skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's impossible, it's just really hard. I have no experience with microprocessor manufacturing so can't really speak to that. I also dont have experience in the lab but have provided operations / admin support to cell therapy manufacturing processes

Part of the challenge is just that live cells are complex living things. They interact with their environment in difficult to predict ways. You can only measure so many cell characteristics at a time, certainly not enough to get a full picture of everything that's going on, which makes in-process quality testing very difficult. A manufacturer we worked with said "process is product", which means we dont know how to measure product quality that well so we have to basically reinvent the process every time it changes. I think getting the right tooling to measure quality would help but that would require some really breakthrough innovation.

Another challenge is shelf life. You need to get these cells to patients quickly once they leave the lab, often requiring climate controlled air shipment if the patient is far from the lab. And you dont want to build too many labs, as transferring a process from one lab to another is very expensive and fickle.
Agreed - it's the personal touches that make the story.
And this is NOT what I am saying, I said it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
So long as we don't have to log onto to FB to file our taxes or something, how much harm can the regulator really inflict on the general public? Assume it ends up being a regulator that's really talented at harming the general public, like FCC...
Contracts are not "useless", but they are also not "preventing" someone from doing something just because they impose a penalty. If you want to see proof: visit a court!

Contracts motivate you to adhere to some previously-agreed-upon behavior, and the degree to which they motivate you depends on how much the penalty actually penalizes you. In the case of large corporations, seemingly big penalties are often actually negligible in comparison, with the resulting motivation to adhere to the contract being negligible as well. That is one important reason why it is deliberately misleading to use the word "preventing" in the context in which Facebook uses it here. The other one is simply that it's factually wrong, even regardless of the size of the penalty.
Even in this thread, much less in other discussions about this case, I've read a lot of people who believe the bakery refused to serve the couple at all, instead of refusing them a particular service but offering to sell them anything in the shop or to custom make cakes for any events other than a same sex wedding. If facts of the case are lost in the discussion, then what hope is there of minding the nuances of the ruling itself?
Building a decentralized API or long running service/oracle on Computes
Humans see the world in higher resolution than most animals
That JavaScript isn't a serious programming language is a decade old understanding of the ecosystem and a disregard to the current day use of the language. A lot has happened in the last decade to make JavaScript "more serious" like NodeJS, TypeScript, and React. Even on the back-end, it's becoming more and more popular.
For "older" developers they experienced career pain that came out of Microsoft's abuse. Those same developers also experienced a time when Google and Apple weren't the same companies they are today. Obviously that muscle memory may not reflect the current reality, but it's there nonetheless.
the evolution of this acquisition over the past two days has been interesting. Its even more interesting in the context of say, gitlab importer state metrics in grafana..beware, the importer metric is under heavy load and sometimes doesnt respond.
https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer

Reports of migrations to other sites are real, and Microsoft sees a risk thats legitimate enough to issue a presser. Its going to be hard to head off a github exodus at the pass because git itself is open source and there are numerous alternatives that can quickly and easily (some with no more than the click of a button) spirit the github userbase --which is what Microsoft arguably wants in order to legitimize its cloud/open source push-- away from them.

https://sourceforge.net/ even released a special tool to migrate you away from github. Certainly some of the more business minded users will argue this acquisition from Microsoft is a "good move" but the fact that this is the second presser microsoft has thrown out regarding the nature of its merger in less than 5 hours reflects a pretty sincere push from redmond. Microsofts historic legacy of fear, uncertainty, doubt, and outright hostile action to crush open source and startups in general is a pretty insurmountable.
> I am asking why the consequences of breaking a contract don't matter in this specific case

Technically speaking, no contract was broken. When users signed up for Facebook, they clicked a button pursuant to which Facebook indemnified itself from everything under the sun. (It is unclear how enforceable those terms are. EULAs, for example, aren't very enforceable in the U.S. [1].)

Facebook did agree not to do these things with the FTC. (It also made some noises to the Congress, but I don't believe those were under oath.) And there are a lot of things it may have done which are illegal. But enforcing the law and consent decrees requires prosecutors to prosecute. We're waiting for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enf...
> The whole _point_ of Github was that you didn't have to host anything yourself. Just create an account and, bam, off you go.

So, just like gitlab.com?

> On top of that, even if you did want to host Gitlab yourself, it's "open core", not open source. You'd lose a ton of functionality.

That functionality is geared towards enterprise. If you are one, you should be doing your own risk evaluation. If not, you're probably fine with the open source edition.
Oh this is just what I was looking for! It would be cool to have a "GitHub" like interface that shows you repos from gitea, gogs, basically anywhere there's a hosted repo on the internet, not just from a centralized git hosting website
The college I went to required students to demonstrate the ability to tread water for 5 minutes and do a few lengths of the pool (form didn't count). They strongly urged a remedial class in swimming for those who failed this test in freshman year.
Intriguing & fascinated. The very idea of bacteria producing stronger cells in response to chemical agents in relatively short periods of time is an idea I can ponder for hours. Thank you.
Neonics come from Bayer, marketed under the Bayer CropScience brand, and a few other companies that are not Monsanto. He is able to use Monsanto in a tongue-in-cheek way thanks to the semi-recent acquisition by Bayer, but Monsanto's direction as an independent company had no direct relationship with neonics, other than Monsanto, like all seed vendors, being a customer.
The main thing github gives microsoft is a pool of people it can try to push into Azure. Azure means that Microsoft no longer needs to care whether you develop apps for windows or linux or mac, or the web. As long as you make and deploy apps to Azure, you can use whatever stack you like.

For that reason, they have a strong incentive to keep people happy and on github, and they have a huge incentive to make it easy to deploy from github to azure with a single click or something similar.
So they basically relied on us not reading the small print. And we didn't. There should be laws against small print technicalities like that.
Are you still only hiring people located in Tokyo?
The "average user" strawman is always trotted out to excuse awful tools for being awful.
No, it is giving Blackberry the information if any friend of mine offers THEIR login credentials.

I friended my cousin because she is my cousin. I didn't think about what kind of device she uses. I certainly didn't intend for her to hand my personal information over to a company that I don't know.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that this all comes down to one basic question:

Does a Facebook-approved "mobile experience" count as an official FB app or a third-party app? It seems to me that the FB post is trying to frame it as the former, and everyone who's upset is trying to frame it as the latter.

Is that what this entire disagreement is about? Because if it is, maybe it would help if we just focused on that question.
Interesting phenomenon. From the U.S. all I ever hear about the U.K. is urban: Londoners living precariously in houseboats, blighted post-industrial cities in the North. I've seen tent encampments in the woods in the U.S., but it never occurred to me that it would be a thing in the U.K. Until just now, if you'd asked me where the poor lived in the U.K., I would have said "council estates."
> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

Sigh.
Um, regarding GitLab or BitBucket, I'm pretty sure Atlassian owns BitBucket, and the idea of them being acquired seems hilariously low given they've almost always been profitable and never relied on the pump-and-dump-err-acquired method of Bay Area startups.
The "DeBeers monopoly" is a myth that can't seem to die. They do not have a monopoly and haven't in many years(1) (Anglo American = DeBeers). "Market controlled" is also a myth, as almost all diamonds today are valued through regularly scheduled auctions (2).

(1) https://www.statista.com/statistics/585450/market-share-of-d...
(2) https://secure.debeersgroup.com/content/de-beers-auction-sal...
writing this was a mistake. this is clearly a deceptive pr spin fluff that is entirely non-responsive to the specific concerns raised in the new york times article.
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/abstract/S0169...

Visual Acuity and the Evolution of Signals

>Recent increased interest in visual acuity, the ability to perceive static spatial detail, has shown that acuity is highly variable, ranging over four orders of magnitude across species with image-forming eyes.

>Human visual acuity is some of the highest in the animal kingdom, meaning that researchers may develop hypotheses regarding the function of spatial patterns that do not account for the relevant viewer’s sensory capabilities.

>Signals can potentially exploit differences in visual acuity between species, which may arise due to differences in eye type, eye size, and/or viewing distance.

>Because acuity can vary between two viewers of the same scene, it represents a promising yet understudied channel for private communication.

>Small animals, particularly those with compound eyes, have low acuity and thus can only perceive fine patterns over very short distances.
Man. This really feels like I could've written it. Really good article I feel exactly the same. I've done exactly the same as well and come to the same conclusion. The note about facebook noticing you're gone and sending weird notifications is really what did it for me. Facebook lost all notification privileges after that and I haven't heard from it since. It's kind of nice!
Part of the reason it might be coming across as a slightly negative reaction is that I'm passionate about implementing Ruby exactly as it is. If people want to write in Crystal that's great it can be fast. But if people want to write in Ruby, doing all sorts of metaprogramming, or that's the code they actually have today and need to run in order to keep their business going, then I want to make that just as fast for them automatically. Without telling them to use a subset, or not to use awkward features. I want people to bring me their insane code and I'll find a way to make it fast for them. That's the challenge I'm enjoying at the moment.

If people are happy to use a subset of Ruby then yes it could be transpiled. But a simple subset of Ruby should work great in the new JIT compilers we're getting anyway, without using Crystal.
What you said makes no sense. Talking about doing something is the same as not doing something?!

There's a reason the GDPR requires explicit opt-in: companies are expert at making their spyware look harmless and know that most people won't bother to change the defaults or won't understand what's happening.
>There's nothing stopping you from walking out from abuse

What magic world do you live in that doesn't have rent and grocery expenses?
"The NSA is after me" should be your least point of concern in evaluating a product to buy.
But since they need to be GDPR compliant there needs to be a way to export those and I'd think there probably is already.
so microsoft should just shut down the company?
GitLab is not completely open source - it's only open core.

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-gith...
That's an awful lot of inflation for thirty pieces of silver.
Who is hiring? (June 2018)
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We recently closed a $75 million round of funding from Tiger Global and are rapidly growing our team. We are hiring across the board, but are specifically looking for Backend and Data Engineers.

Feel free to check out the job descriptions and apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/wealthfront (please mention Hacker News in application).
> unless Microsoft does something evil.

You mean like forced telemetry in Windows 10? Microsoft is extremely snoopy lately. I certainly wouldn't trust them with my data.
When you offload responsibility, you offload control.
Given Disney's ownership of Pixar, I'm amazed this isn't a patent nightmare!
No I do not. I do know that the Windows Phone version communicated directly with Facebook due to network traces I had done back then. It did not use an intermediary. I could see some devices using an intermediary, especially for under powered and "dumb" phones where they may have made a simplified web app that would be usable on their platforms where as the actual Facebook web app would not have been. Think flip phones that had Facebook integration.

I don't know if that happened or not, but the way this article reads is very misleading and several of the vendors that they listed did not actually have access to the data.
The first source is behind a paywall, no?
As the maintainer of ripgrep, I pay attention to these sort of things. I will say that I noticed a similar performance problem in my tests as well, but further investigation revealed that Window's antimalware process was severely throttling file reads. Once I disabled that, performance on Windows is nowhere near an order of magnitude worse than Linux.
Right? It ended up being a bigger decision because I like getting notifications when someone does something related to me but I can't stand getting those generic notifications about other people's activities with other people. So I blocked the notifications by revoking the app's notification permissions. Sucks but they did it to themselves.
Obvious to some. When consumers receive a valuable service or product for free, with no obvious strings attached, they consume it. I don't think most people would preoccupy themselves with the provider or manufacturer's business model. You are savvy, and that's good. But others deserve consideration and protection.
gRPC with Protobuf has been faster in our usage and also has more development these days compared to Thrift. It's also simpler and better designed by just sticking to a single well-tested serialization format.

HTTP/2 is also a big advantage since it's standardized and easily integrates into many existing load balancers and proxies like Envoy and nginx, both of which now natively support gRPC directly too.
Well hello there, I'd like to share a story with you.
I'm the maintainer of butterproject.org and have been maintaining popcorntime.io for a while, we had there 2 issues with GitHub a few years ago, both related to (unfounded) copyright claims on the butter and popcorntime code (we absolutely own the right to every single line there), when we tried to make our case we were ignored once and asked to 'keep things quiet' by side channels the second time. Most likely, the mpaa, didn't want us to exist and GitHub complied with shutting down our repos and sending a cese and desist to all our 800ish forks (at a time where we were trying to transform BitTorrent media streaming into a viable business plan).

Maybe it's time we build our core infrastructure on something else than companies that act irrationally when threatened to be sued ?
I'm not arguing for government intervention, but it wasn't hypothetical.

Microsoft explicitly detected DR-DOS and pretended that the DOS crashed instead of starting Windows, which worked just fine on DR-DOS before then. This was ruled an illegal practice even though Microsoft had been far smaller at the time.
> * it's still not their bigger / biggest PR problem*

It's the only one that could matter to them. Congress flopped when Zuckerberg testified. They are clearly no present threat. And we haven't seen a wave of action from states' attorneys general. We have no evidence users are decamping. And by extension, the advertisers are staying.

The only weak point is in (a) recruitment and (b) political support from the tech community. The first can be solved with money. Fortunately, Facebook has pots of that stuff. The second relies on keeping the armies of defenders, who call every Congressional office on their own accord on a strikingly-regular basis, working.

For an example of what happens when one loses their base, look at Uber. It went from teflon to pariah virtually overnight.
>used on purpose on civilians during a conflict

It wasn't used on purpose. 2,4-D, the defoliant used, wasn't the carcinogen and wasn't sprayed on people intentionally. The carcinogen in this case was a dioxin contaminate inadvertently created in the manufacturing process. The US military thought they were spraying a chemical they thought was (mostly) safe.

Was the effect of 2,4-D a horrific disaster? Yes. Was it a mistake to use this tactic? Yes. Has the US provided all the necessary restitution? No. Is it equal to IG Farben knowingly producing Zylkon-B for genocide. No even close to the same.
Honestly? Nothing. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose and Microsoft has spent my entire professional life acting against my interests.
He doesn't really have a point except to try to justify tanking the standard of living. As a preemptive attempt to justifying literal communism in 2018. Communists know that they cannot implement their vision while maintaining the current standard of living, so they want to tank it.
the only jargon in this is API?
18 months doesn’t seem enough. It seems we need some tech philanthropists to stump up a sizable sum to run a serious longitudinal study.

Pick 2,000 random people, split into trial and control group. Match between the trial and control group for age control, and aim to have a sizable sample at both age 18 and ages above, so we can see what happens to people already in workforce. Those about to enter it. So on.

The trial group will be guaranteed $10,000 per year until retirement. The control group will be given a suitable payment for participation - completing the quarterly surveys and annual health exams. Maybe $50 for each survery and health exam plus make the health exam free if they don’t have insurance.

This would cost about $200-250 million. It can be put into trust and an annuity so lucky participants know it’s really going to last.

To answer the question of whether and how much expected duration affects actions of participants create two or three more smaller groups that get the $10,000 for 2 years, and five years, and ten years. Now you can see how behavior varies between them.

This is the only way to answer the UBI question, until it’s done we’ll have endless debates about stuff like “people will just decide not to work” etc.
I didn't mean that this is going to happen. I wanted to give an example of a potential threat. My idea was to show one of many problems with centralization and relying so much in GitHub and GitHub SSL certs.

Maybe we can start signing our commits to increase security giving the potential threat. The same way that after the Snowden revelations we started using more and more HTTPS.

We can also think of better ways of sharing/releasing open source code. Debian has a pretty neat system with keys so it's pretty safe to install software from their repos [1]. Maybe there is a better system to be develop than just grabbing whatever from GitHub[2] and running it in your machine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Development_procedures

[2] https://github.com/mklement0/n-install/blob/master/bin/n-ins...
I have been looking for a source to that claim (not the first I have seen) and haven't found one (either for or against profitability). Does anybody have one?
You can use mutation testing[1] to automate this. E.g. pitest[2] for Java, or golang[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
[2]: http://pitest.org/
[3]: https://github.com/zimmski/go-mutesting
Microsoft is the largest public user of GitHub, with the most number of checkins to open source projects. Gasp!

[1] https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-top-contributors-to-gith...
Corresponding to the subreddit you post in (worrisome but understandable), or the content of your comment (scary)?
If you want to develop software for Microsoft’s Linux distro/kernel (Azure Sphere for IoT), you must use Windows 10 + Visual Studio, https://seeedstudio.com/productDetail/3052

> To use MT3620 Dev Board for Azure Sphere, you’ll need a Windows 10 PC with the latest Windows Updates, along with the Visual Studio Tools for Azure Sphere (which will be available for download from Microsoft). These tools will include application templates, development tools and the Azure Sphere software development kit (SDK). Terms: This development board can be only used for prototyping, it cannot be built into a product for commercial distribution. It cannot be re-sold or used as part of a production environment.

Dear Microsoft, since IoT is one of the “next big things”, it would be nice to use Microsoft Linux ARM kernel with open hardware (no terms of service for hardware resale) and open software (e.g. use open-source Linux dev tools with the Azure SDK).
Disagreement lies in there, fb says devices access as much as fb app access, NYT claims otherwise but probably wrong
It sounded like a number of devices provided contact syncing with Facebook as well as the ability to backup your contacts and data to the device manufacturer servers. Now, they might have been storing other data that they shouldn't have, but backing up synced FB contacts by itself seems pretty tame.

I personally setup FB to do contact syncing with my Google contacts so I could get the FB profile pictures for all of my contacts. Does that count as Google improperly using FB user data? I don't think so.
> There's very little else getting through to the News Feed anyway.

This. This whole "News Feed" idea, that the author touches on IG starting too, is just garbage. I want to see the most recent events first and scroll from there. You're not providing me any service by showing me random crap in any random order. All you're doing is giving yourself the ability to tailor what I see even more. Totally made Facebook worthless to me.

I used to scroll through it endlessly and since they started doing that shit I don't even bother anymore. I check notifications and close it, if I do anything.