skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sticking to self-hosted fossil-scm. Very simple, lightweight, C, but has full wiki and issue tracker and code trees.

The one thing self-hosting lacks is the social network. What is really needed for self hosted sites is a federated network (maybe with something like pump.io and openID) to allow coders from other self-hosted or sass hosts to seamlessly login and contribute and display their profile, and to help mitigate spam.
Neil Gaiman; Douglas Adams; Jasper Fforde.
> Come on. The US has a visa by investment program where you can invest either $500,000 (high risk) or $1,000,000 (low risk) and get a straight path to citizenship. The UK has a similar plan for $3,000,000. So do Canada, Luxembourg, Austria, and dozens of other very well developed nations.

But you need to actually live there.
I think the issue there is that car-hailing networks lack exclusivity and have limited lock-in. This suggests a race to the bottom is inevitable: customers want faster rides and lower prices; drivers want more customers (either larger networks or fewer drivers) and high rates; the network wants to share as little of the price as possible with the driver. In other words, the network is in the position of having to attract both customers and drivers, and price/reimbursement are the primary tools.

Eventually, this should drive the margin for car-hailing networks to a stable low point, because if the price is too high customers will go elsewhere, and if the driver share is too low drivers will go elsewhere. Only by building its own fleet or by maintaining an artificial lockin of some sort (and I would classify brand/marketing dominance as being an artificial method of maintaining market power) can an intermediary network manage any level of bargaining power.
EU let Sweden give away citizenships in cornflakes packages to anyone who is (or claims to be) from Syria. So why would they be opposed someone doing the same for other nations.
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I don't consider myself a film buff so maybe that's why it doesn't bother me but I love finding the Wilhelm scream. I hope it never goes away.
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> the U.S. has a residency requirement

This is fairly loose though.

Just don't leave the country for more than 6 months, and spend at least 6 months and a day in the country in each year.

The rich aren't constrained too much.
There goes my PageRank. Thanks Google.

Does anyone know of a way to make the landing page at GitHub look less confusing than the default? That is the #1 reason I went with GC. I want first time users to see descriptive text not an activity log.
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Pure entrapment. Create a fake simulated decision dilemma he never had to decide in real life, put a lot of emotional pressure on him, and then when he made a bad decision inside this simulation that harmed nobody, try to condemn him for it.

I haven't followed this trial closely enough to know exactly what happened here, but despite the sanctimonious, performative "I'm-a-good-person" denials you're getting in response, entrapment is a real thing. If one's opponent is a pro (this is a lucrative sub-profession of "private investigators") one won't see it coming and will be lucky to avoid it. I'm sure the FBI is also skilled at this technique, which may explain why many PIs are former agents.

A family friend had disappointed some wealthy people by lawfully overcoming a do-not-compete. It didn't happen for years, but eventually she was manipulated into making statements about another person, and of course those statements were taped by the "friendly" person who was "helping" her with a family issue. The swiftness of the DOJ's response could only have been motivated by campaign contributions. And now this person is a felon.

This is a good person, certainly much more "Christian" than I've ever been. Some might say that sort of person is actually easier to entrap, since her emotional levers are more obvious, but I think everyone has levers, often closely related to their own moral codes. Ulbricht's levers were his project and potential threats to that. Of course it would have been wiser for Ulbricht to take a broader view and reject violent suggestions. It isn't the case that mere morality suffices to avoid this trap.
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Thanks - I never knew that existed. The admin ui and result aren't particularly nice sadly.
In a way it is almost funny that such an agressive industry hasn't stepped upped their game. Why not introduce patents on instrumentation or sound design?

Just imagine how much money one could have made if you could patent "a kick drum triggering the side chain compressor on a saw-wave bassine"
That makes more sense. So you're a microservice platform.

Good luck. If you kill it I look forward to hearing about an acquisition by Amazon. ;)
The FCC can't force them to serve unlawful content, that would be forcing them to break the law.
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Even "just" ai can teach you a lot. For example trying to calculate if enemy can see you, or which path he should take is interesting.

Of course you can go far with "turn towards player and shoot" ai, but where's the fun in that.

Actually it would be fun to give student's assigment like:

here's the AI interface, make a game using it, and write your bot. Then we will run all the bots in free for all mode on all the games (except your bot on your game), and we will grade by sum of the points.
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Godwin's law is rubbish. The Nazis are a strongly and consistently disavowed extreme group. They're a perfect tool when you need to cut across cultures and remove any chance of ambiguity. Their actions so despicable that comparing X performing Y1 to the Nazis performing Y2 is a good tool for reasoning about Y itself and the difference between Y1 and Y2.
Bitbucket, Gitlab, Assembla, repo.or.cz and a bunch of others.
The opinions of the dissenting FCC commissioners are exactly what you expect. They claim the FCC is engaging in over reach.

I'm curious to hear more about the '15 "Broadband Subscriber Access Services" pages' you mention. Where is this mentioned?

You might want to check out a recent talk @ NANOG from John Yoo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJV1gWYPX8

IMO the questions are more interesting than the actual preso.

What we got with this FCC ruling is an arrangement between the ISPs and the edge. Or you might call them the pipes and the content. It's striking to me how little discussions of the last-mile were framing the debate, or how little consumer choice was taken into consideration. According to Wheeler, my interests as a consumer end at me not having my traffic biased. When in fact, most consumers are more interested in having choice in last-mile providers, or just paying less for their Internet connectivity. In short, I'm bummed we didn't get unbundling in the last-mile.

The pipes got a monopoly. Content got the right to offer services without having to pay the pipes for the privilege. Google got the right to access utility poles. Google is the interesting hybrid with a history in content, but quickly moving into pipes.

None of these interests really care if you or I have choice in our last-mile ISP, or how much we pay. So Comcast, TWC and Verizon get handed a monopoly by the FCC. Americans shouldn't have to clamor and beg Google to deliver fiber to their homes.

Also, what happens once Google is everywhere and they turn tyrannical? Do we need to have yet another last-mile provider invest billions to deliver service to our homes? How many Internet wires do I need running into my house to get competition? Imagine how stupid it would seem if I had multiple water pipes running into my house, or electricity wires.

The FCC missed an opportunity to reframe the debate away from net neutrality and towards monopoly in the last mile. If I had choice in last-mile providers net neutralty wouldn't be an issue. If my provider treated me like crap I could simply choose another one.
Someone else also asked this; see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9191618
Conspiracy to traffic narcotics cases are the same. A CI tells a tale of being connected to some cartel and offers to import a bunch of invisible cocaine and if you agree to it and show up with payment you're convicted without any actual drugs existing. The overt act does not even need to be completed, any action done by the accused to further the conspiracy agreement is good enough to get life in prison.
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I'm guessing the thinking was more along the lines of "hey, this is a cool tool that makes using docker easier. the crew who built it really love docker and have great expertise. let's bring them in and give them more resources to make docker even better."
The alternative is that your only last-mile private broadband provider is in complete control of your link to the internet, and you can't even begin to have a say in how the link is managed...

Markets with multiple private competitors end up the most efficient, but when you exclude a government based solution, what do we do about critical markets without competition?
As I tried to indicate the current classifications are a bit of mess. You can see the different definitions in use by various entities in this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country
Did Yahoo kill off smushit.com lossless compression tool?
That was due to a DNSSEC misconfiguration, it had nothing to do with net neutrality. The misconfiguration affected android devices as well.
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Dear sir,

After all the hours spent in the company of your charming characters, puns, and wit, I have only two parting words:

Thank you.
Totally agree, calculus is a prerequisite for understanding statistics, unless you're just plugging in numbers for an A-B test - and you don't really need a class to do that.

Linear Algebra is very useful too, but it's not really fair to say one is more valuable than another. It just depends on what kinds of applications you end up working on. Universities should just teach both.
I'll put it this way- My first job out of college was one of the few that DID NOT want my GPA, and I ended up doing awesome, I'm fairly successful now.
Well, just because he got A wrong, doesn't mean he also got B and C wrong. HFT is very complicated AND secretive. In all seriousness, it's unlikely someone can understand it well without working in the industry
I don't get the advantage of that image, though. It makes sense for them to acquire things that make it easier to get started with Docker. I wouldn't be surprised if they acquired Panamax too.
The general response I've seen to that is they're encouraging more last-mile providers to be developed from Title II opening up the equipment poles/lines.

Basically, making it easier for the Google Fiber types to do their thing.

But then they have to live under the same rules as the big guys, and that was one of the rebuttal points. Valid or not.
Rather than recommending a specific Git hoster such as Github, you should have listed out alternatives... especially as Google Code also supports Subversion and Mercurial.
I have two questions for you:

a) What do you have going for you?
b) Other than "make money," what do want to do? What are your interests?

If you can answer those two questions here, you might get more and better feedback than what is currently happening.
The main thing I would like to know is why did he hire the lawyer he did? His defense basically sold him up the river, as can be seen from the scathing comments from the judge. Is it still a fair trial if your lawyer is incompetent?
Never mind "bis später", what about "auf wiedersehen"... and "à bientôt" - see you soon.

Strangely, I don't really say "goodbye" all that often - it's either "later" or "'til next time.".
TLDR: The Federal government via the FCC just nationalized the internet using the red-herring of "net-neutrality". Such wide regulatory power over the communications system crucial to a free society is ripe for abuse by a future dictator.

I agree.
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That's the intention... kinda. The ServiceWorker doesn't mean that you manage the offline experience (you could just be handling push messaging), but we believe that it is an indicator that you are likely to be thinking about app like experiences.

As a by-product of the service worker though, we really hope developers start building offline experiences.
It's not removed from the list -- it is second from the bottom. madsravn's question is a good one.
You were probably responding to me.

The schematic, even in image form, is the source as far as my experience goes. No, it isn't turnkey, but the schematic (in CAD file format or not) is the design. Everything after that is primarily implementation- more analogous to modern day compilers and linkers, IMO.

Even if they gave you layout files, they would likely be both a pain, and not very useful. Like getting someone else's *.o files. You probably won't be using the same tools, and you probably won't have the same boardhouse, the same parts... I didn't really come to grips with how incredibly nonstandard (or maybe just incredibly varied) parts footprints are until I made my first >100 part count SMD board. It quickly became clear why companies develop their own parts libraries, and why they cling ferociously to existing vendors, supply lines, and specific parts.

Suppose I gave you an article/paper in a proprietary file format you can't convert, with a font you don't have, painstakingly arranged for a paper size you've never heard of, in color gradients your printer can't resolve, that uses features only a couple printers can print. Would that be helpful? Me, I'd rather just get the raw .txt file and .jpg's...
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Hi, really neat idea (didn't see it last time). Just browsing the homepage, LDAPCon has the wrong country in summary view.
I doubt academics will use this service to implement algorithms. The bounties are currently at ~$100 and the time commitment for a serious implementation of any nontrivial algorithm is worth far more. Not to mention tenure committees couldn't care less.
Thanks for the honest answer! I know a lot of geeks wont agree with this, but the reality is when you are doing PR (or anything else, including/especially software engineering) you need to be as simple as possible.
It's interesting how the last few major deaths I remember on here have been of people that discussed death publicly. Hal Finney, some time ago, discussed cryopreservation after his diagnosis of ALS, and Terry Pratchett discussed his views on assisted suicide publicly.

He had also previously said [0] that he wanted to hear "Spem in Alium" [1] play as he died. I wonder if he was able to do this.

I'm also curious what people would think of a black bar.

[0] http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100025158/sir-t...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y
If you're accepting Affero GPL licenses then please post the source code to Algorithmia under the Affero GPL license.

Edit: also please collect and post source code of the callers' programs too, if they're using AGPL algorithms.
Does that make it more or less relevant?
And a new law is born: La muerte Flacas' law: Try to use a valid NAZI reference and a clueless bastard will mention Godwin's Law. The Laziest form of counter argument.
> That may be partially true, but Ross polluted much of the goodwill the Internet community had for him when he decided to "order a hitman."

Never tried for murder.

Never charged.

Why not? That's a slam dunk if it were true. But it carries with it greater scrutiny by appellate courts, greater scrutiny by the press. Perhaps those accusations were bullshit.

Perhaps our prosecutors should be prohibited by law from making any accusations unless they're actually leveling charges. Just a thought.
Where is my Discworld augmented reality overlay (from Rainbow's End, Vernor Vinge)? Google glass was supposed to bring us this...
tl;dr: all is well that ends well.

It seems we only hear from those who did poorly in school that also bounced back and became successful later. I guess those that didn't don't have much incentive to telegraph their presence and their achievements (or rather lack thereof).
Most HFT players are market makers, not market takers. If you take a look at the fees in that link, the fees for liquidity taking are positive, i.e. $0.0027, whereas the fees for liquidity providing are negative, i.e. $(0.00150).

Exchanges offer rebates to market makers to incentivize market activity on their platform.
I wish it would sort by network throughput instead of latency.
I dont think you have looked at history. Anarchy simply means no state, not no system of governance. You can still have laws and organisation.

We have historical examples of milions of people living this way.
Yeah, because conservatives love the expansion of government oversight... Both political ideologies, liberal and conservative, want to control you - so lets not pretend that isn't the case.
I've upvoted it on your (and my) behalf :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9191007
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I love that service workers require HTTPS. :3
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Also, 1 indexed arrays which offend some people.
They also should be returning a 301 and the new URL so crawlers can follow it and delete the old site from their records...
Entrapment is real, sure, but, come on. It's not as though the FBI kidnapped his family and said they'd kill them unless he ordered a hitman.
We are planing on taking the majority of these legitimate, open source, 'abandonded' projects and putting them up in cold storage in a git repo on googlesource.com
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> And not everyone likes using Git to begin with.

FWIW. Mercurial can use Git as a backend which would ease the tension for those not enamored with it.
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This looks like it needs some type of integration into existing "let's build this" and "let's fix this" types of sites:

- https://assembly.com/discover
- https://www.bountysource.com/
I'd think Nevis' citizenship popularity increase is mainly due to the fact that it became a tax-haven, more than anything else

check http://flagtheory.com/the-best-place-for-an-internet-entrepr...
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It makes them sound petty and actually-probably-worse.

Just say you're the best git host. Don't mention your competitor.

I'm going to go create an account on it now. Good luck, guys!
Now if only Github could conquer the aging mess of forge.mil.
Ah for whatever reason I didn't see that at all.
Because regardless of privacy and rights, censoring porn at work is completely reasonable.
Is there any real take away here? Effectively it is "I floated through life and got a few lucky breaks which led me into a relatively comfortable career that I enjoy". I'm hard pressed to find something unique or interesting about this long autobiographical read.

My story started out in a similar fashion:

I did terrible in HS, slept through most classes, aced most tests, and did no homework. I finished with a 2.7 GPA. I decided early on it was okay for me to go to community college because from there I could save money and still transfer to a good school.

I deviated from the norm when I then focused on my career while going to school, working for a consulting company at 18, then landing a job as an IT security admin. I transferred to a state school because it was easy and cheap and I had realized work experiences was far superior to college credentials.

I have since then had a mostly enjoyable and relatively lucrative career as a programmer. The key take away from my story? Complete school because the piece of paper is important but focus on work early if you want to stand out and get ahead of the crowd.
And this article has a nice retort by xjm, another active drupal contributor:

- http://xjmdrupal.org/blog/contribution-influence-drupal-8
My favorite comment:
"Google I hope someday you close your search engine and company at all. Welcome to Google Cemetery."
Many interesting things require a combination of more than one area of math. I don't understand how you can do much within robotics or vision without using all three of calculus, linear algebra, and statistics :)
Very useful! I'd like to see "Ruby" in the topics list.
File sharing for non-tech savvy non-Profit?
I am involved in a non-profit charity/service orginization with ~30 members. Most of the members have very little computer experience, it's a 70+ crowd. Currently they share things like meeting minutes, budget reports, and other documents via email. Does anyone have experience migrating a group like this to something cloud based (Dropbox, Box, whatever)? If so, what was the easiest to get up and running as well as get the users to adopt it?
But think of the opportunities for the drone counter-measures industry that hasn't been born yet.

In all seriousness, drones are tools. If you put hellfire's on them, they become quite deadly tools. However the root of the problem is not the tool, it is the people who decide to deploy the tool and the mechanisms in place that enable them to do so.

Focusing on "drone assassinations" detracts from the main storyline of "assassinations." The "drone" angle is just that, an angle.
is it related to programming ?
The log-on degree
This rathr sems to miss the point of Patchett's body of work as a selection.
Cool idea!

I'd love it if there were also (a) a way to submit requests for presentations and (b) a way to vote on presentations.
Except that it's not hard for drivers to sign up with both. I've seen so many drivers operating dual phones in their cars.

It might end up like the DVD burner format wars, where nobody won or lost because the burners all ended up supporting every format.
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It's not monoculture, there is also bitbucket which IMHO is much better product. Problem is that all the cool kids are now using github and if you want to look cool you also have to use github. Or you could just ignore the hype and use bitbucket.
Obviously GitHub is much larger, but some projects are moving to GitLab, such as GnuTLS https://twitter.com/GnuTLS/status/573155639683248128

Bitbucket is also mentioned even though they don't have a lot of public projects.

GitLab is open source, has a great interface, many features (protected branches, git-annex support) and we offer unlimited (private) repositories on GitLab.com
Jon Evans (writer at Techcrunch) also wrote a novel with a similar plot (it was a sequel of a previous book called Invisible Armies that dealt with hackers) which you can download for free:

http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/24466/swarm

I enjoyed both Swarm and Kill Decision.
I debated whether or not to write this because, as I mentioned, I have a large degree of impostor syndrome because of my experiences. It's hard to define what "successful" is.

The process of "bouncing back" is also a process of slowly gaining confidence. I'm not sure I would have been able to write this a year or two ago. It's unfortunate that both sides of the issue aren't explored, but that may be due to the confidence problem.
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You don't need a special degree or even college at all to be a successful coder, as long as you have a passion for it. At least that is what I walked away with.
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We've been trying to use git for this existing repository, but it is too slow to use, in part because it is too large in total size, or in number of files. Or both.