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So what's the equivalent of github's unlimited users and private repos for a flat price? I don't care about any of the advanced features, I just want remote private repos (browseable from the web for convenience) and I'm willing to pay a bit so I don't have to maintain them. We don't even use the issue tracker, that one we self host.
If you look back far enough, I imagine almost every country has such a legacy.

The capacity for that behavior lies in all peoples.
One reason could be that large number of users of web have no real power to set up their operating system to use their preferred DNS server (e.g. non-technical employees in many big corps). The present-day OSes are designed to favor the administrator and to restrict the users.
What’s going to happen to atom? Rip, long live vsc? ;/
> Linux kernel that is managed by git. Microsoft contributes to git

This is a little misleading. MS does not contribute to git for Linux development. Instead, they only provide windows specific patches (AFAICT, would like to be proven wrong).

Their GVfs [0] is windows only, and they maintain a fork of Git with "microsoft specific patches" [1].

[0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS

[1] - https://github.com/Microsoft/git

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I haven't read the article since it would cost me $36.

This is certainly a step in the right direction, but I doubt it will accomplish much. The reason the tech industry is so evil has little to do with how thorny the issues are. There are complicated ethical problems in tech, but a handful of platitudes would be enough to solve the biggest issues: don't lie, don't spy on people, and don't break the law. I can't think of a company I hate that wouldn't be much improved if it just followed those childishly simple principles.

But following those rules requires sacrificing wealth and power. It requires putting yourself out of business if necessary. Good luck convincing people to do that! You can teach people about morality all you want, but no one has figured out how to convince them to put it into practice.

Take Mark Zuckerberg's infamous "dumb fucks" comment. That doesn't show someone wresting with complex ethical problems. He knew that he shouldn't have had that data and admitted that he wasn't trustworthy. Even if you think user privacy is a thorny issue, Mark Zuckerberg thought it was pretty clear he was in the wrong. But rather than actually following through on his beliefs, he showed total contempt for morality and went after the money. That sort of broken person couldn't be fixed with a few classes.

The sort of people who are most dangerous are the ones who will get an A in these classes, understand everything perfectly, and then go start Facebook or Enron or Oracle.
It’s worth noting that I know that but that he started this style of referring to him(self) in this thread! So it wasn’t accidental or due to unawareness in any its occurrences.
It depends how the block is implemented. If it's done by intercepting DNS requests, it doesn't matter what server you _try_ to reach. There's also the Virgin (UK) approach of allowing the correct DNS response, but tampering with HTTP requests (though switching to DNS-over-HTTPS wouldn't help in that case).
Or was this thread for predictions -- like announcing that macOS will now run on the Apple A-series processors? Of course, unlike the announcement back in 2005 of the switch to Intel, there's not a bevy of A-series powered devices on which it running full macOS makes sense so if they announce this today they're going to have to announce new hardware -- probably Mac mini and/or MacBook Air -- running some sort of A11X-type chip which will be powering such devices. The rumors have been flying that Intel is going to be making A-series chips... it could be for a move like this.
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If only the benchmark sites could detect MBP with improved keyboard. It's a sad state when that's the only feature I look forward to nowadays lol.
Yes because at least MS's competitors will take their code elsewhere, and F/OSS will hate to depend on MS services, no matter what.
For a company whose existence is largely due to selling software licenses, is this surprising?

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a larger open sourcing effort at Microsoft in the coming months/years. Let's hope they do it better than Oracle.
I too wonder if they would. It would be for the best if they did. They have a lot more to gain if they did and GitHub already has an enterprise self hosted option so I assume its already generic enough code wise to be redeployed anywhere.
said no-one ever

edit: clearly some people share your sentiment, but whilst introduction of iOS notifications were a relief, I can't understand why anyone would think they are better than Android.

It's a commonly shared sentiment at least that Android notifications are leagues ahead of iOS.

My biggest gripe is the lack of grouping, and I do miss the fact Android used to give me 'active' notifications such as a progress bar on the download of a Spotify album, for example.
Your comment betrays that you are absolutely missing the point.

You're claiming human behavior is much more complex than this. Fine.

How do you know it to be more complex? Through objective sociological methods? Or "just" because of what you intuit?
> As someone with an Adult ADHD diagnosis, this has definitely been my experience. Adults weren't even being diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child and it was never brought up when I showed the signs in school. Now I'm receiving treatment and thankful for it, and my kids will be screened.

Same here in all respects.

> But measuring the per capita diagnosis rate won't tell you anything about that.

I believe that some of the increase in diagnosis rates is because of increasing diagnosis in historically under-diagnosed groups, especially in the US where access to healthcare hasn't been available to everyone.

https://www.additudemag.com/race-and-adhd-how-people-of-colo...
Microsoft had a "look at what we did for git last year" post in january, most of that seems OS-independent performance work: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/01/11/microsoft...
Financial engineers are quite talented in figuring out ways to create things that look like a duck, swim like a duck, and quack like a duck, but definitely are not ducks in a regulatory sense.

And I am not familiar with Californian regulations, but I think there may be some challenges in trying to enforce the regulations if a californian makes a bitcoin deposit to a remote chinese "bank"?
> Intentionally Spreading HIV in Asia: Nobody's Gonna Give a Shit

Whoa, what? First I've heard of this. A sort of Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment writ large in Asia?
Also Volkswagen and Fanta.

And I suppose IBM warrants a mention for doing business with Nazis.
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Yet us tech workers are some of the highest paid people in the world, and technological progress is advancing at a rate never before seen in human history.

I guess the current system isn't so bad.
Chicago has tons of jobs above that salary mark.

I’ve seen jobs listed above that routinely in Indianapolis, Minneapolis & Columbus. Talked to a recruiter the other day for a job in Nashville that paid above 100k.

These are all front line Midwest towns. Get into the sunbelt and you’ll see even more cities where those wages are common.
For us, we have a large userbase in China, and my understanding (could be wrong!) is that Chinese users generally use IPv6.

We're hosted on GitHub presently though, so I don't have access to the server logs to see if I'm wrong about that. :)
I cannot help but think of IBM punch cards. Especially when untechy people say they have nothing to hide from the surveillance economy.
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I don't know how many people actually consider switching, but adding a few private repos to the free github plan will probably make 99% of them reconsider on the spot and even make others switch to github. I doubt MS made the aquisition for the direct profits.
You need to use paid prayers for better efficiency of this backup strategy. J
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To be fair the page worked fine until it was hugged by HN / Reddit...
And you can't even scroll back, potentially being baffled why the website malfunctioned and loaded a new page. It's like a bad UX pattern parody.
Thanks to the work of projects like Debian, for some 20 years now people have the right and ability to run a computer in freedom, and there's little point for Microsoft to compete on the consumer/Desktop OS sector any more (compare to mobile, web, Apple, etc.). What do you think what they're competing over now? Imagine if Azure integration starts to appear in FLOSS, because it's an online/hosting service and the "Open Source" guys don't care much about SaaSS and don't favor the AGPL.
See what I meant about the reactions of others ? We had immediat visceral reactions that it's money and should not be wasted. No matter how realistic it is, money is precious.

It's like this scene in 2012 where they burn notes to keep warm, but for a moment they hesitate.
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To be fair this is probably the first time the page has been hit by HN / Reddit simultaneously...
And you still cannot properly turn it off. Weird and invasive things still happen with large updates (bundled so you cannot pick and choose which changes are appropriate for you, such as security fixes only). The whole OS is a few quality of life changes that make it palatable to most people to deal with all of their frankly offensively invasive practices.
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Hubris has long since been acknowledged as a virtue and anyway, there's no need to be so rude about it!
Why should GitLab abandon Azure? Things are working for them just fine. Now when Google acquires GitLab I'm sure that moving to GCP will be a requirements but until then there's no threat to GitLab just because they are running on a platform owned by a Platinum member of the Linux foundation (something Amazon and Google can't say).
1 and maximizing time spend in the app (see sibling comment) seem like a good explaination for this. I'm not sure about 2 but it might be true aswell.

> 3. You'll use the service regardless of whether they offer it, because network effects

Actually I stopped using Facebook for that reason. The feed just didnt provide any value to me anymore. Also I never really got into Twitter because of it. I don't see the value in following people if I cannot see their posts without hours of scrolling through retweets.
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To answer your question: no I was not implying that.

All it takes a someone in the billing department leaking metadata to a project manager for confidential information to leak (traffic numbers, storage trends etc.).

Sure trust every employee of your only real competitor if you want, but I wouldn't if it was my business and I had alternatives.
In my experience I lose less time specifying that an argument is a string in Go than I do adding a test to handle the possibility that nil gets passed in Ruby.
The price is now visible again - we did not expect that much traffic today, to be honest.

However stuff is all up again now.
http://anonhq.com/yes-bayer-drug-knowingly-infected-people-h...
I believe this is this:

"(Bayer's) Cutter (Laboratories) misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785997
Edge is just a commercial IE alias. It's still IE, just like Firefox is still Firebird, a XUL based browser.
>In retrospect, she was copying my problems as a person, so it's not her fault.

Care to elaborate ? And what could she do anyways ? Launch a discussion that friends would be too absorbed to follow ?

Although I hope there might be a small minority of parents who don't buy their children phones (because of conviction or lack of money) and that eventually they could end up befriending each other, far from instagram and snapchat. But maybe thats wishful thinking.
Yes some of that work also improves Git on other systems.

All of those patches however were a pure necessity for them to implement GVfs.
Microsoft is still the same, believe me. I've visited their HQ in .ch recently and even they confirmed it internally.
After it was revealed that their products were infected and had to be recalled, they realized they could make some cash by just selling it in countries without easy access to western media reports at the time. And Bayer being Bayer, they did it. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannego...
Aside from grouping, iOS notifications are better for me.

It feels like you control the messages you get, how they're positioned, what priority they get etc; much more on iOS. I'm sure this is actually release dependent, I can only speak from the old CM and modern Samsung ROMs.. but iOS generally >feels< a lot nicer, like I'm in control; non-removal notifications, general frequency and lack of notification location control contribute to this.
But there is a point where being a rational human being is defined by judgement. After all, knowledge and wisdom is the judgemental discernment between the good and the bad.

Smoking, ceteris paribus, generally has bad effects.

Lack of fitness and personal nutritional health, ceteris parbius, is a bad.

Lack of education and pride in ignorance, ceteris paribus, is bad.

In the same way, although we shouldn't throw out or disown members of the human species just because they partake in objectionable or flawed activities (after all, none of us are perfect), it would be a better world if we could recognise that conspicuous consumption, ceteris paribus, is a "bad thing", not something to be admired or desired.
It's not exactly about distrust, it's just clash of interests. Microsoft is literally personification of Closed-source software, them acquiring GitHub is surely an evil plan to take control over the open source area.
If you have issues with that, then only self-hosting can save you.
That is actually a very good otucome, if it actually happens.
Here is one cool example:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...
And this one I have not read but is by reputable people in a good journal and looks fun:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...
Game development has used C# for quite a while, and with official support for Mono, and adoption of .NET in Unity [0], it's a viable choice. The language is constantly improving [1], and is doing so in the open, on GitHub no less [2]!

From what I saw as an intern at Microsoft a while back, there's way more of an engineering-led culture at Microsoft than people give it credit for, and to the extent there's a push to promote their own language and tooling, it's largely driven by a wholehearted belief (and challenge) that Microsoft tools are the right ones for the job, with initiatives being chosen to fulfill and expand that promise. And, more recently, what I hear is that Nadella's initiatives are genuinely promoting that ethos across the entire leadership structure. In that context, they make a lot of sense as a partner for Github.

[0] https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/28/updated-scripting-runti...

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...

[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vbteam/2015/01/10/were-movi...
> also, in case you put two hands in a device, it won't matter much if it's on the other side of an isolating transformer or not. The GFCI might not trigger in this case.

That was my point.
What do you mean? GitHub won't stop existing anytime soon. And assmuming everything will now be worse under MS would be quite hyperbolic.

Anyway, an (even free) alternative is Bitbucket, but there's also a large commercial company behind it - just as Microsoft - just as GitHub.
No problem! Thanks for clarifying.
I think it's a pretty odd thing to know. It's a fun fact or a difficult quiz question rather than something that everyone knows.

Monsanto is in the news now. IG Faber has split into many independent companies and doesn't exist anymore.
>got grants and investment from the government i.e. HellBlade

Googling that it seems to be a little more interesting:

>Biomedical research charity Wellcome Trust gave Ninja Theory a $395,000 grant to do research on mental illness, and that helped Ninja Theory make such an ambitious and research-based game on its own as an independent studio.

Wellcome Trust isn't a government organisation - it was set up by Sir Henry Wellcome who made a fortune in phrama.

Also Ninja Theory's history is pretty messy with bankruptcies, layoffs and deals gone wrong.
They are mentioned in Turing's Cathedral [0], an excellent book that was recommended here on HN. Here's an interesting quote:

There were two sources of noise: external noise, from stray electromagnetic fields; and internal noise, caused by leakage of electrons when reading from or writing to adjacent spots. External noise could, for the most part, be shielded against, and internal noise was controlled by monitoring the "read-around ratio" of individual tubes and trying to avoid running codes that revisited adjacent memory locations too frequently -- an unwelcome complication to programmers at the time. The Williams tubes were a lot like Julian Bigelow's old Austin. "They worked, but they were the devil to keep working" Bigelow said.

This phenomenon is very similar to the recently discovered row hammer vulnerability of DRAM memory, except it predates it by roughly 65 years.

[0] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dMK3P6B3WgcC

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
Xamarin was also closed source and $1000 per platform per year (my employer at the time was paying $3k/year for the mobile devs to churn out iOS, Android, and Windows mobile apps from one Xamarin code bas). Immediately after being acquired by Xamarin the price was dropped to zero and it was announced that the entire Xamarin platform would be open-sourced (and this promised was fulfilled less than a year later).

This is not the Microsoft of Balmer where Linux was called a cancer. Under Satya Nadella the company is serious about providing the best office and cloud products regardless of what OS you use.
The average person is far more likely to eat, drink, smoke to death than starve
It’s highly frustrating. So many companies used to be able to make decent laptops. Now even Apple doesn’t seem capable of keeping a straight face with their releases (in the sense that they don’t seem to be targeting an end user that owns a Mac anymore)
Why does any of this have to come from school? I would have expected that a general exposure to culture would have covered all of this? Maybe I'm misled by the fact that in USA there are cable channels that seem to be 50% devoted to Nazi misdeeds...
It took me a minute to understand your implication here. Yes, it took them a while to make that PR move of a name change. I'm sure it was all carefully orchestrated, and was not in itself an admission of guilt or an apology. In fact there was a prior rebranding which kept the Blackwater name but changed the logo to look more like the scope of a gun, which is not exactly the move a company would make to distance themselves from the negative light of being mercenary thugs.
my bad - was referencing gitlab cloud.
I've maintained a private gitlab instance for my team some 3-4 years ago that was dockerized, it went quite ok, despite docker being rather new at that point.
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Off topic, but how is the experience with Ubuntu on the surface. I love the hardware and the pen of the surface pro, but Xubuntu has been my daily driver for a few years now, and I can't imagine going back to Windows.

My main requirement is for a good experience with the pen...
And fixed. Sorry for the short downtime.
Hmm... I would think that it will cost Microsoft a rethinking of their business strategy.

If their 'Embrace' looks like 'Yes we are compatible with...' and their 'Extend' like 'If you use our layer you can also do...' then people stay sceptical.

Instead their 'Embrace' should be 'How can we help you with your open source product?' and their 'Extend': 'Here are patches that fixes problems, improves performance and implement community wanted features.'

It seems companies like this always try to hold the door to 'Extinguish' open.
Please don't invent those "cute" titles, it's against the rules.
I'm not sure what exactly you are talking about, but there was an intentional famine in Ukraine in the 1930's from Soviet policy which killed millions. Well before the USSR entered into WW2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
It depends mostly of my mood ( and laziness ) most of time i just go with google docs, but sometimes, strut.io
>never seek out advice from reliable resources.

What reliable resources would those be? Poorly defined, crap studies done by people who've never had children and the study was never independantly reproduced by anyone?

In the beginning, pain is the only means of communication (although we didn't actually spank, a little tug on the side burns did the trick). In my experience, once a child is old enough to understand time-based punishment (e.g. you don't get to watch TV tomorrow) a little and what it will mean, that becomes more effective.
No, ecology is not getting better. If you haven't noticed you are in the middle of an extinction event.
I was excited when I heard about WSL. Of course I found the name confusing, Windows Subsystem for Linux, isn't it a Linux Subsystem for Windows?

Then I realized that the COM ports are not routed into WSL. I need USB-to-RS232 converters to interface with our hardware. Of course, there is a web of contradictory blog posts and announcements when that feature will be finished - one post stating if I upgrade to Creators Update MVP Edition 120394782034785023845 Build 23904782390475 or later, I can use the feature! It took me 1h to find out what version and build of Windows I had, and 1 hour to install the new Creators Update, and 1h to reinstall WSL - and guess what, the feature was absent. What a clusterfuck.
Yea, I haven't used it myself, but the reports are that it works better than the original PromCache proxy. It's been on my TODO list for a while, but way lower on the priority list.

But you know, when the internet decides it's time for everyone to look at your site, some random new stuff might be better than serving 5xx all day. :-D
It sucks that the DO data was lost; it's an awful situation to be in and should never happen given the way that cloud options are sold.

The moral of the story being that you should always diversify your cloud options and keep regular verified backups.
Facebook's old policy: Move fast and break things.

Facebook's new policy: Move fast and deny everything.

I'm only half-joking as I was surprised to see a Facebook rebuttal so quickly after an article like this. It seems a new strategy is in place, to not let these article fester. The problem is their response is devoid of actual content, or even actual rebuttals to the main points of the NYT article. Mainly that FB does not consider these vendors as "third-parties", and that friends data is accessed even when sharing is explicitly disabled.
Delphi might be a small community compared to JVM or MS. Is Delphi dying?

I work in the M/Mumps space(healthcare), another small (almost invisible) but active community and it seems far from dying. I imagine Delphi is bigger.

I wonder how long the MS stack would last without the support of MS. Would the MS stack fare as well as the Ruby stack has without Microsoft’s massive investment in turning developers into sharecroppers? (Or salesforce, scala, unreal, php, erlang, etc.)
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Say what? Open sourcing everything?