skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow $7.5 Billion, a nice juicy sum for a company that has influence yes, but very limited profit potential, considering that developers (despite earning well) seem to be v reluctant to part with their cash - juding by anecdotal evidence of numerous comments here, expecting everything to be free and moaning about piddling costs such as Sublime Text licence. Wonder how Linus Torvalds feel? The sellors should send him a small percentage in gratitude for making them billionaires.
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You lost me with VBScript. But before I am with you:)
100 Mm = 100 000 km. I think this is the first time I've seen someone use the unit "megametres" correctly.
Does impeachment result in serving jail term? Or he will just be removed from President’s post but as he has pardoned himself, there will be no jail term? Just curious about the legalities.
fwiw gitlab also has opt-out telemetry that includes identifiable data such as instance hostname https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/admin_area/settings/usage_st...
Lets build a ClojureScript chatroom
Haha! Love the logo!

In terms of use: the search results seem good when searching a specific thing, but results can be a bit less useful when searching something generic like "python directory utility".

I'm not sure I can see myself using this over Google or the package ecosystems for the various languages and frameworks I use

PS: in isakkeyten's comment the implied name based on order of checkboxes is "HubLabBit", which I actually like better as a name as it rolls off the tongue a little better IMO.
Maybe PDF-Tools could be of interest to you? You still cannot edit PDF files inline, but you can jump to the source code from inside the PDF.

Unfortunately, it lacks a continuous scrolling mode.

https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
How much do ETL solutions cost?
Given the hand-curated speaking order, that seems hard.

There are services out there that will do quality transcription that is completely automated (e.g., Bitplatter's FluidData), and IIRC, they're already doing most of the podcasting world's transcriptions for free right now, including Joe Rogan's.

This seems like the more niche market of those who want last-mile, extra-high-quality transcriptions to sell, for which I think they should be charging more than $10.
What are the goals Microsoft wants to achieve with this?
Scott Bell is a fucking moron idiot.
> Yep, I really dont understand why there are Microsoft fans.

I definitely agree. Anything Microsoft-related, or even Google-related, is a no from me. Just from a product standpoint, most of there products inherently aren’t that great. And you get that feeling when using their products, a feeling of “oh, this must be a Microsoft product because it feels very corporate.” Plus, there approach to design is subpar — it’s like there’s people out there that actually like Google’s Material Design?

> Like I understand if you bought an Xbox

I have an Xbox, and I just noticed advertisements on the dashboard that are non-gaming related. I also think I saw this when using a friend’s Windows-computer, they have advertisements within their operating system. It’s just bad.
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cat json.l

#define echo ECHO
#define jmp BEGIN
#define p printf
#define nl p("\n")
#define s p(",")
%s xa xb xc xd
xa "\"Question\":[{\"name\": \""
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Have you heard of the power of contracts that have never actually been to court. It turns out many of them aren't legally enforceable. It's one of the ways modern society is dysfunctional. Check it out: http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
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The term frequency of "developers" in today's slide deck surely brought up some memories...
> It starts by saying "stole my code", but then discusses an MIT licensed piece of code

Unrelated to the rest of the discussion, I just want to clarify that MIT License != 'Do Whatever You Want' License. MIT requires attribution and maintaining the copyright license on existing code. Yes, if you don't adhere to the license's terms when copying code, it is stealing.
I already avoided GitHub because it was proprietary and trying to centralise open source software development.

You shouldn't be obliged to do business with one particular company if you want to contribute to open source software. It doesn't matter how benevolent the owner is.

Nothing has changed.
ask netscape devs, or Java devs, or Nokia devs.

guess the headline,

"MSFT: Destroying Standards Every Way Possible"

is just not quite as sexy.
Honestly? Google.

For me, it's not about whose the bigger scarier influence, or who does more evil. It's just based on how practically I see either turning out.

=Microsoft Acquisition=

For a few months to a year, everything is mostly the same, until new features start happening. It starts with something like annotations on particular regions of code, with say all the annotations for the codebase stored in an extra file "git_annotations.tla", which is some zip file collecting together a bunch of random undocumented xml that changes constantly. These annotations are tracked semi-competently by VS Code and MS team enterprise tools, being updated to deal with source changes with each commit, but ultimately just showing up automagically in either the web view, VS Code, or associated enterprise tools. These annotations will start out as minor unimportant things, not even really worth porting to other editors, but will increasingly be abused for code review in enterprisey contexts. People who try to just edit things from the command line or their editor of choice will be constantly breaking other people's annotations at random times since they don't update that file, so file renamings, moving, etc won't be tracked properly. MS provides some xcode/sublime/atom plugins to provide partial support for some other editors, which prompts web developers to adopt them in droves so they can add gif tooltips to comments. At no point is there a great enough reason for anyone still using github to switch, so slowly the remaining open source projects there start making use of these features, and so contributers need to start using the appropriate MS tooling to ensure their commit doesn't break the annotations (or just use one of the supported editors).

=Google Acquisition=

Github user profiles are now linked to a google account. The webclient works better in chrome than other browsers. The webclient is renamed, rebranded and redesigned every 2-4 years by someone looking for a promotion, but ultimately in a way that doesn't affect people just using git from the command line. Github possibly gets a few additional features to support internal usage with Google weird mono-repo lifestyle. Google tries unsuccessfully multiple times to integrate Github into yet another failed team messaging platform or whatever, but again in ways that only affect the webclient. Google more successfully does some data analytics stuff based on searching and indexing all of that code now sitting on servers they own, and this is almost but not quite profitable, but close enough for them to leave it alone and get distracted by something else that's shiny.

To me, neither seems ideal, but all of the annoyance of the google stuff seems avoidable by just using separate accounts for separate things, as usual.
Wow, I had no idea. That seemed so big for OSS, and the killing blow was relatively recent.

It doesn't seem as if MSFT has entirely changed.
> One tap to clear all notifications

On iOS, clearing all of today's notifications from the notifications list is either one tap (on the iPhone) or a force-touch and a tap (on Apple Watch).

(to be fair, I believe those are both pretty recent features)
You're conflating the issue of informed consent with access ubiquity.

Simply because the data was gathered in a way not unlike most apps, doesn't make it a non-story. In fact, the lack of informed consent and the very misleading statements to Congress make it a huge story.

User data is a commodity, and is worth far more than money. Considering how easily manipulated large portions of the Facebook community can be (e.g. Facebook mood studies, election-year propaganda, etc.), giving access like this to large tech companies - third parties - absolutely needs to be well regulated and come with the informed consent of it's user base.

Not to mention that the policies around turning this data over to other parties -- namely law enforcement -- is different between most of these companies.

The objection is not non-facebook code accessing facebook data. The objection is that, once again, powerful information is being traded and used as leverage to drive profit, with the intent of the buyer or receiver largely unclear, and the impact yet to be seen.
There is always potential for ground. The secondary side of the transformer has a much more dangerous potential: a unknown fault puts something at ground, and then thinking there is no ground you touch ground and the other side. Normally that would be harmless, but since there is an unknown ground it is deadly.

In many ways mains power would be safer if there was no ground, and a lot cheaper. However a couple failure cases are even worse without ground, and they are the type you only find out about when somebody dies. Thus we put ground in houses.
Scott Bell is a moron idiot.
TED talks and YouTube videos already have closed captions/subtitles.
Burying inconvenient studies about neocotinoids?

Why not do your own research and decide?
and also bitbucket is unchecked by default? how absolutely idiotic
>> installing Ubuntu directly from the Windows Store

I cannot stop laughing at someone seeing that phrase as a positive. A major Linux distro being relegated to a windows app? That's the stuff of nightmares. how about installing Windows directly from the Ubuntu store? Let us see MS Word and Excel executable running seamlessly under Linux. That's what support for f/oss looks like.
> But "extend" hasn't happened yet.

If we wait for it to happen by then it will be too late
Some people get offended when for-profit companies turn out to be not neighborly or friendly or human beings.

I like to look at it from the perspective that they are a for-profit public company and are legally required to maximize shareholder value, and they have every right to do so.

Therefore, any plans I make regarding GitHub will not rely on them being friendly and kind-spirited in any way. If they turn out to be great, I'll just be pleasantly surprised.
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Nobody here is claiming proprietary code is inherently bad (some people definitely do, but not in this thread), they're just saying it makes a poor example of Microsoft embracing open source.
Phenomenal curation.
those are not major git platforms
But Google is a much larger contributor and patron to open source.
Collabora and Linux Kernel 4.17
Let us call it unrestricted capitalism vs. some of the European models where eg the unions/workers have by law one third of the seats in the board.
Github has been losing the battle in the enterprise world to Gitlab. The latter has more appealing features to enterprise users. So this acquisition in some sense a great opportunity for Github as well to enter enterprise under the wings of Microsoft.
Okay.

I'm Chase Bank.

How do I issue 600 BTC given I have 20 BTC in my account.

There is zero allowance in the protocol for this to happen.
YouTube captioning tends to range from bad to horrible. TED talks are probably hand-transcribed, as I remember them as being higher quality.
Most "cryptocurrency zealots" don't know shit about crypto or currencies.
Exactly. Which is why today I typed "go help importpath" to remember how to use my own domain name for my import path.

Dear reader, you should too.
Yeah just like Ubuntu, FreeBSD + XFCE and a bunch of other systems. I need something solid, featureful and simple as macos is, that has _great_ UX and I don't feel like fighting against the OS. Good example is when to update feature in macos vs windows is. One is pleasant, co-operative and feels right, the other is disruptive and I need to disable basic stuff not to lose some unsaved work. Just a great example how UX matters.
No, you are wrong, this is a pretty egregious mistake. They defined device makers as service providers, and then allowed them to do things that even third parties weren't allowed. Yet they claimed they shut that stuff off to third parties (so they lied by omission). "No, we don't allow third parties anymore to do that kind of stuff" (but there's this large group that can do it, but we aren't calling them third parties). This wasn't just another way to get at the data. The NYT article goes into some detail about what they allowed them to do.
Large Public companies don't change overnight for risk of shareholder revolt. As a Microsoft skeptic, I'll give them the opportunity to change.
You're right on the first point. They aren't comparable. GitLab is a community driven, open core product that is far more powerful than GitHub. GitLab has an extremely robust CI system built in. In addition, you can even use them to create private Docker registries, which I find useful for creating my own private CI images. Plus, they have a better security model (5 tiers), wildcards for branch protection, and tag protection. I'm sure there's other places that they differ, but before you disparage a company, please be informed about who they are and how great their product actually is.
Check the Monsanto Wikipedia page for more details, but the short version is that Monsanto patented its genetically engineered seeds and then sued farmers for patent infringement if they were found to be growing crops from that seed without a license.

The problem with this is that seeds tended to blow between fields, so if your neighbor licensed Monsanto seed and then the next year a bunch of that seed manages to take hold in your field, you're liable for a patent infringement.

Additionally, they argued, successfully before the Supreme Court in 2013, that additional generations of seed from the initially licensed seed required new licenses from the patent holder.

As might be expected, this rubs A LOT of people the wrong way.
I don't think these are contradictory.

Even if you interpret the second one as "new buttons to advertise Microsoft products", it doesn't damage a developer-first stance or independent operation.

Moreover, GitHub has already partnered with dozens of other companies for its Education program for instance [0]. This already compromises independent operation, and displays ads to thousands of students, "whether or not they like these tools" (your words).

[0] - https://education.github.com/
Mr. Nadella's version of "developers developers" is top notch. I was scared we will get something like: https://giphy.com/gifs/michael-strahan-enTimXqzmVXR6
Of course! We use Oj.dump in Rails compatibility mode in production at ChartMogul.
> * Actually open .NET

We don't need to open the .NET Framework... We have .NET Core. It's better, faster, and cross-platform...
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That doesn't make sense. If they buy the competitor, why would they tank the business which is now their own instead of gaining the combined revenue and market share?

"Buy and trash competitor" isn't a real strategy. When an acquisition fails, it's usually poor management or vision, or just a lack of synergy in the first place, not a purposeful tanking.
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> First by forcing them to use Windows Mobile (or Windows Phone, or whatever it was called) when it was clear to all they needed to go with Android

There's no way that Microsoft bought Nokia to concentrate on making that tiny hardware subdivision profitable (MSFT's market cap is $700B+ and they bought Nokia for $7.6B). They wanted a hardware platform to promote Windows Phone. For Microsoft, the dying entity in need of a Hail Mary was Windows Phone, not Nokia.
Erm, while I agree Skype wasn't the pinnacle of chat software pre-MS acquisition, I believe OP is referring to their absolute butchering of the consumer client[0].

Anecdotally, I stopped using Skype for iOS shortly after it was changed because it went from a solid, reliable internet-calling service to probably the most buggy / laggy interface I could have expected.

[0] - https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-updates-skype-after-...
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> the pandemics can't be blamed on the empires. Those were inevitable as population and trade grew, a byproduct of urbanization.

Fair point. I guess my thought was that empires increase the risk of pandemics, since they tend to come alongside expanded travel and trade. Periods of peaceful empire see population and trade increase faster than technological growth would predict, and disease becomes a frequent limit on their durations. But it's certainly not an intended consequence, and the risk would be rising with urbanization and technological growth regardless.

It's something that worries me about global connectivity, and I think it's a widely underestimated risk. But it's hardly a risk I could hold against Pax Americana; in an era of consumer plane travel nothing short of utter isolationism would constrain the risk. At least in a relatively peaceful world we have proactive monitoring and countries that can work together on treatment and vaccines.
Please tell me you are trolling people. You can't seriously believe what you are writing here. Microsoft is an ugly company with ugly business practices and they are absolutely not trying to save anybody.
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+1 on those thoughts. I'd add that there are a lot of other things that central banks do that keep the banking system(s) in check and closer to honest. Setting interest rates for example.
> There are far better ways.

Citation needed since PoS / PoW is the way Bitcoin uses to solve the many generals problem.
> Seriously? Windows 10 is a perfectly usable OS out of the box. I can open up the included web browser and go to whatever website I want. I can install Office, Visual Studio, a Linux subsystem, VLC, a VNC client, VirtualBox, Chrome, Firefox, and every other piece of software I need without any hassle.

Ditto for dozens of Linux distro's.

> Yes, there is something called "Bubble Witch 3 Saga" in my start menu that I did not install. I understand why people are upset about things like that even if I don't care.

What other things have they installed that is difficult to find out about? How about all the spying? Some game you don't use is the tip of the iceberg.
Does impeachment result in serving jail term? Or he will just be removed from President’s post but as he has pardoned himself, there will be no jail term? Just curious about the SCOTT BELL IS AN IDIOT legalities.
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Did windows 10 stopped shipping ads and spywares ? Or orce update (and sometime locking my PC for 30 minutes then erase my grub for even more fun) ? Did skype turned back great, and P2P again ? Did they revoked their abusive patents ? Did they start to adopt open standard for new products ? Did they quit the Business Software Alliance ?Did they stopped shipping root TLS certificates from dictatures so that they can basically intercept any of my communications ?

Their updated terms of services are a treat:

https://professional-troublemaker.com/2018/03/25/microsoft-b...

If you disable telemetry in Windows, the OS __still__ calls home:

https://social.nah.re/@alex/99699321529592263

MS prompting his users to not think too much about what it's doing :

https://shelter.moe/@fenarinarsa/99472223904930838

Bitlocker sends you private key to microsoft (and questions about it, said they were to be trusted, but you could request deletion individually if you wanted):

https://www.undernews.fr/libertes-neutralite/windows-10-vs-v...

I have sane doubts about this new microsoft.

We got another new microsoft every year. I have this argument every year.

And since I do see they are getting way better at PR, I think that now I just miss worse scandals because they deal with them much better.
> Who loses? Mostly the holders of treasuries.

In the United States, defaulting on Sovereign Debt would basically guarantee the death of social security. If you're in the USA, by far the best way you can insulate yourself against sovereign debt is by:

1) organizing your life's expenses so that you can retire (or at least continue to live) with $0.00 from social security.

2) Ensuring that you don't rely on any federal pension (including military retirement).

Of course, that isn't possible for most people. So in the USA, the answer to "who loses?" is "old people".

3) Ensuring you will have be able to afford healthcare in old age without medicare.
Agreed, I like the idea of GMOs because more people get food, less pesticides are used, etc...

What I dont like is that they often get involved with politics trying to patent food/seeds.

If they want to do what apple companies do and brand their seeds, cool. Making food illegal to produce without approval is dangerous.