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Since every project is isolated, how do you handle operations that require data from multiple projects, such as the activity feed or merge requests? I'm also curious, how extensively do you need to modify GitLab for Sandstorm? Is that
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Emissions Test-Driven Development(qntm.org)
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To give a Reconstructionist answer: people adhere to these restrictions because they find them meaningful. It may be one or more of * to feel a connection to one's ancestors * to be connected with one's community (people bond over
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They were explicitly removed: https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaG... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3912149
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It's long bothered me that SQL doesn't have a way of saying "join these two tables based on the key relationships I've already defined in my schema". (Or maybe some variants do?) The database already knows that gues
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Anecdote: I find raw cacao nibs to be delicious.
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I've written a similar tool underscore-cli and jq called jowl. It's designed to be easier to learn (for JavaScript developers) than underscore-cli or jq. The README includes a comparison. It's still early in its development,
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My understanding is that when you install iOS on an iPhone, an Apple server signs the OS as part of a challenge-response protocol. The challenge includes a unique device ID, and I believe the signed iOS is only installable on a device with
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It's hard to find this information on Apple's website. According to https://theintercept.com/2014/09/22/apple-data/ > Apple encrypts your iCloud data in storage, but they encrypt it with the
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My understanding is that the ruling hinges on the physical attachment of the GPS tracker to a person's effect (their car) being a violation of the fourth amendment. The first two pages have a concise summary. I don't see how that
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I disagree that email is a great record. It only exists in the inboxes of people who received it at the time. Over time, they leave the company or switch roles, and new people no longer have access. You want forums, or newsgroups, or wikis,
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The page deals with Lotus Notes as an email system, which is the only thing many places used it for. The email client was awful, but it was one part of a larger application platform that offered a client-server replicated database, a user i
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This is opt-in. I think more people would be OK with an ISP doing it if it were also opt-in.
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> if you want news, netflix, youtube, etc.. on your TV, then there are many alternatives that are better and more powerful. Say buying a $200 desktop with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Lots of users want simplicity on their TVs, not pow
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http://www.apple.com/ios/preview , search the page for Night Shift. Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882261
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Mike Tigas, the ProPublica developer who worked on the hidden service, is also the author of OnionBrowser, an iOS Tor browser. https://mike.tig.as/onionbrowser/
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> YouTube has to use the User Agent to try to serve videos that the client can actually play. Why? We have JavaScript feature detection for video tags: http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/detect.html#video-formats
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> There's no GitHub issues MOTD If you put a CONTRIBUTING or CONTRIBUTING.md file in the root of your repo, a link to it will appear on the top of the page when people create issues or pull requests. https://github.com&#x
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The compromise of the master key for TSA locks is a great example to give people, because everyone is familiar with locks. It demonstrates that all it takes is one person with access to the back door to screw up a little, and then everyone
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If you want a remote unix toolchain in a browser, http://c9.io is a cloud IDE with a browser interface that includes shell access. It's a full Ubuntu environment running in a Docker container on their servers. Their free ti
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> Charging for network management traffic initiated by Comcast? That's a paddlin'. > Charging for MAC headers solely for Comcast's network equipment? That's a paddlin'. I would love to see them set up a cable
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There's an important difference between creating a table in your HTML for layout, and using CSS to tell the browser to use its table layout algorithm on a particular element to center it. Yes, it's still inelegant and nonobvious,
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It's non-copyable because it's added with CSS and not an element on the page. It's done this way because CSS is the only way for a subreddit's moderators to add a message like this. (Reddit allows moderators to customize
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Wesabe was a competitor to Mint that did tons of scraping, including having a browser extension that did the scraping client side. They've open sourced much of their code. Take a look at https://github.com/wesabe/s
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GUIs, graphics, video, GPU rendering: Finance professionals have a huge interest in visualizations and interfaces that let them understand and manipulate large quantities of data easily. Some of that data has (at least) near-real-time const
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Magic made a huge splash on HN when it debuted, not sure about its current popularity. https://getmagicnow.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819
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Hulu does offer an ad free option now: http://www.hulu.com/nocommercials
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That sounds like what they might be doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10341384
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Do we actually know whether any of the Five Eyes nations are any better than the US in this regard?
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From MathBox2 Part 2: http://acko.net/blog/mathbox2-pt2/

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