skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend people consider self-hosting with phabricator. It's php-based, and if you have a ESXi or proxmox or digital ocean / linode instance, it's a very simple system to install & update, uses all the same LAMP stack everyone is used to, supports ssh/http based push/pull workflows, git,svn,mecurial repos, same type of authentication as github/gitlab/bitbucket, but biggest part of all, its PHP based, written to a very high standard through & through. Has the ability to scale insane amount of workers & cluster configurations. I've never had it once hiccup on me. Yes, if you import a project with hundred thousand+ commits, it will take a while to import, because it builds records for the entire commit history of the repo, it doesn't generate them the moment you view. So this will take time to back populate into the phabricator system, but once you have an imported repo, it has event system that is unlike any you may have ever used. It takes some time to get used to it, but organizations like CircleCI have a tutorial on how to integrate simple CI workflow using Harbomaster. https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/phabricator/ Also as of php7.x phabricator runs even faster than ever before. It also has it's own Trello Board style system, and it has a much more powerful issue system than gitlab/github. Tickets can have parent/children, and repos never specifically belong to any one project, but rather projects can have many repos. It also has integration with 2FA. It has a Question & Answers section, wiki, pre-code-commit audits. Lot of really big open source communities use it. A fairly large list of big companies using it are shown on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator
LinkedIn still feels like it's old self to me. Not that that really matters one way another to me.
Probably a direct consequence of VC funding.
This Is the Age of Grandparents
Personally I think Myvhold’s company is not as evil as people say. It actually makes a lot of sense if you take a long term view. The goal is to create a market for innovation and decentralize DARPA-like institutions so that market forces can create a sustainable source of innovation.
Hm, I've never experienced that. I use the desktop app on Mac, the web app on Ubuntu with Firefox, and the native Android app.
Kind of revealing that when the survey asked what the Bay Area's worst problem is, 42% said housing prices, but another...

...18% said traffic congestion (which, like high housing prices, is an effect of overcrowding)

...14% said poverty/homelessness (which is partly an effect of high housing prices)

...12% said the cost of living (of which, housing costs are a big component).

So in a way, it's kind of like 86% of those surveyed cited housing prices.
You can see when Gitea forked from Gogs at

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=gogs/gogs::go-g...

The following shows how active the two products are:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=gogs/gogs::go-g...
A had a few NCSC security posters that look like they came from the same art department, which I scanned:

Uncle Sam pointing: I want to protect the information in YOUR computer.
https://i.imgur.com/e0a67w9.jpg

Santa shooshing: He does not give away PASSWORDS. SHOULD YOU?
https://i.imgur.com/ZZDXBBn.jpg

Pirate and Spy: Pirate or Thief? Respect Copyright. It's the law.
https://i.imgur.com/Oa8DDeU.jpg

And I took screenshots from that PDF of my favorites:

Magician pulling rabbit out of hat: No Trick to Security. It's Just Common Sense. https://i.imgur.com/9EvTtsI.png

People with safe dials in their mouths: Put Security Where Your Mouth Is.
https://i.imgur.com/WAbAEuM.png

Hot pink poster with James Dean in a sultry pose with his arm draped around a safe: Up tight and out of sight. (I'll refrain from cracking any safe sex jokes!) https://i.imgur.com/dBv13kU.png
Suck my dick racist nigger
One example that comes to mind is that Google Maps has started telling me when I've been somewhere before, like a restaurant. It's very useful information, but I do not recall an explicit prompt about Google collecting my location history in this way. Can advertisers target me based on this location history? I'm not sure. Does it affect how results are ordered on Maps? Probably. But I don't know.

Relatedly, Maps shows me when a location is likely to be popular vs unpopular. I have to assume that's based on the location history of everyone using Maps - seeing how long they spend in a place and at what time. But what percentage of Maps users are aware their information is being used in this way? I doubt the number is high.

Also, now I come to think of it, Google search itself. It shows different results sometimes when I'm logged in vs logged out, but it's not clear why. And I don't recall ever being asked if I wanted, say, my browsing history to influence future search results. It just does. Somehow.
> In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub

Nearly all. I never got into the swing of it - always expecting a thing like this to happen sooner or later. Honestly, I shall not be sad if the world starts beating a path to somewhere else now.
Good point, it certainly depends on how you do your model. Accurately predicting the housing market appreciation and your investment rate of return is challenging. Also, renting vs. buying have different risks (monetary and otherwise).
I see the limitation.. but I must be missing some subtle distinction
b/c isn't Flutter doing essentially the same thing under the hood?

"The engine’s C/C++ code is compiled with Android’s NDK, and any Dart code is AOT-compiled into native code. The app runs using the native instruction set (no interpreter is involved)."

"The engine’s C/C++ code is compiled with LLVM, and any Dart code is AOT-compiled into native code. The app runs using the native instruction set (no interpreter is involved)."
a16z, Sequoia and friends got their liquidity event from $350+ M invested. Looks like a (probably $3.5+ B) 10x or better ROI, which should help VC’s IRR numbers.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/github
I think there is more concern about abductions than broken bones. I also used to roam free on my bike when I was a kid, but am guilty of airdropping my kid to activities.
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
On their website: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/microsoft-acquires-githu...
For 2) In Australia where I am from there are a number of Industry watchdogs such as ACCC (Competition and Consumer Commission), ASIC (Securities and Investment), ABCC (Building and Construction).

The ACCC for example investigates Anti-competitive behavior and has the ability to levy fines etc.

This is somewhat topical at the moment in the wake of ongoing banking Royal Commission which has turned up huge ethical breaches in the banking and finance sector (Interest rate rigging, fraudulent lending, Cartel behavior etc). There have been some editorials recently about perceived toothlessness of ASIC failing to go after the perpetrators with full weight of penalties available

(for instance editorial here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/crime-as-misdemeanours... )

I think US equivalent would be something like SEC but I'm not sure if they have a consumer competition focused watchdog like ACCC that goes after anti-competitive behavior.
I’ve never framed “change the world” as an ego drive but that really does make a lot of sense.

I honestly don’t think outcomes were that important for the folks who were in the industry in the 80’s and early 90’s. “No one became a billionaire back then” is something I’ve been told a few times.

I’m face palming so hard my hand is embedded in my face st the last one. Especially since surgeons earn 500k+ so even leaving aside the tremendous difference you can make in a person’s life as a doctor, that comment is just completely ignorant.
The housing prices are increasing all throughout the bay area of course. Unlike NY however there are not great train connections to Silicon Valley; there is BART to SF and nice areas around Bart stations have also seen substantial appreciation.
Can confirm. The website is much faster and much nicer than it was a year ago.

Also, I don't think GitLab has had a long downtime recently. At least not for any of my projects.
That and there were a lot more moms at home. Fall off your bike and gash open your arm and some adult would probably see you pretty quickly and come to help if you needed it. And likely know or be able to locate your parents.

Eyes on the streets is a Jane Jacobs concept that applies here.
AFAIK, I don't think anyone seriously used VSS inside Microsoft, but heard that long time ago they forked perforce in customized way... A bit like google.
> I see MSFT keeping GitHub as a "simple" choice for repo hosting.

I didn't say that the "simple" choice for repo hosting would go away... My point was that if you need GitHub Enterprise, you get it only with the biggest MSDN subscription and end up with a bunch of things either you don't need or don't want and having to agree to licensing that's MS/MSDN specific.
New GDPR law becomes bedtime story for grown-ups
Sorry, you're right, I misspoke. I should have said the CE version has the work around, but it's disabled by default.
> public health crisis

Is there any evidence of public health consequences, much less a crisis. This argument looks suspiciously like the rationalizations long made for people to discriminate against those they feel uncomfortable around.
That doesn't help in my experience, good idea though.
I know more than a couple of good front-end developers that work remotely from rural locales for big-city companies laying down 135k-140k USD salaries.

I also know directors in other companies in said big cities making only 10k more than that, on-site.

I'd say you can read a lot from the general trends, but there are plenty of cases in either position or negative direction.
And without funding, they all die. GitHub gets a Daddy Warbucks to fund them now and fear of what could be is causing so many people to lose their minds.

Microsoft acquired another non-open-source company two years ago — Xamarin — and dropped the price to use it to zero immediately and then open sourced the stack as soon as the lawyers gave them the all-clear. The co-founder of Xamarin, Miguel de Icaza, is no idiot and certainly not a sell-out. If he’s convinced this is a new Microsoft you can trust, what’s your objection?
Maybe samsung is starting connectomics research.
Um, have you actually tried doing anything about this? https://help.github.com/articles/searching-in-forks/
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Seems like a conflict of interest to me.
Lol. Balmer personally got involved with all M&A activities over $2m, which is why MS lost out on many deals... m&a and investing are themselves lifestyle business models because there are a very small number of people with the exceptional experience and good judgement about businesses and they have limited time to evaluate prospects. If VC and angel investing were scalable, it would be possible to have a few shops monopolize deals to a far greater degree and they would do tons of deals. But they can’t because of the support and other resources also provided from good VC shops.
Absolutely. Microsoft today is not Microsoft of old.
There are several distinct developer ecosystems. Some people write C# and VB on .NET in Visual Studio on Windows machines for delivery to Windows Server enterprise networks. Some people write Java on Spring/J2EE in Eclipse for delivery to Java enterprise application servers. Some people write C++ in proprietary IDEs for delivery to proprietary embedded systems platforms. But the one I’m talking about is the one centered around Github, Kubernetes, Macs, and trendy open source tools like Go, Rust, React, etc. The “hipster” characterization is tongue in cheek. It would be insufficient to say “the developer ecosystem” because MS already has one of those, including its own VCS, Team Foundation Services.
I'll admit I'm pessimistic, but I think it's premature to officially call it eradicated, though admittedly, it's close.

Though it's also a way easier target than malaria.
I seriously wonder if Fossil's model of keeping all issues in the clone isn't the way to go - set up a public "FossilHub" or some such thing if it doesn't already exist and then you get a local copy of everything, no worries about providers at all.
I could thank you for your time, for your effort, for humoring me. Etc. etc. etc.

I'll cut to the chase.

Your answer is basically "You have to do extra work". Which is the wrong answer when trying to replace tools whose major selling is reducing the amount of maintenance work I have to do. This response, unfortunately, commits the basic error of trying to solve a social problem with a technological solution. I don't want to take on the work of guarding the gates. I don't want to guard against potential abuse. I want these things done for me, so I can focus on the parts I care about.

The ability to put in work to monitor abuse and access control in a decentralized manner is not a significant improvement over the ability to do so in a centralized manner.

Oh, and if it interacts with other computers at all then I have to worry about server maintenance. A machine is only truly serverless in isolation. Which would make your tool interesting, but potentially less than maximally useful.
6x in 20years is lower return than stock shares in most of the employers that have been driving up housing prices (for obvious reasons -- those companies' growth are funding the housing price gains)
Getting a 502 currently :(
"Most" doctors don't have to.

Most international medicine, infectious disease, and global health doctors do.
Well, the application is proprietary, but Dynalist lets you download all of your data anytime in txt or opml, so there's an easy escape hatch if one ever wanted to migrate, or at least stop using the app but retain one's data.
It's Cheaper to Uber Than Own a Car in These Cities
Sounds like you've got an axe to grind.

> I had my issues with Github, but at least they had built a business around a dev tool ...

That's a strange claim given that in the current top story - of Microsoft buying Github - the following claim is made:

"The acquisition provides a way forward for San Francisco-based GitHub, which has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a profit from its popular service ..."

Perhaps it comes down to your definition -- can something be non-profitable for a decade and still be called a business?
Fear brings money to security agencies like products bring money to corporations. I'm sure if you visited Apple you'd see a lot of iPhones.
I believe a link to a group of people who want the city to build a ton of housing (including public housing for the indigent) would be more appropriate. Controlling rent will do nothing for homeless people, and will make their plight even worse.
Is there any data or research we can apply to this issue? For an HN thread, it's filled with a lot of unfounded claims and speculation. The last thing this kind of discussion needs is more speculation, which exposes us to rumors and to our own prejudices, and which diverts resources from the real problems (whatever they are).
I think there's been very little evolutionary pressure to increase lifespan in creatures like fruit flies since despite their short lifespan few of them die from age related causes.
I would assume it's pretty easy to increase the lifetime of short-lived creatures in a protected environment, and pretty unlikely that the methods which accomplish this would also extend the lives of long-lived creatures.
No, folks really are moving. I've imported about 2 dozen of my projects from github and my coworkers and friends are doing the same.
Basically Cydia is an apt manager for jailbroken iOS devices and while Cydia itself is open-source, the tools required to get tweak injection (Mobile Substrate) are not, making Cydia itself useless for newer jailbreaks released. Making Cydia not only a monopoly but centralizing the tools required to make it useful at all.
I feel refinements are best suited for libraries. E.g. compare this improvement to the CSV gem: https://github.com/ruby/csv/pull/30 which defines it only for itself, compared to ActiveSupport defining it globally: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/575dbeeefcaafeb566afc0...
I'd like more context on this. Is there anyway to hit a 200k euro salary as a top 5% software dev?

If I moved to Europe, and offered a 200k salary, would I be able to attract bay area level software devs? What about a 100k salary?
Your probably right, but it's because Microsoft understand enterprises many others, like me, want nothing to with them. Because you are not the customer they want, however, they really try to make you think you are.

They seem to very deliberately have marketed to middle and upper management for decades. These are levels the majority of companies barely have! Most companies are small, the kind of companies GitHub is 'built' for.
Glad, I found another one. Reading Hacker News I thought everyone is sick of living here, while at work we have no trouble relocating people. I love the Bay Area and after living over 5 years in Europe and US made it my home
I'm not sure about antivirus, but magit forks git a ton of times which is really slow on windows. You are often better off running it from inside a linux VM.
Can't wait the apology commercial.
You can leave. The homeless people are probably tired of you too.
I wouldn't wanna be with such service provider. Very trashy behavior,I have switched to bitbucket and have been happy. This post just confirms my choice of not going for gitlab ever.
You need to get out more
Netflix opensourced a neural network library that runs some critical piece of code but they are mostly a polyglot shop.

https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow
If half of them did leave all would want to stay.
You're aware that human waste carries pathogens, right?
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Wonder if this is a regional sort of thing? This reads like a pretty harmless colloquial saying to me, not anything inappropriate.
for the one step curl | bash glory:

curl -s https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitl... | sudo bash

For EE:

curl -s https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitl... | sudo bash
All of your criteria Dynalist meets, though 2 not so directly.

0. This is subjective, but Dyanlist meets this for me.
1. You can export your data from Dynalist as txt or opml
2. While your data isn't exclusively stored there, you can set a backup of your Dynalist data to Google Drive or Dropbox. This works for me.
I thought SLT would be a great place for a SW ecosystem due to rising Bay Area costs back in the seemingly-quaint time of 2012. Glad to see some folks are making it happen.
That's not true, not until USA becomes a totalitarian country that can intitutionalize people against their will. Homeless people come to SF for the same reason yuppies do --- for the great weather. People who don't want help can't be helped.
There is no pink light
Half-truth
As the creator of Ruby Facets, refinements were high on the todo list. Unfortunately the syntax of refinements led to an ugly problem... I would have to support two identical code bases to support both usages (monkey patching and refinement), the only difference being boilerplate code. I could find no way around it. That seemed ludicrous to me, and so I never bothered to add refinement support. Hence, from my perspective, refinements went over like a led balloon.
A lot of GitHub employees are remote. All of the big tech companies are allergic to remote teams. I wonder if that will change now?
Fossil's model is pretty nice in my book, though since it's a much smaller community compared to other SCM options it has received far less polish overall. So, it has some awesome core ideas, but the implementation needs work to be competitive for most users.
So you are suggesting it is a moral obligation to choose a smaller provider, even if the largest provider is better?

Centralization happens because someone ends up doing it better than everyone else, and so everyone chooses to use that provider and they become the dominant force.

I get the need for diversity, but as an individual, I am going to choose the best provider, even if they are the biggest one.
I understand their strategy of neutralizing threats through acquisition. However, for this strategy to be effective, the companies have to consistently turn a profit on their acquisitions. Although it seems absurd for Facebook to spend 19 billion to acquire a 14-person company (Instagram), failing to keep Instagram popular amongst consumers will turn it into a 19 billion dollar writeoff as some Instragram clone captures consumer attention. IBM has a long record of acquiring competitive or smaller companies, but they're doing relatively poorly in the markets as of late. So while it seems clear that these companies might make life a nightmare for a lot of silicon valley entrepreneurs, they're still creating the best net value for society, no?
I look at those cars and think that someone has a monthly payment and cant manage their money.

I rather give money to charity than have an expensive car to sit in traffic with. I find people around me similar, there seems less of a desire to chase luxury products.
> The Ruby developers get highly-optimized machine code, with relatively little effort on their part. Many, many man-years have been spent to make C compilers generate highly optimal code.

Not for machine generated code. C compilers work well on human generated code, and not as well as Ruby -> C "translations".
Unclear if you are complaining about homeless people are tech company engineers.