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This feels good.

Microsoft has released a new version of windows and it's nothing really special. Just another vendor releasing a product. A bigger vendor and product than most, but at this point, just another vendor. Quite some market share on desktops, less on laptops (http://i44.tinypic.com/313isup.jpg), some on servers, some on officeware. But not all-powerful any more.
watt per second makes little sense in this context

watt != energy
Oh look, it's hackernews! Business graduates discussing at length their irrelevant ideals that no actual developer gives a holy fuck about.

I am removing everything I put on github, right now, and it's a lot. Don't like what their doing? Fuck them, they are popular because we shoved our code into it.

The best part of this all is, I am willing to bet I know what Linus's (the creator of git for all you retards) opinion of this whole thing is.

Fuck you github. fuck you.
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For those defending Github by pointing out that threatening to shut down this repository was not an act of Congress, and therefore not illegal: you would need many km/s of delta-V to miss the point any more than you already have. Your argument sucks.
Yup, C2C (Copy to China) allways work :)
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Sounds like a small company making a niche product.

What were you able to do to improve the situation?

Which issue did you tackle first (documentation of processes backwards or source control forwards)?
How not having a query optimizer makes queries more predictable? It makes them slower for sure, but not more predictable.

Indeed, I find NoSQL very unpredictable. When your query hits and index, the query goes well. When not, you usually end up doing a whole database scan. Plus you usually cannot use more than one index for a given query, and some NoSQL require an index just for ordering....
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So this article just detailed for north korea government how people are smuggling. Which means people are going to be found and killed.

How is this a good idea? This is people's very lives.

If even one person is executed over this, do the journalists just shrug and go browse amazon some more or wander around the mall?

If you want to expose North Korea, expose the government, not the people desperately trying to survive.

I love how we are freaking out about Iran, meanwhile North Korea makes Iran look like disneyland and actually HAS nuclear weapons AND missiles they can be attached to. The deep hypocrisy with only caring about Israel is thick and deadly.
Gah, booleans use so little space do you really need that added complexity?
> sometimes see that their front page has outdated PHP, as in 5.3 old. EOL for 11 months. That really bothers me. How can I rely on their security when their frontpage isn’t even up-to-date.

Errr... are you determining that the software is vulnerable through the version number alone? That won't work, some vendors backport security patches.
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There are 53 other repos containing the word retard..

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=retard

It seems to me they are just singling out a single commit to be a problem, probably because of someone oversensitive complaining about this single commit, not knowing that github is full of what could be considered offensive to some. I am personally very happy we solved all world problems and now can focus on wording in commits.
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There's BitBucket, with even far better free plans.
>>As a complete industry outsider it doesn't seem ridiculous to think that SRAM could do to DRAM what SSDs did to HDD

SRAM needs 6 transistors per bit, DRAM 1transisitor+1capacitior. SRAM just doesn't scale and it's very expensive.
How come whenever I find something, it's always in the last place I look?
>The actual nightmare scenario is that people with learning disability are killed by doctors because those doctors think "retards have no quality of life".
Are you...are you talking about abortion for disabled fetuses? Because that's not the doctor's choice, that's the parent's.
>When people toss around the word retard they contribute to a culture that doesn't care about the high levels of violent hate crime experienced by people with a learning disability.
Citation desperately needed.
When you are trying different solutions you are trying them in a specific order based on your intuition of which solution has more probability to solve the issue. If your last solution worked that means the analysis by which you decided the probabilities of the possible solution was completely incorrect. When that happens you should not just move on rather you should think about why this was the case, what were those heuristics that you used to figure out most probable solution and how they were wrong. This introspection will allow you to evolve your heuristics over time and will give you better idea about which solutions are more probable to solve the issue.
If you don't have a formal functional specification that adequately characterizes the program's behavior, then Dijkstra's approach is useless.
If you do have a formal functional specification that adequately characterizes the program's behavior, then you have already have source code, and Dijkstra's approach is irrelevant.
I don't have anything to do with rsync.net, but having looked at both AWS and them:

How cheap Amazon is heavily depends on your retrieval needs. Glacier is basically for gigantic data vaults where you will never need to retrieve more than a small fraction of it. It's very cheap for that, but has retrieval fees if you need to retrieve >5% of your data at any given time, and they can be very high if you need to retrieve a significant amount of the data quickly (also, there's a 4-hour minimum retrieval latency, so you wouldn't want any possibly-needed-for-operations backups there). S3 allows your storage to be "online" full-time, but adds a $0.09/GB bandwidth charge for outgoing data, in addition to the $0.03/GB storage fee, so overall price depends heavily on what you're pulling out of it.

The $0.06/GB promotional offer in this rsync.net post actually seems surprisingly cheap, for always-online storage with no additional bandwidth fees. Even their normal prices seem pretty fair to me, for something that comes with full phone/email support, provides a regular POSIX filesystem with SSH access instead of a weird custom API, etc. If I were warehousing petabytes of never-to-be-needed data, the price difference over Glacier would be hard to ignore. But for a lot of needs it seems quite competitive to S3.
Aaron Swartz's last interview is really apropos. [1] He discusses how speech has changed and why we should be concerned over private companies' suppressive actions now rather than just governments.

Also, those arguing that governmental assertions of free speech rights only apply to government actions are not familiar with the relevant case law in the US. [2]

Similarly, those claiming that censorship can only be done by state actors are using an incredibly idiosyncratic definition that basically anyone other than a hardcore libertarian would disagree with. [3][4][5] Say it is the 1980s and a college newspaper prints something that upsets someone. They then steal and destroy all copies of that issue once they are printed. How is this action by a non-state actor different enough to be put in another category?

Scott Alexander also has a good read on these issues. [6]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2013/04/aaron-swartz-interview/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

[4] https://www.aclu.org/what-censorship

[5] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Censorship

[6] http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
> This isn't censorship of the type that is illegal or not allowed.

This is a weirdly common kind of thing for people to say. I don't understand what the point is supposed to be. It's still a bad thing. We have prohibitions on the government doing this because it's bad. We don't have prohibitions on people censoring third parties in their own homes, because that would be worse. This is still bad for all the same reasons it would be bad if the government were doing it. We're not criticizing github for doing something illegal. We're criticizing it for doing something wrong.
So what am I looking at here?
Censorship does not require an act of Congress. Private entities are perfectly capable of censorship. How else could the term "self-censorship" have any semantic value?
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> He’s invented many peculiar algorithms—for counting stairs while you climb without actually counting, and for how best to read through a stack of double-sided loose-leaf pages.

Any ideas about how this is done?
You are paraphrasing the third line of the article.
So by naming itself as a "hub of gits", github has preemptively insulted all of us. Outrage!
This is a small project I've been working on the last couple weeks. It's finally at a point where I think it's OK to share with other people.

If you have any questions or feedback, let me know! :)
That is true, there are many manufacturers that keep up to date and add their own patches. Though for a frontpage, I don't think that is true. It is much easier to update your software, than going through all patches, keeping up to date. So for clients I believe you can maintain 5.3, but for just your own frontpage? I doubt it...

Also I would believe that having PHP 5.3 is an unique selling point, so they would advert that unique selling point on their website. (What wasn't done)
The Interpol Purple Notice explains that the ship was previously sailing under the Mongolian flag. Isn't Mongolia a landlocked country? Does it have any navigable routes to the oceans? Where are Mongolia's ports?
Github has seriously harmed their reputation for me. Who is to define what's offensive? I'm reminded of someone who found the method "Hijack" offensive in the HTTP golang package, and the amount of animosity this created:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/hijac...
"Free speech exists as a protection from government censorship"

So what happens when the line between government and
corporation is blurred? The common justification why that
corporations aren't beholden to free speech is that you can
just choose another corporation to spend your time/money on.

What if you can't choose? What if it's prohibitively
expensive to just setup an alternative (perhaps due to
regulatory capture)?

What if there's no competition because corporations have
subtly merged with government?

Maybe it's simply just not right anymore to assume that if
it's a private organisation that they're exempt from
societal/governmental principals.
But what if you get a percentage anytime somebody clicks on the ad from your tweet? Acceptable?
IMO, its a good idea of blending Fitness Tracking & GYM training app.
I didn't understand your point : The app could be free-downloaded but the GYM must be give credentials to the GYM customers. The GYM could be access to users data and records, goals tracking and schedules goals and classes.
Can you please explain it.

Also, If you have a sample of your app then i would like to try it.
A version that has been end-of-lifed and is superseded by three minor releases is a pretty strong indication. The amount of work involved in backporting patches is likely to be significantly more than migrating to a supported version which receives timely patches.
What privately-owned properties do you know of where the owner allows guests or customers to speak as freely as if they were on the sidewalk, without fear of recrimination from the owner in the form of censorship or ejection? I can think of 4chan, maybe some IRC channels.
You can make your project distinctive by yelling "NIGGERS NIGGERS NIGGERS" or by actually being creative, innovative, interesting, useful, etc.

Not yelling "NIGGERS NIGGERS NIGGERS" doesn't mean your project turns into homogenous gray sludge, indistinguishable from all the other projects. If anything the projects that fling slurs are less distinctive - they're all so stupid that they limit themselves to English slurs so they end up with a very limited set of insulting terms. If they want to be hrave they could see all the stuff that's illegal in various countries and include those concepts. They should start insulting the ruling family of Kuwait, for example.
> which would explain the need to swim at maximum physical exertion for an extended period of time

Huh? Why are people writing this? You don't swim against a rip current.
When I'm tired and/or lazy I seem to lack a ability to accept the truth. I seek for easy solution instead of actually doing what I already know I supposed to do. Luckily nowadays I am able to recognize this and call it a day.
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Mill also said that the Harm principal trumps freedom of speech (i.e. individuals should be prevented from causing harm to others and/or property at the cost of their liberty).

He also says that the offense principal should not trump freedom of speech, but acknowledges that there are cases of offense that cause psychological and social harm that still qualify for the harm principal.

Was the repo code change harmful? Maybe, depending on the definition of property. Mill saw freedom of speech as a path to the truth, and he also understood that principals and rules change over time. I think he might be in favor of Github censoring their repo since it was their property and not a crucial debate towards finding the truth.
They're simply not built for it. Most streaming music services are built for people that want to listen to deadmau5, g-funk or top 40 while they put on their party dresses and pre-drink. A lot of us also use them to stream random tracks while we work: stuff with no lyrics, etc.

But a bespoke solution for streaming classical music should ideally have metadata fields for all those things: conductor, soloists, orchestra, recording venue, date, etc. etc.

I'd be willing to bet that internally most of those services are using nothing more sophisticated than the id3 tags I remember mucking with in winamp back when Napster was still a thing.
> If I have less than 50 (maybe even 100) EC2 instances for my applications there is no way in hell I am going to run 3 service discovery instances, a few container scheduler instances and so on and so forth.

You could go "old school" and have some (virtual) servers do more than one thing :)
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Let's hope Windows 10 is a big hit with PC users. Consumers trade in those old XP boxes and hundreds of millions take the free upgrade. Then maybe within 24 months lots of old IE's will fade away.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

Edge appears to be a much better browser:
https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
Reminder that Microsoft installed adware on Windows 7/8 machines to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 10. Even if you hid the update from Windows Update, they un-hid it and reinstalled at least once that I know of.

Don't reward this behavior by buying Windows 10. Or at least delay the purchase as long as possible.
Thanks. I applied and agree with what you said except that I think YC adds a ton of value: advice, experience, great connections, the reputational association with YC etc.... That's what differentiates YC from just getting any investment from any investor. It is not that EVERY YC company is worth the same thing (yet they all get $10k for 7%).... it is that YC says, we add value in many ways and this is our price for it...
I don't know anything about your old profession but I know that every adventure bath place I've been to in Sweden with a wave maker have always asked everyone to take all toys out of the water before the wave maker starts.
>Slippery slope

Github isn't even remotely "blurred" with a government organization. This is some pretty out-there FUD.
You should vote for politicians, because that will definitely help. Democracy and all.
Any news on how to get a free 'reserved' copy? The Verge seems to suggest that you just have to wait, and it might take weeks, since Microsoft wants to do a gradual rollout...
Github asks users to obey local law. Some local law is set by oppressive regimes and is thus unacceptable to decent people.

What should Github do? Ignore rule of law? Not offer service in countries with oppressive regimes? Provide tools to avoid censorship?
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anyone knows when Windows 10 will be released for mobiles?
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I've found that Twitter's business model has and is straying from what originally drew a lot of users in. I started using Twitter because it was a great source for real-time updates from people I admire. I think it lost its mojo when it became more of a social network where people stupidly try to have conversations in 140 characters. That drew in the trolls.

One thing I've always found odd is that the companies who provide me with a valuable service, like Twitter, refuse to charge me money even though I would definitely pay. I pay for magazine, newspaper, Netflix, Google Play, and Amazon Prime subscriptions. I would more than gladly pay for a Twitter subscription. Instead of trying to appeal to everyone, appeal to people who are willing to fork over some cash for what you have to offer.
This thread, and almost any thread about social issues in technology, demonstrates that it has both nice and awful people hanging out on it.
I think it (should) work both ways. By having it exposed (which I believe the NK govt know already), probably some sympathetic people smarter than me could come up with a better solution.
The same is true for the converse, as in both cases you get to be your own query planner and add client<->server latency on every join.
The problem is that gitflub here has gone full on retard over the usage of the word retard. Still, good to see the S J W s ruin this as well!
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Note that the upgrade will remove your Windows built-in DVD player. The right to play DVDs must be paid for every computer. You paid it when you bought the Windows 7 or 8 that you'll maybe upgrade to 10. Now the upgrade to Windows 10 takes that feature away from you.

They apparently (the twitter message isn't actually the company statement) plan to return it "sometime in the future" and "if it might be free or if it will cost" is TBA:

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-will-include-option...

The Media Player capabilities, if you have them in your Windows edition, will be for ever deleted. Just so.

Moreover, note that the upgrade can reduce the functionality of your notebook: Microsoft made the deal with the hardware producers about integrating hidden partitions to allow the recovery from the hard disk, but the upgrade process will just make sure that the Windows runs, not that your recovery from the hard disk functionality, managed by each hardware vendor independently (based on the recommendations from Microsoft) would be preserved.

I don't use the recovery mechanism, but I do use backup. When the recovery partitions aren't right, the built in backup (which was kept from Windows 7) doesn't work on Windows 8.1.

The same story happened with the transition from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 (I have such a notebook).

Anybody knows if the "Windows 7" style full disk backup survived in Windows 10?
The update only froze once for me (had to hard reset). No side effects from that. This was the smoothest windows update process I've ever had.

Had some trouble with Asus touchpad drivers, but after fixing that, everything is running well and nothing was lost. All previously installed software seems to be running fine.
They already know. When they catch people, they have ways to make people tell them anything.
> Also, those arguing that governmental assertions of free speech rights only apply to government actions are not familiar with the relevant case law in the US.

Note that that ruling does not establish that the first amendment provides the protection of free speech from a private company. It ruled that the California constitution did so, and was in fact allowed to expand upon the rights provided by the US constitution.
If your windows copy is not genuine, can you still get a free upgrade?
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There are competitive services available, you know. You could host yourself with Gitweb, Gitlab or if that's not your cup of tea, then simply switch to Bitbucket - they're even allowing private repos for free! Vote with your legs.
How can a government have jurisdiction over this?
It's their system. If they decide to only give you an account on their system if you've verified your name (i.e. through driver's license) then why can you demand otherwise? They can just refuse you service, can't they?
I would die for a simple web server that was more or less like mod_dirlist, but that took markdown (or whatever format) and generated a simple gopher-like navigation structure (basically just the folder hierarchy) with some extra stuff for things like info for each directory and stuff.

Start it, point it to a directory, just upload markdown files and you are up and running. A few simple rules to follow (like the file _info containing a short directory description, some files not being shown on the directory list). Just for getting shit online.

Something like that "motherfuckingwebsite" that gets passed around, but with a simple navigation.
Without knowing the OS and patch version number, whether or not a company uses PHP 5.3 is completely irrelevant to how secure they are.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ships with PHP 5.3.10, and has been backporting security fixes since the PHP project EOL'd it. This will continue until April 2017.

RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 both support PHP 5.3.3, and will continue to do so for the remainder of their impressively long support cycle, until November 2020.

There's been a lot of FUD about outdated PHP versions going around in some circles, and I'm frankly very annoyed by it. Free and open-source software aren't like Windows XP. The original developer(s) announced EOL, so what? I'm under no obligation to get my PHP interpreter from the original developer(s), I get it from Red Hat and/or Canonical.

The whole point of having a stable Linux distribution is so that you can stop worrying about upstream EOL issues. Heck, RHEL/CentOS have even been backporting security fixes for PHP 5.1.6, not that any sane person would want to use that dinosaur of a version.

Some of the hosts on that list, however, are indeed using dangerously outdated PHP versions. Feel free to name and shame them.
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