skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why does the linked article calls ot out as "compressed" but not mention it for java bytecode?
> 40% is only 2x as likely as random chance.

That’s an interesting way of looking at it.

Would 100% be only 5x as likely as random chance?
If I had a stake in Github, I would be delighted to sell it to Microsoft.

I don't have a stake in Github. I am a user with 2 distinct roles. In one role, I work for a company that pays for Github's services. Github has done a very good job hiring people who have maintained the service as it scaled to very high levels. I am concerned that Microsoft will be unable or even unwilling to keep those teams intact. They may wish to restructure the organisation. They may wish to change middle management in an attempt to make it profitable, etc, etc. Github has had a good track record with us. Organisationally we have no experience with Microsoft, so it's a risk.

Personally, I spent a chunk of my career working in the MS world (working with gold/platinum level partners). This is ancient history by now (10 years ago), but my experience with MS support was abysmal. Essentially "support" amounted to having a telephone number where I could report issues. No follow up allowed. No notification if the issue was ever resolved. Upgrade to the next version when it comes out and check for yourself to see if it has been fixed. Hey, that's why we pay for those MSDN subscriptions! Though, if you have about 1000 seats in your license, you can get real support (if you are lucky). Maybe that's all changed and they are fantastic, but once bitten twice shy as they say.

In my other role as a consumer with Github, I have my personal repositories there. I still vividly remember MS's push to create a division between "hobbyists" and "professional developers". The idea was to provide different levels of access based on the idea that "professional developers" work for large companies that will pay for high licensing fees and extensive support contracts (which only really seem to count if you have at least 1000 seats... see above). "Hobbyists" are intentionally crippled by giving them just enough access to seem like they can do something, but denying them crucial things.

With the release of VSCode, etc, I can see that the company has changed, but old ideas die hard. 10 or 15 years is not enough time for me to feel like I can trust the company. Will they slowly screw me over by using their dominant position to "boil the frog" -- slowly crippling their "hobbyists" without ever doing anything overt enough to cause them to jump out of the pot? Only time will tell, but yes I'm quite concerned. To be fair, MS is not the only potential purchaser who would concern me. At least it isn't Oracle!
GNU ethical repository criteria
https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html
I was using gitlab anyway. But it's significant that Microsoft is taking another step towards destroying open source and the community around it (while making it look like they are embracing it, of course).
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> It isn't necessary, but it is sufficient and that seems to be enough for a lot of folks. You seem to be arguing that I'm saying this is ideal. It's not,

In other words: It could be even worse? Your point being?

Monarchy isn't necessary to govern a country, but it is sufficient and that seems to be enough for a lot of folks.

Does that make monarchy a good idea? Does that make democracy a bad idea? Does that mean that people have considered the advantages of democracy? Does that mean people are even aware of democracy? Does that mean anything?

> but it does seem to be the structure most people arrive at naturally.

Centralization of power? Well, if you mean by that that people who want to have power often are good at finding ways to dupe people into various forms of dependency, then I guess so? Again, your point being?
“Nobody ever goes there anymore — it’s too crowded.”

Yogi Berra
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Of course they will mess with it. Just slowly so developers dont leave. This is Microsoft. Read up on their tactics. It works.
“I've never been comfortable programming in a language I hadn't written a compiler for “

That says everything. Thanks for this ;)
Microsoft is acquiring GitHub
Comparing yourself to others is going to make you nuts. Stop it. Seriously.

Why not be THANKFUL you've got a job?

If you start with what you've got now, work to learn as much as you can while you're there, it will go a long way for you going forward.
I don't think it's an issue that deserves nuance because it's not unreasonable that they should behave as a monolith with regard to privacy. It should be a top-down corporate policy.
Found your comment really interesting, thanks!

Having traveled to both LA and SF briefly (from Sydney) my impression was that LA was much more sprawled and car-centric than SF. I really like cycling and public transport so I think I would struggle with LA.

Does the method of getting around have a role in which cities you prefer?

Also, why do there seem to be lots of people impersonating others in the Bay Area? I don't think I've ever met someone like that in Sydney - at least never realised.
I thought Phnom Penh was overall a much cleaner city than SF... Lots of people and haphazardness in PP, but mostly cleanish. I’d agree with your statement based on where I’ve been too. Also poor doesn’t always equate to "squalor".
Honest question? Why won't Cali govt just build 700 or so 40 floor buildings and rent them on zero profit. Something similar to Singapore. I think California's housing problem is bottleneck for its economic growth, an emergency.

Why is government being complacent if it was China you'd have skyscrapers going up like there is no tomorrow
GNOME did not migrate From Github, but from a bunch of other tools.

Also, they are not using the GitLab.com instance, but have set up their own.
The mountains are more like a 4h drive from San Francisco though.
You're under-stating the return. Unlike other investments you can leverage the house with a mortgage. Assuming you put only 20% down you're making 50%/year gains.
Anglican https://probprog.github.io/anglican/ also based on a prototype by Frank Wood, using Clojure syntax.
Passed the Assembly. May need Senate committee actions before Senate floor vote. If it passes there, it just needs to avoid veto.
A mere 100 years ago pretty much everything that was for sale, food, clothes, tennis rackets, condoms (or what passed for one), ... was produced from animals.

You'd have to stop doing a hell of a lot more than merely stop eating meat to have any measurable impact.

Also what about the secondary effect ? If you stop eating meat, that will increase supply and reduce demand, and thus drop the price by a lot, which will lead to new customers, both for eating and other applications.

You really want to help ? Buy the rainforest, let it be rainforest. For bonus points, destroy the co2 certificates instead of selling them.

Things just aren't this simple.
Yes!! This is a great start! They have a gold mine in their hands. I hope they understand that and make it a possibility!
That was absolutely true when VS went by the "Express" moniker, but not today's "Community" edition. The difference between the paid (Pro) and free (Community) version is just licensing^. The Pro also comes with an MSDN subscription. MS is really going after the open source market, they've realized they were losing the future and embraced Linux/MacOS. FWIW, I use both Xcode and VS.

^and some "CodeLense" feature that I've never used.

http://www.visualstudioresources.com/2017/07/09/differences-...
Apple doesn’t keep its money in Bermuda.

And if Bermuda did that, it would cripple their economy. No one would ever invest there ever again.
You are native to think they want to support open source. This is an American, capitalistic company who have crushed many opponents exactly the way they are doing now. Embrace, extend, extinguish. It's their thing. You can Google it even.
Why would "the lawyers" choose to conspire about this in particular?
> Big tech firms have been known to intimidate startups into agreeing to a sale, saying that they will launch a competing service and put the startup out of business unless they agree to a deal...

> Big tech firms are able to shell out huge sums to keep top performers and even average employees in their fold and make it uneconomical for their workers to consider joining startups.

Reminds me so much of the show Silicon Valley. A great satire!
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Microsoft has acquired GitHub
Source? I thought the story was that Github was profitable from day 1 in 2008?

How did they become unprofitable? Their expenses are servers and people. It seems that there are an enormous number of companies paying for private repos and that should more than cover their costs.
Title is wrong.

William Cook and Warren Harris were the Apple programmers who created AppleScript:

www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2006/ashopl.pdf

Sal Soghoian was the Product Manager hired years after they left who ran AppleScript into the ground.
One of the main Topaz developers now works on the Python equivalent of TruffleRuby.
This. Thank you for pointing this out. Also I have a hard time trusting the "community + proprietary" model...
No, they move there because they hope that math works out that way, and they think they will be the one guy out of 10? 20? 100? where it actually does work out.
But at this rate in 30 years that modest middle class house will be worth 2.6 billion dollars!

(kidding. I think).
They have rest and graphQL interfaces for all the functionality that isn't plain git. You don't need to use the github website.

I use the graphql api to build a set of shellscripts to do all my pull request reviews on my terminal using vimdiff for example. I can then approve or reject things just using shell and not touching the web frontend at all.
I think the true advantage you're referring to is automated regression testing, which isn't necessarily just unit testing (or at all)
The medical spaces are a really interesting space to look at with blockchain, and the different evolutions that we can see there as far as medical records, and being able to see a patient's entire medical history on the blockchain. Making that available to doctors is something that I'm really excited about and somewhere that I could see blockchain going.
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For my birthday one year (in the spring) I got a set of walkie talkies. The neighborhood kids across the street had got the same set for Christmas that year (our parents probably coordinated it). The next two summers (age 11-12) were probably the most fun I’d have as a kid. Climbing up trees to “spy” on the neighborhood and calling in “intelligence reports” to “home base”. Just being a young boy in a neighborhood with lots of kids. Incredible fun.
It's only partially open source. They let you smell the freedom, but you can't really have it.
If its just frontend web app, then Create React App (or React + Parcel)

If it is a complete web app, then Create React App (or React + Parcel) + AWS AppSync
Probably it is. I guess, in many parts of Europe, we're used to city space being usable by everyone for recreation, without wondering who owns any particular stretch of land and whether they'll want to kick us out.

Alas, this seems to be disappearing here too; cities are importing the strange habits of gated off neighbourhoods, and giving every possible public space to private owners, who destroy its utility by trying to make money off it.
The client was mismanaged, but forcing the backend onto their abysmal Lync stack did ruin reliability as well as privacy.
Apple and the Irish government colluded to work around the EU tax system, to the detriment of Irish and EU citizens. No, the salaries of Apple employees won't "trickle down" and compensate for the missing tax income.

Why did it take so many years?
Because the former two were probably fighting it tooth and nail.

Asia & the US are having massive growth at the expense of the well-being of their own populations. You would do well to remember one can't eat money.
Actually it turns out I was off by an order of magnitude. The earliest recoded number systems date back 40,000 years [1]. Zero was invented about 5000 years ago [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_numeral_sys...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-origi...
That's kind of a broad statement. I see a lot of people using WSL, I even think it has become part of the standard software kit for new hires within PlayStation Network. I know its widely used among the employees who opted for the Windows laptop over a MacBook. Anecdotal, of course, but I think you're downplaying the spread of its use.
The Memo leak was just the tip of the iceberg. MS also lost multiple court cases about their anticompetitive behaviour (for example gov of US, Sun) in that era.
No, but it still seems like an unbearable outcome
Care to explain what? Satya Microsoft is day/night different between Ballmer MIcrosoft.

Meanwhile Sundar Pichai Google hasn’t been the friendliest.
In Item 10 it says:

> One study I remember showed that young investors should use 2x leverage in the stock market, because – statistically – even if you get wiped out you’re still likely to earn superior returns over time.

And the linked paper says:

> The mistake in
translating this theory into practice is that young people invest only a fraction of their
current savings, not their discounted lifetime savings. For someone in their 30's,
investing even 100% of current savings is still likely to be less than 10% of their lifetime
savings

This makes a lot of sense to me and says what I haven't been able to about my own risk tolerance. What is OPs counter to this? That the paper's conclusions are flawed, or that no 20-something could execute it?
You could argue the upper middleclass bourgeoisie figureheads were agent provocateurs helping to restabilize the status quo
This is definitely a problem; after observing several classrooms in a few schools I noticed a few things:

1. Some schools have a systematic problem of this; if the administration is not willing to back up the teachers, the teachers have limited options.

2. Some teachers have difficulty maintaining discipline even when the administration is supportive.

3. I do my best to avoid schools like #1, and with #2 usually means that there will be approximately zero consequence to the child not doing homework. With 4 kids I have better things to do with my time than policing homework, so I set aside an hour a night as "study time." when my kids have figured out they have a #2 teacher, they spend the time reading a book. The lack of homework is not reflected in their grades, and the only consequence is I get called a bad parent 4 times at the parent/teacher conference, which hurts my feelings not at all.

Finally a funny little anecdote involving one of my kids and a teacher who had zero control of the classroom:

My daughter came home from school on Friday and was obviously upset. After a bit of cajoling she said she was sad because "My teacher said that if I kept on doing [Obnoxious Behavior] I would get detention, but I've been doing it all week and I still haven't gotten detention. What do I have to do to get detention?"
It is a matter of concern for private repositories (of Microsoft's competitors) in GitHub.
I mean death from accidents may have declined, but childhood (and adult) mental illness is prevalent at heretofore unknown levels, and not just because of an awakening to diagnosis. So 10 children are alive but 100,000 are anxious, depressed, etc. Was it worth it?
"Seeing that Github is reportedly unprofitable, if they aren't acquired by a profitable company, what's the alternative?"

Lay off employees until they're profitable.

Tech companies tend to invest ahead of growth, because tech markets tend to be winner-take-all and if the market grows when you don't, somebody else will take the market. They're effectively using their employees as insurance to make sure nobody else can catch them in the market.

As a result, they often have orders of magnitude more employees than is necessary to keep the lights on, the product operational, and the money flowing in (at least in the short term). Google, for example, really just needs datacenter ops technicians and SREs to keep the product up, which is maybe 2% of their current headcount. If they laid everyone else off, they'd eventually become vulnerable to a competitor or lawsuit or public opinion or unhappy/indifferent customers. But until that happened, they could maintain quite hefty profits.
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People made copies of "forbidden" material on x-ray photos. There was samisdat (underground press). There were anticommunist anecdotes told at night in soviet kitchens. And somehow these people managed to do that without explicit permission of their government, and even under the proespect of severe punishment: incarceration, torture, labor camps and death penalty in extreme cases. Thing is, it was worth it for people who did that. Now, ask yourself: is the web as important to you that you would start using deep web, steganographics, etc., or are you just a consumer who just needs mass production? Because facebook and google and their services are here to stay: they're bigger than china and you need not worry about them; me - over the years of them fighting the web it has lost only one thing: its' individual freedom. Thing that you call the network effect, i call the tvisation of the web: there are no blogs, no self-hosted material, no homepages, only content "channels" owned by the select few: facebook and google. It has, for me, no appeal of the early, wondrous thing, only ad-riddled cancer. And so, my friend, the web is already dead in that aense, but it will continue evolving, and what i hope for is that some iteration of niche cyberpunk web will bring back the wondrous thing that was before.
"Why did it take so many years?"

Because there wasn't enough money being missed for the EU to take care of it.

The EU was well aware and didn't decide to move until it was enough money to care about.

It should have been clipped from day one if it was against the rules.
Gitea community is what Gogs community should have been in the first place. Gitea looks nice but there are no public instances. I only wish https://notabug.org would move to Gitea instead of sticking to Gogs...
They've been doing this for a while now; at least requesting the desktop site will still redirect you back to the actual image.

Still enough for me to dislike any imgur link, however.
I blame televion, continuously watching crime, both real and fiction, conditions us to continuously be afraid.
But we’re talking about renting a room in a suburban house, not about living in a major city. It’s insane.
I got a set of walkie talkies at about age 10 but one broke.

So one night I was trying to fix it (testing it with the good one) when I heard a foreign voice crackling through.

After getting over the initial surprise I talked to the person and found out it was the neighbor kid playing with his. I didn't even know he had walkie talkies. We were both quite excited. Such a rare and magical event at that age.
Google is a one shot wonder with search engine and ads as their 90+ revenue engine. Microsoft has been doing Enterprise and Devtools for decades. Google also has a habit of abandoning things without any warning. I can’t trust them with my life’s worth of code.
Federation would be amazing
Adults get the police called on them for walking in the suburbs, too.

It's obviously worse for people of color, but it happens to white people as well. Maybe most famously to Bob Dylan about a decade ago: https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/jersey-h...
> This disregard for ethics has allowed Facebook to “grow at all costs."

There's a great phrase for this: "move fast and break things". When you believe it is ok to break small rules and norms, it becomes easier to break larger norms and ethics and rules. This philosophy took SV by storm, but at its core it's always been about disregarding things like laws and ethics, and now we are seeing the world that created.
Sources for highly profitable ? According to the linked article they were not and lost >60M in 2016. They could probably still optimise to make a profit, but seems like they were struggling a bit with making money.
Areas of Australia are affected by high salt levels in the soil [0].

Growing the strains of rice near the shores of saline lakes could perhaps be part of rehabilitation, in which rice crops reduce the saltiness of the land over time.

[0] http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/agriculture/farm-management/so...
How do you build a requirement traceability matrix?
>can something be non-profitable for a decade and still be called a business

Just ask Amazon
The irony of this whole thing being that GitLab is hosted on Azure...
Or are we just getting better about diagnosing diseases that were there already but untreated?
As you know, Microsoft had more than 90% of the OS market worldwide. While other OSes did exist, they didn’t provide meaningful competition. The person to which you replied meant that Google Milk is only a problem if Google abuses its search monopoly to push the market away from other milk vendors, not that Google isn’t a monopoly as long as another search engine exists. Their main point was that it isn’t abusing a monopoly to launch a broad array of products if each of those products compete in a fair market.
> I'm not asking for that, but making wild baseless predictions of how the service will go to shitter or how suddenly all private code will be ripped off and "I'm going to gitlab now, because Microsoft sucks!" is not part of a healthy discussion.

But they're not baseless predictions, they're based on past information and it tells us it would be prudent to minimize reliance of Github sooner rather than later.
Ask HN: Who is moving away from GitHub, recently acquired by Microsoft and why?
I was trying to read the article critically, but am open to alternate parsings / viewpoints on the article. Would love to hear your thoughts on the subject matter of the article.