloat (just Google apps preinstalled)

Until the anti-trust lawsuits finish winding their ways through the courts...
WordPress works great sharded and/or replicated across databases, servers, even datacenters. This is what WordPress.com, WordPress.org, and pretty much any major WordPress site uses: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hyperdb/.
Of course, I don't think it's a direct analogy. But it seems that partly what makes YC successful is also what makes BH successful.

BH also has an extra 50 years on YC, so of course the models don't match up. And I'm not Sam, so I can't speak to whether not YC's ownership or investment models will change over the next 50 years (and yes, I think there's a good chance YC will be around in 50 years). YC is focused on testing and validating its thesis across other industries, but the thesis started in one area. Very much the same with BH.

In other words, if BH's only value is that they can successfully help grow a candy company, an insurance company, and a train shipping company, and YC is able to help grow a fusion company, a hotel industry company, and a home cleaning company, then they are both doing something right. It seems they are both heavily driven by focused principles.

Another great point is that YC and BH don't have traditional competition. See pg 31 starting

"Berkshire has one further advantage that has become increasingly important over the years: We are now the
home of choice for the owners and managers of many outstanding businesses."
Forget MVNO - I think they want to lay infrastructure. The likes of Verizon and ATT cannot be brought down and/or competed against by becoming their MVNO-bitch.

Anyone has any calculations on what it costs to deploy brand new LTE infrastructure to cover like 80-90% of the population in the USA (i.e. major metro areas + suburbia around it)? Google could probably swing that.
No TLS, huh?
http://i.imgur.com/BsJYvOr.png
I think you mean YC, not HN.
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Apple controls the entire hardware stack on an iPhone
I agree with 13.

There needs to be a way to have an account that is not tied to a SIM card or any kind of phone number.

I'm frankly astonished there's even a debate about that.
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Y Combinator will likely raise a fund that could be several billion dollars
This is a wonderful piece of work. Exceptionally clear writing and excellent use of interactivity.

One minor bug report, the mathematical pi symbol (U+1D6D1) used in the unit circle doesn't appear to be displayed correctly (Chrome 40, Windows 7): https://i.imgur.com/zt0HDLO.png. It's okay in Firefox though.
I had no idea that was an option so I researched it a bit and found this stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-requ...

Note this part of the accepted answer:

> So, yes, you can send a body with GET, and no, it is never useful to do so.
If we had halfway-usable power management back in the day, it would have a lot more sense (for occasional use) as it would be idle/sleeping most of the day.

But we most certainly didn't, especially in Linux - and most people ended up having to leave them on. Heck, even the super pimped-out Linux machine I made in 2012 still has occasional issues with suspend/resume (I could probably go on a week long patch fest to try to fix it, but no thanks - I bought a macbook instead :)
That's what I did, too. I want to create a Pi 2 blade server and use it for local docker PaaS (for builds, running tests, etc.), but can't find a good case for that. The dog bone one takes too much space and is too generic.
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Everyone wants to take XMPP, but no one wants to give XMPP. The old Microsoft model of embrace and extend. What could stop this sort of behavior?

Could standards be constructed in a way the punishes greedy 'compliance' while still providing enough benefit to keep implementations from simply ignoring standards all together?
For those who might clone, build, and use without actually reading the readme, take note of this warning by the project maintainers:

"warning: This project is still in the prototype phase. It contains many bugs and lacks many features."
> Both NCF and JPAKE require a communication channel between devices.

Well, I did state that the use of NCF or JPAKE would be when moving data between devices; moving data kinda presupposes some sort of communication channel☺

> Neither fit the bill if the goal is user friendly, accessible from anywhere, and backup in case of loss (what they are proposing).

I think that this is a mutual-exclusion situation. If there's remote storage of data, the encryption must be high-entropy, which means that it cannot be user-friendly.

> I'm aware if they use "12345" or "password" it'll be crackable, but it's a balance of user friendliness and security.

I don't believe that's a good enough balance, given that so many users will choose poor passwords. Nor is waiting a minute or more to log into a system particularly friendly (although in the case of backups, maybe they only need to wait that long when accessing those backups).

And of course, with Moore's Law, what took 60 sec today will take 40 sec in a a year and a half and 27 sec in three years,just over a second in a decade and .02 seconds in twenty years; an attacker will be able to make 3,195 guesses per second in 30 years and 184,288 guesses per second in 40 years. Better hope that none of the data stored remotely under that key is still valuable in four decades.
> Do you object to any of these definitions?

In this context, all of them (well, maybe not "Libre", for which you have an approximation of the usual definition.) The common combination "Free/Libre/Open source Software" phrase comes from three different names for approximately the same thing in Software:

(1) Free Software under the FSF's Free Software definition [0]

(2) Open Source Software under the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition [1]

(3) "Libre", a term sometimes used parenthetically to distinguish Free Software in the Free Software sense as discussed above from free-of-charge (gratis) software.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[1] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
That's generally the only feedback you'll get from any company.
Achieving Electronic Privacy
Not if they want you bad enough. Examples: Assange, Dotcom.

And that's assuming perfectly legal might is all you're worrying about...
Sometimes it takes like 2 minutes for Gmail to load Hangouts inside it. I believe it even slows down the loading of Gmail itself.

Hangouts has been a poor-performance app from the beginning. It should be rewritten from scratch/replaced in my opinion.
I'd imagine that a sufficiently sophisticated attacker would be able to extract that random number somehow.
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Isn't that the point of a horror movie though? The audience is supposed to know that it isn't real, and are supposed to be scared of what it symbolizes.

If kids aren't scared by Aliens, then the movie failed. Being scared by Aliens even though they know it isn't real doesn't mean that the movie inappropriate for them, it means that they are handling the movie as adults do.
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The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto
You can adjust Git's rename (and copy) sensitivity when using tools like diff, blame, and log. Git doesn't actually treat moves specially at all (even when you do git mv), each revision is (effectively) a simple snapshot of what all your bits were at that point in time.

Downside: It doesn't know what a rename is in your history and detects it at the point of use (that is, when you 'use' your history - e.g. when doing git log).

Upside: You can adjust what it thinks a rename is when you need to without changing anything, and if it gets better at detecting renames, you can benefit from that without having to rewrite history.
would be great if there was a similar library for python
Use wifi information for geolocation since most of the Subway stations in NYC have wifi now?
Another possible reason is that she has not actually done anything significant. Her time at Google was not spent working on any projects that produced notable success or revenue. Many think she was hired at Yahoo simply because of voodoo logic: she'll somehow bring Google Magick with her because she happened to get hired at Google early on.
I have used it for a few years for hobbyist game development on Android and iOS. It's easy to use, especially if you like lua, quick to develop in (auto-refreshing), and runs fast enough. If your game/app is 2D and is mostly placing sprites on the screen that react to touches, then it's great. It's not good for 3D (obviously) or complex apps that need access to low-level graphics.
Congrats on the organic growth! Many app makers can't even pay to see this kind of traction!

Some of these are quick fix questions, others are more life questions. Sure, applying to an accelerator is a great idea, but it is a life commitment you really need to think about. See if you can fix the most noticeable bugs that folks seem to be talking about or ticketing. From there you can start to think more clearly about your goals.
Somewhat to my surprise when I found out, git-mv doesn't actually result in any extra metadata about the rename getting stored in the repository: "Git has a rename command git mv, but that is just for convenience. The effect is indistinguishable from removing the file and adding another with different name and the same content." https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_does_Git_no...

All content in git is exclusively addressed by its hash - there's no UUID for files or directories like bzr has. The only concept of history is in the parent-references in the commit objects. So tracking bits of code from commit to commit, between file moves etc, happens purely heuristically, without any support in the storage format.

Given that it works like that, I'm impressed every day that that works at all, and also how fast it is. You can make git-blame work extra hard at finding the renames/moves with extra switches (see http://jfire.io/blog/2012/03/07/code-archaeology-with-git/ - I almost automatically add "-wCCC" now), and it's still surprisingly snappy.

But as noted in the comments to the OP, merging when one branch renamed a tree and the other added files under the old tree name, probably still needs bzr's rename-support.
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Someone should write a digital linear algebra textbook in this style.
XHR (XML HTTP Request) always seemed like a sadly particular API name for something that's rarely used to consume XML. From that point-of-view, HR seems like a better name than XR. ;-)
If so, I imagine it would also fit nicely with big.LITTLE designs.
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This is a terrible, inaccurate article to link. Google Talk is going away, so is irrelevant. Google has a big banner on pages about it that it is going away. I don't even understand why the article talks about it so much and mentions it can still be used inter-server without SSL. That's just silly and clouding the issue. Google Talk is irrelevant to anyone now.

Google Hangouts will only show Google+ people as someone you can message. Period. There are some vague little interop features left. You can login direct to Google servers and chat with a third party client, yes.

Google has officially said they will no longer support federation - so other companies Jabber servers and user accounts will not work with Hangout users. So of the two huge user side things everyone is talking about: choose non-Google clients and login directly to Google still has some support, choose non-Google account is going the way of the dodo very much so.

The article, I guess, only really cares about XMPP like caring about "do developers still use Java". The point it makes isn't really the end user sort of thing people are talking about. Google could still use XMPP internally and the article would be screaming yes, but it could be irrelevant to users if there's no interop anyway.
How is the Windows side coming along?
Nothing wrong but maybe Ward Cunningham wants a platform that does not converge toward consensus too much.
Specifically the intent was to say that it would be a violation of the HTTP/1.1 spec to change the response based on the contents of the message body, however if /delta used a hash of the message body contents in the URL then it should still be semantically correct.
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A modern http.RoundTripper-based XMLHttpRequest wrapper
Google has an ever expanding pile of cash - now at $64 billion - and nothing they can spend it on fast enough. Going forward there will be anti-trust concerns about nearly any big service they try to acquire. Spending money on fiber and wireless however, will not be an anti-trust concern, it will be welcomed almost universally. They will also be able to sell off these services easily in the future, and exit those businesses at their convenience. They set up Google Fiber Inc. for a good reason, and I'm sure they'll do the same with Google Wireless Inc.
That's the client to server encryption, which Google Talk has. Server to server encryption is missing.
Update: think you need to register first:
https://accounts.unrealengine.com/register/index

Is it just me or is the source not public yet?
https://github.com/EpicGames
- No public repos

https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github
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I started 2013 with a small exercise routine, initially just a few minutes every other day. As I got stronger it eventually grew to 30 - 40 minute sessions mon/wed/fri, still just simple exercises and a pullup bar.

When that became routine I started building positive routines around it, exercise was just one missing habit, I had plenty others that were missing or bad, largely because I'm a lot more passionate about my work than many other things. I elaborated on this just the other day with a morning routine that prioritizes everything but work [1].

On Elon Musk's most recent AMA someone asked him what his most important daily habit was, and it was just showering. Makes me rethink the little stuff.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9095514

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk...
Yes, but only because it wasn't backed by hardware-accelerated encryption (like the iPhone is).

I feel like this is mostly Qualcomm's fault, but also Google's for announcing a product (FDE) that wasn't actually fully ready to come to market (typical half-assism from Google, I would say).

This pisses me off because many people now might not want to use encryption anymore even when it does get hardware accelerated and the issue is solved, because of all the articles that "encryption slows down your Android devices" Google has caused to appear now.