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- Issues that span multiple projects

- Searching all issues for an organization

- Voting on issues (not just :+1:)

- Public issues for private repos

- Attaching files (repros, necessary files, etc.)

- Dependencies/links

- Priority (you can label priority but not sort by it)

- Metrics of any kind

It's actually very surprising how little visible improvement GitHub has had in the past few years.

What are they working on?

This is a really cool product. I am surprised at both the quality of translation and the seamless integration into the page. I am definitely going to be using this.

Great job!

About midway through the article, the author mentions the titular film.

Many modern blood pressure medicines have almost no side effects for the gross majority of those taking them. I had a very similar experience to the person you're replying to.

I am active, eat healthy, and have tried to go off of my high blood pressure meds more than once, but each time, my blood pressure creeps back up. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. Don't be scared of medicine when it's the right option.

Could you expand on why it's so much better than HipChat? I haven't used Slack yet, but I'm interested in trying it out. It sounds like it's the same thing as HipChat.

I am skeptical of the quality claims without evidence. Previous third-party studies on VP8 and VP9 have said that both H.264 and HEVC (formerly H.265) outperform VP9 on video quality and encoding speed[1].

[1]: http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X26...

My favorite query builder for SQL is jOOQ, works on the JVM. It has a great, fluent syntax and lets you get real objects back while writing what is essentially SQL.

http://www.jooq.org/

Do you have any suggestions for a more robust method for anomaly detection in seasonal time series data?

The source interview is much more interesting than this blog's summary: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/11/nicholas-carr-glass-ca...

My thing with piping curl to a shell was always that a severed connection will run a partial script, which can have weird consequences. I wrote about it awhile back:

http://blog.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html

This is not true. My work, written three years ago, showed that VP8 was inferior to H.264[1] at the time. A more recent paper showed that both VP8 and VP9 are inferior to both H.264 and HEVC[2].

[1]: http://blog.seancassidy.me/h264-and-vp8-compared.html

[2]: http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X26...

There are systemic and cultural biases against women in math and in technical fields. Women are driven out of these fields by people in them.

If you had a magic wand, women wouldn't be driven out, so there would be more women in professions that have biases against women.

Beej's Guide to Network Programming is still the best.

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

An Erlang system has been created which has nine nines of uptime[1]. That is a stunning achievement.

Riak, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, and SimpleDB are written in Erlang. These are mission critical, mature projects.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8426897/erlangs-99-999999...

I agree. Who hasn't wanted to win big to show someone that you were as great as you thought you were? To finally have a big success to brag about. To finally be someone.

Parallel construction.

Lets not pretend that every keystroke you type into the Omnibar being sent to Google is the same as using Fastmail. They're extremely different from a privacy perspective.

I too loved the No Exit (the play) reference this article made. Entrepreneurship as being stuck in hell.

If you want an actual introduction to Information Theory, I'd recommend "An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise".

It deals with complicated information theory topics similar to Kolmogorov Complexity (albeit by a different name) in an easy-to-approach way. Highly recommended.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/An-Introduction-Information-Theory-Mat...

They still haven't done the most critical thing: add tests. This is for two reasons: the code has no tests now, and when you refactor, tests are important to make sure you're not subtly introducing errors.

I actually find Python's syntax to be extremely clear, even to someone who hasn't written much Python. Can you give some examples of where it's particularly incomprehensible?

Internet infrastructure actually does require a somewhat large number of people and it is quite fragile.

I never would have though a fiber cut (which seems to happen almost weekly) would have such a large impact, but it does. I figured BGP would reroute around that and to some extent it does, but there's still a lot of manual route handling.

Okay, about blogs without comments:

My blog doesn't have a comment section. It's because I sometimes post controversial opinions and I don't want the garbage that often pollutes comment sections ending up permanently attached to my writing. You can't delete overly negative comments without seeming like a fascist, so what do you do?

I prefer to submit my posts to HN or other sites where people can comment and not have their comments permanently attached.

As for Jeff Atwood's comparison of a blog without comments to a pulpit, that's ridiculous. Does he also hate books and essays? My blog is simply a collection of essays.

I also thought of local maxima and hill climbing algorithms.

How do you encourage finding a global maxima within your company?

It's probably because thirds rhymes with bird.

Yeah, quite successfully actually.

http://blog.gosquadron.com/use-tls

About #3, have you considered hosting a git repo with your (presumably LaTeX) source so that others can contribute?

Cool stuff, man.

Where do you think your book stands in relation to other books like Cryptography Engineering? Should people new to crypto read your book before or after CE, or instead of?

At the moment it only does apt, but yum, pacman and others are coming soon.