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> Forget he said she said - the company admitted the employees claims were true after investigating the situation, having previously (when he was in control) publicly refuted them.

The employee's claims weren't true for the part you were talking about - the article linked said that most of her claims weren't, and since you used "female engineer" like it meant something hedious had happened, your comment absolutely was bullshit.

The article I linked spells it out pretty well. None of the incidents related to her gender were found to be true, so you shouldn't bring it up. Just say "Engineer," because otherwise it sounds like they sexually harrassed her or something, which is libel. Her gender wasn't relevant for the topic, and shouldn't be brought up.
You can't do that with Bitcoin as the interest rate they'd have to pay on deposits would kill the bank, and the interest rates on loans would make the loans undesirable.
Cars are the big one. More and more our cities are optimized for cars, not for people. Children and the elderly suffer most from this development.
The Austrian school overall disavows empiricism as the means by which to infer economic laws and instead views economics as a field closer to philosophy. For more information on the method I recommend the pamphlet Economic Science and the Austrian Method. [0]

Re: my previous comment, that, in short, money and credit are like any other markets.

If you're interested in a gentle introduction to the Austrian school of thought I recommend the book Man, Economy, and State. Skip the final section of the book entitled Power and Market. [1]

[0] https://mises.org/library/economic-science-and-austrian-meth...

[1] https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-ma...
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But that would neuter the GP's purported purpose, wouldn't it?
Dunno about the Monoscope in particular, but a lot of tubes need several milliamps, which is quite a bit more painful than a good carpet shock. Not fatal, but not something I'm eager to experience. And I'm the guy who used a one-henry inductor to administer electric shocks to people in high school — including, repeatedly, myself.

The issue is that it's a lot easier to build or buy a kilovolt power supply that doesn't have adequate current limiting than one that does. And even one that has it in theory may not have it in practice — that big capacitor across the output? Make sure it isn't just wired directly to the output terminals, because its ESR sure as hell isn't going to be adequate current limiting.

So I think it's reasonable to be wary of kilovolt circuits. Dying is easy, but you only get to try it once.
The parts that happened under capitalism were incredibly terrible, leaving tens of millions dead.
Most eyeglasses cost under $10 to make, lens included.

It's still an expensive item thanks to the near monopoly of both frame and lens production. Nearly every brand you know are owned by just two companies. Those two are now merging: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/10/the-invisible-p...
that's fine but 3rd parties in middle contribute nothing.

30cent + 3% is a LOT and many parties take their cut, as if they're transferring real bundles of cash.

3% doesn't come from profit but total reveneue.

Say you were a company and made 50 million dollars revenue. then almost $2 million right of the back goes to 3rd parties who didn't contribute to product at all. Just exchange of money caused this. Truly sad in world where you can stream TB of video live to millions of people, sending information hey TRANSFER $50 FROM ACCOUNT A TO B, is costing that.
As opposed to linking to GP's GitHub Wiki?
Or it may just be that these things aren't obvious until after the fact.
That is pretty good :)
I can't find it right now, but some very similar phrase was used after the Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill, which caused the BP CEO to get fired, to describe the role of the leader in such situations.
> Is "economic school" a political choice (differing goals) or a choice of tooling/methodology?

That...depends on the “school”, and exactly the bounds of the “political”. The choice between the Austrian school and most of the rest of economics is between an interpretive framework that eschews empirical science as inappropriate for the field of economics (Austrian school) vs. various approaches that at least outwardly aspire to the norms of empirical science (most of the rest of economics.)

Among the schools espousing empiricism, confirmation bias (and thus political preconceptions) still plays a role between, say, neoclassical schools like Chicago and Keynesianism and it's offshoots, but that's at least in part because economics is hard due to confounding variables, and actually avoiding influence of confirmation bias in such circumstances is difficult even when intelligent people are acting in the best of faith.
One thing to note:

In go, defer appends a function call to a heap allocated list that gets run at the end of a function.

In zig, defer (and errdefer) do not allocate memory, and get run at scope exit.
No country has adopted a foreign currency to make their central bank impotent.
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Ok that is news to me, why Indonesia blocks it?
Reading up on the histories of Avignonet and Toulouse, the violent uprisings fared little better than civil disobedience.

If there’s any message here, it’s that localised resistance just results in severe retribution - over 200 cathars were burned two years later in retribution for Avignonet.

Frankly, if this gives credence to anything, it’s Law 15: http://48laws-of-power.blogspot.com/2011/05/law-15-crush-you...
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Like a linguistic journey through the years to find and describe truth, always being evaded!
> I’ve deleted my GitHub account, I’ll find a way to replace it and if you’re halfway clever so should you.

So clever.
They refer to it at as 'open-core':

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-gith...

I thought this was interesting to re-read in light of this news, so I've resubmitted it for discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225725
I based myself on what is available on their "features" page:

https://about.gitlab.com/features/

In any case, this highlights once again the issue: the community will have to put enough pressure on the parent company to release certain improvements as Open Source. And their interests are most likely not aligned.
interesting article, although unfortunately it mentions but doesn't currently cover one of the more mis-understood parts of CORS, which is the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials part.

The fact that Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * doesn't work with Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, for example, is something I've seen sites get wrong quite a lot.

there's a good post which covers it https://mortoray.com/2014/04/09/allowing-unlimited-access-wi...
Like, some buckets of cold water?
GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)
> I hear it's terribly slow

On our self-hosted instance it flies.

Using all of gitlab.com, our self-hosted instance, and github.com with some kind of regularity, I find both GH.com and GL.com equally fast (or "slow" depending on your PoV) since a year or so, and our local instance faster. Neither is rocket fast, but neither is "terribly slow" either, and at any rate they're largely in the same ballpark.
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That's not really true though. For one:

> supported by current mainstream cryptos

There's nothing that needs to be supported. Bitcoin already "supports" it, in the same way that cash does. All you have to do is find a counterparty and draw up a contract.

> it’s not practiced

That part's mostly true because with this kind of volatility who would risk owing you a bunch of bitcoin, but loans involving Bitcoin are starting to appear: https://saltlending.com/

I wouldn't necessarily trust https://www.bitbond.com/ with _my_ bitcoin, but theoretically I could, and this is starting to look a lot like fractional reserve.
Google abused Sun, took advantage that they were in a critical financial situation not able to sue, and when they crashed, did not move a finger to rescue the company assets.

Now Android has Google's own J++, limiting what kind of Java libraries are portable to the platform.

At the same time, some OEMs are adopting Android instead of Embedded Java, thus increasing the fragmentation about what Java libraries are actually portable.

Google just though they could let Sun close doors and get away with how they created their own J++.
That doesn't help privacy, as you could just connect to those addresses and see what certificate they present.
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I think this is very different in that it's something we previously completely disregarded in health outcomes. We consume various things that we know wreak havoc on our gut biome including antibiotics and various residual herbicides, but it was felt that this was mostly harmless as the gut biome did not play a critical role in our physiological condition. Now it's seeming that it may indeed be quite a critical system in the human physiological condition and so it's more of an entirely new field of study than a miracle cure.

I feel as though there is some degree of ostrich-syndrome when it comes to the deterioration of American physical and mental health. Something is causing this change, and most convenient explanations (lethargic lifestyles, internet, etc) do not really work since that would imply a comparable decline in other areas that have also seen such changes, yet the correlations there are spotty at best.
I disagree; you can ignore the proprietary parts just fine.
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Could Crypto start to influence politics in America?
As long as I'm still greeted by Candy Crush im my start menu after every forced update, I will not consider their products tools for serious workflow!
You never heard of the outrageous Windows 10 telemetry (and similar)?
A scope safe universe of syntaxes with binding, their semantics and proofs
US workplace deaths have fallen 70 percent since OSHA was formed.

It's not exactly like children losing arms to looms and being locked inside enflamed textile mills.

The fact there's still some work left to do doesn't imply we've made no progress.

It does show that unions haven't been able to comprehensively fix these issues either, though.
I think Apple's bitcode for iOS deployment is also more stable than the actual LLVM bitcode.
> School playgrounds are empty and stay empty unless school is in session.

The kids at my local school used to play for hours after classes but last week were told they have to leave within 10 minutes of the bell for 'liability reasons'

Combined with the volume of traffic nowadays and the conversion of local parks to pay-per-use 'sportplexes', most parents unfortunately just decide to coop their children in their gardens.

Kids don't want AstroTurf pitches and climbing walls, they just need quiet residentual streets or a brownfield site with sticks and ponds. But they're gone.
> It also makes it easy to use a name server of your choice for a particular application instead of the one configured globally (often by someone else) for your entire system.

I can see app developers wanting this, but as a user, I really hope, this doesn't happen. It's bad enough that many applications today manage their own certificate stores, making the next part of internet infrastructure app-specific seems to me a way to more fragmentation and less understanding or oversight I'd have over my own system.
Pretty much nothing in here is "news", every social media manager knows the same things. I guess now it's just official.
Seems like at least Ecuador did:

> The present currency of Ecuador is the United States dollar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador
The kids who roamed free know how many scrapes and near misses they got into, and they don't want to expose their own kids to the same hazards?
I don't think you understand what I was trying to say. I'm well aware that they create money, but they're literally not printing dollars. They do not cause M0 to increase.

Nobody but the Treasury can cause physical dollars to be created, but that doesn't prevent fractional reserve from occurring.

So, anybody who claims Bitcoin doesn't support fraction reserve based solely on the fact that banks can't create new Bitcoin is incorrect.
Am I seeing this as another huge opportunity for CDN like Cloudflare and Fastly?

Although I am not too comfortable with everything moving to HTTP. HTTP 2 was already complex enough, it seems we want to move everything into HTTP, everything away from TCP to UDP. What happen to QUIC anyway ?
I don't think it's slow, but it is hungry, don't expect to run it on a Raspberry Pi or equivalent VM. Personally I think it's a fair tradeoff considering we use it fully (including CI, etc).
If I understand it correctly CheckedC woods as an extension to the language, so you need CheckedC compiler to actually use it.

I agree that SAL fits my description. Is it available outside of Windows? I've seen that someone wanted to add SAL support to clang [0], but decided against, because of Microsoft's patent on the thing [1]. Or than that it looks cool. Thanks for the pointer.

[0] http://clang-developers.42468.n3.nabble.com/RFC-Starting-sup...

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050076331A1/en?q=Sourc...
I want to make that switch, but am rather intimidated by my inexperience in that domain. Are there any guides or tutorials you've used that you'd recommend?
Bitcoin so far doesn't scale. Not only in terms of transaction fees and processing times... but also at the most basic of levels.

What will happen when the blockchain doesn't fit in a median harddrive?

The decentralization narrative will go away. Only a few people will have enough storage for the blockchain and you will go back to having to trust someone.
> But let's not forget all of the moves toward a friendlier Microsoft/Linux world looks suspiciously like "Embrace"

“Embrace” is happening everywhere these days. Don’t sound the alarm until you see Extend.
On a slightly tangential note, my company has a massive Yammer install (200k+ account) and I always wonder if people can discuss in yammer group about replacing Office by G Suite, without triggering anything. This is kinda paranoid, but I am still astonished that a company can essentially put all its communications, roadmap, and so on on another company platform. Even if you do not compete frontally, at some point, there are some diverging interests.

I understand that the risk would be too big to eavesdrop on your customer, you would ruin your reputation and your product, but still, it seems the temptation even by a rogue employee could be strong.

This is not a jab at Microsoft, it would not be better if it was another mega corp platform.
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The idea that some companies must be forever tainted by their misdeads in the past seems odd to me.

Companies change leadership, direction and style and it seems odd to suggest that there's some underlying quality which means that, regardless of that, you can never trust them (or in reverse that you should always trust a company you once trusted)

There seems to be a trope with Microsoft that they're still the same company they were in the 90's, but the senior leadership aren't the same people and I'd imagine neither are the staff.

Is that to say that the Github acquisition will be an unalloyed good, no.

but I would say that people shouldn't automatically assume that it'll be a disaster...
> The employee's claims weren't true for the part you were talking about

I was talking about Tom Preston Werner harassing a staff member and the company then publicly denying it happened.

If you read some other meaning out of what I said, that's on you.

> since you used "female engineer" like it meant something hedious
> Just say "Engineer," because otherwise it sounds like they sexually harrassed her or something

I don't keep a notebook on me at all times with the names of every developer who's ever been harassed at their job. I just happened to remember that a woman had made allegations against the guy who wrote this fucking blog post, while he was CEO of the company. Not everything is a fucking feminist "plot", ok? We're not all amorphous grey blobs and any further distinction is not automatically a pro/anti gender political platform.
> I welcome my browser doing something about it.

Can we please go easy on the newspeak? Centralizing resolving to a handful of actors will not improve privacy for the most part of end users.
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There is a large difference in complexity here though, and Wunderlist need extra coding for O365 integration so it wasn't just redevelopment purely for a platform shift.

GitHub more complex than todo-list-on-steroids app so a platform change would not make any real sense. MS today may still have some of its old habits but they do seem to have purged a lot of the "not invented here" problem that caused much embarrassment when the first attempts to migrate HotMail over to MS technologies failed. It also has pretty good integration with relevant MS tools (VS & VS.code, etc.).

I expect to see them moving the base infrastructure over to Azure, but non-MS technologies are well enough supported on the platform so that won't require any notable changes to the main codebase of the product itself (though perhaps some rework of the deployment processes to make them more optimal for their new target network?). These days they care a lot more about what runs on Azure than what is written using .Net and even what runs on Windows, and are comfortable releasing their own code using other tech (VS.code being based on Electron being the first example that springs to mind). They'd prefer you used an MS stack from top to bottom of course, but they are more than happy for projects to use other components in/on Azure.

It'll be interesting to see how they would position it alongside TFS, as there is a lot of overlap between the two products. My guess is they'd keep pushing TFS for people who are completely MS shops and GH for people with more varied stacks.
I thought this was interesting to re-read in light of Microsoft's (reported) acquisition of GitHub; it was previously discussed a bit at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131844

But closed as dupe due to another similar company blog post on the front page.
We really need to give github some credit. They have had our backs for the longest time and I don't think they will just give up on its community now.

Microsoft is getting better all the time, they are an important OS contributor, and they seem to be doing pretty ok by devs.

Let's just give both of them some time to tell and show us what their plans are. There is no reason to burn this relationship from day -1.

ps. Github was and is pretty much pretty walled up, I'll keep hoping that at some point they'll allow to add external remotes to github repos, or at least collaborate with gitlab to allow PR/MRs between the two.
There is another announcement from RubyKaigi 2018 related to performance.

Rubex - A Ruby-like language for writing Ruby C extensions.

https://github.com/SciRuby/rubex
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Do you have a source for this? I enjoy reading about horrible software.
I'm really looking forward to IPFS ...
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Talks about a credit system built upon a blockchain naturally transition to talks about an identity system; otherwise, how would you prevent Sybil attacks [1]?

However, I am unsure to how the latter will be solved without a central, trusted party. What is the digital analogue of a passport or driver's license, a piece of identification that is hard to forge?

To add on to why fractional reserve will be hard to implement with cryptocurrencies, another unexplained problem is the issue of collateral backed by a volatile asset.

If that underlying asset rises in value, then the effective interest rate would be equal to the original interest rate + % increase in value; if the opposite occurs, a decrease in value, the 'bank' in this scenario might lose money on that lend.

You might argue that a digital stable-coin is a possible solution. But a digital asset backed by a physical object is probably bound to encounter regulations; and the performance of a stable-coin backed by algorithms is currently unknown to work.

These are two hard problems that have to be solve before fractional reserve is viable on a blockchain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
TLDR; the 90’s happened. Delete your github account because Microsoft is evil. I’m surprised this article got this far because it really doesn’t add anything unique to discussions that are already happening.
Not familiar with the deps of Ada memory management. It has a form of checked RAII, but no idea if it’s done via linear types. However Ada still has a more sophisticated type system for refined typed, aka sub-integer or float types. See [0] for a discussion on Rust issues.

If you combine Ada with Spark you get some (still) amazing compile type proof checking of projects. [1]

Rust _could_ develop to have similar abilities (I hope!). But it’d need more generalized linear types or dependent types. Though one could write macros with stargeted higher level type checking DSL for, say, embedded development targets.

0: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/671
1: https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/ty...
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I like it when ppl say I'm halfway clever.
> but the senior leadership aren't the same people and I'd imagine neither are the staff.

Not disagreeing with your overall point, but culture can persist through employee and leadership turnover.
This. A space program is not very impressive if your population has to live under dystopian conditions.
Why microsoft and google ruin the things developer loves? First Kaggle and than Github.
Actually gcc does have something similar to SAL with FORTIFY_SOURCE, but it is not as feature rich.

https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1976213
I'm sure the fact that we can no longer access websites that solely exist to harvest and sell our personal data will be a great loss to society.
I have quit Microsoft for Linux 8 years ago. I do the remote administration of the computer I have installed for my old mother since 5 years. At home, there are 3 Linux computers, one of them has a dual boot to Microsoft. My cloud website is on baremetal Scaleway running ubuntu. During last year, I have spend more time for system administration on windows (that I use once a month to use an application during 5 minutes) than for administration of the 5 Linux systems.

If someone asks me to help for the administration of his Linux machine, I would accept because it is so easy and so little work compared to windows. I think Linux is perfect for the noob who accept to delegate administration.
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what happened to Kaggle?
I remember reading that they employ some muppet to check that nobody uses "hate language" and their naive "check all words in text files against this list" spotted the word "retard" as in "fire retardant" and locked the project. Appealing for common sense, or even escalating the problem to someone with a functional grasp of English didn't succeed.
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I've enjoyed using Elm for client side development.
The sale in (1) is often on very unfavourable terms, because the valuation of a startup depends on whether the quasi-monopolist is trying to kill it or not. How much would your startup be worth if it was banned from the App Store, for example?

2) is fine .. unless there are secret no-poach agreements in place.
Some of the shenanigans I've seen recently from MS employees in the .NET Core and JS space doesn't inspire me with confidence... For all of Nadella's "turning over a new leaf", it will still take a generation to change the culture of 120 000 employees