skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you are failing to grasp the price differences and my argument.

Thank you very much!

I think I DO understand your argument, but I have the suspicion that you fail at understanding my very first reply already, which sums it up quite nicely. Your "argument" is none because it addresses an issue that does not exist. You countered something that you yourself invented, an issue that does not exist.

Please, just read my original reply. This is just plain silly: As I already said, if you don't care one bit what I wrote, why did you (and still do) bother to reply? Again and again?
How so? the arrows could just point to the next page, there's zero interactivity on that PPT.
The idea is that stuff like issues and PR comments (the added value a social coding site like GitHub provides) are the extend around pure git source management.
It works for the git repository, but GitHub is more than that.

There is a wiki, a bug tracker, a platform for pull requests and distribution, etc...
There are a lot of 'useful idiots' too---people doing it for free without any direction.
To be fair, Windows RT (the locked-down ARM version) was discontinued shortly after Satya Nadella took over[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT#Demise
GitHub was not profitable, obviously you change the CEO.
As a former windows phone user and .NET developer who is currently a mobile developer, Microsoft definitely treated mobile developers worse than any other company.

They killed what small progress they’d made on their ecosystem 2 times, simply because they got bored and decided they didn’t like the technology stack they’d previously mandated and supported. They deserved to get buried in that space.

Meanwhile Apple have kept what is essentially the same technology stack for the past decade. Sure there’s been some pain, but almost all of it had some purpose that moved the development of apps forward.
The first question I asked was really important. I think y'all are selling snake oil. Your responses here confirm that for me.

I personally will be avoiding your organization like the plague.
No kidding. Sourceforge is the future of github, in the best case. Ads everywhere, binay spyware injected into your projects, etc.
Three crew members who have been living and working aboard the International Space Station have landed safely in Kazakhstan.
People want control over assets they don't have enough for yet, in order to improve their wealth generating function.
Company culture is passed down.
> Microsoft is trying to save a vital company...

So Microsoft is in the "company saving" business now? This couldn't be farther from the truth. They bought Github not to save it, but to use it as a resource for whatever goals they deem appropriate. And I really doubt Microsoft's goals align with open source well.
Hey Craig,

I wrote a service, (nowhere close for public release), that segments audio based on speakers. You have to identify one speech segment, it is then capable of labelling others. It uses GMM and MFCC. Is something like this in the works? Cool idea! I consume a fair bit of podcasts, I can affirm that there is definitely a need for this
I realize that Atom is fully open source, but I'm a little concerned that this puts VSCode and Atom under the same roof. I feel that those platforms are where the innovation in text editors has been recently, and can't imagine that MS will fund two products that compete directly with each other and that without that direct competition, they won't work on improving either.
Okay, I'm not sure I should answer because it's starting to seem like you're trolling. Giving you the benefit of the doubt:

> if you are using two units of account that’s not a fractional reserve

The system I described only has one unit of account, Bitcoin. It doesn't matter whether they're on-chain or "virtual", they're both Bitcoin, and are worth the exact same amount.

> If you loan less than your total then again it’s not fractional lending it’s simply lending.

You have misunderstood fractional reserve banking. Banks are not allowed to give out more money than they have received in deposits. Here's Wikipedia:

> Fractional-reserve banking is the practice whereby a bank accepts deposits, makes loans or investments, but is required to hold reserves equal to only a fraction of its deposit liabilities.

Say the reserve ratio is 10%. Then, given $100, the bank is allowed to give out $90 and must keep $10 on hand.
Have you been paying attention to Microsoft over the past few years? They have an ugly past, but they are a different company now. I actually think this is a good thing for the community. I for one am sticking with GitHub.
Indeed they repurposed the building at some point and the university began moving parts of its campus there. I was at that time student at Goethe Uni and was kinda stunned when I first saw it. It is a very impressive building.

Interested can see some pictures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Building
I'm pretty sure that wasn't the plan.
None of this is affected, solved or improved by changing to Bitcoin.

Your comment is complete off topic.
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Monetarily sovereign nation. The US Federal Government has a central bank that is the sole issuer of US dollars. They cannot run out of US dollars, ever. They also have a federal fiscal capability, which redistributes money around to lessen imbalances between states with stronger economies and states with weaker ones. The Federal Government can and should stop them from defaulting! To not do so is voluntary.

The US became monetarily sovereign when they removed the unnecessary artificial constraint of the gold standard after Bretton Woods fell apart (as all gold standards do eventually) and floated their exchange rate.

In comparison, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, etc. do not have central bank that can issue Euros. So they cannot issue risk-free debt, like the US, UK, Australia, NZ, Japan, etc. can. The EU does have a central bank, but doesn't have any federal fiscal function to reduce imbalances between the member states (self-imposed, because politics), and the central bank is not allowed to buy bonds directly from member states (because politics) although did eventually have to start buying it up on the secondary market. But mostly the only options of the weaker member states in a crisis are austerity, which leads to unemployment, and eventually contraction and default.
You were implying, with your statement, that her gender was relevant. It wasn't. You implied Werner had harrassed a person because of their gender. There's no other way to interpret that there.
Thanks for the feedback. Ours are diarized accurately. I've yet to see an automated service that does that well.
Or S-expressions.
Could you expand on what you're saying here? How are they ugly? What previous acquisitions in this realm have they screwed over?

I'd love to educate myself further, but need more details.
> How did they treat Windows Phone developers?

I was one of them, and Microsoft treated me very well.

Windows Phone was an amazing platform. I’ve also developed for iOS a lot. Visual studio + expression blend was way ahead of apple’s xCode. Every single piece was much better: language, libraries, compiler, debugger, emulator, UI designer.

The platform is now discontinued so I no longer develop for WP. Meanwhile, most of the skills I’ve obtained working on WP7-8 apps apply to other XAML-based platforms, i.e. WPF, WinRT, and UWP. Fortunately for me, Windows is not going from desktops any time soon.
Microsoft Buys GitHub, and Some People Are Pissed
Ask HN: What decides how to open links in Linux desktops?
The recent trend of Google creating tools like Meet that only work in Chrome has made me wonder how hard it would be to get my system to open links for certain domains in a specific browser but leave everything else to the default Firefox. Is that possible on Linux? Is there a specific program that could be tweaked to have a domain override list?
(λ speech) is a dialect of (λ calculus)(1936) taking benefit of modern web browsers.
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Free jazz in the 30's ? That was more the era of early be-bop.
> Not only in tech, but elsewhere I see a trend of just following a herd mentality instead of judging every action by it's own weight or at least let it play out.

It's a consequence of hooking up all world's information before people understand how to safely digest it. It will fix itself if we can find an equilibrium before we all destroy each other.
Why can’t these funds including the social security funds diversify into real assets ahead of a default?
My company uses GitLab because it's less expensive than GitHub.
I'm not surprised Israeli companies were behind this. It seems like in the world today, Israel is above approach and can do whatever they want. They don't respect the rule of law or the sovereignty of other nations. And any criticism of Israel will have you labeled as an anti-Semite and you'll face harassment from state-sponsored Israeli PR teams.

Which brings up an interesting question: why do progressive tech companies such as Google and Facebook have an office in Israel?
The acquisition is for $7.5 billion[0]; dividing by the 28 million active developers on GitHub, that's ~ $270 per developer.

[0] https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...
If that works out good for you, great. I know that GitHub has every right to do what they think is necessary to maximize shareholder value.
But I don't have to agree with their decisions.
I don't trust Microsoft for pretty much exactly the reasons the parent listed.
If you think the Santa ones are religious, wait 'til you scroll down to the one that reads "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants".
https://monsanto.com/company/media/statements/gmo-contaminat...

Myth: Monsanto sues farmers when GM seed is accidentally in their fields.

Fact: Monsanto has never sued a farmer when trace amounts of our patented seeds or traits were present in the farmer’s field as an accident or as a result of inadvertent means.
Similarly, in the US, there's a structure called a "Private Letter Ruling", where an accountant/attny can request a private ruling about the tax treatment for a transaction/structure/etc.. IIRC it costs about $25K, and if they say it is compliant, you can go with it.
I think this is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation. On the one hand, the user definitely thinks it's in their best interest to be in control of their software. On the other hand, history has shown that the average user doesn't make good decisions when it comes to said software. Microsoft will catch the blame for the insecure operating system, or they'll catch the blame for forcing users to update their software.

I'm no Microsoft fan, but I really do believe they did the less-wrong thing in this case.
Dover is the capital of Delaware.
Move fast and break things means don't be afraid to try things that might fail, but it doesn't mean ethics don't matter. There has long been a concern about what facebook does with people's privacy, now there's no doubt they went way too far.
How do you envision them forcing^W encouraging use of Azure, or other MS paid offerings, through GitHub?

I can see that working if they don't meddle with GitHub for the next decade, and keep it running well; then people might be convinced to try MS's other offerings.

Maybe Heroku style "run this project on your own Azure instance now" (perhaps GitHub does this already?)? Is Azure's rep good enough to pull that off?
> The Surface RT was discontinued in 2015, and was manufactured in 2012. Is this an eight year old anecdote?

The current year is 2018, right? Or did I miss something :)
This is how I see things playing out as well. GitHub starting to behave like the MS Office suite is something straight out of a nightmare. I hope so much that we are wrong.
It's like reading an article about how people don't use freshmeat any more. Freshmeat is apparently now owned by the same people as sourceforge and slashdot, so when they get that time machine back to 1999 hooked up, they're going to be rolling in the money.
FWIW, it looks like Monsanto is trying to do something about it: https://www.wired.com/2016/08/jerry-hayes-how-to-save-the-be...
>Removed bundled adware from projects

Too late, already lost my trust.

This was unexcusable to let happen years ago and was one of the scummiest things I experienced in the software world.

I havent used sourceforge in years and have gone out of my way to avoid it. They cannot be trusted.
Having read some of the articles around the missing SVN commits it certainly didn't seem to me like SourceForge was being transparent (or "New"). Was there some big outreach after that incident I would have missed?
Nice! Let me know when it's ready :)

I've tried what's out there and still haven't found a solution that can consistency diarize well. So I'm doing some experiments on my end too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana

Microsoft lost all goodwill a long time ago, and they'll never get it back.
Sorry, I'm looking everywhere and I can't find any evidence to support your claim.

BTEC A1 is introductory level from all sources I can find.

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/pearson...

https://university.which.co.uk/advice/a-level-choices/what-a...
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It's not "just something that happened 20 years ago" it's "pretty much everything they've done over the past 20 years"...

I think skeptics are just (and rightfully so) waiting for the other shoe to drop.
This is a wake up call. Too many things are relying on Github right now.

Microsoft was part of the PRISM program. If Microsoft shares SSL certs with NSA they could do MITM attacks. What if in some very specific cases you download dependencies from GitHub and they give you a different version with malicious code?

It's the NSA. They could be smart enough to only deploy those attacks on production servers were nobody is going to manually review npm packages.
I'm not sure how Linux's viability as a desktop OS is relevant to Windows being usable or unusable.

I have no idea what else they've installed, just like I have no idea what MacOS or Linux install. They're all black boxes to me. I see no reason to think Windows is any worse than it's competitors.

I assume by spying, you are referring to Windows 10's telemetry. Personally, I think concerns about it are overblown and calling it spying is misleading at best. It's for diagnostic information. You can set it to only send basic diagnostic data if you so choose. I am in favor of companies collecting diagnostic information about their products to improve them.
Can't wait for the update on TFS where it will now say:

Microsoft Team Foundation Server
powered by Github

=)
I wouldn't know how to migrate that between any systems. Maybe what's missing -- more than open source code -- is open formats for that sort of data? Like we just need a button to export that from github more than I think I'd need Github's server code.
The thought that Satya Nadella, who joined Microsoft in 1992 and then steadily climbed his way to the top would be a better, more moral person than the "old guard" is kind of funny.

He's just younger and less out of touch than Gates (and particularly Balmer).
The comment above is probably asking about the sterile neutrino mentioned in the article:

a "sterile neutrino" that passes through matter without interacting with it
This exodus is precisely why Microsoft bought github, and why Microsoft built VS Code, and why it is open sourcing .NET Core and why it is shipping Linux integration into Windows and all the other huge moves the company is making.

They recognize they lost the hearts and minds of developers. They are fixing that. Not fixed. Fixing. It’ll take the better part of a decade and some people will never change.

Five years ago no one would have expected Microsoft to ship an amazing editor on Linux and OSX. Its great to have such an amazing development team once again actively believing “developers, developers, developers” is the key to success. I can’t wait to see what they do with GitHub as they work to regain relevance and interest.
This is ridiculous and I love it.
> Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users?

How is it spying when they present you with a full screen detailing data collection with the option to turn it off, and have several blog posts providing details.

> Do they not engage in patents racketeering?

It's not much of an excuse, but all tech companies do this.

> Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype?

Didn't they give Windows Mobile one hell of a run? Like they tried for a decade and finally admitted defeat? And Skype, I don't know. I use it in a daily basis. It doesn't seem to be that bad.
The problem is that a sovereign default increases the cost of capital for pretty much everyone in a nation. This generally results in a decrease in lending, and kills any markets that are dependent on lending (housing being a big one).

Basically, once the bankers have inflated financial bubbles everywhere, the impending crash is bad for the common man, UNLESS you're one of the lucky individuals that somehow became cash rich during the bubble, and can use the cash to buy up while the market/lending falls to pieces. Funnily enough, the cash rich ones seem to be the bankers, who, laden with bonuses from the bubble days, buy up property which they can rent to plebs to get a comfortable 6-10% pa return.

A great system, isn't it?!
I'm not sure how they argue that ice core CO2 is representative for the earth, but on the face of it I wouldn't compare Mauna Loa measurements (from near the equator and at thousands of feet above sea level on the largest active volcano on the planet) with those directly above the Antarctic surface.
Americans need laws to affirm that their kids can walk to and from school alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/well/family/utah-passes-f...
Yeah, they most likely pay for professional transcripts. As do orgs like NPR and bigger companies using podcasts for content marketing.
I really hope this acquisition is good for the developer community. Also, I can’t help but notice the fact that Tom Preston-Werner, one of the co-founders of GitHub, had turned down an offer[0] from Microsoft 10 years ago and today they’ve announced the acquisition[1] by Microsoft. They really have come a full circle. Good luck to the team at GitHub!

[0] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...

[1] https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/
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This is why I'm surprised government lets Bitcoin exist.
> Facebook’s competitive advantage is its disregard for ethics.

This appears to be a quality that occurs in some business owners.

I know more than a single entrepreneur with similar disregard for things like data retention and PII. Their reluctance to address these issues when advised, I assume, would persist until they get burned.

Taking a step back, at the root it appears simply that some people are better at focusing than others. These entrepreneurs would work on improving metrics they see relevant and their effort will be more efficient thanks to zoning everything else out.

Seeing evil intent here would be counterproductive, similar to reprimanding someone on the spectrum for not saying hello: it might just not occur to a person. The key difference here is that these decisions negatively impact countless third parties, and those third parties lack the expertise to recognize the issue.

While there’s a lot that can be said against FDA[1], there seems to be a parallel here. I want to reserve my judgement about regulation in this area, but it seems like there’s a case for it, similar to how we’d like to keep food manufacturers in check.

[1] A movie called Dallas Buyers Club comes to mind.
Without useless curiosity HN wouldn't exist...
> and also bitbucket is unchecked by default?

Uh huh, I'm with you.

> how absolutely idiotic

Whoa, too much.
On the other hand, the more humans that exist, the more people are available to solve these problems (and solve them faster!)
But this is more a problem with the patent system than with the company. Why are they even allowed to patent genes?
I think everyone here knows the definition of communications. The parent poster is referring to the position of the current FCC chairman, who is pushing responsibility over to the FTC. It is clear to me, the the parent poster is skeptical of this.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced an agreement on Monday to coordinate their efforts to police the internet once the latter agency has repealed its net neutrality rules.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364336-fcc-ftc-announce...
TypeScript and Visual Studio Code are both really nicely done open source projects. There is a fairly significant group of .NET developers out there, and that's largely open source today.

Sure, Microsoft is ultimately out to make money, but they're doing a fair bit to "help programmers" and only making money from those efforts indirectly.
>I'm not going to defend Monsanto's bad business practices

>I don't think I've ever met someone who accurately articulated real problems with Monsanto as opposed to hysteria and conspiracy theory

I guess "bad business practices" are not real problems.

In fact they illustrate the fundamental ethical issues with technology: how is it going to be used?
WWDC for macOS v5
The forced upgrade would be less of a problem if Win10 didn't spy so much, or show ads in the start menu.

It would still be a problem, but less so.
In the article it is mentioned that the ’detection’ occurs by subtraction: three types of neutrino (electron, muon, and tau) can be detected; a known number is being sent by the source and the neutrinos oscillate between the states as they travel. However the total comes up short, indicating that they are also transmuting into some other variety, nicknamed ’sterile’. Since the neutrinos we know about interact by means of gravity and the weak nuclear force, and the latter is how we detect them, it can be summarised that the missing neutrinos must have oscillated into a sterile state that does not interact through the weak force.
Monsanto isn't doing that. If you actually look at the cases that Monsanto sues, it's not "Joe noticed some of his non-GMO crop was getting cross-pollinated from GMO crop, so he told his workers to spray glyphosate like mad on the non-GMO crop and collect the stuff that remained."
So you're saying anytime a new technology gets embraced by anyone it's time to jump ship? That's ridiculous. Should we be abandoning email because Outlook exists?

Edit: Actually, I don't think the idea of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" even applies to buying out companies. The idea behind that phrase applies to technologies, not companies. You can't "extend" GitHub with proprietary tech, it was never an open source technology in the first place.

If Microsoft starts extending git with new proprietary features that only work with GitHub, _then_ it may be time to start being concerned. As of now though, I don't see how "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" applies to this situation in the slightest.
- 29 years ago today, the Tiananmen massacre unfolded

- Chinese government linked to largest DDoS attack in GitHub history

- Microsoft bought Github
I look forward to the day Donald Trump is humiliated and disgraced. The American people have made a terrible mistake choosing this charlatan con man as their leader. What a disgrace.
If people choose to judge them by a different time scale than you, their conclusions seem pretty justified.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goodwill.asp

Either goodwill, a cheap deal since they were about to fold, gain trust for people to use Azure Linux or Azure open source platform, etc. I have no idea, but goodwill is an option.