skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because Microsoft made a deal with Lenovo, now new Thinkpads are designed for just Windows

As a Linux on ThinkPad user, I'd be very interested to learn more about this.
Developers that exclusively use MS stack are very similar to those exclusive to Delphi. MS and Delphi stacks are very specific in nature and very different from everything else out there. Developers stepping out of those feel very uncomfortable and unfamiliar, thus wanting to stay in. Even though the Delphi stack is very obviously dying, the resistance is great, and many people stay on the sinking ship. MS stack is live and well which gives a viable incentive to never even look over the fence. That is the problem with developers exclusive in MS stack, they are not flexible and they don't want to be. They want everything to be done "the MS way".
Where does that put GH? How will it change, in what direction (to accommodate the MS stack)?
Well. There’s always bitbucket.
Is IPv6 a driver for anyone?
Nope. Already been tried (https://github.com/JXA-Cookbook/JXA-Cookbook) and failed. I can count on the fingers of one hand all the people on the planet who could’ve delievered the user documentation essential to driving JXA’s early adoption and success, and there’s a reason none would touch it with a 20ft pole.

The JXA that shipped in 10.10 was a defective half-baked POS that was immediately abandoned to rot. Even if contributors knew enough about JXA and application scripting to produce quality documentation, who’s going to read all these new JXA docs when it’s already failed to win any users after 4 years on the market?

I lead-authored Apress’s Learn AppleScript 3rd ed, so know just what a Hell it is to get right. And I desperately wanted to do THE book on Automating your Mac with JavaScript—cos I knew JXA’s success or failure would decide the future of Mac Automation. (Also, MILLIONS of JavaScript users == 100,000s of book sales!:) But I simply couldn’t write a usable book about unusable shit.

So don’t waste your time.

Mac Automation as we know it is already dead; it just hasn’t stopped twitching yet.
https://about.gitlab.com/features/#efficiency

"If you host GitLab yourself, IPv6 is supported as long as your underlying provider can support it. GitLab.com on the other hand does not support IPv6 at the moment due to limited provider support."
It's why I'm surprised at the timing, since GitHub has had its own issues over the past few years, with a founder and other staff members leaving over harassment, and some questionable comments coming from members of their new team. I've felt for a while that GitHub had peaked, and that we weren't far away from seeing it push towards breaking the product to satisfy investors that want a return.

With an acquisition, most of this becomes amplified, based on how Microsoft treat GitHub. IMO, leaving them alone to do their own thing could be just as bad as being too controlling. I'd like to see someone like Scott Hanselman, a well-liked developer in the development community be given the opportunity to sit in GitHub and to use Microsoft's resources to improve the open-source community.
Reminds me of the time when Andersen Consulting changed it's name to Accenture:

https://newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/accenture-corporate/...
Raise of CO2 level is because of incoming glacial period, not a global warming [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_period#/media/File:Co2...
Just out of curiosity why did you decide to use GCP rather than Azure or AWS?
JS, Python, or Ruby have zero ahead of time compile & link time. They need some time to generate byte code, to compile the code "just in time", to load source or byte code from disk etc.
If I knew that to be the end-game and if I knew it to be an informed choice on the part of consumers, yes, I'd be OK with that.

My two reservations:

1. I think such a lockdown is a kind of hidden anti-competitive "dark pattern" that benefits the seller much more than it benefits the consumer by significantly lowering the the reuse/resale value of the device. One could argue it makes the device cheaper to begin with, but I have serious doubts about that. The anti-competitive effect seems more likely to increase the price instead. Hindering reuse also implies an environmental impact, though I'm not sure how significant that is.

2. If lockdown becomes the norm for >99% of devices/users and even we tech people start to accept it the way of things, some sufficiently bribed lawmakers will no doubt be inclined to make unsurveiled general purpose computing illegal because "security" and "copyright" and "pro-business" etc. Yes, it's a "slipper slope" argument, but when it comes to social norms, I think that's a valid form of argument.
I have not heard it mentioned by any user / customer / other community member in the last year, but I think it makes sense to support it.
You identified the problem. What’s the solution?
You can tell the marketing guy was really grasping at straws to get something on the comparison that could be considered an advantage.
The form "Merlin" first appears (as Merlinus) in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, c. 1136. One suggested reason why Geoffrey didn't latinise the Welsh name more directly as Merdinus is the unfortunate similarity of the latter to the French merde.
Microsoft is the worst-case. Everything Microsoft touches turns into dirt.

Google would had run it very successful for a few years, and then suddenly shut it down. Oracle would have strangled it slowly, and then given in to the Apache foundation (where projects go to die).

Facebook may actually have been a good choice - except for us select few who don't use Facebook at all.
Pressed "Order Now" but I get a 500 Internal Error!

https://shop.ungleich.ch/shop/product/private-gitlab-hosting...

> Internal Server Error

> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.
You don't have to use your personal email address in commits if you wish to keep it private on GitHub:

https://help.github.com/articles/about-commit-email-addresse...
I don't think the issue is where MS has contributed in terms of open source. For me, it doesn't matter: It's great that they do it, but their history of aquiring companies and driving their products into walls (like Skype and so many others) hasn't changed. So, when I see "MS acquires open source hosting platform", I'm thinking about that, not how many lines of code they've opensourced.

Of course, if MS wanted to dampen that reaction, they could distribute the whole code for GitHub as a platform under an open source license - I just can't imagine them doing that.
The site doesn't work for me. I guess HN hug of death, in which case it doesn't work as a Github alternative at all.
Good marketing move, Monsanto has a very bad doppelganger.

If they continue with Monsanto ethic it will not take too long to have that doppelganger attached to Bayer.
Thats not really the same as shadowbanning though is it? What you've described isn't much different than you posting with few to no followers; its just being further enforced by the recommendation engine. But ultimately, hopefully, its still a reflection of the community's taste, and not the administration.

Shadowbanning is more of an explicit denial of the community taken by someone who doesn't represent the community, but rather the hosting service itself. It might align with community taste, but also might not.
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Wow, the list of Bayer controversies is never ending.
These services want to show you cancer - sorry I mean ads - as much as possible, and for that they want you to stay on the app as long as possible.

With a sane chronological feed, once you scroll down to the last tweet you remember reading, you know you’re done and can leave the app and do productive things.

With a bullshit “algorithmic” feed, you never know when you’ve caught up, and the “fear of missing out” will make you stay there scrolling way longer just in case there’s one tweet somewhere down there you haven’t seen yet - this gives them the opportunity to show you more cancer.
Millions more sales for Siri’s competitors.
Lots of grey in that dark mode; barely any black. I assume OLED displays aren't coming to the Mac anytime soon?
OK, let me be more accurate: "user-openable" in the sense that the user is free to choose to trust any OS vendor they want. What's the unmitigatable harm?
In what context did these exist?

Were they posted on streets or in schools? Or were they internal posters, hung around NSA offices?
Memorandum on Microsoft’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software (1998)
What do you mean by "eventually"?

I find Austrian ideas very interesting. Yet the usefulness of an economic theory can be demonstrated in two ways:

1. How well the implemented ideas/policies work in practice. This is usually difficult to evaluate, as it involves counterfactuals (we never know what would have happened if other policies had been followed). Sometimes one may be able to draw a comparison between two similar economies/time periods that followed different paths, however.

2. How well the economic theory predicts the effect of certain policies / what is going to happen. The track record of the Austrian school is poor on this one; the most recent example being the prediction of the consequences of Fed's response to the "great recession" of 2009. As far as I know, both Austrian academics and practitioners (Robert Murphy, Peter Schiff) predicted that the Fed's actions would result in high price inflation, weak dollar, and would generally not be effective in promoting economic growth. Both have been wrong so far, and investors that have listened would have lost money.

Of course, you can say that the economic growth has been "malinvestment" that will need to be corrected, but without a time horizon such predictions are useless. It's been a decade now since 2009. Has the US economy been malinvesting since the abandonment of the gold standard in the 70s? At what point can we say that the Fed did a reasonably good job at stabilizing the economy and promoting economic growth?
Github does own a vast share of the git-related developer mindshare tho, which is probably more valuable to Microsoft.
We will update this information, thanks for your pointer jobvandervoort!
People like to be dramatic. This is good though, I'd like to see a bit more variety and support for other git services.
"Our products are designed for people who want to get things done. Smoothly and the right way[tm]. "

Interesting then that their Q&A page has been hammered to death by HN. What is this product? What does it do, apart from ipv6? What is the price?
Bank-backed crypto exchange live
Hacker News: where people mock $1000 monthly car payments while spending $2500 a month on a bedroom in a house.
Why not run your own Git repository server with Gogs? It's easy to install, lightweight and you own your data.
I object to the comparison entirely. Basic statistical concepts are orders of magnitude more complex than a loop with a couple of ifs.

As a software engineer you CAN'T fail fizzbuzz. Whereas in statistics I can come up with problems that rely only on basics but are still counter-intuitive enough that some practitioners will make mistakes.
Because the generation that gets all high and mighty about their childhood being more fun and outside (i.e. Gen Xers) are now the ones that are raising the next generation of children to be safe and are also complaining about it.
How do you make money off hot linking? I thought hot linking was the thing users want to be able to do, that's inherently impossible to monetize.
What I apprehended from the article is that those API's still exist, and even still work in full.

Meaning that today it is still possible to generate an access_token using a client_id extracted from an old blackberry device with a valid facebook account and extract much more data (using the private device API's) than what that user should be allowed to see.

Do I understand that correctly? Because that seems like an enormous security breach.
We are about to fix it - we did not expect that many hits on this system. stay tuned.
> But if they ever do, they're not going to be impressed, they're going to be at worst condescending, or at best will pity me for being stupid.

Then they are wearing their own insecurities and psychological issues on their sleeves; they are not class acts; they have unresolved issues of their own that they should look at.

Why would you use how damaged people treat you as a way of measuring your own worth?
Don’t hold your breath. The Monsanto name will come back and be seen as a saviour when American foreign policy starts amplifying to the rest of the world that it’s freedoms are under attack from uncontrollable enemy biological weapons.
I can here it now, “we have to kill nature! We have to kill nature!, it’s been hacked by the Russians, only monsanto can save us now”
Too late, Bayer sold it to the axis of evil.
I believe that big DNS responses will be faster because instead of establishing a TCP connection there is already a warm one ready to go.

But yes, for the common case the performance will be the same.
500 ;)
It is important to understand that a negotiation is not the same as a trade. You don't always have to give something tangible to get something back. Very often, negotiations proceed on points of emotion, or morality, alone. An appeal to justice, mercy, friendship etc, is often just as effective as a promise of a big material reward.

For example, the EU did not want to be seen as ruthlessly crushing the Greeks for no reason at all and would have probably taken any reasonable demand seriously. Unfortunately, Varoufakis' grandstanding gave them a jolly good reason to antagonise us without guilt, or at the very least removed any possibility that any demands of ours could be presented to the other member states' electorates as reasoned, or just.

In any case, one does not go to the negotiating table after having systematically disparaged the other side as villains, like Syriza did, and expect a positive result. See where Brexit negotiations are now, after years of British politicians blaming the EU for everything.

Like I say above, there was (and is) goodwill in the EU about Greece. Many people have expressed their dismay at the treatment of the country by the Troika. What's more important, as others have said, the IMF was very strongly for debt relief. And like you say yourself, we had already suffered under austerity for a few years and it was clear it was not doing anything for growth or our prospects to repay our debt. There was a case to be made in our favour.

For sure, there was not a whole lot to go on. But that's why I say "a skilled negotiator" was needed. Tsipras and Varoufakis were nothing of the sort.
gitlab employee detected
If it helps, abductions are very rarely random strangers, almost always someone already known to the child.
The solution is identification of bad methods and subsequent ignorance.

If only we had a metric for credible science that takes authors, institutions, publisher and funding sources into account....
Yes, it was. A moment later I thought of aspirin. "Volkswagen" has a different, more recent negative history. Indirectly poisoning people via emissions subterfuge is probably not as bad as VW's Holocaust activities, but in my defense the one has been in the news more recently. I don't have any particular reactions to "Germany, Berlin, Brandenburger Tor", the latter probably because I've never seen the term before. I guess I thought of Angela Merkel?
That's true albeit I think we need another level.

Don't be an activist, things are too large for one person.

Be a socialist

jokes aside, we all can start doing something, but

1) what exactly ?

2) how to coordinate

3) without falling into politics hell

----

1) I really wonder how we could help purify air. More plants ? that might absorb some CO2, what about other molecules ? What about vacuums in sewer pipes ? enough to cause a little depression near ground that would suck part of the exhaust gas in places where they can be processed.

2) see above for planting and tweaking cities then 3) .. have no idea
Not to mention the fact that there hasn't been any kind of official announcement from either party yet.
I'm not convinced. Chromebooks seem to be popular enough and simple enough for luddites. It's certainly a flavour of Linux; despite being a bit locked down afaict.

Maybe we're so used to expecting Year of the Linux Desktop to mean Year of the FOSS Linux Desktop that we ignore the successes.
We currently run on Azure. GitLab integrates deeply with Kubernetes and specifically GKE, so it makes sense to run GitLab.com there: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/
I primarily associate the name with them being a pharmaceutical firm. I think most people would these days.
What does poster on page 25 (No: 20, ID 6614809) mean and who is that guy?
It's tubes all the way down. A series of them, if you will.
Microsoft stole my code and then spit on it
I think the question of what is the optimum human population of a country, continent, planet that maximizes prosperity and welfare is an interesting one.

Yet, apart from the problem of humans still having to be in actual close physical proximity to each other for economic activity, which results in housing problems in major cities, I do not see the signs of overpopulation or too much economic activity in Western countries. If anything, the situation in terms of the ecology seems to be getting better, not worse.
I don't know why this is downvoted.

I've worked at two major companies which both used MS Office/Skype for everything and a selfhosted gitlab for code repo.

If the MS package provided git, I'm sure we would be using that instead.
The Internet does, what it does best nowadays: freaking out for 1 or at maximum 2 days about a single topic.

Looking forward to the next shitstorm on Wednesday or Thursday.
Yeah, but will they retire Monsanto's tactics? That's what really matters.
I am German and "IG Farben" means nothing to me. Monsanto on the other hand is popular to hate and omnipresent on and off the web.
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg also 'leaked' or 'predicted' or 'misspoke' — depending on how deep you are in the Apple blogosphere — that there's ARKit 2.0 (with shared virtual objects between iDevices) and a new Digital Health features (ensconced in the Settings app) similar to the initiative Google announced last month
It's a language feature in as much as the absence of static typing and the ability to check for methods is what makes it possible.

But yes, it it a guideline, and Ruby code that violates it will generally be seen as not being idiomatic Ruby.
Not really an alternative I think. A VM needs management. The good thing about a cloud solution (like Github, Bitbucket) is somebody else is keeping the server up and secure.
You haven't dealt with Apple faithful much I presume.
Show HN: I made 14 open-source Bootstrap 4 themes
"Dream" is the right word here. The idea that a major software firm would buy the worlds largest repository of and community around open source software with the sole intention of "providing leadership" seems pretty unlikely.

It's along the same lines as saying an oil executive would make a good candidate as the EPA chief because they "understand pollution".
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214257
I was actually thinking about Azure, but good point.
Personally, I prefer very dark grey, but it would be nice have a 'none more black' option anyway :)
That last paragraph sounds suspiciously close to what most governments with a sovereign currency are doing.
People don't know that much about Bayer, it's not a firm which makes often the news. Monsanto however is one of the firms with the most negative public opinion in the world, it's easy to see why they would want to scrap that name.
I'm guessing the people using vscode aren't the ones "freaking out", but I could be wrong.
I build many of my web app prototypes on WordPress. I give a talk about it: https://wordpress.tv/2017/06/05/corey-maass-rapid-web-app-de...

I had another idea last Thursday and had a prototype completed by the end of the weekend. WordPress takes care of ORM, routing, user management, admin and most of the features every web app requires. This leaves you to develop the actual unique selling proposition.
Repeating a sibling comment[0] here to donate to https://onedollarglasses.org/

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225018
Oh. I stand corrected. Thank god all those PHD's are working on showing me ads. We're saved.
I mean no that was esr's whole deal. He wanted a version more in tune with business than free software. rms hated it. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

> Some of the supporters of open source considered the term a “marketing campaign for free software,” which would appeal to business executives by highlighting the software's practical benefits, while not raising issues of right and wrong that they might not like to hear. Other supporters flatly rejected the free software movement's ethical and social values. Whichever their views, when campaigning for open source, they neither cited nor advocated those values. The term “open source” quickly became associated with ideas and arguments based only on practical values, such as making or having powerful, reliable software. Most of the supporters of open source have come to it since then, and they make the same association.

> The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand. Most discussion of “open source” pays no attention to right and wrong, only to popularity and success
My take on that is:

a.) A huge part of GitHub's value is their default-ness. Anybody can build a website UI to git, although it is a lot of engineering work. Gitlab and Bitbucket are somewhere in that equation.

People uneasy about MS are all over the Internet talking about moving off of GitHub today. MS announcing that they are open-sourcing GitHub would instantly evaporate a lot of that doubt/resentment/NOFUCKYUOM$!!!!URRRGH.

b.) They could also open-core it, not totally open-source it, just like GitLab. Thereby keeping basically all of the more-lucrative enterprise business (that's probably way more comfortable with Microsoft anyway).
I agree with your statement and would like to add to your comment:

I don't understand when people point to bio mass that could absorb the carbon. This is based on my understanding of carbon history on this planet, which is far from detailed or complete.

We already had the earth covered in biomass before human populations increased explosively. Back then, a looooooong time ago, what as far as I know brought the carbon levels (CO2) down was when dying bio mass was getting buried instead of being recycled. That means most carbon is underneath the earth.

We just spend the last few centuries busily getting it back out from there though.

So as I understand it (someone correct me please if it is wrong), how can we possibly hope that a biomass cycle could keep enough carbon trapped? The past shows that it has to be buried deep inside the earth! That would mean biomass cannot be the solution, even at full capacity it could not bind enough.

I'm happy to be corrected if my understanding is wrong.
I am sure getting off your main competitors platform is a huge win now!