skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one do not expect Facebook to change much unless there's a big shakeup from the top, including removing Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and others. What they have shown repeatedly is contempt for their users in the guise of apologies and remediations that go nowhere. Since such a shakeup is unlikely to happen, the other thing that could happen is a breaking up of the company, which I'm guessing (this is not a prediction) will happen in a couple of years. To start with, Instagram and WhatsApp would have to get unwound from this mess by becoming individual and unrelated services.

I don't have a lot of hope on social media platforms respecting user privacy and avoid massive data collection and/or sharing. Privacy in today's world is for the privileged people, in various ways.
>It's very useful information, but I do not recall an explicit prompt about Google collecting my location history in this way.

You did.

It sounds like you want something different than transparency about when information is collected, but instead you want transparency about what information is used to give you a specific feature.

For example, you opted into location history a long time ago (likely), should Google again ask for your permission every time they add a new feature that takes advantage of your location history information? (assuming said features don't affect the privacy of your data)

That seems like a very strange onus.
Ethics are cool, but I think misses the point. A huge part of acting ethically is understanding on a fundamental level why that's important. For that, you have to have some decent history education and some framework for thinking about how actors in a large complex system respond to incentives. Just saying 'this is ethical and this isn't ethical' shortchanges students of the really valuable part of understanding ethics in the context of their work and personal lives.
Debian developer here, speaking only for myself: while Debian doesn't like proprietary software any more than before, the change we've seen from MS has been dramatic.

MS now ships Debian for Azure through a collaboration with Debian and credativ, and also in the Windows Store running through the Windows Subsystem for Linux. They've hosted a Debian cloud sprint, sponsored DebConf, and engaged in good-faith substantive ways that don't only benefit their platforms. Of course, they care most about their platforms, but that's fine.

In the other direction, Debian does ship fully open source software (what Debian would call DFSG-free) with Microsoft as author.

Debian isn't playing favorites, of course, and is similarly working with Amazon and Google (among other partners of all sizes) in areas of shared interest.
That is a fair point. Liquid salary doesn't usually go much beyond 200k; all of the additional comp is in RSU's. If there is a huge downturn, a lot of engineers will lose a great chunk of their assets.
Any software precludes security reviews in defense work. My group wanted mediawiki to run an internal wiki behind the firewall and it took 18 months to pass and my boss had about a dozen meetings and countless emails. There are cases where a developer had to write code in word because he couldn’t get a text editor (allegedly I didn’t actually witness it). When your network is constantly under state sponsored attack these precautions aren’t pointless. But it takes a company like Microsoft or IBM to be able to work with security reviews and get them through quickly.
https://blog.github.com/2010-11-15-today-s-outage/
Yes. They also had other ideas, of a patent marketplace, that failed to actually happen. And directly inventing stuff, which also failed and always looked like PR rather than a serious business.
Atom is already dying imo. And if for a reason even a 5 year old can appreciate : it's simply too slow.
Seeing that Github is reportedly unprofitable, if they aren't acquired by a profitable company, what's the alternative?

What do you think Microsoft would do to harm Github? I doubt it would be as bad as what became of SourceForge.
Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/signs_deal_with_cas...

And there are many more companies they've sued for using Linux.
I actually like chain restaurants and hicks (dead serious - I have a tractor, 11 acres, horses, a goat, some cats, and a couple of guns to keep it all safe), so that'd be a selling point for me. I live in Grand Rapids, MI, and I'm afraid that our chain restaurant and redneck culture is being destroyed by an influx of people over the past few years. Hope the same doesn't happen to Charlotte. Downside is that here in GR tech jobs are kind of scarce, which is true of a lot of places that still have somewhat rural communities within commuting distance.

EDIT - 'To keep it all safe' ... really means safe from wild animals. If you keep a hobby farm, you know where I'm coming from :).
Linux 4.17 released
Reading this article makes me think Microsoft acted to acquire GitHub before the other company-hoarding giants could acquire them.
More Ruby awesomeness – A Ruby-like language for writing Ruby C extensions
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I use it for reals at my job. Enterprise version. I love it.
كلمات اغنية وائل الفشني موال ابتهال اشكو لمن رفع السماء بلا عمد
I was only an intern when I worked on clearcase so I don’t have a lot of personal experience. But the level of hatred my colleagues showed towards it left an impression.
GitHub has had more ethics fails in the past few years than MS.
Newcastle. It's taken nearly 20 years but it's starting to recover from the post-BHP doldrums.
It's not like evolution evolves towards the ideal, it just evolves away from the deadly. So unless you can show where external testicles will cause a group of people to die off, there's no reason to believe it should have been absorbed into the body. Plus for the species to continue, you don't really need that many males, anyway, so sub-optimal oddities involving men's bodies are likely to be more prevalent as it won't likely kill-off the species.
I think I should have said sourceforge/skype - I don't think MS is going to detonate GitHub the same way sourceforge went.

But I also don't have a lot of confidence in them doing well by the community either... it could be as "harmless" as a move to "Microsoft logins" that kills it off.
If Github ends up selling itself one day, Microsoft will be the buyer (2014)
Exactly. Actually it is near certain that there is life on Mars now since we know the spacecraft sent were not sterile.
The tech startup scene is small, but very friendly and open. There's a few incubators. Check out meetup.com, it's pretty tech/startup heavy in Charlotte, see if there's something that catches your eye.
GitHub Projects: “Move to Gitlab”
> Why is that?

Because this isn't slashdot.
No, but anyone is free to contribute to one. It's Boost licensed, after all!
Hah, interesting point. Research says to use descending order. Look up "anchoring". It's been researched a lot by a lot of people. At the end of the day, "jarring" doesn't matter. Does it convert better is the only measure.
https://meshedinsights.com/2016/11/22/microsoft-linux-patent...

That was only 18 months ago at which time MS had harvested a cool $85 million form its Linux patent racket. God knows what the Linux Foundation were smoking when they accepted Microsoft's membership. Suse Linux is another victim of Microsoft's extortion. Worst is the patents remain unspecified, as far as I'm aware.
I have problems with food. Gluten gives me sinus headaches so I don't eat it. There's no real research on celiacs and sinus headaches. All the time people disregard my experience, my ability to identify pain, my ability to objectively assess my reactions, and suggest that it is placebo or in my head. This has really made me aware when people disregard other people's experiences.

They didn't say all Texans are racist. Just that they experienced racism in Texas. It's the same, playing Overwatch is a drag because people are jerks. Not everyone who plays Overwatch is a jerk, but I experience it often while playing.
Did you guys also mean to make all the other Grafana dashboards public? Just wanted to let you guys know in case there's something sensitive in there.
It doesn't matter what most people think. Only sophisticated, qualified investors are even able to bid on assets like fractional patent ownership.

As for whether the market is "correct" that's a meaningless question since the answer can only ever be determined in hindsight. But so far no one has been able to find a more correct approach.
I think it already is tbh.
Reminder: That didn't stop them from converting HoTMail over to NT/Exchange.
The Bitbucket pricing on that page is outdated - the updated version is https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing?tab=cloud .
Unicode Graphics for Legacy Computing Proposal [pdf]
Yes, I used that internal Source Depot (based on Perforce I think, or at least something old and convoluted) when I worked on Windows Phone 7 back in 2010, it was not fun. There were a few teams within Microsoft at the time using the visual studio team system source control but I don’t believe it was common, as a lot of the error reporting (watson) had plug-ins for the proprietary Source Depot.
It reduces the complexity of your ops environment. Not the OP, but we do the same thing (though not with GL). When you only have a couple of developers, it makes sense to keep everything in house because your cost is essentially a couple of hours keeping things up and running as well as having an extra development machine somewhere. When you are a large organisation it also makes sense because you have a whole bunch of ops people keeping things running. Somewhere in between there is an awkward point where you've got enough complexity that you'll need to hire an ops person to handle it, but you don't have the organisational infrastructure to deal with that hire. Outsourcing is actually less risky because you're essentially piggy backing on somebody else's large organisation. A single bad hire isn't going to sink you, for example.
That's correct. You can run your Crystal programs with the Ruby interpreter, but you can't compile your Ruby to Crystal (simple scripts usually work, but bigger things that use use gems probably won't).
I don’t mind the taste when it is made up into a thick paste (that is the way I used to eat it), but I agree that normal rehydrated milk tastes terrible.
There will always be organizations out there criticizing any candidate, but at the end of the day, Jane Kim doesn't believe the laws of supply and demand apply to San Francisco housing[1][2], while London Breed is the only candidate who supported SB-827[3].

[1] "It's not supply.": https://twitter.com/JaneKim/status/573509389342019584

[2] "Data shows housing price go up & down with average wage not demand.": https://twitter.com/janekim/status/573510846233640960

[3] https://www.vox.com/cities-and-urbanism/2018/2/23/17011154/s...
it will never happen ;)
Depends on where your users are. In many places, broadband has enough penetration and users won't have an issue.

In others, bandwidth maybe an issue.

We have customers in NZ, who have bandwidth issues with our product, we are constantly working to improve.

The majority of our customers and market are in the US & Europe. So we have a large video on our homepage. It is more valuable to show the larger market what we can do, than it is to dumb everything down for the much smaller market.

Don't do video because you want to (unless it's just a personal project), but look at how video would benefit your product, and let that be your guide.
There was an article in the newspaper a week or two ago about an attempted abduction 1/2 mile from my house. Kid was walking home from elementary school and they tried to entice her into a van.
You certainly can get responsive support from Google - if you pay for it. we have a silver support contract with Google for Appengine and get good support when we need it.

I think the "if you pay for it" is the differentiator. And because Google supplies far more free services than Microsoft, they get a lot more complaints about non-existent support.
Absolutely not. Getting rid of human waste is one of the most important issues in developing countries precisely because of the public health effects it has: transmitting pathogens, contaminating water supplies etc. It isn't hard to see that being the case in an Urban area like SF, especially since the density of people is so much greater.
Hopefully some GDPR stick will help fix this
I'd encourage you to amend "equality of opportunity" to "equality of opportunity under the law". I've seen too many people try to argue that if we want equality of opportunity we still have to actively level opportunity.
At different phases of a project, you need different styles of leadership. While I think that was very funny at the time, 11 years later, I think with the maturing of linux, a very different style of leadership is needed than the brashness that won him fans over Microsoft over a decade ago.
'Making GMOs since 1856!'
Regular users today don't use that feature, so you're choosing a rather odd hill to die on.

To put this another way: it's a significant benefit for my random non-techie friends to be able to use this new feature plus HTTPSEverywhere. And even as a techie, I don't use a hosts file to block anything. So I'm not bothered by how Firefox chose to implement this, like most people.
Something similar happens to me everytime I get into a job & later, in a couple months time, I have to quit. I have found that the remote way of work suits me, but have not been succesful in gaining financial independence from such jobs. My problem, I guess is stress & some type of bleakness/hopelessness that develops from continuing at the job that I engage myself in. I have absolutely no issues with co workers or with the companies, but with time, I start losing all kind of hope from the job & in my future. I dont know if this only happens with me or anyone else but somewhere I feel that I am not built for 'jobs' like everyone does!
He does not. See the other comments in this post.
> Why not build a Black Rock City where the Burn never stops?

You know, that would actually be a fascinating thing to see. I doubt it will ever happen given how litigious our society is, but that seems preferable to what we're doing now. San Francisco spends about $250 million on homeless services[1], but you'd never know from walking around. You could probably fund a non-stop Burn with that; the budget for a 65,000 person burn for a week is 37 million[2]. You'd have fewer people and less overhead so I think it would work.

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

[2] https://burningman.org/expenses/expenses-2016/
You may dislike it, but this behavior is a social norm.
Whey protein is from the leftover liquid when you make cheese. It was a n unusable waste product until some genius figured out that you could sell it to bodybuilders.

Absorption of casein is not such an issue, but dumping a 100g of lactose into your digestive system if you are not lactose tolerant will really mess with you. You will find out very quickly if you are lactose tolerant or not.
I was about to bash them for mocking an important document, but they might be right. I would love to see efforts on simplifying the law, "refactoring it" with the ultimate rule that it's something that everyone should be able to read and understand, measured by some "literacy score" as a core human competence. It's only fair given that everyone is expected to know it.

The problem is that the article doesn't explain why this law got long, reasons for its complexities... and this is why I believe it's poor writing. They're calling out GDPR specifically while there's a lot of similarly important documents that are not shorter. Think of taxes for example - VAT in EU is a nightmare that makes GDPR look tiny. And it affects everyone - ultimately you need to hire an accountant to run a company. It's not fair not to underline that.
Interest is no longer tax deductible above 750K loan (1 million if grandfathered)
Can't reply to the child comment so replying here:

> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/signs_deal_with_cas...

You just look at that shit. Look:

> We’re pleased to reach an agreement and to see continued recognition of the value of our patent portfolio, particularly as it relates to operating systems,

Nothing evil here, move along, lol. Fucking cockroaches. For a multi-billion OS giant you sure are afraid of something 'small' and produced by volunteers that gives users their freedom. What a pathetic display.
Ok, so yesterday's shared hosting prices are today's VPS rates. The point is they've both become commoditised so the PHP/cheap hosting argument is no longer valid.
Honest question (I have concerns along the same lines you do): why is this uniquely problematic now? My understanding is that journalism with a point of view has historically been more the rule than the exception.
X Code is not a watered down version of something else. It’s the full application Apple uses themselves.
I understand that you're claiming gitlab is salting the earth, but still don't understand why / how.

You write:

> You can’t build a business competing with someone who is using VC money to give away their product.

This is delightfully worded, given it could apply to both github and gitlab.

Remembering that github started in 2008, while gitlab.com started four years later (first commit to their codebase was 2011).

Github is running on $350m of VC funding.

In response to my question 'can you call a 10yo company that still isn't profitable, a "business"?', you avoided the question, called the matter bizarre, and tried to distract from the question by claiming github is a _better_ business.

Your claim that github has 'built a business and .. gave back generously' is also weird in that gitlab has released the source to their core product, but github hasn't. This also speaks against your claim that you're more likely to be abandoned if you commit to gitlab than github.

Finally, the idea that the 'low end of the market' is where all the money is does not match any other tech startup's experience, is belied by the pricing structure of both companies, and further invalidated by the fact that gitlab is not swimming in cash from their cornering of the frugal user segment.
The proximity of Stanford and Berkeley didn't hurt.
I think you may be confusing addicts with the popular notion of a "junky".

But yes, I've known alcoholics, pot heads, pill poppers and a few dope fiends who lead productive fullfilled lives, seem extraordinarily content and actively contribute back to their communities. If those aren't signs of happiness, I don't know what are.

Of course I've known many more for whom addiction has been a total disaster. So I'm not recommending it or anything but I don't think it should be a disqualifier for considering one "happy". And yes when I say "happiness" I mean something beyond momentary satisfaction.

This just strikes me as more of the same old school dudes conflating control or self discipline with virtue and conflating virtue with happiness (not that they have nothing to do with each other but I'm not sure they're the same things.)
I'll quote the relevant part here, since that's a long email:

A word of warning: Linus has very strong feelings
about all the things that are wrong with C++ and
at times has been known to be less diplomatic than
me when explaining his point of view... :-)

But he made a clear statement that he is interested in
seeing this port happening, as long as most of the
program logic that is not UI code stays in
(quote) "sane C files". So please keep that in
mind as we drive this further.

If you read emails around that point of time, GTK+ development had really gone off the rails in everyone's viewpoint, and was frustrating Linus and everyone else.
This is not true, because almost no one reads patents. It's cheaper to do that almost all of the time than to always read and avoid them. Especially when you're avoiding patents that get invalidated in the end.
That’s only for access to their store. Microsoft is much the same when it comes to the Windows store.

If you want to write apps for macOS and distribute them yourself you can do so with no cost.
The example I remember is two different songs by the same artists. ("California Girls" and "Tik Tok" are the same song.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dPA2dCRNY
> Central Park etc

Oh come on. Public transport and Culture, sure. But at least admit that there are a TON more parks and outdoor recreation options (which are easily accessible) in SF than in NYC :)
Sorry about that. Was the 503 on GitLab.com (main application) or on the link in this discussion (monitor.gitlab.net)? The latter is to a public monitoring dashboard. It has been offline a couple of times today due to influx of traffic. We're closely monitoring it and attempting to keep it online. At the moment, GitLab.com itself has been absorbing the additional load, though. Let us know if you're seeing other issues.
Imagine what Manhattan would be like if you didn't have the option of renting in Brooklyn or Queens. That's roughly what the situation in San Francisco is like.
Crystal is a completely different language with a different architecture and object model that only superficially looks like Ruby. Porting code from Ruby to Crystal is somewhat easier than, say, porting the same code to Python, but is still an act of porting. You can't use any kind of automated drop-in process to rewrite Ruby code to Crystal. They're just too different.

A good type system for Ruby is very much needed. Matz himself has stated that a type system is very much on the horizon for Ruby. Can't wait.
Negative. They just announced that developers will receive 95% of revenue for non-games when customers purchase via a deep link, or 85% when its purchased through a discovery mechanism Microsoft provides [1]. Going into affect later this year.

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/07/a-new-micr...
Dunno why this is getting downvotes--you are absolutely right. You echo my thoughts after reading this. Folks, why is this a surprise at all? Don't post stuff on Facebook you don't want public.
>What is this describing?

The "build new private APIs for device makers through 2014, spreading user data through tens of millions of mobile devices... and other systems outside Facebook’s direct control" makes it sound like they were making deals with the manufacturers where the device would auth and fetch data through the manufacturer's infrastructure when accessing Facebook? The Blackberry Hub app is used as an example in the infographic.
Are there job opportunities in Victoria like there are in Silicon Valley?
Why does the law need to change for this? Facebook should disclose what they do with your data, and that is about it. At that point, it is really up to you to decide if you want to play ball...
OmiseGO explained
I'm glad someone else shares my skepticism. Looks like they may be guilty of P-hacking in those graphs.

I think this paper has value, in that it basically replicates the SCFA diet results others have seen. But the qPCR graphs are kinda hopeless.

>the authors have already started a company and pursued a patent on their ayurvedic-derived formulation

The fruit fly microbiome is exactly 2 organisms. The human microbiome is somewhat more complex - several hundred genera at least. It's pretty hard to draw a connection between the microbiomes of these two animals.