skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well not to mention the users upload all this info.

If people don't want their information shared, don't put it on a publicly accessible website?

I've yet to see anything facebook has done that is surprising. They don't charge people for using their servers so making money is clearly going to be from data analysis and marketing to users.

If people don't like it, don't use it.
While not specifically caused by Microsoft, here's one of my prior horror stories on forced updates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985904

The replies are even better.

TL;DR - "Who cares if we rebooted the emergency phone system, who calls 911 at 3 AM anyway?"
Agreed. We need to start jailing people for wage theft. The first offense should be a fine that is 5X the amount stolen, after that, prison time.
Fair point, but none of that is Microsoft's doing. Why are we only talking about this now?
You are talking about the old Sourceforge, since their recent acquisition they've done a great deal to clean up their act.
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Excuse my ignorance. Are there any bacteria that have some type of resistance to bleach? This scares me.
>Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users?

Literally every for-profit desktop OS vendor has "spied on users" by the definition you're trying to use. Including OSX and Ubuntu.

>Do they not engage in patents racketeering?

So Google boxes Microsoft out of the phone market by refusing to support any of their services on Windows Phone. And Microsoft is the bad guy for leveraging their patents against vendors selling Android phones? Satya Nadella would be looking for a new job if he weren't leveraging their patent portfolio. End of story.

>Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype?

See comment above. Nokia is dead because they couldn't get a handful of table-stakes apps. Primarily because of google.

Skype... well that was just fumbling the ball, but it wasn't for no-reason. The way Skype was originally architected wasn't going to scale. That was by no means nefarious in nature though. Github has no fundamental flaws that I've seen that they would require them making significant changes.
What???

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/venezuela-is-one-of-the-worl...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-15/bitcoin-s...
I think making Ruby typed is a cool endeavor. It's just that it's a bit hard to justify from a business perspective..

It's not like changing to typed Ruby wouldn't affect the code bases. They'll end up having something that will resemble Ruby, but likely won't be quite Ruby. It's unlikely they could automate it.
They'll have to rewrite a lot of code and typically, when you do that you also want to refactor obvious problems, so you end up rewriting big parts.
And that's in addition to the cost of trying to make Ruby typed.

Or you could leave the code base as it is and extract functionality out and rewrite it in something more manageable.
In California, utilities will spend $768M on electric car infrastructure
The article is profoundly dishonest. They've built their whole company on open source code provided by the "closed source company" Github.

Here's the truth that so many seem to be in denial about: it is "closed source" companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM and Oracle that produce the overwhelming majority of high-quality open source software. It's not even close. Over the last ten years these companies have given away billions of dollars in value in the form of open source software. These companies have done much more for open-source than GitLab and their buggy Javascript ever will.
> identifying Earth-based microbes

An extremely expensive although effective approach would be to "seed" the spacecraft with isotopically enriched and documented solvents and food sources such that all the oxygen or carbon or both on the spacecraft, if any contamination DOES exist, would be a peculiar and documented isotope ratio that is different than Mars ratios.

I think we know the natural ratios for Mars in bulk material, so anything immediately found to be growing that matched the documented "salted" isotope ratios obviously was a spacecraft contaminant whereas anything mars ratio was local. Of course bacteria can reproduce fast, so Earth bacteria eating Mars material would rapidly revert to Mars isotope ratios. Still for the first hour on the ground this would likely be usable for life detection experiments. Although it would probably be unimaginably expensive.
I do exactly this and I am happy as clown on my nexbit
Pretty sure issues and PR comments came before the acquisition
I have since sold my pickup, but it was durable & reliable as hell & easy to work on, and it really was great when I occasionally wanted to tow something large or move something heavy & dirty, most often dirt & mulch. It's the challenge of, I do certain things occasionally but not often. New plan is to rent a trailer, we'll see how it goes.

Many of the benefits of a good pickup are really the benefits of a ladder frame chassis, but few non-pickups are made on a ladder frame now. 4-Runner, Xterra, it's a short list.
I don't really care if you choose MacOS over Windows. Plenty of people do. There are good reasons to. I even agree with you on some of your points.

My contention is that you implied that Windows 10 does not even meet the low bar of "barely usable" when you said that you have to delete half of the OS to make it barely usable.

That is a lie. Windows 10 is usable out of the box without any modifications. Saying otherwise is spreading misinformation, which I don't support.
> This is literally no different than a web API or scraping facebook HTML, just more streamlined.

I see you're using the new definition of literally, the one that means figuratively. In the same sentence you have said it is no different and then said it is vastly different. Your post makes no sense.

Even if you were right that the data is 100% hash-compatible, SHA-1 it and get the same data as the API (you're wrong), it being streamlined is a huge difference and makes this news, in fact.

You surely agree that an individual person walking up to others on the street and asking a question is different than a team of 10M people doing them same thing, right? But there's "literally no difference", just streamlined?

Streamlining something defines patents and makes billions. Streamlining a legal activity can make it illegal.

Your post is wrong, you are using logical fallacies and you are then blaming everyone else with harsh language, while it is is you who seems to have, in your own words, some kind of "facebook derangement syndrome". Wow, those are rude words. Flagged.
>Look at how much data Google has on every single one of us.

What about the data Microsoft has on you? Their Windows 10 OS is basically a data funnel right to their servers. They operate a tracking based search engine that also builds profiles on people. And they have data centers in China that are run by Chinese state run companies.
No, I don't.

Vim, Sublime, Atom, Eclipse-based IDE...

Not once have I met anyone using VS code on any platform.
parsing xml can take exponential space and requires an internet connection!
I'm really not sure here but I was under the impression that they had started doing the full screen detailing data collection thing after they had gotten caught doing it without it?
For waste-stream based fuels, consider first that the upper bound on potential is the incoming feedstock, that is, food, and nets to something like 25% of its energy potential.

And the feedstock is bounded by net primary primary productivity, also referred to as the photosynthetic ceiling. It turns out that humans already lay claim to 20% of this. Replacing fossil fuels (a prerequisite to acheiving net zero emissions) would require another 20% of NPP, an unlikely scenario.

Using crop yields and land area, one quickly realises that under all but the rosiest scenarios, more land is required for biomass fuel production than exists in major technological and industrial nations.

So, no, biomass is not sufficient to sustain present per-capita energy use and populations.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2cvap7/the_int...
A bit of interesting trivia: back in 2008, GitHub's founder (Tom Preston-Werner) declined to work for Microsoft when they bought his previous employer, Powerset:

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
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> The problem with this is that seeds tended to blow between fields, so if your neighbor licensed Monsanto seed and then the next year a bunch of that seed manages to take hold in your field, you're liable for a patent infringement.

Do you know of a court case where this actually happened?

I've seen this defense thrown around in the few cases I've seen, but investigators have usually had evidence that it wasn't accidental contamination, but rather just being used as an opportunistic defense.

> Additionally, they argued, successfully before the Supreme Court in 2013, that additional generations of seed from the initially licensed seed required new licenses from the patent holder.

I found this court case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.

"sold the seed from which these soybeans were grown to farmers under a limited use license that prohibited the farmer-buyer from using the seeds for more than a single season or from saving any seed produced from the crop for replanting"

I'm not totally sure what's objectionable about this ruling. The original buyers explicitly agreed to the license.

I think there is an argument to be made against intellectual property in general, but this doesn't seem any more egregious than, e.g. music or software copyright, and most people are quite happy with those.
I'm actually very genuinely curious: Why did you take over SourceForge and keep its extremely tainted brand, instead of starting something new? Usually, when someone buys a brand, they're doing it because there's some value attached to it, but for me at least, it'll take a lot more for me to try out SourceForge than a service with a completely fresh brand I haven't heard about before.
I want people to judge by themselves. You can argue that yes, they have made some mistakes and probably bad practices like all companies. Try to get out of the tech bubble, companies in the world run on Excel. That alone has a huge impact on society. Not everything is black and white. I'm just a fan of critical thinking and not herd mentality not of Microsoft. I'm criticizing the reaction of all this.
>Not OP, but - sure, why not?

Because if we lived in that reality, you'd end up complaining about how Google was sending you unwanted marketing emails about new features multiple times per week, and I'd be arguing that they were emails discussing new privacy updates.

Not to say that no one would want that, but as someone who does, by way of working at Google, more or less get emails similar to the technical descriptions of newly released features you want, very few of them are relevant to me.
Yea, but if you maintain that mentality, that affects your thoughts, affects behavior, affects 'crowd' behavior generally (all those agree), is perceived as such from those you predict about, get it? Affects all those who disagree too.

2 sides, same coin. You assume chaos, they see you assume that. They shape their narrative to fit their perspective with this data in mind. That rationalizes the behavioral pattern from their end, which continues the cycle.

Not saying I know any better solution, just that it's annoying as fuck to actually change when everyone keeps assuming you won't, and treats you as such. Chaos is probably going to happen even if there's a general mutual trust that springs forth. Can't control chaos.
You absolutely can't be serious. The new Skype is an unrelenting abomination... just look on ANY community site and you will see the utter livid rage for "new skype". It's truly horrible in every way, it removed every setting and feature that was good, the UI/UX is one of the worst things ever. https://www.reddit.com/r/skype/search?q=new+skype&restrict_s...
I find the file exporers on linux a huge joke, and Finder on OSX is too simple for me.

On Windows I have found XYplorer [1] to be extremly powerful. Its not OSS and its not free, but I happily paid for it once I discovered it. The project is like 20 years old. I have looked for a free replacement for years and always ignored it, which was a mistake.

XYplorer is very well maintained, 0% CPU cost, 1% RAM cost, highly-configurable, has very nice features. Someone really put some thoughts into the UI and UX. I really like the Ghost filter. Ctrl+P is great. Oh and it remembers all opened tree views after restart, so your workspace is exactly the same after a reboot.

[1] https://www.xyplorer.com/
>They defined device makers as service providers, and then allowed them to do things that even third parties weren't allowed.

Because they're not third parties. Third parties are anyone off the street that meets some minimal requirements. It's like the distinction between third party and second party releases on video game consoles. Second party releases are extensions of the first party publisher because of the special access and extra scrutiny they get. The difference in this case is that this "special access" is apparently no different than what you get from the website through scraping HTML, just in a more convenient manner.
> Haven't they killed Nokia?

There wasn't much to kill, when they bought it Nokia was still clinging to Symbian and was in a freefall. They tried everything to get Windows Phone running, but were too late to the show. Also Google refused to make any kind of apps to their platform, effectively sabotaging it.

> ruined Skype?

Its still pretty popular. It was crap 5 years ago, but now its on par with the other big messaging apps.
Would this integrate directly with zencastr? They record tracks individually - and then mix them - so you'd have direct access to the individual tracks.

Seems like if you did that or made a way for people to upload their unmixed tracks, you could save some time on the whole thing?
The owners of GitHub want their money back. Just keeping it afloat doesn't achieve that.
If these people are so easily swayed and manipulated, what exactly is informed consent supposed to cure?
Is my company secure?
Because not too many people use Azure?
I find it beyond useful to have Ubuntu as an app in windows.
Microsoft doesn't really want github. What they want is Electron.

Say what you want about their Windows and Office divisions, they put a lot of effort and resources into their development tool side. Being able to direct the development Electron, the way a lot of desktop applications are being written in 201X, is a clear advantage to them commercially. They also have the ability and resources to solve some of the problems that have plagued Electron/NW like resource use and distribution.

What will happen to the github site itself? Not a whole lot. That's all pretty stable. More likely it will stagnate since they won't really know what to do with it.
In a very narrow ruling that creates little binding precedent.
What is “this” in JavaScript?
No it isn't. 70% of homeless in SF were previously housed in SF at one point. Citation needed for your narrative.

Source: hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2007-SF-PIT-Report.pdf.
That's a valuable piece of info that I didn't see mentioned on the site. I'd add it if I were you.
It is the baker's right to bake a cake for who ever they feel like baking a cake for. You can't force someone to do something.
Just spun up my ridiculously heavy rails app and did a quick test with one of the more cpu-intensive actions and see no evidence of any improvement at all. If anything, it was a bit less predictable.
This little test was nowhere near an actual benchmark, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Test suite still passes on it though, so upgrading shouldn't be a huge deal at least へ‿(ツ)‿ㄏ
> it’s like there’s people out there that actually like Google’s Material Design?

I like Material Design...
I was at RubyKaigi. This presentation was one of the best delivered, so kudos to the Stripe team for all the work put into it.

A question I didn't get to ask while there is -- will there be some sort of type sharing system introduced?

I've been a user of both Typescript and Flow (both great tools), but saw Typescript's popularity soar because of community written types.
Except Monsanto's methodology reduces total pesticide usage, not increases it. And CCD is a complicated issues, for which no serious person would claim any one company is the cause. This is exactly the bandwagon shit I'm talking about.
Say the reserve requirement is 10%. Wikipedia states [1]:

> The minimum reserve is generally determined by the central bank to be no less than a specified percentage of the amount of deposit liabilities the commercial bank owes to its customers.

If someone gives Chase $100, Chase is allowed to loan out up to $90 of it, and must keep the remaining $10 in reserve.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement

The protocol allows someone with 100BTC to send someone else 90BTC.
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Only the Joey Diaz episodes :)
The beauty in all of this is that you still have the power to continue make use of github, or you can chose another provider if Microsoft doesn’t meet all of your needs. In contrary, as a business decision this was a good move for Microsoft. Now they can invest in integrating Azure and people can deploy directly to Azure.
70% of homeless in SF were previously housed in SF at one point. Citation needed for your narrative.

Source: hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2007-SF-PIT-Report.pdf.
All of their competitors are doing it, and offering arguably compelling experiences based on that data.

That said, they should probably treat personal information sharing like they treat the modification of system settings. Notify the user that an app or service wants to share info, and get their permission to proceed.

With the GDPR stuff happening recently, I wouldn't be surprised if a future version of Windows 10 had a feature like this.
Unrelated to all the other aspects, 4 times markup over the last valuation is quite an impressive markup for a loss making company.

Of course the brad name, mind share and userbase are worth a lot, but that much? I reckon they must have also talked to some competing bidders, like Google.
As someone who also developed on windows phone I really disagree with this portrayal. Microsoft did not change the stack on account of "getting bored" with the tech.

Looking back on it, they took on an extremely difficult problem having a completely new marketplace and platform against competitors with tremendous amount of pre-existing traction.

There were clearly some pivots towards universal windows compatibility, and possibility of android compatibility as well. Nobody argues there's a ton of tactical failures and the net result was a loss, but I wouldnt conflate the mobile endeavor with something half-baked nor disregard to developers
The key and accurate part of that is this: “Two or three decades ago, children were roaming neighborhoods in mixed-age groups, playing pretty unsupervised or lightly supervised.” The rest is pretty dubious differences, but this is key because kids were misbehaving all the time then, too, they just had lots of opportunity to do it without adult supervision. Which made it easier to conform to restrictive rules when they were supervised, because the opportunity to act without constraints was usually right around the corner.
CORS allows you to whitelist what domains you accept certain requests from. This is a good thing.

One thing I never understood really is why a webpage is able to load scripts from a different domain. That will I suppose remain a mystery to me forever. Imagine how many fewer ads and junk we might see.
The good news is that blocking traffic to those six servers is trivial. You can stick the rule right after the one blocking traffic to port 853.
Original catalog entry / advertisement can be found here on page 18:

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A very supportive family - I don't think I could have done it if she had been complaining about it the whole time.
Well, not that easy for a larger project to switch to another platform. I work for ArangoDB and as silly as it sounds but leaving the street and investor cred of our Github Stars behind is not really an option, kind of a lock-in is also there on Github
> The same people calling for everyone to always remember what Microsoft did 20 years ago log out of HN and go work on their Facebook React app with no apparent sense of irony.

This is a straw man. You're arguing against a group that is largely fictional.

> you should probably be shutting down your Facebook, Instagram, and Google accounts

Some of us learned from previous bad actors like Microsoft and never made accounts with the new generation fo bad actors.

> throwing away your Android phone

I've been trying to educate people about the dangers of carrying a tracking device for ~25 years. In the last ~year, some people have finally started to listen.

> deleting any projects you have that use React.js, TypeScript, Angular, Go, Dart

Do you really think we would depend on any remotely proprietary language/library/etc after spending years fighting Microsoft? There are numerous tools available without proprietary baggage.
They made it clearer and easier to review and change, but data collection was always toggle-able in Windows 10. A lot of people just hit "Express Setup" and then were surprised when the defaults were full collection.

The Privacy Panel in the new Settings applet for example has always existed.
You say you've shown no hate yet you reply to my support of this acquisition with a comment that quickly dismisses my enthusiasm as misplaced hype.

Now you provide advice when I didn't ask you for any. I don't know you. You don't know me and you certainly don't know what will "serve me better" as readily as I don't know that Microsoft will fix all my problems.

If you've found stability in your world view then good for you, it takes all kinds. Skeptics and optimists and more. Spend less time putting others down and more time melting in the pot.
Or you delete Cortana and completely break all of that bullshit. Though it has made it so a Windows 10 update will no longer apply, which is a frustrating side effect but one I am willing to live with.
Even though you're (probably) right regarding those criticisms, it's representative of how people view SourceForge, and serves to show that

> I don't think a single person is considering moving from GitHub to Sourceforge.

is true.
I'm not an expert, just a bio-data-scientist learning every day... But wouldn't Yaml be what you are looking for?
good news for once today!
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Can you see this post? Or am I automatically shadow banned?
“We don’t serve coloreds here”
I can't find a single transcript at that website, though it's a cool service, kind of like Google for searching within audio (Podcasts).