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The animated gif in the announcement goes by way too fast. Could you slow it down by 2x or so?
You seem to be mistaking the newly launched HBO Now for the existing HBO Go service. Comcast continues to block the latter on certain devices, even for paying customers.
Shamans’ Knowledge, Chemical Empire, and Atlantic Revolutions (2009)
That's nonsense. What if I took a copy of footage shot by the drone operator and used it in a commercial for my business? Are they going to shut him down for something he had no control over at all?
Sigh... I wish I had seen this about 2 years ago. Not so useful for me anymore since moving away from native app development, but that graphic of the manual QA process made me groan.
I guess someone made such thing and posted on HN a few years back. I don't know URL
shoot first
> This may not be the most popular thing to say, but ... Just move?

Exactly. Millions of immigrants uproot themselves and move every year. Yeah, it sucks for the first few years, but then it becomes better. America had its share of mass migrations in the middle part of last century; but for some reason people don't want to move as much these days.
In my 20-odd years, I'd agree---uses of calc or linear algebra have been vanishingly rare, although my current project is changing that a bit. Not because I didn't have opportunities to use it, but because I didn't seek out those opportunities.

On the other hand, I'm prepared to defend to the death the statement that programming is applied formal logic. (Or possibly abstract algebra; that is likely more appropriate for some more modern things. On the other hand, I grew up in the land of Dijkstra, so....)
Google's Project Zero Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug
What is the criteria for "legitimate"? A project useful for me may not be "notable" enough for most to consider "legitimate".
Sure, we could draw the line at allowing law enforcement to kidnap a suspect's family, but should we? To the contrary, I think we've given our employees in law enforcement entirely too much leeway already.
Unless your business requires software which only runs on Windows, and using cygwin allows you to do a lot of things better on Windows, and lets you do a lot of things cross platform that would be a waste of time to implement two ways.

I'd be more inclined to agree with you if you'd ended that statement with "... designed for Unix, perhaps you should consider whether you should be using Windows in the first place".

There are a lot of people out there that have to use Windows for a variety of reasons, but are glad to be able to do some shell-related things on it in a unix-like shell.
cool.
Soylent actually sounds like what some people on Hackernews told me about called the "velocity diet", a nearly liquid diet that's mainly protein powder.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9191919.
Thanks for the correction. They are different, but the premise of both platforms are virtually the same (private digital transactions)
Depending on what scale their sales are I thinks its just a matter of time until at least some of the currently "visa-free" countries change their policies.

Bureaucracies work slowly. Give them some time ;)
I think this is a mis-read of the market. First, if they can get many/most of their rides to include 2+ passengers, $14/trip is easily supportable without VC subsidies.

Next, if you study Lyft a bit harder you will see that is expending a lot of energy in differentiation and getting good results, especially around driver and rider experience.

Following your airline analogy, Lyft hired Virgin America's creative guy.
"There are many other hosting services like gitlab, what would make gitlab different so that it would deserve a pitch there?"

Which is why I said the blogpost would be fairer to just post the wikipedia comparison link. I never said that gitlab should "deserve" a pitch on the blog. I did say it was fair for GitLab to pitch their services, as the CEO has done here, but that is different from "deserving" a pitch.

It is hard to objectively determine what is the better hosting, but based on people's individual preferences, they can subjectively decide for themselves, which the wikipedia article helps out by clearly explaining the differences. Everyone who uses google code knows about github anyway, but might not be aware that there are other services.

We saw gitorious, an entirely-opensource service, fail due to lack of revenue. And we've seen Google Code, an entirely-proprietary solution, fail. For those concerned about the longevity of their hosting setup, they may want a hosting provider that both has a steady source of income to help guarantee longevity and that is based significantly on opensource software (maybe for reasons of philosophical principle in that opensource development should use opensource infrastructure, or for pragmatic reasons such that they can always fork the hosting service code). GitLab fills this niche nicely, in that the community edition is based on fully open-source code, while the enterprise edition (that the their commercial service gitlab.com is based on) uses proprietary extensions.

"The projects with the most stars on gitlab s gitlab itself with 221 stars right now. Even the smallest nodejs project achieves that popularity on github."

The lack of stars on gitlab projects may simply be due to the first-mover advantage of github, but does not necessarily represent any fundamental deficiencies is the hosting service.
Who are the most respected people in machine learning?
I've been digging around quite a bit for some people to track in the field of Machine Intelligence and thought that it would be good for the community to get involved.

Who are some of the people in machine intelligence that you follow on twitter/read their blog/read their papers?
We use GitLab Mirrors[1] to keep running syncs of our public repos on GitHub mirrored into our self-hosted GitLab server. Works really well and I highly recommend it.

[1]https://github.com/samrocketman/gitlab-mirrors
He's not really a landlord if he's looking for a roommate. I mean, technically he is, obviously, but it's not a traditional landlord - tenant relationship when you're living in the apartment together.

And I'm not sure in what world talking up how much money you make or the vacations you take would endear you to a potential roommate - it'll just make you sound pompous.
If you're at the point where you want to spend more money and get a more powerful machine, the economics are in favor of getting a desktop machine.

Removing a lot of heat in a small form factor is a tough problem, which would mean expensive engineering work.
Do Not Wake the Programmer Up
just in the off case you didn't notice it (cause I didn't): read the follow up tweets, i.e. the whole profile.

https://twitter.com/terryandrob
I recorded it at real-time speed iirc.
No. Because static typing.

However much Go's type system might lack some means of expression, the type system is there, and it prevents many bugs that can easily crop up while using a dynamic language.

I'd rather say 'use OCaml' or 'use F#' or even 'use Haskell'.
What you are describing is extortion not entrapment. Do you know what entrapment is?
Apparently that's pissing people off.
Too bad for those who feel offended. I'll stand by my statement.

Pratchett has had a profoundly positive impact on the world including my life in particular.
I wanted to see him cured and flourishing to a ripe, very old age. If I could have brought about even a moonshot possibility of having that happen eventually I would. But I failed. I was too late. Some others needn't have been.

Shit. I don't know that I've ever been this sad at the death of a public person...
We have a highly distributed system at our company, with multiple library packages, daemons, django apps, etc., as well as configuration files, and several 'media' git repos which are in the 5GB range.

Our solution was to build a simple (well, originally simple) tool to handle cloning out our code. Each of our repos has a .config file in it which defines what it depends on, and we have a simple script which 'installs' packages by git clone and then creates symlinks into the proper places. Because we're not using submodules, we don't have any of the standard submodule issues (e.g. if you do a 'git pull' you have to commit that to the main repository and push or it shows as a change).

The tool also handles scanning through our 'install' directory, determining what packages are installed, doing a 'git pull', post-install/post-update hooks, multi-branch support, show local changes/uncommitted changes, etc.

The other option for you (since our dependency list is fairly flat and uncomplicated, and yours may not be) would be to create a yaml/xml/json file to specify the directory structure and which packages go where, and then have the tool automatically update them appropriately. Alternately, store a .config.yml file in each repo telling what other repos should be cloned where, and let your tool recurse through it.

The nice thing about a tool like that is you can add functionality like e.g. doing a batch-commit (commit all changes in all/specified repositories, with the same commit message, create the same tag name for all of them in all repos, etc), batch-rollback, and so on.

Just a thought.
How does this jibe with the first amendment?
Free private repos is the outstanding item.
You can't make the impact you want working there, you won't make that impact by quitting. Do what's best for you, that's all.
For us it would be the free private repos.
Or 'use Typed Racket'.
I enjoyed reading your story, as for brd below, diregard him. You published your own words and he shouldn't be criticizing and generalizing your journey to date> Thanks for sharing.
... you can always have more money than sense, you know ...
I thought long and hard about this. I would love it if there were tons of kamikaze tactics exploiting the additional half second of firing you have after you died. Maybe people could use this to defeat an otherwise powerful and untenable enemy.

Great!

That would mean groups of people were playing my game and cooperating to overcome huge odds in creative ways. (Players could use alts to do this, but there is already plans for a facility to let players build kamikaze drone ships without making an alt, and rigged to make this more economical.)
Yes, and the projects that people on HN have worked on that have had very finite lifetimes get a very negative reaction on here too, for much the same reason. In fact I regularly see people suggesting that it reflects badly on startups as a whole and that you shouldn't trust them with your data whenever one pulls a stunt like this.
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Sorry, I still don't get it.

How does not charging for outgoing network traffic make computation free? You'd still be paying for everything else, eg the instances themselves, datastore storage, read/write datastore calls, using the logs API, which means mining bitcoins wouldn't be free.
The End of Chemical Synthesis
Core M was a step back on performance but that was deliberate. For better or worse, when Core M was conceived, Intel thought we were going towards tablets and tiny laptops so they focused on that market.

They had horrible teething pains with the 14mm process which meant that Broadwell was late and also expensive (i.e. expensive tablets and tiny laptops) but they'll probably have better next with the release.
I enjoyed reading your story, thanks for sharing. As for brd's comment just disregard it. His generalization just means he's unwilling to get a deeper understanding of where you are coming from. Thanks again.
But... AND is a commutative relation.. :(
Interesting that this is a complaint against the user posting the video, rather than against YouTube.
It's easy to migrate to some other repo, but I'm thinking about the tons of abandonware projects currently hosted there, that will probably disappear.

Every once in a while, googling for a solution, I find something on google code. That looks like it's no longer maintained, but is still useful for me to see how they've done it or copy-paste code (if licensed appropriately).
Actual title is Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age Either
Wasn't the audio codec "Ogg Vorbis" named after Pratchett's work?

Edit: yes it is, at least the Vorbis part. Ogg, despite similarities with Nanny Ogg, isn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis#Name
Have you considered that Google Code hosts amount of code that is related to the research papers and are not actively maintained (many probably since uploading). This wast valuable resource will be gone forever.
I don't know why this was voted down. If ISPs are not allowed to double-bill or drop packets, it's likely that they will increase prices (or not increase speed while keeping prices the same, which amounts to an increase over what it should be).
I knew it ... what a shame. You know what killed that product? BAD basic UI/UX. it was horrible to use an naviguate in,so people moved to something with better UX, better design and better visual. Google puts 0 efforts in these things, at least in the browser. Funny how then Google comes with "material design" , but can't update a few CSS on its old apps...

Github didn't get popular because it was written in Ruby(though it allowed them to iterate fast),it became popular because devs actually put some effort into the UI/UX and it made it easy to use ...

You know what else sucks? google app engine console , google apis console ... look at Heroku console , simple clean and usable, are you going to drop app engine too ?

So what's next after Google reader, and Google code? Google app engine ?
lastpass. although all their apps with the exception of the chrome extension could use more work
Whoaa!!! This is the USA? Fucked up. I don't know such things done by the police in European Union.
I've ridden/driven for both Lyft and Uber in SF and it was crystal clear that more people actually like the Lyft experience. And that both riders & drivers generally choose one or the other and stick to it.
How was topology motivated without talking about generalizations of limits?

(Honest question, no snark.)
In the early days, Uber's slogan was “everyone’s private driver” while Lyft was “your friend with a car.” Uber's marketing was aimed at recreating the experience of a private chauffeur (which in certain older times would have been a member of the servant class), while Lyft's marketing was aimed at recreating the experience of carpooling with a friend.

Obviously neither marketing story was really true, but they did influence the way the customer experience was and is presented.
> What reasons do you have to you believe this statement? I'm curious.

Did you use it? Gitlab has barely any open source projects let alone developers on it. Say as much as you want, but for many open source projects community is a big deal.

Currently there is absolutely no reason to use Gitlab. Neither does it do things better than Github or Bitbucket in any way, nor does it have a larger community. It's "just" another github clone.

> Really? I'm surprised. I started coding a forum platform and I only amassed 3 stars. On my non-furry personas, I've capped out at about 13.

The second biggest project on gitlab has 36 stars: https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/starred

The 9th largest already has less than the 13 stars you mentioned on your personal project.
While beautiful, I need to know - how do you get a 2 year old to sit still to listen to "Guards! Guards!"? (or any book without ridiculous pictures, for that matter)
They aren't actually banning the videos, despite eye catching headlines. They're saying that the videos, if monetized, make the drone flying a commercial activity, which is banned.
Having played a multiplayer mobile game that uses a "everything syncs soon" protocol, and at the same time relies on the main mechanics of the game being timing the moves of characters against your opponents it often can lead to making the game highly unpredictable and jittery with "alternate timeline warps" when it resyncs, having nullified important moves.

Nope. Most designers pick a particular mechanic and try to make that exact mechanic work over the network. If you abandon the particular mechanic and aim on meta-goals, one of which might be no jitters, resyncs, and (visible) alternate timelines, then you can eliminate everything you just mentioned above.
As a doctor, the first thing that popped into my mind when reading this is how transformative this would be in the hospital for both patients and providers.

Hospitals are mazes for patients and there are so many obvious ways to improve the experience. But as a provider, moving from transactions to moments with patients would reinvigorate the practice.

"The goal was to create a system that would essentially replace the time spent fiddling with payments and tickets for moments of personal interactions with visitors. The MagicBands and MyMagicPlus allow employees to “move past transactions, into an interactive space, where they can personalize the experience,”
I suggest http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
If the revenue generated from an act isn't enough to even qualify a passing mention on your tax return, I don't see how it could be considered commercial.

It's like if someone saw me pick up a quarter on the sidewalk and cited me for operating a business without a permit and being improperly zoned.
I need advice. Excuse me for how disorganized this all is, I'm just typing. I'd like you guys to give it to me straight, tell me if I'm being a spoiled brat who needs to grow up, or tell me if I should follow what seems right to me. I've made a throw away because I don't want this tied to my name, and my main account is my full name.

I'm not doing well in college. I just came from a midterm that I almost certainly failed. I've not done well in any of my classes besides a bullshit social science course that anyone can do well in. In my real courses, statistics, calculus, and a theory CS course, I'm failing desperately. I don't go to class anymore.

I can recognize that it's entirely my maturity and work ethic that is the problem here. When I do find myself going to class, I comprehend fully. I don't find it hard to catch up, even. When I leave class, I don't do homework and I don't study.

This is the first time I'm admitting it to myself, but I don't believe I can succeed in this system. I don't know if I'm lying to myself when I say I love learning, or if I'm just much more subpar than I'm willing to recognize.

It's not that I'm an unmotivated individual, it's just that I've always been a self-learner. I hate this whole system of, go to a class for 50 minutes and study a subject, spend an hour later in the day doing some homework in the same subject, and maybe do this every other day. When I learn, I'm much better at spending 10 hours really consuming the material, flying through chapters, and then doing that for 5-6 days in a row. Formal education doesn't cater to me in this regard.

I love to program. The few hours in the day that I'm happy are when I'm reading mailing lists and and working on personal projects. I truly believe that if I was to drop out, I wouldn't waste my time doing anything else. I'd be able to really embrace the style of learning that works best for me.

I think that a few years from now I would find myself more prepared for the real world than most of my friends, although, I think they would similarly find that they have an easier time finding work than I. But that doesn't worry me a ton.

I've watched my father be an EE for his whole life, programming and managing for a boring company that makes controllers. I don't want to enter that ecosystem _at all_. I have watched him hate his life in exchange for a paycheck, and I'd like to opt out from that system entirely. What best fits that? The market for full stack engineers / web developers / app developers. And alternatively, the start up scene.

I wonder if the reason I'm involved with coding at all is because it caters so much to my preferred style of learning. Maybe that's why I latched onto it so hard in late middle school.

Anyway, thanks for reading. Let me know what you guys think I should do, or if there are any questions you think I should pose to myself to really figure this out.
Michael I. Jordan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Jordan
I hope he remembered to shoot the missionaries.
shouldn't be: Why Go? (Use (Racket))
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Your successes are yours. Don't let anyone get under your skin about them. There are good reasons to be grateful for any good fortune that has come your way (e.g., parents that helped you get through college, scholarships, connections or "ins" that helped you get a job), but those things say nothing about your continued success at your career.

As for tactics... It might seem like a monumental task and it doesn't directly address how to handle yourself amongst your existing friends, but how about trying to seek out new friends alongside the ones that you already have? Maybe look at local Meetup groups for people that share your interests (programming? sports?). What about your coworkers? Any chance for socialization outside the confines of the office? Perhaps you'll find people that have achieved similar sorts of successes as yours, such that you won't feel like an outlier. I wouldn't suggest building a complete "bubble filter" around you from the gripes of your friends, but taking their criticisms to heart without seeing what else is out there is also not a great idea.

Alternatively, can you open up to your friends about your lack of relationship experience? Can they help you get acquainted with anyone that might be a potential match for you? Relationships are definitely a "try, and try again, and try again" sort of endeavor, so there's little reason to despair no matter how old and inexperienced you feel.

Good luck... from one internet stranger to another, you're doing great.
I am not sure it's first mentioned there, but Nanny definitely sings it in wyrd sisters[0].

[0] https://books.google.it/books?id=t4Djt1RPNiYC&printsec=front...
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Trading is cheaper than it ever has been. What's the problem exactly?
"It was a kind of souped-up SourceForge, rather than a serious GitHub competitor."

You have no idea how much better the user experience of Google Code was compared to SourceForge. Especially from the project maintainer side.

I have no idea if SF still does this, but not too many years ago to upload your files you had to upload them using SSH into a folder shared between all projects, then select your download file out of those when creating the download link.
On the original Silk Road you could find UK passports, allegedly generated from within the UK govt, for around US$6,000. Seller claimed they worked in voting, being scanned, moving to the UK etc.
Shouldn't you get in trouble for taking footage shot by someone else without permission?

Assuming you mean you bought the shot footage, then the drone operator is responsible for getting the right clearance to commercially film with a drone and _you_ would probably be rightfully angry that the footage you bought was not "licensed" properly.
> Effective for your own people

That's why nation states exist.

> For example. Let's take WWII for example

And your evidence that Switzerland would have helped prevent any of that?

While we're throwing unbacked statements around, had the US tried some "isolationism" in WW1, WW2 never would have happened! The Germans wouldn't have been forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles and the conditions that led to the rise of the Nazis wouldn't have existed.
I see you're downvoted, but you're right. The lack of quotes around Death's words was characteristic. Death didn't "speak", his words just existed, imperial, in the narrative :)
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