skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chromium is already on googlesource.com, which is a different service. They have a plan for issue tracking, but it's not yet ready for prime-time.
What he's trying to say is that his firm was contractually required to have a bid (an offer to buy) and an ask (an offer to sell) for some set of stocks.

But under certain circumstances they didn't really like this requirement so they kind of cheated by changing their bid to 1 penny and their ask to $10,000. For a stock that trades around, say, $100 this means that while they de-facto had a bid and ask in place it wasn't really a real bid or ask as no one else would ever want to trade at those prices.
Maybe they're going to drop the air model and just have MacBook and MacBook Pro.
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I knew them vaguely as well, sharing some friends. (I'd wager we've probably met in real life at UTD a few times.)

Was Richard the guy who went as a flasher at a Halloween party? Because every time I read about him testifying in court, I'm imagining him doing so in that costume, which was ... graphic.
To be fair to myself, I only said there was a good reason, I didn't specifically say the conclusion was good.
For the sake of not reading things in a vacuum, linked is the Verizon v. FCC opinion for further context.

http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/3AF8B4D93...
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Why no Linux release?
The difference is: the U.S. has a residency requirement. You have to live here for 5 years to get USC. These countries, on the other hand, have minimal or none.
I'm saddened greatly by this - for many reasons, not the least of which is that we will likely not see any more Long Earth novels in concert with Stephen Baxter.
IBM Research did a multi-VM framework a while back, to host both the CLR (.NET) and the JVM, with an inter-heap cycle collector. I think it was called Parlay, but that name seems to have been reused. Highly non-trivial!

EDIT: Aha, "Parley":

http://hirzels.com/martin/papers/vee04-parley.pdf

You previously asserted that Mozilla spends more on other non-standard-track work than it would cost to support multiple language runtimes. Where is your evidence? I cited mine with PyXPCOM.

We did the work to support Python alongside JS. It was neither simple in any sense compared to other work (Mozilla does standards-track-only work; this sometimes leads to dead ends, but that's life) nor a good sunk cost.

I'm not here to chinwag with Monday-morning-the-next-decade quarterbacks. First, advert to the complexity you denied up-thread. Then figure out design problems and solutions.

If after a ton of work "on spec", you end up writing good patches, I'll help champion them in. I would like to see a zero-cost cycle collection solution. That's research, not patch-hacking. If you can't acknowledge the problems starting with cycle collection, you're not for real.
It's true that Google does not use Google Code for any coding project anymore, but it's still used as a support interface.

For instance if you want to file bugs for AppEngine the official way is through Google Code

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list

What are the plans on moving this and other issue lists for different Google products out of Google Code?
Programmers will have to list their Algorithmia profiles in their CVs now.
I'm gonna start mining algorithms to post on here, then comes the massive gainz
My point is that they ban explicit prioritization yet ISPs can achieve the exact same result through network topology. It's a huge loophole.

Put another way, if I pay Comcast for XX mbps, it should be possible for some company to send me data at XX mbps without paying Comcast. Otherwise what exactly am I paying for?

One solution would be to force last-mile ISPs to designate a location for each customer (for example "all Manhattan subscribers => 60 Hudson St") where Netflix etc could peer without settlement only with those customers. Comcast doesn't have to carry Netflix's traffic across the country, just from the nearest IX to the customer. If the customer monthly fees don't cover that, what exactly are they paying for? Any VOD offerings from Comcast would be required to routed through the same points, without routing preference over 3rd party traffic like Netflix.

In some sense, that would be a light version of forced cable leasing, since instead of movies, a service could offer a vpn/tunnel to general internet access with better transit provisioning than the last-mile ISP.
I've read a bit form the first issue during Slush '14, very good quality, both writing and production.
The “anti-social foursquare” or “what Google maps bookmarks should be”?
There are thousands of independent/homebrew projects that call Google Code their home that will probably vanish overnight. And not everyone likes using Git to begin with.

I don't see why they don't put stricter requirements on starting a project page or contributing instead of making this move.
Leaving aside the developing and underdeveloped nations discussed in the article, the two cheapest right now look to be: the US ($500k equity in a job creating business for four years) and Portugal (€500k in real estate for five years).

The big disadvantage to the US program is that it has fairly strict residency requirements and, almost alone, taxes on worldwide income. Portugal appears to have much looser residency requirements (both to maintain the visa and to ultimately apply for citizen) but I'm far less familiar with its program and could be missing some nuance.

Hungary's program is €300k (in special government bonds), but I don't think they are considered a developed nation yet. (they used to be called 2nd world, but that category seems to have dropped out in the new developed/developing/underdeveloped scheme).
What's the median lifetime of free cloud services? It seems to be around 5 years. Someone probably tracks that.

With SourceForge putting ads in installers, they're no longer a good option. This leaves GitHub in a monopoly position, which is worrisome. Especially given the terms:

"GitHub, in its sole discretion, has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service, or any other GitHub service, for any reason at any time. Such termination of the Service will result in the deactivation or deletion of your Account or your access to your Account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all Content in your Account. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."

That could be a problem if GitHub's investors want more revenue generated.
We need some way to distribute open source projects so they're on at least two services simultaneously, synched.
Sounds like what I've heard about 1999. Sign of a bubble?
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This is a slightly modified snippet extracted from something I wrote last year predicting the Google Code shutdown. https://medium.com/@joewalnes/some-2015-tech-predictions-1e7...

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It's not about Mercurial vs Git.

When Google Code added Mercurial support, Mercurial and Git were roughly equal in popularity. Git was more functional, but Mercurial was a lot simpler to use. In fact, almost everyone I spoke to at the time preferred Mercurial and honestly I thought it was going to be the winner. Project hosting sites that had typically used centralized source control systems like CVS or SVN scrambled to add Git and Mercurial support (including Google Code).

Then GitHub happened. They realized that the it's not just the source control system that should be decentralized but every aspect of the project. Projects could be forked with a single click, pull requests created and tracked, network graphs explored. It created an organic and discoverable open-source ecosystem, the likes of which we never saw on Google Code, SourceForge, etc. Anyone could explore ideas in existing projects without having to gain committer access. It was magical.

GitHub may have just as easily decided to bet on Mercurial instead. I believe if that would have happened, Mercurial would be the most widely used system today. BitBucket did something similar for Mercurial and did pretty well, but GitHub always had the lead.

It was the project hosting sites that lead the source control systems, not the other way round

So, back to Google Code. It could have been something huge and it could have made Mercurial the winner, but Google Code never grokked the importance of "social coding". Even though the source code was decentralized, the projects themselves were still centralized. Decentralized project concepts such as forking, network graphs, pull requests, etc - this was all from the new world of GitHub.

Over the past two years we've seen Google release new open-source projects on GitHub, then existing projects starting to migrate. Recently, Go started migration too — this is no casual move because it affects the import paths used in a vast amount of user created Go code which will build breakages. Yeah, the writing is on the wall for Google Code.

When SourceForge fell out of favor it was sold. It’s now filled with ads, especially deceiving ones on project downloads page which try to trick users into downloading some malware infested turd burner. In fact, for a while SourceForge were actively modifying genuine project releases to include spyware. Cocks.

Google didn't do a SourceForge. If there's anything we’ve learned from Google over the years is that they’re not afraid of shutting down projects that don’t work out. By the way, I really respect Google for this — killing products takes guts.

Google Code — I salute you. You did well, you made the open source world a better place, and above all you stepped aside when you knew the time was right.
I don't see why this is an either/or decision?

Without a firm understanding of probability then good luck interpreting or fitting a model. Without a firm understanding of linear algebra good luck implementing or using an algorithm.

And hell, if you have a streaming algorithm you probably no longer need linear algebra but to grasp either the probabilistic or geometric interpretations you'll probably need calculus.
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Myself and lots of other academics chose google code to host projects that are no longer actively contributed to but still used or of interest to the academic community as building blocks for future research. At the time it seemed like the safest place to leave something.

I'll be moving my code and forking a few analytical projects I use appreciate but I hope they would leave the site up in read only or archive mode for longer then a year as i'm sure many authors have moved on and may not even be aware of this change.
While I agree that Google Code, as it is right now, isn't needed anymore, I believe there is still room for innovation in this space and I wish there were more players than github, pushing the boundaries harder.

As a software developer is a tool that we use all day.
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My mum accidentally introduced me to Pratchett when she brought home Truckers, I was at the age where she would still read to me, but I would also push ahead on my own. If you're looking where to go next with your 2-year old, I'd recommend that trilogy.
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Anyone know how this will effect Google's Project Zero, or where they will post their findings in the future? GitHub doesn't offer the flexibility that Google Code has for marking issues as public/private which Project Zero relies on heavily.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is totally true.
Eh, isn't this sort of distributed sync the point of Git? If GitHub turns evil it'd only really affect people using their Issues product.
Because the group they are "pandering" to is huge. What you're asking is "why would a company looking to sell a product use a hugely popular platform to do so, when there's a much better, little known and barely understood platform available?".

One man's "pandering" is another man's "responding to the market".
Obviously, they specifically closed it because everyone uses Github. I think the key selling point though for you guys, is not putting code on other peoples' servers at all, which is unlikely to be Google Code alums.
This hit me hard too. Discworld was like a lifeboat that kept me sane while growing up in the bible belt.
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It's absolutely not democratized. The opaqueness of the trades and the fact that the vast majority of trade volume passes through pools with centralized (and again opaque) rule-writing means that the those centralized authorities can and do write the rules to privilege insiders.
The "move" started a couple years ago. I open-sourced a Google project about 18 months ago and the recommended hosting solution was GitHub:

https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser

(Ironically, when posted on Hacker News, one of the first comments was that it was ironic that it was posted to GitHub and not Google Code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6210282
I like the idea of bringing the academia closer to the developers. Let's face it, with the wave of coding bootcamps etc. there are a lot of developers without the STEM background needed for sophisticated applications. I think that this vision can present a lot more opportunities for interesting products. It may also speed up the pipeline from the academia to the deployed application.
I have to ask, did anyone start on Pratchett with the Nome trilogy? I think I was 8 or 9 when my mum brought truckers home from the library to read together with me. After I went through that trilogy on my own she bought me a copy of Pyramids and it's been uphill since then.

Unfortunately Pyramids was a bit too weird for her, and put her off Pratchett, I can see why that would be.
Sometimes you can tell when a company is heading down the wrong road, but a person that far down the food chain has no power to change things, so the world gets a free case study.
I work on games. I use linear algebra daily and calculus frequently, but far less often. Both are extremely relevant to game development although you can get by without calculus and only light linear algebra if you limit your scope or specialize (in something other than graphics or simulation).
That wasn't an option for me a few years ago when I tried. I'm not sure if their arbitrary cutoff date (~18 months?) had passed or if it simply wasn't available back then.

I download all copies of my statements every year now though, that's for sure!
Having a page that goes nofollow/noindex and back is fine, when we recrawl it, we'll take the new state into account.
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You can turn it off in settings on the bottom left.
Look into gitlab
Hi HN, last time I posted about Call to Speakers, I got great feedback. Since then, I've added talk submission (directly from the website), filtering and search to the homepage, and customizable email notifications about new conferences.

I'll be here in the comments if you have any questions.
You can read her own blog post, that she wrote immediately after the incident, but before all the media hullabaloo started up:

http://butyoureagirl.com/2013/03/18/forking-and-dongle-jokes...

Who's interpretation fits better? The "I was literally threatened with death" version or the "I was anxious because I was confronting people who were behaving boorishly"?

At best you can claim that 2 years after the fact she suddenly decided that she was threatened with death, and just happened to announce this new interpretation in an article that she is on record (in the article I previously linked to in another comment) as feeling misrepresented by the author of.

"What could be worse than someone taking what you've told them and portraying you as the aggressor? It was a sucker-punch to the gut. This is what Jon Roson's article in the NYTimes did. I simply become an agitator affecting the man's life, no more, no less."

So, no, I don't think I'm being very charitable in my interpretation.
Opened in Chrome on a Windows 8 PC. It didn't work. I'm genuinely surprised anytime anything ever works in a WebGL context. It does not seem to happen very often.
MacBook had much faster Processor, Chromebook Pixel use UltraLow Voltage CPU which tends to have much lower TDP and much less sustained clock. In this case 2.2GHz for Chromebook vs 2.7Ghz for MacBook.
They say that "now". They have their foot in the door now so I wouldn't hold too much to that statement.
https://about.gitlab.com/

"Better than GitHub"

That's quite a motto.
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I can't believe the folks who disagreed with you are hand-waving away a huge conflict of interest.
How to REALLY become a consistent blogger
Yes, I took part in a UK incubator programme. It was only seed stage investment but even still, a portion of the funding was taken by the operators for office space, mentors etc.
One thing that might be nice to do - if you see a project with high recent download stats (I'm sure there are a few) but their developers seem to have abandoned them, will you please do a courtesy backup to github, or perhaps notify people who starred it that the owners didn't mograte it to GitHub and the data will be lost unless someone does.
No, the problem is that there is an armed robot equipped with hellfire missiles in a foreign country dispensing capital punishment.

We are way, way past the point of talking about a 'moral code' for people pushing the actual buttons. There shouldn't be any buttons being pushed at all.
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It is a very nice system, but the stuff that goes into a shutdown had me fighting to keep the message as tight as possible. I wanted to go on about Bitbucket, gitlab, and put in a long discussion about how this doesn't effect the scalable git team at google at all (we host android and chrome and a ton of internal teams on a git backed on our backends here) , but had to keep the message pure...

But I heartily recommend people look at Gitlab...
Advice to anyone using Optimizely (or other third-party privacy-busters): please, please, please test your site with Ghostery and other tracking blockers, and make it degrade gracefully!

If I have to figure out which of 20 widgets to temporarily unblock and then delete a bunch of tracking cookies afterwards, just to make your site functional, I'm going to go elsewhere.
PM on App Engine here. We'll continue to be using (and monitoring) the Google Code issue tracker until we have a robust alternative available.

We have plans for this, we're just not ready to talk about them yet.
I remember reading this the first time as a JS rookie. Every time the author mentions "this is same in JS" a light went on in my head and all the JS quirks found earlier became just natural. It still deserves its place in the Christmas tree bookmark section.
It's basic control theory. There's nothing wrong with one way speed (google or my remote), but you can get in to trouble when you have a low level control loop that runs orders of magnitude faster then the hierarchical control loops above it.
I really don't think that blog post is the place to pitch code hosting websites. Github (and to a lesser degree bitbucket) are websites that are exactly in the space where Google Code and before that Sourceforge were.

Gitlab is not.
http://smile.amazon.com/Introduction-Bayesian-Statistics-2nd...

Was extremely gentle and mind blowing.
I have to wonder, are we all really comfortable with GitHub being basically the only free code hosting option?

Yes, SourceForge(t) is still around, but with the talk of them injecting adware into downloads, I'm sure many wouldn't use them.

This leaves, what, BitBucket and running something yourself?
I think people tend to hold large companies with far-reaching services to a higher standard in this regard. I'm not arguing that stance's validity, but if MS or Google or even Facebook (yes, I know) release a product or API, people assume that it will be well supported. Partly because of $large_company's deep pockets, and partially because it's assumed that those companies understand the far-reaching consequences of their actions and want to act responsibly.
Partition them into VMs?

Alternately, I use vagrant-aws (https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws) to quickly do this on Amazon. Just be very careful to not check your keys into source control.
Hey,

there is also some Arduino code ported to make up a Tetris game with Composide Video Out and N64 controller: https://github.com/pothos/arduino-n64-controller-library
"We need some way to distribute open source projects so they're on at least two services simultaneously, synched."

google "git sync mirror" and a bunch of solutions appear.
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Not at all, that's 100% the point of most open source licenses. Which are compulsory for a project on GC.

E.g. MIT:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
IN THE SOFTWARE.

Specifically, note "Permission is granted" and "distribute".

Comply with those terms (i.e. include that piece of text when you redistribute) and you satisfy MIT.

GPL, &c, they all have similar clauses. In fact, MIT goes much further. I could take all those projects, mirror them, and charge people insane amounts of money for it.

If you can't even rehost on Github, what good would copyleft be?
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These migrations would be much easier if we specified dependencies by content, not location. Obviously not Google's fault, just something to think about as we build future systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM
Ah! I've been building out a couple raspberry pi console-emulators and settled on using some original SNES controllers along with the buffalo USB clones of them. In the process I dug out my childhood N64 as well, and I put it in the "to-ebay/garage sale" pile without reservation mostly because of how much I despise those controllers!
> you have to have pretty big ego problems to hate on him in the first place.

Why is that? This is equivalent to saying "He is rubber, you are glue, whatever you say bounces off him and sticks to you". His perceived public overconfidence is only harming him. He doesn't have to start self-deprecating, but toning it down a bit would reduce the amount of people claiming he leads a cult or has delusions of grandeur. I don't believe that the fate of the world rests on his or his organization's shoulders, and I doubt that very many LessWrong users do either. So what does he gain by asserting it does?

I am fine with him taking risks and I value his work, but that doesn't mean I have to value his level of confidence.