skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually surprised that there was only as much negative sentiment as there is. Microsoft could cure cancer and the post to HN would be mostly negative. It's tribal. It doesn't even matter what they do at this point.

That being said, you can see more and more people getting off the "Microsoft is evil" train. It's super slow and every bone headed thing that Microsoft does resets the needle for lots of people.

I've always been surprised how much sympathy a company like IBM or Intel gets on HN. They both sue people over patents. That both contribute to non-free software. They were early backers of Linux, though, and that is what people care about superficially.
"live" usually means it runs entirely in memory.
If he's physically present and doesn't have his hands over his ears, he's at least hearing what they have to say. And these people are masters at finding ways to influence others based on others interests.
> Most runtimes aren't making syscalls directly. They go through glibc, musl, etc. So the're going through C to get to the Unices. In otherwords, they don't have Unices: they have C.

Good point, that!
> the rest of the world is pretty much Github & alternatives

By "the world" you mean, the HN/SV/startup crowd of cool-kids who feel the need to use whatever is popular without regard for how appropriate it is?
There are extensions that will eradicate the feed for you.
>the company started out supplying a Fortran compiler for the Altair 8800

I would suppose maybe at some point they did (not sure on this) but it's long been my understanding that BASIC was their start.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft: Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800: The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a de facto standard in the form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC.
So what you're saying is, you want to hire people based on their gender and race rather than their skill set and experience.
It's madness. And only works because the train is already rolling and most people are blind of what FB is doing behind the curtains.

Twitter is actually OK in my opinion as it is obviously a more PR like channel by design. (Also Instagram for showcasing new products etc.)

I think that FB sites are a poor substitute for well designed unique websites with depth and relevant information.

The question is how to get viewers or subscribers. But since FB started out as a "personal/friends" service I think that ads and PR will soon be perceived as spam. When people start waking up that is.
You can get around frequent changes by having a cache busting version number. eg

<script src="http://example.com/css/all.css?v=1">

then your next update will be

<script src="http://example.com/css/all.css?v=2">

The obvious issue is you then cannot cache the base HTML file. But that's something you'd never want to cache for long periods anyway.
Yes. Vault is awesome and we're planning to use Vault ourselves.

However Vault is mostly meant for machines to read the secrets and gopass is designed for humans.
I incorporated in German as well and while I studied all of the procedure and book keeping in school, it was still extremely scary and I would never ever do it again without an accountant.

I want to emphasize on the "less than 2000 Euro" part. There is a good amount of people who literally start with 1 euro, pay the notary and have to file bankruptcy because the 1 euro can't cover the notary fee.

Bank accounts are tricky as well. Only some banks allow accounts for companies and they usually cost a lot more than normal ones. Internet banks recently changed that so definitely go with something like Fidor. (Again, careful that the bank account fee doesn't get your company bankrupt)

Then papers papers and papers. Don't attempt to file the entire stuff by yourself unless you are 100% sure you know what you're doing. Even tax exemptions for smaller businesses you have to explicitly pick on the first documents otherwise you will be treated as a normal company. I forgot to file some and almost got fined thousands of euros.

Then be aware of scammers. The register is public so a lot of companies just send mass scary letters to everyone that look like they come from the government. Once you sign one (which naive me did) you have to get a lawyer. You will almost always win against them but still need to pay the lawyer.

Lastly if you completely screw up, you can apply for "deletion" of your company if you have no money debt to any entity and your company is officially without money (a balance around 0 euro, but not under since this means you have to file for bankruptcy). This skips the long and tedious liquidation process and gets rid of the company immediately once the court confirms it.
I researched this some after Trump's executive order, and it is interesting because most people know about the Japanese internment because it was the largest, but we also interned Italians and Germans. These three groups were also prohibited from buying certain items that could potentially be used in sabotage.
I don't think these WWII-era actions are being brought up to justify anything. It's pretty widely agreed that Japanese internment was really bad, for example, and I think other stuff from that time tends to be seen is the same light.

I have seen a lot of cries of hypocrisy, involving Obama's Iraq action you mention, and other things like drone strikes. It's a bit silly, since Obama did get a lot of criticism for this stuff, so the only argument for hypocrisy is that he should have had more. It's not something where a group was totally for X in one case, and totally against it in another case.

Anyway, if someone thinks this stuff is good, they should be able to make the case for it directly. They especially shouldn't be leaning on Obama's actions to justify it when their candidate's platform largely boiled down to "I am the opposite of Obama."
Offshoot topic. How can I find the windiest places in the us?

I'm looking to move somewhere warmer and I was thinking a strong consistent wind would mitigate the hot summers.
> By the 1920s, pseudo-scientists and polemicists in the 1920s popularized the notion that Italians were a separate race from Anglo-Americans.

These scientists were 'pseudo' only in retrospect. It literally took a world war to knock eugenicists out of the mainstream.

As we pat ourselves on the back today for being so rational and enlightened, we would do well to remember episodes like that and restore some sense of humility. The progressives of that era considered themselves no less enlightened and rational than we do ourselves.
Wait a minute...

This site links to an article at another site, which also contains an article claiming "Moon Astronaut Admits on Deathbed : ‘Obama Could Be Alien’"

Something smells fishy here...
> United States is leading a bombing campaign that has recently killed over 50,000 people in Syria and Iraq

Isn't it a bit disingenuous to omit the fact that both Iraq and Syria have areas experiencing active warfare? The bombing campaign is not occurring in a vacuum, is targeted at people engaged in warfare against us or our allies, and those conflicts have killed far more people than just the bombing campaign - including via the use of chemical weapons.

I'm not trying to justify civilian casualties, the ongoing drone attacks on multiple continents, or even answer whether we should be involved in these conflicts - I just think the situation is more nuanced than "the US has bombed/killed 50,000 people in Syria and Iraq".
Setting aside the pressing question of measurement and bias, it's not at all clear to me that it is just to apportion power according to ability and talent.

Consider Rawl's original position argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position -- sure, if you perceive yourself to be (or actually are) of high merit, a meritocracy sounds great. But defining a just society requires one to consider the possibility that one could be in the position of being incapable of meeting the demands that a meritocracy requires of its participants in order to flourish.
You can see the available locales in the setting panel.
Apple Plans $10B Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile
I also recently found ParrotSec OS I was using it as my main OS for about a month or two. I mostly used it because it is a Debian fork and it featured the latest of any programming language I wanted, which is great for me. I stopped using it because it felt cluttered for me to have so many different pentesting type of tools. It had built in support for connecting you to Tor and forcing all connections to go through Tor out of the box. A lot of things I don't need but others might find interesting. I may return to it now that they're building a flavor for developers. It comes with a few text editors out of the box including Atom. I wish Whonix would compare ParrotSec too. :)

Edit:

Link to ParrotSec OS website.
https://www.parrotsec.org/
If you want to read about horrible but entertaining C hacks, check out the entries in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, the book that came out of the contests a few years back, or books like Deep C Secrets.

http://www.ioccc.org/

As an developer who has written a lot of shipping code in C and C++ for almost 30 years, I would strongly advise you to write your switch statements in as straightforward a way as possible. If you use fall through, place very noticeable /* FALL THROUGH */ comments to indicate that you meant to do that. If you wind up doing some kind of oddball thing because you _have confirmed_ that it results in significantly better optimization for a specific hardware target and compiler, comment the crap out of that, maybe make it conditional with an #if block, and (what I prefer to do is) write the simple version too, test both versions, and keep the simple version as a comment, so a future maintainer can verify that the complicated code is doing what you intended.
My great-uncle was one of them. A second-generation immigrant, his father forbade any utterance of Italian in his household. But my great-uncle - born American - nontheless dealt with discrimination, and so he went a step further and changed his Italian name to Bill Morgan.

Bill loved his country so much that when he failed the physical for the OSS - already an army captain - by being legally blind in one eye, he lied and cheated his way into a formal position helping the British train resistance fighters in Europe. He was just as conniving when he convinced his superiors to give him a mission to parachute behind enemy lines and lead a unit of French resistance fighters.

He made a career with the CIA. Even in the letter he gave me when I was born (he died before I met him), he described in great detail need to be fit in mind and body to serve your country.

He's buried in Arlington. So much for a threat to homeland security.

If anyone is interested, he documented his experiences of WWII in an exciting book, "The OSS and I." It's hard not to enjoy a book with a chapter titled: "How to blow up a bridge."

https://www.amazon.com/S-S-I-WILLIAM-J-MORGAN/dp/B0086N639A
Not MS Azure, but AWS - alot of their more advanced APIs seem to rack up bills quite quickly.

Their prediction API is $0.0001 per hit. So if you get r requests per second cost per hour is r0.000160^2.
Cost to rent an EC2 server is x per hour.

So if x<r(0.0001)(60^2) it's cheaper to rent. Say you need an r3.large that's x=$0.166. So it's cheaper if you get more than 0.46 requests per second, which sounds like quite a light load.
A few years ago your best friend would have been https://www.codeproject.com . The issue of searching difficult questions using another keyword (e.g. ActiveX) is that you can miss the only answer available. For common questions (with answers!) you can find an answer with all the variations.
Consumer Alert: ID Theft Up 16% YoY
Maybe it's just me, but this would look infinitely more readable to me if I could tell where each callback starts and where it ends, i.e. in plain JavaScript.
But you're on HN, a social media site; worse, you're boasting about how you don't use social media as a signal to others, while making your boast on a social media site. Why are you so proud?
James, it would be great you could provide some feedback on why this snap is better than using a docker image.

Ie, Why is it better than:

alias openstackclient='docker run --rm -ti -v ~/.config/openstack:/etc/openstack gbraad/openstack-client:ubuntu openstack "$@"'
Can Silicon Valley really hack education?
I'm surprised he didn't have a second diplomatic passport.

I've always had two standard US Blue passports. All I was required to do to get them was write a explanation as to why I needed it and await approval. The most common reason is travel to Israel and other Middle Eastern countries, keeping them separate reduces some of the headaches.
Not quite a lot apparently.... https://www.scribd.com/document/225906827/Software-Defect-Or...

https://theholyjava.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/challenging-mys...
skills can be learned.
But, it seems all large companies (Facebook, Google, Microsoft) are using a mono-repo, and no-one is publicly admitting to using many small repos.

If no company is using many small repos for truly massive projects, then it's hard to argue it would be a good idea. Could everyone who has looked at this problem make the wrong choice?
Just to clarify, Snap's S-1 says they're committing $2B over the next five years (specifically, $400M per year) - the number you've provided for Google's "other revenue" is $2.543B just in Q3. Ergo, it's nowhere near 80%. :)
If you don't run Linux I would highly recommend 1Password. Great browser integration, great mobile clients. I've been using it for years and can't knock it.
If I understand this correctly, unlike git-annex and git lfs, this not about extending the git format with special large files, but changing the algorithm for the current data format.

A custom filesystem is indeed the correct approach, and one that git itself should have probably supported long ago. In fact, there should really only be one "repo" per machine, name-spaced branches, and multiple mountpoints a la `git worktree`. In other words there should be a system daemon managing a single global object store.

I wonder/hope IPFS can benefit from this implementation on Windows, where FUSE isn't an option.
If anyone has more knowledge about this let me know but...

I think the decisions about who to detain are typically arbitrary and decided by that particular agent at the time.
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Countries without estate taxes: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, etc.

[1]https://taxfoundation.org/estate-and-inheritance-taxes-aroun...
I like FreeBSD. We use it.

The fact that some woman wants "FreeBSD" to police the Internet (not just the official FreeBSD communications channels) is a red herring. Ignore her.
Source Depot. Forked years ago with tons of added features. Various Halo titles also used it and had easy to use integrations with most of the art and design pipeline tools.
Don't straw man his argument like that.
I take it we both consider social mobility good for society. In that frame, defend the estate tax - does it improve social mobility? More than it costs? More efficiently than, say, a Georgist tax, or a basic income?
this.

us peons would be treated worse. it's a canary in the coal-mine when a former Norwegian PM, a politician of one of the larger NATO ally nations, is delayed and questioned at the US border.

This demonstrates that the current administration (it didn't ever HAPPEN under prior administrations)
is pursuing a course of non-diplomacy which will result in the global isolation of the USA and the loss of friends and political capital abroad.

There's nothing to defend in such behavior, as it's a harbinger of bad things, not good things. Period.
Then learn them before you apply for a job so that you can be competitive.
Typically, the MAC address is not public beyond the next router. Software could intentionally leak it, but I don't think that's likely on a system built for anonymity. However, it is possible that, should your traffic get traced to your true IP address, interested parties would attempt to then trace it to an individual. Any router you connect to could be storing access logs (or even passing them on to the next connection point) for a long enough time that they could narrow down which MAC the traffic came from. If they have you on camera, and the recorded MAC matches your PC, that's a bit more evidence. Sure, you could potentially fight it in court (MACs can be trivially spoofed, after all!), but why bother taking the risk?
In the glixel article, Ty Franck made this comment:

"... because endings are so important – you better know what your ending is and you better be setting that ending up right from the beginning. Otherwise it just feels muddy and unsatisfying."

The point I took from both articles was that the Mass Effect series never had a solid vision for the ending (which Karpyshyn admitted), and it showed in the way many (most?) people reacted to ME3.
I am not grateful to my grocer for stocking milk in the dairy case. They set the price, and I pay it if I want the milk. If the price is higher than I am willing to pay, I do not buy it. Loyalty does not enter into the equation. If it did, the grocer might offer me lower prices for shopping only at that store, or additional services not available to first-time or fickle customers.

Paying a salary is zero risk for an "at will" employee. You are paying for the work, or at least for the exclusive on-demand availability. Whether that can be monetized to a degree sufficient to pay the salary is entirely attributable to management's effort and skill. If at any time you feel that you do not have the skill or the will to make the employee's labor cashflow-positive, you can fire them.

In contrast, the employee taking on a salaried position with a new employer is a much greater risk. That often becomes their sole source of income, they may be foregoing other available opportunities to take it, and may also be relocating to an area that is less advantageous for them personally.

It is for these reasons that I believe the burden is upon the employer to make demonstrable shows of loyalty to their employees first, to prove that they are trustworthy employers. Instead, they are often the ones to betray even the low default levels of employee loyalty. These days, I hear about mass layoffs far more often than I hear about employee strikes or walkouts.

I agree that we should mourn deeply the passing of employer-employee loyalty, but it has been fading for quite a long time. If you are a loyal employer, you will eventually see more loyalty in your employees. In time, they will even enhance your reputation via word-of-mouth recommendations. But reputation is slow to build and easy to squander, and US employers have utterly destroyed any reputation they may have had for loyalty.

I am surprised that you are amazed, but that may only be because you have never worked "at will" jobs in markets away from hot-spots like SV and NYC. Even just by reading HN, you should have noticed that the endemic career advice to maximize your earnings is to change jobs every 2-4 years, and only spend a longer period at a single job if a lucrative vesting schedule demands it. Employers do not retain and retrain temporarily unproductive employees, nor do they make noticeable efforts to retain productive ones with bonuses and pay rises.
Not sure why I'm being down voted. It was a serious question. IPFS solves the handling of large files (by chunking them), and works in a P2P way in which you can locally mount remote merkle trees (the core data structure of git). I believe this use case is also actually one of the original design goals of IPFS.
I've yet to see a cogent political analysis that shows how Sanders could have beaten Trump. Do you have an example?
How to keep a scope-creeping client in check
Apple's New Patents Mark More Territory in AR Hardware and Software
Hell yeah, lets waterboard him with mountain dew too , and let him know the taste of Freedom TM.
Aaaand just found my personal backups at home haven't been running for about a month.

ALWAYS CHECK !
I had a conversation about this yesterday and I assumed USA keeps a database of your entries into other countries thus ending this new passport hack. Can anyone confirm this?
This is a TOR exploit in the same way that downloading a blob through TOR is a TOR exploit.
Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris – Assailant and Soldier Injured
Everybody has about the same budget, and depending on the site, that's when the labor force is at work maybe? For something tech like Gizmodo, the posting pattern might correlate to a workday based on a certain region. Buzzfeed would have a staff that goes 24/7, maybe spread out globally or just with a labor pool with some people willing to work the Graveyard Shift from home. Some content probably has to be "timely" whereas other pieces can be on a production schedule so to speak. Just thinking out loud here.
But think about this for a second; if not for us destabilizing those countries, there will be no refugee crisis to deal with.

We basically took the most and arguably the most prosperous country in Africa (Libya) and ruined it. Now we're refusing to take in those fleeing from our mess. We did the same thing in Iraq and Syria.

But it seems we're not done yet. Iran is next.

Bit is anybody protesting war against countries that can do us no harm? Nah! It makes for good war video games and Hollywood war movies.
I would say the look is more BSG, but the characters and story are more Firefly, although darker.
The point is that it is not about terrorism, it is about Iran vs Israel.
I have. Obviously it's not possible to do this completely in C#, but my team has moved over to using Option, Try, and Either types for values that might be null or throw exceptions. We've noticed a reduction in what we all knew was the single most common bug: null reference exception. It also reduces cyclomatic complexity [1], which is a fairly well understood measure of complexity and therefore bugs.

Anecdotally I've noticed a reduction in these kinds of issues when using languages that use non-nullable references by default (F#. Haskell, etc.). I find I am much more confident as a programmer when nullable references aren't the default. Actually a few days ago we had our first null reference error in F#, and it was because the record type passed to an F# function was instantiated in C#.

If you think about it, the idea that a statically typed system lies to you about the contract that a value will honour is always going to be a source of bugs. It takes static languages back into the realm of dynamic languages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
Many of the Intel processor chips are designed in Israel as is the Apple iPhone/iPad processor. Intel employs about 10,000 in Israel and I think Apple around 800.

There are many, many other US firms represented in Israel -- often for buying up Israeli startups.
i also loved firefly. the expanse is much more noir and the crew is getting to know each other throughout the first season, so it's not really similar. i can't really say it's like firefly, but it's at least as good - as in, i can't wait for the next episode.
What affiliation do you have with bookadvice / bookrepository ?
They do. Durham Goode (Tech Lead on Source Control at Facebook) just held a talk at Git-Merge about how they scaled Mercurial at Fb. They seem to be quite happy with it, albeit applying quite a few restrictions on their internal users that are not really transferable to the general (outside-corporate) usage of VCS (for example only rebases are allowed, directly committing to master all the time, etc.)