skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US citizen who has spent more than a few weeks in Barcelona ... seen how people abuse the commons firsthand

Aside from breaking the law, how does one abuse a common area?

Not implying this is what you’re saying, but I’ll never understand people who try to imply commons areas should only exist for the whims of certain classes of people.

I lived near a park in Minneapolis a few years back and one of my obnoxious neighbors were trying to get laws passed to change park rules because they didn’t like the large “poor looking” family who had a weekly cookout in the park on Sundays. She tried so hard to rally the neighborhood into joining her quest...

I kept asking her, “If you don’t like public areas, if you want to control who uses what and how they use it, why on earth would you move into a densely populated area, directly across the street from a public park?” I mean, it was a fairly pricey neighborhood so she had options, I’ll never understand why she didn’t move into one of those suburban neighborhoods with a homeowners association— those are tailor made for people who want to micromanage others and can’t handle living amongst the public. Like, stay out of cities if you’re this type of person...
I was making low 6 figures in Austin and my TC actually almost doubled when I moved to the Bay. I had multiple offers, all with similar compensation. Like another peer has said you should try interviewing and see what is offered before making these kinds of judgements.
You aren't kidding, only 1-2 of this poster's comments don't contain a link to their blog.
Currently #1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527
The dude is consistent
Thing is, this was before Microsoft's whole momentum shift. Before they moved Windows to git, before they launched VS Code, etc.
"Facebook Gave..."

Well, that's like problem number 15. Number one is to look at what you're giving to facebook.

Number 2 is to look at how much control you have over the intimacy of your own life and those around you, using or not.

Number 3 might be to look at how many phones/devices you can root, rip and reset (I mean, c'mon, the personal data sink on a phone is enormous and most have little to no say about what can be on it and when much less port and comms control).

Number 4 is maybe that any middlin' IQ ass with a badge or a note with some letterhead can scoop your kit. (See Number 1.)

Number 5 - Who makes the rules? (Don't think too hard on it, please.)

Et cetera.

Facebook is easy. Fasebook is sleezy. Facebook is free. So? I think I'll trust my peers well before I trust any piece of must-have with a logo that gives you only tactile controls, at best. The masses do not choose wisely. (See Number 5.)

If you do the sharing then you need to do the caring. Button it up and bring it down. Believe it or not your likes are your own and if you don't like what they're doing now then shut it down. I know it's easier said than done for some but the keys to the kingdom are in corporate hands now. Good luck.
Not right away, but eventually MS "old boy network" cancer will metastasize there and push all the good people out, just like it did in every single other acquisition. This problem is not unique to Microsoft: other large companies have it too. But it is more acute, because at MS the old boys network is utterly incompetent, completely entrenched, and the company is 100% top-down. Frontline devs are expected to do as they are told, and are considered to be expendable "resources". In contrast, at SV companies managers are more expendable than good engineers.
I was making up numbers. The actual average salaries are irrelevant to the argument that "absolute more-pocket-money is still absolute more-pocket-money."

It might not be true that SV is the place to go if you want the absolute most pocket money (or, again, money-to-send-home-to-your-family-in-another-country), but I'm pretty certain it is if you're willing to live out of your car.

The actual calculation of where you should live to get the most pocket money is probably available at any Effective Altruist forum. "Earning to give" and all that.
Am I wrong in the assumption that all the javascript non-free programs that RMS describes is a mere convenience on top of a public REST API?
> It works even worse at optimizing Ruby code via Topaz.

Topaz was easily the fastest Ruby JIT before TruffleRuby, beating the JRuby and Rubinius JITs. It was very impressive.
San Jose had one of sorts, iirc it was destroyed because it was a hotbed of assaults, drugs, rapes, and pollution (illegal fires and dumping).
I'm working on probabilistic programming right now, and a lot of the papers I'm reading are from Microsoft Research. They have a cool Infer.NET project, and an ecosystem based on it is beginning to form. For example take a look at Tabular, which is an excel addon to do "Bayesian inference for the masses" based on Infer.NET: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tabular/

Overall though, by freeing developers from writing custom inference algorithms, all the work gets pushed to the language designer/implementer. It is not at all clear to me that one (or even a few) generic inference algorithms will be able to satisfy the needs for different problem domains. So there could be not one general purpose PPL but multiple ones with different problem domains.
Nice ambiguity... it saved you a flagging.
My Philosophy of Subscription Software
Me as in a working, tax paying, citizen? What if all the working, tax paying citizens left - what would we have then? I do not find your comment or attitude constructive.
Out of curiosity I did some googling.

This tweet was made on the day Steve Ballmer left Microsoft, right on the brink of the company's 180 in so many areas. Talk about calling it.
We’ll be migrating everything off GitHub this week.

This is good, because I’ve been wanting to dive into GitLab for a while.
A great deal of the slave trade and colonialism happened under mercantilism, not capitalism.
Bittrex Opens Direct Purchase of Cryptocurrencies with Dollars
Actually, if you’re in the EU then GDPR makes that explicit: consent for the use of collected data must be tied to granular functionality. You can’t now collect data and use it for indiscriminate purposes.
It's not prescience or genius..... almost no matter what happens, someone somewhere predicted it was going to happen. And with the Internet, it's on record so can be looked up.

Whenever there is a financial crisis, someone goes back and sees who predicted these exact circumstances, which of course someone did because that's statistics for you. But it doesn't make then a genius or prescient.

It just means they are the person who happened to guess what did actually happen. And I tell ya, it aint hard to predict which of the big companies will buy some other highly successful smaller company because there ain't that many acquisitive really big tech companies.

If you want to look like a genius in the future, Tweet a few predictions about random([amazon, google, microsoft]) will buy random([jetbrains, atlassian, twitter]). No one will notice if it never happens but when it does you can stand tall as a true crystal ball gazer who "really called it".

Here's when "The Simpsons" predicted the Trump Presidency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcYMvzZ7jk Same thing.

Here is when some other guy predicted - right here on HN - and way back in 2008 - that Google would buy github https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=262460 Now that guy is a genius! Oh wait now he wasn't, it was someone else who made a different guess.

And when those aliens arrive.... you'd better believe there will be a long queue of people lining up to take their title as "genius" and "prescient" and "called it".
This is their blog post on it

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/04/27/vsts-publ...
Do you have examples of Microsoft acquiring technology that was beloved and embraced by it's community and making it better?

MGS did right by Bungie/Halo circa XBox; though Halo hadn't yet been released, and it's initial fanbase were all Marathon fans.
Skype wasn't ruined because they attempted to merge it into their other platforms. Skype was just flat out ruined with bloat, horribly inefficient code, turning it into a spying tool and not listening to their vocal users. Everyone was rioting after every update and it just got worse. To add insult to injury the last major update they have tried turning it into Snapchat. Their incompetence knows no bounds. If you think the same middle managers that ruined Skype aren't there anymore, you don't know how big companies like Microsoft work.
Not a ton more. SF doesn’t have as many parks as NYC. If we are talking about the Bay Area then you forget that NYS is just forest.

https://www.tpl.org/sites/default/files/2016%20City%20Park%2...
Been to quiet a bit of the Middle East, as well as some very poor parts of the former Soviet Union.
Not just that. The issues he’s fighting for are important. Possibly the most important albeit rarely discussed issue in our world of software and tech. Do users really own tech which they cannot inspect?
It looks like the sixth bit is used as rubout (even though per wikipedia, the 0x1f code, letter-shift, was normally used for that purpose).
Future often rhymes with the past (Skype).
I'm usually too scared to work with anything over 120V- especially since parts on the schematic linked require a 1000V power supply to work. Very neat, but too dangerous for the average home-gamer like myself to be inspired enough to go out and build.
Not really. The notion that the non-technical should understand EULAS dozens of pages long is a total fiction (that is legally binding in the US but not so much in saner countries).

On thousands of issues that can put several things I hold dear at risk, I just trust elected officials to do the right call. It is THEIR job to understand these issues and take the correct stance. I mean, this is literally what they are paid for.

I still wish that privacy had been a bigger concern to the population at large, but thanks to recent scandals, and to EU laws, this starts being the case.
You can't run a lot of Crystal code in Ruby, either. They implement keyword arguments completely differently (Crystal does it more like Python, where all arguments can be specified by name or position) and of course Ruby doesn't support Crystal syntax relating to types. Crystal also has a tuple type with a literal syntax ({1, 2, 3}) that isn't valid Ruby. But otherwise it's fairly close.
Only the use case with the largest market share matters?

That kind of thinking, really irks me.
Not the tech giants, but GDPR too.
I'm not really interested in being part of a "healthy discussion" with Microsoft. There are enough people telling Microsoft about all the things it is doing to make people dislike it.

It knows what these things are. If it wants to stop doing them, then I'm happy to use some of its products. Until then, I'm going to gitlab now, because Microsoft sucks!
With Ruby getting an AST, and potentially a type system in the future, I think that ruby 3 could lend itself to bring transpiled to crystal relatively easily, depending on exactly how much type information there is, how difficult / possible it is to correlate that with the AST.

Scala 3 is doing the typed AST thing, so hell, why not?
I want to say this in the nicest way possible: I absolutely think you are 100% wrong about both the company's desire for new engineers and the competency of the engineers being hired.
Thanks for the link. Purchasing GitHub, if true, can certainly complicate things.
The Crystal-language based Amber Framework (https://amberframework.org/) is a good framework to use if you want to ramp up a web application with a backend database and a full MVC stack in next to no time.

It also helps that it is an extremely fast framework.
https://github.com/tbrand/which_is_the_fastest

Other frameworks like router.cr, Raze etc are faster performing, but getting started with a db middleware etc will take a bit longer.
Wonderful article, appreciate the detail. I've had great success in the past using event sourcing, so anything that is even remotely similar is always a fun read. Thanks!
It was the Red Scare. We added “under God” to the pledge of allegiance on the theory that undercover commies would explode if they tried to say it. I’m not surprised.
Until the top execs are removed, don't believe there's a sincere desire to change at Facebook
2017 - The potential tax law has already been passed, and the taxes are already coming home to the US, at the lower rate.

Interesting historical information though.
There's probably something to this. I don't have kids so luckily I don't have to think much about it (yet, at least). While there are plenty of studies about psychological issues from spanking, but I've always been uncomfortable about the definitions. There is a fair difference between a single sharp smack on the butt (clothed, not bare) like I and my siblings, friends etc. used to get (and deserve) as kids, and actual abuse (i.e. beatings, using implements, hits to the face, arms, torso, etc.), but I feel like most of the studies lump them in together.

It's also hard to control for whether it's a single spank for discipline used only when the situation warrants it or routine, arbitrary or random spanking. There's probably going to be psychological abuse or neglect coming along with it if it's the latter but far less likely for the former.
No, I don't think like that.

It does bother me when Firefox introduces a feature which covers up a huge hole in TLS, and they get a large number of complaints on HN.
What’s the point in buying it, then?
You could always do what I did and leave. Waiting for it to get fixed is unlikely to work out, and the tech industry is past it's glory days.
Overnight success!
I'm a CTO in the genomics sector. I'll hastily be looking for an alternative. I've long ago abandoned the Microsoft morass.
Nice job Daniel (again...)!
While TRR only sounds very appealing for certain threat vectors the handling of captive portals is still a ‚nasty‘ thing. While certainly not in the realm of DNS over HTTPS the logic / UX on the browser side as well as interaction with the underlying OS definitely needs improvement.
I'm not debating rights here, I'm saying I don't know how to contact another user with zero activity on the platform.
Previously submitted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221543
Response from FB: "Why We Disagree with the NYT" https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/06/why-we-disagree-with-th...
An appreciation: “Command H.Q.” (2014)
I doubt it would work. Have you been to Barcelona? People party and make noise even without a music venue. Then there are concerts that get organized in squares. This one is easy to solve because it requires a permit from the city hall.
> Nobody gives hardware for free.

Correct. And Apple artificially requires that you have a Mac to develop software for Mac or iOS.

Not even Microsoft does that. I can compile for Windows on any platform.
Training LSTM Networks with Resistive Cross-Point Devices
Thinking about it, I assume that Commodore, Atari, Tandy, etc never participated in the Unicode Consortium, right?
The claim misunderstands how software is different from services, so it's really a nonsensical statement. Also both Google and Microsoft distribute nonfree (proprietary, user-subjugating) software and spy on their users activities.

The freedom of free software one runs on their own computer means it doesn't matter who holds the copyright to the software. If the copyright holder does something you don't like you have a copy you are free to run, inspect, modify, and share.

Remotely hosted services are a different consideration than free software (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-o... for more). With remotely hosted services the user doesn't typically have a copy of the service software. So free software concerns are for the service provider. We hope the service provider runs only free software for their own sake, they deserve to control their own computers just as we deserve to control our computers.

In the particular case of free software and discussions you will publish publicly, you should consider https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html -- the GNU Project's ethical repo criteria. This was written well before Microsoft was known to have any interest in buying GitHub, possibly during the time when Microsoft was chastising "open source" software for existing (and still despising strongly-copylefted free software) and before their current "Microsoft [heart] open source" publicity campaign. Thus there's no chance GitHub's failing evaluation is based any ad hominem such as whether Google is somehow scarier than Microsoft.
Generally not as fresh milk, but cultured. Fresh milk tends not to last very long in hot climates without refrigeration, while forms like yogurt last much better.
That "momentum shift" didn't happen overnight. No doubt the shift was under way long before Nadella took the helm. Proper execution of the shift required a new leader -- that is to say, if Ballmer wanted to make the shift it wouldn't be credible while he was CEO.
OS X and every major Linux DE have tabbed file explorers, Windows still doesn't. I've never even heard of a third-party file explorer for any OS.
Wish I could get some of these full sized and in original quality.
I think this needs to go even further. If federation is done using an open standard like ActivityPub, then any services using the protocol would be able to federate. At that point it wouldn't matter what people are running, they'd all be able to talk to each other.
I guess now this makes sense:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/03/31/shutting-...
If I let my kids roam free the police get called. It's a lose/lose and it's very sad.
There's a known issue with older Firefox. Once the site is updated to the new version, this issue should be gone. Let me know if the problem persists for you on any other browsers! Thank you!
Yes, and I've got to say that they've done a pretty good job. Compared to most other similar texts, it's remarkably easy to read, and it's not even that long either.
Can it bundle "issues, wikis, PRs / code reviews, and releases"?
If you get an impression from lots of rap videos that people of colour behave like gangsters can you then legitimately describe them all as such 'generally'?

Or is it incumbent upon you to realise that you have selected a small and unrepresentative sample and look for balance. It's not difficult to find and talk to Paul Embery, Kate Hoey, Brendan Chilton, Thomas Fazi, Bill Mitchell, etc. Or for that matter me.
Except that they get prescribed a lot, almost as an insurance.
You said they were sitting on ‘your’ name. It’s not yours any more than theirs, and it’s not sitting on it unless someone else rightfully owns it.

And why would you ask them for it? It’s theirs - they got it first.
Until recently we had a few families in my neighborhood that had kids that played outside just like my brothers and I did as kids. They all recently upgraded their homes and moved out of the neighborhood though. Those kids were my dog's best buddies.
Oh, kind of like the Mythical Man Month, except there the marginal utility at some point becomes negative for each additional employee assigned to a project.
Quite right, thank you
Agree with FB on this one. The privacy issue with 3rd party developers was that friend data was sent to the 3rd party developer databases. Here, the data just stays on the device.

The way the article is titled can make it look like the device makers actually got to make their own database of Facebook users.

Edit: I read it again, the article does say "Facebook acknowledged that some partners did store users’ data — including friends’ data — on their own servers," but they don't follow up on that at all, they go back to messing with a BlackBerry. That's the big question.
If you come from a northern culture, you may misinterpret things in the south. Here, to give you the proper cultural perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hPo6mYnks
> Gitlab is also running on a bunch of VC money.

That is what I said.
I hope the "That this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the state by the state for the state shall not perish from the Earth" (with "under God" struck out) poster meant something other than its literal meaning...
Microservices – Sync vs. Async communication
Have YET to turn a profit?! Wow.
They were convicted of anti-competitive behavior, and that was after at least a decade of unprovable rumors and industry open-secret of anti-competitive behavior. How much more clear-cut of a case do you need?
Has there ever been a plan for Git to support looking up SRV records? This would solve your problem without proxies.
I am so happy to see this moving forward. Microsoft will provide the proper management to drive innovation again in GH. Start by creating a replacement for the astronomically priced Travis
You don't think the lawyers are happy about that? You don't think they donate to the legislatures and judges?
But is that API free? Is the database that it connects to free? etc...
"We are not aware of any abuse by these companies." - seems to be carefully worded. They do not make claims that there are no abuses, nor do they elaborate what checks/audits they have in place to detect abuse.
It's a shit platform for that. Users who are attempting to read these "groundbreaking insights" are subjected to a deluge of tracking code and other malicious behavior. There are plenty of excellent platform for people to share ideas, LinkedIn is absolutely not one of them.
yeah but frankly 10x of a small number is still a small number. we still have to see what the real numbers are.
Ancient Geeks knew about and drank milk. It's literally mentioned in Homer's The Odyssey, where Odysseus takes milk on one of his quests. Cheese is also mentioned, multiple times.
would definitely hang up a few of these in the office if they were good scans
> What about the people who hate Apple just because `Apple`?

Yeah, sure. I'm totally on that but this isn't a thread about Apple, is it?
Did any big FOSS project move to GitLab from GitHub today or is planning to move?
Disaster.
That rather depends who you are. If you are in the 'gig' economy, or young and unemployed across Southern Europe for example.

The roll back of democracy from universal suffrage capable of changing anything to akin to a toddler group able to choose the colour of their sugar free fruit juice is deeply worrying.

But more worrying is the acceptance of it.
Microsoft can monetize the data in a way that github themselves couldn’t. It can also afford to lose money for strategic reasons.
Then EVERY single other business of its size has a strategy that looks like "Embrace". The only difference is that Microsoft had a memo leak.
Syntax is only the first obstacle. You also have the object model and the standard library to deal with as well.
Ours too, there is always dry food available. That is the whole point of my observation that they demand mealtimes too.
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> This dovetails nicely with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Interix/SFU/SUA has always existed. WSL is just the latest iteration of it. And nobody uses it now just like nobody used it before
GDPR, the tool to prevent the disruption of Facebook from ever being economically viable! Yay. Let’s celebrate.
Bryan Cantrill predicted Microsoft would acquire GitHub – right here on HN