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Your Guide to Bit Manipulation – Eslam Maged – Medium
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Microsoft is also heavily "embracing" Python. CPython is on GitHub, the infra is partly controlled by MSFT employees and the CI moves to MSFT as well.

Caveat emptor.
Yea, I'm working on that, will be deploying this nice caching proxy to speed up the dashboard.

Thanks to Comcast for creating Trickster.

https://github.com/Comcast/trickster
I care about how much they respect freedom instead of how many lines of public code they shared. Technology can be bought or bruteforced, freedom can not.
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HttpFacebook disagrees with NewyorkTimes criticisms of device integrated apis
Microsoft need to stop creating sub-par products.

Skype is absolute junk...takes me 15 mins to get a call working each time.

Microsoft Teams/Planner is junk too.

I understand things are changing, but it still feels like they have weak product managers who don't care about the quality and polish of their products.
> Shadowbanning is not a real thing, and Instagram says it doesn’t hide people’s content for posting too many hashtags or taking other actions.

Would they admit it exists in either case?
Ubuntu gnome is more similar to the "simplicity" of windows XP than vista, win7 and win10. The changes of windows are too big and too fast for old users. My mother is still on ubuntu 14.04 to keep this stability.
There’s a working group for it that’s bashing out ideas, but I haven’t heard much from it in a while. I recall hearing they’re trying to take the parts they want and merge them into HTTP2.
Even beyond simple pruning, there are techniques that currently don't seem to be in use yet and should make chain-size a non-issue for the near future. If written about it in another comment here before[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16929524
It's a weird argument. If it's not necessary in 30 years (I doubt it because some of the type inference issues are simply undecidable, and that in much simpler languages already), then the language can just opt to ignore type annotations or merely check their consistency. Having them is great either way for the benefit of documentation.

My take is he doesn't really like (or "get") types and feels protective of his language, which is fair. I think Python made an interesting choice here, i.e. provide syntax for types without semantics. The drawback there is potential fragmentation on type system semantics.
It may mean little to you but you asked me what I saw, not what you saw :)
Ask HN: Why was this Gitlab link flagged and disappeared from front page?
A few hours after the news of Microsoft acquiring GitHub. This discussion showed up on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223286
But only few minutes after I looked at it. It was gone and it says flagged. Why? The blog post was clearly on the unfavorable side for Gitlab (see most comments). So what is happening really? Am I missing something?
It is a separate instance from our internal one. We have a cron job that automatically copies the internal Grafana dashboards to the public one, so you still see exactly what we see.

We used to use Federation, but now we just have the public server scrape the same targets as our private one.

I'm adding a caching proxy (https://github.com/Comcast/trickster) to the public server now to improve performance. :-)
I’ve wondered for a while—very non-scientifically, just idly—if atmospheric CO₂ could account for increased rates of neurological/psychological conditions such as ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and ADD (attention deficit disorder)—to a degree not explained by more obvious factors like increased visibility into the existence of these conditions and ability to diagnose them. Is there any good research into such a correlation, or is it just absurd?
Bryan Caplan’s ‘The Case Against Education’ – A Review
I have a hard time figuring out what to be angry about. One day we're upset at the evil capitalists for paying workers too little. Now I guess we're upset at the evil capitalists for paying people too much.
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This is a good paper and presents some really good arguments. For those that want an easier summary of the situation, i interviewed an expert on banking and economics in the middle of last year where he explained how inflation was a tax on the people and a real crime and that it was created by the banks.

You can see the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfNgntAQ6EM&t=35s
Not at all, they're not even in the list of the contributors, as you can see on the 4.16 kernel statistics : https://lwn.net/Articles/750054/

The list doesn't vary too much with the versions, so either they're working under the radar as "Unknown", or they barely contribute to the kernel.
Bayer to retire Monsanto name
> video amplifier I used had a gain-bandwidth product of only 4.5MHz.

That's .. not really what I'd call a video amplifier, unless the amplifier itself is also made out of tubes.
> a bad product launch

So are you telling me that windows 10 has stopped forced updates (and the forced restarts that go along with that), stopped all OS-level advertisements, and made it easy to permanently turn off all telemetry on one settings page?

Or is their product still a flaming pile of shit?
Olajumoke signs deal with firm
Signalfd is useless (2015)
Did you use a script like this one? https://gist.github.com/JosephKu/7a151e737c0a2de3eb3a6ec3c26... that is mostly what I do. Works flawlessly for me every time.
Long winded political statement by some economics professor. Why is this interesting?
In case anyone else was facing this problem (and isn't too committed to Aspell as a backend for Flyspell), the version of Hunspell from ezwinports[1] (version 1.3.2 at time of posting) seems to be working with Emacs 26.1 on Windows.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
Why isn't all this code on 'the chain'?
It’s worth noting that Daniel is the GP here. You’re talking about him in the third person.
Rust is an interesting one, because I think it bridges those last two - normally very separated - groups. Some of those who deliver software into embedded systems are excited about the possibility of a replacement to C++.

(disclaimer: am an embedded systems engineer and a Rust fanboy)
Microsoft contributes a bunch of money to The Linux Foundation now but they really don't contribute very much code. Their main concern seems to be keeping Hyper-V working well so that Linux VMs are performant on Windows server. They don't register as a top code contributor in the last Linux Kernel Development Report: https://storage.pardot.com/6342/188781/Publication_LinuxKern...
This sort of tooling is a must have the moment your project has more that a couple developers.Does anyone know of other algorithm versioning tools?

At work we built some custom infrastructure to evaluate algorithm (all kinds) performance over time, use various configurations, run comparaisons...
I would like to open-source some of it, would people be interested?
Sure. I see 3 recurring issues with "nutritional research" I'm exposed to:

1. Wayyyyy too much industry involvement, much of it not properly disclosed (OP here is a classical and representative example).

2. Lots of research from relatively small and "less known" institutes, done by researchers with hard to verify credentials.

3. Low scientific standards. That'd include:

- Refusal to share data
- Refusal to share data analysis methods
- Not keeping the basics of a double-blinded test
- No reproduction, and not even the possibility of independent reproducibility, as the methods are described so vaguely.

That's in a nutshell.
The US Dollar is an accepted global currency for international trades.

So it kinda does make sense they accept it, since they can ultimately use it.
Mod parent up.
I bought a Surface Pro thinking I should give Windows 10 Pro a chance with WSL on it. Even the “Pro” version comes with bubble gum jam games on it, ads, spyware / telemetry and the like. No way of removing it.
I wiped Windows 10 after a week and installed Ubuntu.
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If it's openable it's not locked down. If I can't trust the kernel then every level above it is tainted (this is assuming you can trust the CPU and firmware, but at least ARM is better than Intel here).
I think you are failing to grasp the price differences and my argument.

You can become obese eating rice and beans for less than the 1.50$ per day. Morbid obesity on cheap calorie dense food is cheaper than a healthy diet. This trend continues if you look at fast food or any quick options.

So, no being fat is not cost prohibitive, but eating veggies is. Further, as I said if you eat empty calories like Purple Drank you still need nutrition and again eating calorie dense foods and extra calories costs less than veggies.

This has social consequences as fewer people eat healthy foods they become less accessible, and culture adapted to eating cheap means all food options are high calorie.
Thank you so much for all the interest! We're flattered and excited to see all the discussion about the project.

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In the presentation at RubyKaigi (which will be available online soon) we explicitly mentioned we'd like to chat with folks trying to scale Ruby into the millions of lines of code, or folks also working on similar typechecking projects. Of course feel free to email even if you aren't in those groups, but I wanted to get your attention if you were.
This is mostly correct but you have one thing backwards. When you pay the coffee shop (with a debit card) you're not giving them an IOU, you're giving them the same kind of dollars which you originally deposited into the bank.

The system does include IOUs but those don't move around. When you give your hard cash to the bank it creates an IOU, that's what the balance you see when you login is. Your bank then lends out the hard cash to other people.

When you pay with your credit card the bank is still giving the merchant real money, the merchant would receive actual on-chain Bitcoin, but you're simultaneously creating a Bitcoin IOU which you promise to pay the bank.
Two is one and one is none. Drives fail, servers fail, keys get lost, accounts get compromised, planned deletions get fat-fingered.

Modern cloud APIs make it trivial to build redundancy into your system. Usage-based pricing and nearline storage makes redundancy relatively cheap in most cases.
Author's Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY
If it is true that GitHub run on long term loss, then itself is important anti-competitive problem.
This should be applicable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...
A short animated introduction to Bacteriophage by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg
PDF-Tools lets you interact with PDF files in Emacs.

No support for retina screens on Macs though, unfortunately.

https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
I'm wondering this too - private repos might be a goldmine of intellectual property, which businesses assumed would stay "private", i.e., not in the hands of companies like Microsoft.
sad. Atom has much better usable UI. I get constantly lost in VSCode menu and (strange enough) it is very difficult to startup a browser in it.
Telemetry and ads in an OS you paid for, which supposedly targets the “Pro” market. That’s not evil?
What if Microsoft open sources GitHub?
So you largely have the same problems GitHub had. I’ve seen you say this exact same thing multiple times in the past day, but what exactly is different?

EDIT: When I say “seen the same thing said multiple times” I’m referring to multiple linkages of the relevant page in the handbook by others, and in the CEO’s own recent blog post about the acquisition.
A point that nobody mentioned yet is the evolution of Electron with this purchase. I would not be surprised if they were to put their own trackers in the core lib so that they can access the data that they do not have from all other platforms and products (seeing that many popular apps like Atom Slack etc. are built with it and are not Microsoft products). Maybe this is their next effort towards the personal info/Big brother business model seeing as almost all other efforts failed (no matter how good win10 are they always have the stench from win8/Candy Crash and will always be too slow and insecure for business purposes - no useful data).

Either way, hello Qt5 and Gitlab! By the end of the week I hope that Gitlab will be our new home.
Looks silly at first glance, but I think it is a very interesting question. Asking Google I found a lot of "they die", but no good research about the cause (admittedly, I only spend a few minutes). Only one other - still open - question on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-tracked-the-cause-of-death-... -- The only answer says it has not been studied thoroughly, but it is from someone whose professional and job title ("Biomedical gerontologist, Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation") sound like he would/should know.

I think it is implied that the cause of death is ageing? What else would it be (lab fruit flies don't have predators)?

I found a hint here: http://genomics.senescence.info/species/entry.php?species=Dr...

> Little is known about causes of death in old fruit flies but cardiac ageing has been reported [0981].

That sentence indicates that the question is not very well researched?

If that is true I find it amazing that there are ageing studies, shouldn't their own cause of death be well-known?

To @gweinberg, if you are reading this, what do you base this on? You wrote

> few of them die from age related causes
> It's very tempting to move to a place like Portland, and either take a lower paying job, ...

OTOH, as long as you can sell your house for at least as much as it cost you, that money's not lost. There's something to be said for a few years' of Silicon Valley salary, then pulling up stakes and moving somewhere more reasonable. Best of all is to draw a Silicon Valley salary while actually living somewhere else, but I'm not supposed to talk about that. ;)
You mean a python implementation on truffle? Or ruby on something truffle-like on RPython?
Almost certainly EBCDIC: http://www.astrodigital.org/digital/ebcdic.html

EBCDIC has discontinuities in the same places, I-J and R-S.
Andromeda | Leeds, England (no remote, sorry) | Full-time | Full stack web developer (React, Node JS, Go, WebRTC)

We're a growing startup in the critical communications space looking to hire someone who can help us build out a web services on top of AWS and UI with React to allow our users to manage their device fleets. We offer a pretty large degree of autonomy and choice in the tech stack you use so the above is only a rough guide.

The job spec is here:

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And our website is here:

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Unfortunately right now we aren't considering remote candidates or sponsoring visas.
So are you not ok with the concept that some people don't need that option and, as long as the vendor is clear about what is and isn't possible, having some devices that are more locked down that others is acceptable?
They are the biggest software company, so when they decided they want to embrace and extend open source, it's not surprising the quantity of released code is higher than of smaller companies. The argument here is different: we don't really believe MS changed much from the time they called Linux and GPL "cancer" and used all possible means, some of them quite grey, to completely annihilate all significant competition.
I just use `git grep` which isn't as fast as ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep), but is still damn fast (on Windows).
I actually test my unit tests by changing the behaviour and measuring if the tests fail :-). A great metric is fuzzing the behaviour and measure the number of unit tests that fail. If it's a lot, then you can improve your unit test game :-)
The proposal should also consider the product placement business model. For example, I create a movie, and I get some funding from a trusted advertiser because I said my famous hero actor will wear your shoes, use your earphones, use your phone, drive your car, shoot your guns, flash your badge, wear your glasses and drink your drink on film and at all press events. I say, I think I can get millions of views using clever marketing techniques. I won’t need to spend anything on distribution and promotion. I get the money and I release the film on pirate bay. I even cry my film was copied by the North Koreans and the Russians since the BBC is so eager shove it in people’s faces as they eat breakfast. Win/Win. The people can share and copy my film as much as they want, I still own the original copyright, and I would have monetised the product placement better than anybody else.
Weirdly, some of the organizations and theories he's attacking are also his own (he was the lead author on the [weak] Positive Money paper which proposed making the Bank of England directly control the money supply he's now insinuating is some central banker astroturfing campaign, and the unconventional recommendation central banks broaden their remit to tackle Japanese economic stagnation by taking on some of the asset purchase and lending roles of the commercial banking sector which he now appears to consider to be a road to "Orwellian totalitarianism" is literally how he made his name)
Batch editing a hundred tasks pops up a progress bar where you can watch it happen. I'm no MySQL fan but InnoDB shouldn't be that slow.
By buying GitHub. Now the big tech companies will have to move to something else and we will have fragmentation.

It does look like most will move to GitLab so if it just becomes the new GitHub that would be fine.

Just hope we do not end up with each just hosting their code on their own site. Which this might cause.
They also used to have CodePlex, but eventually they killed it and migrated projects over to GitHub.
Agreed, this is a great resource. Is there anything else like this out there?
I've been reading into Activity Pub over the last week, and I don't think this would really be the case, (but I'm happy to be wrong).

For example, if a Gitlab instance posts a Pull Request object over to a Mastodon instance, what is the latter supposed to do with that? presumably it won't have any UI widgets to display the content, and no way of acting on it semantically.

As far as I can tell, Activity Pub is a way of federating instances of the same application, with the same semantics. But on the internet I'm seeing some dialogue which seems to presume that AP would make it possible to federate instances of all sorts of different applications and have them all Just Work™

(Apologies if I've misunderstood your post, I'm kinda rambling at this point)
You might think that the reason GitHub exists is to be an altruistic public service to all developers, but that's not the case. This is: https://github.com/pricing
As a paying user of GitHub and a member of organizations that use its commercial services, it would be completely absurd for them to put a dozen employees out of work because they have to support a pointless lawsuit of not removing an infringing repository that isn't making them any money in the first place.
Have you tried jruby?
While the whole thing doesn't make me happy, this sounds like the worst FUD I read in a long time.
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What are you basing this off? This article?[0] If so, then it only supports my shared belief with roadbeats that Microsoft out of most of those companies has had little impact on my life as an open source user.

[0]: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-top-contributors-to-gith...
What about "evil capitalists" using their advantage unfairly to stifle & crush competition, keeping their profits high, while keeping salaries artificially deflated for the majority of workers.

But ok, let's just create this fantastical narrative that "paying workers too little" and "paying people too much" cannot possibly apply at the same time to different segments of the population.

Hell, let's even use the loaded phrase "evil capitalists", a great term if what we're looking for is to deftly avoid any real criticism of capitalism.
On the framework side:

If you need an ORM and you don't need any interactive views then Django is a good choice. (Interactive views are views that are stateful in the browser: an interactive graph, an interactive table, a To-Do list, etc.)

If you need interactive views then you'll have much easier time using a React+Node.js framework such as Next.js (https://github.com/zeit/next.js) or Reframe (https://github.com/reframejs/reframe). And if you need an ORM you can use one of the many Node.js ORM such as https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm

If your site is static then go for a static site generator such as https://github.com/nozzle/react-static. ("Static sites" are webapps/websites that are HTML-static: The HTML doesn't need to be dynamically generated at request-time but is static, no server is required, and your app can be statically served.).

Disclaimer: I'm Reframe's author.
I was wondering how they know it is not a real thing: they use machine learning, they feed the content with all metadata in and then let some trained AI logic filter/prioritize it. If the learning algorithm has found that most people don't 'engage' with content from certain people, or with a certain type of content, it might filter it without being intentionally being programmed in, right?
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People hate Microsoft for "being Microsoft" BECAUSE of what Microsoft is, does and has done.

I'm sure you will find most people who voice those opinions have their own reasons, based on history, to be distrustful of Microsoft and the way this acquisition will be handled.
At public pay-per-use pools we sometimes also have 7.5m and 10m platforms. As well as 5m springboards. They require deeper water, and are more expensive to build, but that's about it. E.g., near cologne there is an indoor pool with at least a 7.5m and 10m platform. I don't remember if the 5m one is a board or a concrete slab.
But from 5m upwards it hurts on your feet if you hit the water at the wrong angle, and it only get's worse from there.
You'd be surprised. Case in point is my current main client, a huge national broadcasting company which is using Jira and Confluence for everything on one hand, but is just setting up a GitHub private instance on the other.