skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a non-jerky-you-around-y ticketing option, try https://lilregie.com -- it's a bootstrapped (self-funded) startup from the folks behind the Webstock conference. They built Lil Regie to meet their ticketing needs, offered it to the world, and have been adding features ever since. I have no equity, am just a happy customer.
In the USA, you would face capital gains taxes if your sales basis was greater than your cost basis.
I'll try and clear up any confusion you might have about GitLab. Feel free to ask more questions if I left something out.

> I can't find anything describing the relationship between GitLab and Git anywhere on the home page.

The relation between git and GitLab is that GitLab is a front-end for git. However, it's so much more than that. We strive to offer features that encompass the whole DevOps lifecycle - see https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#scope for more context.

We have an integrated CI/CD system, issue tracker with boards and epics, built-in container registry, monitoring and many many others. All of them are listed in https://about.gitlab.com/features/

> Likewise, I honestly can't tell whether GitLab is an OSS project or some sort of hosted enterprise "call us for pricing" behemoth

GitLab Community Edition (CE) is a completely open-source project - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce . It's MIT licensed.

We offer a proprietary version with added features - GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee . It has a proprietary license. Even though it's proprietary, Enterprise Edition is source-visible i.e. you can browse the source.

> There's a pricing page with various plans including a free plan, but while I initially assumed they were for a hosted online service, apparently they're for self-hosted.

There's both a hosted solution (GitLab.com) and the option of self-hosting. The pricing page has two tabs - one for self-hosted options and the other for GitLab.com

> There is information about many ways to install GitLab locally on different platforms, but it's not clear what you're actually installing at that point or whether you then need some sort of licence to do anything with it.

No matter which package of GitLab (Community Edition or Enterprise Edition) you install locally, you'll always be able to access the free tier of features without a license.

> On the features page, each item has two different scales under it, one for GitLab and one for GitLab.com, but I really have no idea what the relationship between those is.

There's four feature / pricing tiers for self-hosted instances: Core (Free), Starter, Premium and Ultimate. From left to right, every tier has more features than the previous one. The distribution of features is documented in https://about.gitlab.com/features/ (upper scale).

If you opt for a hosted solution on GitLab.com, there's also 4 pricing / feature tiers: Free, Bronze, Silver and Gold. All public projects have access to Gold-tier features for free. The feature distribution between these tiers is also documented in https://about.gitlab.com/features/ (lower scale).

> There is an entirely separate feature comparison table that is actually linked from the pricing page, but that only shows one of the scales, and suggests that the lower/free tier is quite restrictive.

We prioritize features for one of the paid tiers if we think the feature is more relevant for larger organizations.

You can find out more about our stewardship of the open-source GitLab CE project at: https://about.gitlab.com/stewardship/
Plenty of people find coding fun but don't have github accounts or do much coding after work. This is especially true if your work is very interesting. You find that you have less itching to scratch so to speak. I love coding. But I don't feel I need to do any outside of work because I love the projects I get to do at work.

But yes, people who code all the time can be interesting. I just don't want the industry to demand we all do it.
The Uncanny Valley of Haptics
It seems you're doing some serious trolling there yourself - putting words in my mouth and all. And as to your "one person" argument, then by that logic none of us should be particularly concerned about making any changes to our own lifestyle, because it probably won't make any difference anyway - too insignificant. Amirite?
Then you face capital gains taxes if your home appreciated over your cost basis.

Property taxes also apply to home ownership.
To be fair, PSU is not known for smarts.
Sorry, didn't see this -- you can research this yourself fairly easily once you know the right terms. You're looking for eustatic sea level as it correlates to CO2. I find people who research this themselves come away more convinced than if I just tell you the data or link to one specific study.
No, because in doing so I can help a hundred other people save an hour of their life as well.
In the USA, if you live in your home for 2 out of the 5 years prior to selling, you can qualify to pay 0 capital gains tax up to 500k if you're married and filing a joint return (250k if single)
Mortgage is leverage (debt) and that can be bad. When you buy a house you speculate, to some degree, on the price of the house. I am sure a no-arbitrage condition exists in the housing market so your guess regarding housing prices in 10y is as good as anyone's.

Also, the point about diversification is a valid concern. Would you put (50% of your net worth + loaned money) into only FB/AMZN/XYZ stocks, today (tomorrow)? Probably not.
> Syria has been making and deploying chemical weapons for quite a while.

That was also quite a while ago, they've been cooperating with OPCW on destroying all their stocks and production facilities for these last years, as evident by the OPCW progress reports.

I just can't see any scenario where using these kinda of weapons would be advantageous for the Syrian government, at least in the current situation. At this point, the war in Syria is pretty much decided, what's happening right now is mostly clean-up.

The US just declared to get out of there, Trump set up another "red line" and then the Syrian government just decides "Hey, let's do this thing that gives them justification to keep intervening and cross that red line before the paint dries!", it just doesn't add up, they gain nothing from this.
Im happy to say that my own JSON parser (https://github.com/ryanbalsdon/cerial) passed a lot more of these tests than I expected! It isn’t a general parser though (requires a pre-defined schema) so is probably cheating.
Manhattan is a byword for the unhappy worst-of-both-worlds situation where you have premium luxury housing no one can afford or run-down walk-ups where you're paying thousands a month for a hole-in-the-wall

As opposed to SF? At least in the NYC area you have the option of cheaper housing in Queens or New Jersey and a not-too-horrible commute.
> Whoa, you have to go bankrupt to stop paying a mortgage in Canada?

It depends on which province your property is located at. In Alberta and Saskatchewan, mortgages are non-recourse. In the rest of the country they are not. So for the majority of Canadians bankruptcy is the only way to get rid of their mortgage.

Admittedly in the specific example I gave this would not be the case. However to the best of my knowledge, defaulting on a non-recourse mortgage ruins your creditworthiness the same as declaring bankruptcy. Considering how many landlords and employers check your credit report, defaulting on a mortgage could have serious consequences for your livelihood, even if it is non-recourse.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/giang-the-ad...
I agree. Imagine a frontend developer connecting to the internet and with a couple tools like truffle and his crypto wallet, that dev will immediately have access to so much information and logic through smart contracts via one interface, that it blows my mind. It's still young but it's going to be ubiquitous and pervasive. At least I'm 90% sure it will be ;)
The Boy Scouts of America offers 3 coed programs for teens/young adults (in addition to its well-known "Scouts" program):

* Venture Scouting (aged 14-21),

* Exploring (aged 10-20) [0],

* and Sea Scouting (aged 14-20) [1]

However, there are plenty of university students that would be too old to take advantage of programs that had an upper age limit of 25.

[0] https://www.exploring.org/about-us/

[1] http://join.seascout.org/join/
the bank's final option is to take the house

Sometimes not even that, in states with homestead exemption protections.
Do I have to pay taxes on the profit I made selling my home?

It depends on how long you owned and lived in the home before the sale and how much profit you made. If you owned and lived in the place for two of the five years before the sale, then up to $250,000 of profit is tax-free.

If you are married and file a joint return, the tax-free amount doubles to $500,000. The law lets you "exclude" this much otherwise taxable profit from your taxable income. (If you sold for a loss, though, you can't take a deduction for that loss.)
The only Apple device with an OLED screen is the iPhone X; the built-in displays on the 2012-2015 retina MacBook Pros as well as the ones made after the 2016 redesign are IPS with a 60hz refresh rate. There were issues with the graphics on the mid 2012 to early 2013 retina MacBook Pros - perhaps the parent got one of the defective models.
Octopai Managed Metadata Service for Better Business Intelligence (Interview)
I mean, may be eventually? Just because Boise is the fastest growing city doesn't mean San Fran and LA have negative growth.

The answer of whether Boise will stifle city planners' dreams will come down to the actual numbers over time which in general is hard to predict. People saying "SF is over" or "Seattle is over" seem to only look at the second derivative and ignore the fact that these cities are still growing today.
At $1, it's really not worth selling - credit card fees alone would eat 30% of the revenue. Never mind that a single email support request will often take 10 - 15 minutes of time, and you'll quickly find you've created a support job for yourself that pays less than minimum wage.

A better approach might be to make more software and create a bundle, so customers get more value for their $5, rather than lowering the price.

Or improve the marketing, so people realize the value the software gives for their $5. If you get paid $60/hr in your freelance work, and this app encourages you to squeeze in an extra 5 minutes of billable time today because you see the year is ticking away, it will have paid for itself.
Last year at Stanford, the Business School Kids Club (the org for families with kids) attempted to do an outdoor "water" event featuring water balloons, squirt guns, and sprinklers that kids could play with.

Part of the event was to have open 5 gallon containers of water so the kids could refill their squirt guns. The whole event was killed by the administration because the open water containers posed a "drowning hazard." As a number of commentators have mentioned, this was driven by the school's insurance policy.

A few weeks later, they hosted a professional birds of prey experinece - including faclons, eagles, etc for the kids to engage with. The Admin again banned it - but the organizers put it on anyway.
I think there is a lot of merit to what you say here. For example, one of the strongest realizations I had while using an interactive programming tool was while hacking on a 30-50 line function I wrote. In the process I thought to myself "gee, I'm glad I have this tool otherwise I would have no idea what is going on!".

However, before long, I realized I needed the tool because the function was too long and needed to be split into smaller pieces. In that case having the crutch of an interactive programming tool led to worse code. Once I refactored the function I realized there wasn't much need for the tool anymore.

That being said, I have taught many a student to code and can't tell you how many conversations have ended with me saying "Maybe it will work. I'm not sure. Just try it!". Students (not all) in an unfamiliar environment will sometimes overthink things rather than trying a failing quickly and correcting their mistake. In this case, failing quickly is an indispensable tool to help student "hone in" on the solution and make progress towards it.

Of course I have seen a fair number of students engage in "shotgun programming", switching a < operator to a > operator and hoping that it will work, so obviously there needs to be a balance.
reference is to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Scalable Deep Learning on Kubernetes with Polyaxon (Interview)
RE: GDPR:

"Domingos: The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is putting too much value on the factor of explainability -- meaning why an algorithm decides this way rather than that way. Let's take the example of cancer research, where machine learning already plays an important role. Would I rather be diagnosed by a system that is 90 percent accurate but doesn't explain anything, or a system that is 80 percent accurate and explains things? I'd rather go for the 90 percent accurate system."

"Domingos: There is this notion predating the GDPR that data can only be used for the purpose it was collected for. This sounds plausible, but if we had been using that principle all along we would not have penicillin. We would have no X-ray. We wouldn't have all of the scientific discoveries that came unexpectedly. Serendipity, discovering new things in old data, is a huge driver in progress."

Hear, hear.
I just checked what you're talking about. Creepiness aside, that's kinda awesome.
The Black Hole of the Internet
Yeah, I've tried buildkite, and like it, but the thing about CI is it should be immutable. Plus gitlab has pretty good pricing for me for my personal project (free).
Beyond that sort of strictly purpose-driven reasoning, there are tendencies for certain attitudes and preferences to overlap. I've found that libertarians tend to like going outside.

With regard to culture though, I think a culture of being less fearful tends to be conducive to the political viability of libertarian policies. There's a trend, as the world becomes safer for people to treat risks that were previously regarded as reasonable, or that were simply unavoidable, as unreasonable. I hope that walking outdoors where there isn't a cell signal doesn't start to be widely regarded as an unreasonable risk.
suburban California home purchased in 1975 for $10k

Where? About the cheapest you could do in San Jose then was $21K for a 1400sf condo from Singer Housing (the budget developer of the era). I grew up in one.
Buying a home is a bad investment, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it :)

Just don't do it as an investment.
These scams (involving spoofed caller ID) makes it clear that there needs to be some sort of two way authentication when your bank calls you.

In the past, I have tried to get people who called me claiming to be my bank to authenticate in some way. I’ve even tried to get them to just give me a checksum of my account number or something similar that isn’t strictly confidential. They never do. I’ve had to hang up and call back a couple times because I couldn’t trust that they were who they said they were. Seems my paranoia was not entirely unjustified...
You're the one who said those two companies can use blockchains, so asking you why you would say something so bizarre was a perfectly reasonable question.

No established company will use a blockchain for a database, when there are real databases they already use. That was the point. Other than speculation, nobody really uses blockchains, and certainly not for mission critical work handling real money or real customers.
I use the community edition of Gitlab at work and the cloud version for personal projects.

Gitlab is a web interface for git.
It is like Github, but much better.
Gitlab also includes a great CI server (a bit like travis ci, or circle ci).
It has a docker registry if you need that.
It has issue tracking if you want to use that.

There is an open source free community version that does most things.
There is also an enterprise version if you need permissions managed by Active Directory or something like that.
And there is a cloud-hosted version if you don't want to host your own instance.

I hope that helps a bit.
Oh Jason.
What problem does that solve? Fiat money is clearly better than Bitcoin, easier to spend and use.
> The point is that distributed systems engineers know already about these sets of tradeoffs, and many of the alternatives to them, and with that wider perspective see few, if any, reasons to recommend blockchain.

It's not really a technical question. People who like blockchains like them because of that set of tradeoffs. Beyond obvious scams and stupid corporate hype (by most of the same people who misused "cloud", btw), people understand the tradeoffs.

I don't think that distributed systems experience qualifies you to do any more than understand the tradeoffs, and these specific tradeoffs are understood well by a very large number of people already.
Trying to persuade people that certain things are good and others are bad by publishing articles doesn't violate anybody's rights within most moral and ethical frameworks typically regarded as libertarian.
Telescript and Magic Cap
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... that sounds like a bad thing.
Ah, that's my mistake! The generated Reason output got copy/pasted incorrectly. (It's correct if you click through to the Try Reason link.)

In fact, Reason generates the `>=` comparison, and it knows it can do this because it know that a value greater than 2 can never happen.

The post should be updated to reflect this in a second!
(the following is pure speculation as usual)

This is what the current leadership believes. Tim Cook is a clearly brilliant manager. I have no hesitation in endorsing his record on privacy (and genuineness and truthfulness). However, he is mortal. The next CEO might see things differently. The unique selling point you mentioned will be on the table. There will be analysts who will crunch the numbers on what portion of prospective Apple customers will refrain from buying Apple for some particular transgression and how much such transgression will bring in additional revenue.

Apple can fend off these questions today because it has a huge chunk of the high end phone market. It would be stupid to ask Apple to do this not because it is immoral but rather because it will distract Apple from doing what it does very well: selling $1k iPhones.
Killing your neighbour's cat would also help preserving out native birdlife. Wouldn't be great for preserving your relationship with your neighbour though.
up to $250,000 of profit is tax-free

You get that exemption once in a lifetime. (If you are married filing together, that's once for both parties.)

If your profit isn't 6 figures, choose this option carefully.
>but there's no technical solution to the fact that trust is required between, for example, a lender and a borrower.

No, it does not. However, if someone lends bitcoin to a borrower, it does not involve third parties, and therefore cannot "run" like a fractional reserve bank.
It's great for readmes. For code, unless ( probably even if ) it has obscenely high quality functional, integration and unit tests it's not great. I've seen people commit, and code reviewers allow, broken code.
In addition to shedding light on the author's experiences, this is also an excellent piece of writing. It's not what normally shows in HN, but I'm glad it did.
Here's the actual take by the OPCW on what happened in Douma to prevent their FFM because your WaPo article doesn't have anything official by OPCW: https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/EC/M-59/en/ecm59dg02_e_....

"The United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) has made the necessary arrangements with the
Syrian authorities to escort the team to a certain point and then for the escort to be taken over
by the Russian Military Police. However, the UNDSS preferred to first conduct a reconnaissance visit to the sites, which took place yesterday. FFM team members did not participate in this visit.

On arrival at Site 1, a large crowd gathered and the advice provided by the UNDSS was that
the reconnaissance team should withdraw.

At Site 2, the team came under small arms fire and
an explosive was detonated. The reconnaissance team returned to Damascus."

The decision to delay the FFM team's visit wasn't made by Syrian or Russian authorities, but by the UN personnel tasked with protecting said FFM team. On Saturday they did finally conduct their FFM and took samples, so there's that.
You are right. Guessing they picked Boise because it is fast growing.
>What evidence do you have for this baseless accusation?

China.
Idaho's entire population fits comfortably in a small segment of any of the nation's larger cities.

When three people walk into the state, it leads in percentage growth. It's extremely silly to draw some conclusion from the fact that a tiny state managed 2.2% population growth while dozens of larger states managed 2.1%.
What data are you worried about them selling? I made a model of Facebook Likes data, but it passed unnoticed. I guess there's no market for it.

https://github.com/peterburk/sortlikes
Pardon me for appearing to be the spokes-person for market economics, but if "congestion, long commutes and sprawl is hurting the U.S. (and Californian) economy", wouldn't they be self-healing problems?

Do "younger generations ... want to live and raise families in a city with reasonable housing costs" or do they want to accumulate as much of the easily-available money there a fast as possible? (The former is available almost anywhere.)
So, 9223372036854775807 is a valid number per the json.org spec, but good luck getting a typical JSON decoder to process that number. A couple I tried returned it as 9.2233720368548e+18, which is not the same number.
Thanks for following up.

The relation between git and GitLab is that GitLab is a front-end for git. However, it's so much more than that.

I understand that there are lots of other features, but if I could make one suggestion to help improve the site, it would be to make that basic relationship clear -- or indeed evident at all. Apparently I did have the right general idea about what GitLab was, but I was expecting a front-end to Git to be #1 on the features page, and the rest to follow. Likewise I was expecting to find "getting started" documentation explaining things like whether Git needs to be installed independently of GitLab and where repositories are stored and how GitLab is integrated with them. In practice, I didn't find any of this in about half an hour of looking around the site, and so in effect what actually happened is that I turned up interested and having the right sort of idea and left thinking I'd totally misunderstood and GitLab wasn't what I was looking for at all. Probably not quite the result you were hoping for!
Why are you using a fancy 2.8Ghz dual-core machine when you could be using a netbook from 2008 with a 1.6Ghz Atom and 512MB of RAM?

Is it that strange that people have different use cases from you? Plenty of things peg the CPU at 100% for extended periods of time: video encodes, 3D renders, building code, slicing for 3D printers, etc. Certainly I could do my work on a dual core machine, and I did until a few months ago, but there are competing machines that are cheaper and offer twice the performance. Why would you not want a quad core CPU when they are the exact same price as the old dual core models?
Try RSS.

Having built a system years ago, to try an parse tens of thousands of feeds, there's a huge amount of 'fuzzy logic' required to put it all in order.

Despite the spec.