skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the formal lab concepts, universities once were a place where a vast range of experts are on hand to help each other. If the physicist needed a marine biologist [1] or a medical doctor a statistician, they could find each other. That included trades people like glass blowers and machinists (engineers). But the narrowing of fields and the stovepiping of budgets means these links are becoming more difficult to maintain.

[1] I know of one astronomer who's work was threatened by rare/protected birds nesting near his equipment. Sometimes it is good to work in an organization with in-house ornithologists. 'That's not dark matter. It's bats flying by your telescope every night."
Is Gitea only self-hosted? Does anyone offer hosted Gitea?
The idea is that a User can collate some articles from around the web, leave a commentary and turn it into a sort of shareable magazine.

This has been attempted many, many times. As far as I know no one has ever managed to make it work profitably.

Interesting sidenote (well, I think so) - Bastian Lehmann started a platform called "curated.by" for collecting articles, videos, tweets, etc before he started Postmates. I saw him do a presentation about it once (as part of a Difference Engine accelerator demo thing).
Deploying geographically distributed services on Kubernetes Engine
(Professional ML developer here)

It's almost a waste of time teaching people to setup a deep learning stack.

NVidia will break everything you do with every release and any instructions you write will be outdated in weeks.

For example, the TensorFlow/CUDA/CuDNN installation changes continually because you can't install the default releases of any of them and get a working system.
To be fair, github hasn’t exactly been a beacon of innovation since introducing the “fork” button.

Personally I’d love to see any of these VCS servers differentiate themselves by integrating with sourcegraph and/or offering a better CR experience. Sadly it seems like the market doesn’t care much about either :(
I think the issue is more if you ask for any amount of money it immediately turns people off.

The process of putting in your creditcard number, entering your password for google play/paypal/etc is just enough of a barrier to go 'whatever!'.
Most.

edu-domains where for a while also given to non-US institutions, but this stopped and has now been US-only for a long time.
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, we've given a lot of thought to that.
For me, the most rewarding work is the volunteering I do. I coach various youth sports. I have no pressure to win so I can focus on letting the kids enjoy themselves, have positive interactions, and learn a little about the sports. Seeing them gain confidence and passionately work toward something is a major reward for me.

I still enjoy trying to match a user's expectations with the software I write. But, it's balanced by other aspects like coaching and being in a family.
On Amazon, Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" is $16.80 in hardcover form, and $27.00 in paperback.

Is this some attempt at gaming bestsellers lists or something?
The CIA are an old hand at using "you can't prove a negative" against laypeople in order to manipulate them. After years of cooperation with international inspectors, Iran saw this first hand when the CIA produced a report thousands of pages long which ended with "We found no evidence suggesting any continuation of a weapons program... but that doesn't guarantee there isn't a super secret one hidden 500 miles underground somewhere." and the media reported it as "CIA confirms underground Iranian nuke program."
Here's a good comparison page of the three big ones.

https://stackshare.io/stackups/gitlab-vs-github-vs-bitbucket

Gitlab seems to be picking up the pace and gaining mindshare among developers.

Freelancers I'm curious, would you switch and lose your repos' stars, PRs, fork counts? Those are actually a good marketing tool for potential customers since they see you are legitimate.
I wouldn't say that they are low quality, but what really puzzles me is the timing of the switch, linked to a market event, which has no policy or technical consequences.

I had no problems working with MS products since DOS 5.0/Win 3.1 and never had any technical or privacy issues while using them as the tools that allow me to live normal life and do my job efficiently. GH is convenient and perfectly matches my needs (I'm hosting there few personal open-source projects and private repositories), so what's the point in moving anywhere?
GitLab will not add monthly billing in the foreseeable future
It's an interesting debate though. If the CEO and most of the major execs of a company have left, is it really worthwhile to factor statements made 17 years ago into your decision making process?

Don't get me wrong, many will avoid MS-anything to punish them for their past conduct, which is a fair personal decision. But if you're trying to evaluate what MS will do in the future, I'm not sure how relevant 2001 is.
> Why doesn't the Open Source community actually band up and make a Github alternative that is actually good and free for Open Source?

Wasn’t that Gitlab a few years ago? They latter turned into a company with a closed, "enterprise" version then raised money.
> They cannot give grants to open source work because it requires financial tracking.

There is nothing special in open source work that would preclude financial tracking. Sure it takes effort, and there are costs related to getting all the paperwork done so you need to think twice if it is worth it. But still, its just normal part of the business.
This is equivalent to a knee-jerk reaction clearly following the MS purchase of Github. The Microsoft of today is vastly different. Example: I'm using VSCode on my Mac right now and it clearly is a better alternative to something like Atom and its open source. My best friend is the head of the bash initiative at MS as well and I pretty much hated MS before. Now its pretty cool so doesn't seem like a rational view anymore to be MS negative.
Just FYI, I think you commented to the wrong article by mistake.
A Wall Street Bitcoin-trading firm opens up to clients
Forgive me I am not from this area, New York and New Jersey's elected governments are both predominantly from the Democratic Party. What do the Republicans have to do with the tunnel?
The jobs that are left for him to do aren't suited for automation. All his jobs are repairs or custom one off jobs that would be nearly impossible to automate. Maybe some could be replaced with a robust 3D print to lost wax mold cast glass process but that can't do everything.
as a C programmer, basically everything I've worked on for the past 10 years has been interesting.
No, they really can't do that, at least they can't document it, unless the employees are non-exempt or they wish for the employees to be paid overtime. Even having core time at all sounds like a non-exempt requirement, let alone the whole day.

Many managers are completely oblivious to federal labor laws, unfortunately.
Yeah, it had me thinking of that scene in Dr Strangelove too. Such a wonderful piece of cinema.
Maybe the next big thing will be an electric boat with floating chargers powered by an solar array.
That's exactly it. Classic parental psychology trick: "are you sure you're grown up for this stuff? I don't know...."
Most labs lack the experience or equipment to efficiently do all aspects of their work, so departments will create "core facilities" which house specialized equipment and personnel with relevant experience to facilitate specific aspects of research. Examples from biology could be imaging work, cultivating cells, working with animals, working with DNA etc. A machine shop, these glass blowers, or a computational cluster would be examples from other departments. These facilities are made available to researchers for a fee (think cost center).

The reason these aren't more prevelant is that the universities typically don't pay for them directly; they are frequently funded by a department and stocked with equipment purchased by individual labs. In exchange for donating equipment, the labs get priority access and have supplies and equipment maintenance costs paid for by the department.

IN THEORY cores and other communal resources should be paid for by university overhead (basically a fee assessed on each grant or funding source brought in). In practice, overhead goes to pay for a bunch of bullshit that has nothing to do with research.
Probably news to the Win32 devs of the world that their technology is "not the same as real native like C++." What distinction do you mean to make here?
Microsoft has shown themselves to be very pro-open-source in the last 5+ years. Just look at things like VS Code. Microsoft is just the Nickelback of software, its cool to hate on them for no real reason (any more).
Hi Matt, have you read Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" yet? It has an interesting perspective on what drives the trend to minimize pay for writers.
The argument is that "scale" is related to quantity in this discussion, not quality. I agree that quality of life is better now with distributed VCS (whether or not a historic alternative existed, which is orthogonal to the discussion at hand), but "scaled just fine" is not a quality judgment on my part in that statement you pull quoted, it is an acknowledgement that quantity was handled appropriately.
This is a calculator from CRFB that is a few years old: http://www.crfb.org/socialsecurityreformer/. I think that the baseline data may be dated, but it's still a useful tool for getting a general idea of what changes to Social Security are needed to keep the program solvent.

A more recent one, with fewer options, is available from Wharton: http://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/social-security.

Bottom line is, there are some tough choices that policymakers will have to make in the years ahead if they want to keep Social Security solvent. An aging population and a slower rate of economic growth make for a nasty fiscal future.
Yes, I know. I started using gitlab.com in 2014, I have there all my projects, my side projects, failed startup, assignments from uni, notes from lectures and own experiments, CV in Latex etc. Some of them I keep private, some of them are opensource. I enjoy hosting things myself, so my question is basically, can I replicate gitlab.com for my opensource projects, but keep privacy of my existing private projects.
Wao. After all these responses, it would be interesting to know what are you thinking now.
That seems like spurious logic, especially given that Microsoft has spent many, many billions of their cash hoard on a stock buyback program (as does Apple, etc). By the broken logic of that Slate article, they're throwing money down a well foolishly because shares outstanding are "free".

Further, noting the current day price change is always the basis for countless nonsense articles. The shares haven't been diluted yet -- not until the deal closes later in the year -- and a temporary blip one way or another is close to meaningless.
How about create a purchasers’ union and use your collective purchasing power to influence the behavior of companies, the way that companies use their power to control consumers.

I don’t have any problem with your union; in fact, I might join such a union. Just don’t force everyone to join it, which is what happens when laws are made for everyone as a result of the bad decisions of some.

I don’t know if such a union is legal to form… which I guess illustrates the point that @gonational is trying to make; too many laws can bite you.
>but we have a pretty good understanding of fundamental physics

You're not being serious, right?
Hungry people and Flint are not Bill Gates responsibility. If he choses to give a gift to somebody, that's a kind and generous thing to do.
It's possible. There've been recent advances in 3-D printing with quartz, which is very difficult to work and it very important for scientific experiments due to it's lack of thermal expansion.
GitLab is definitely slower. But the bigger problem for me is simply that the UI is unfamiliar. I'm honestly not sure if it's worse, it's just that I'm very used to Github by now. It's a bit "rock and hard place" for GitLab as I imagine they don't want to just carbon copy Github.
It's the Facebook "you don't get something of real value for free" but with say a $400 baseline cost.

I hate this business model as I'm sure most other folks do as well - but it's instructive to understand that it's not just online services like FB that rely on it. It's infested hardware, media, pretty much all parts of our consumer life... give it time and the corporate adlords will infest government/city services as well. Ads everywhere, minority-report style.
>> If the purchase freaks you out, ask yourself if your existence is rooted in the truth and present, or in the past, where Ballmer's MSFT was an adversary of the open-source/Linux community

The truth is that Microsoft spent decades destroying and hindering competition every way they could to create and sustain a monopoly. The present is a few years of good behavior.

People are allowed to be wary. People are not obligated to give them another chance.
I was in the same place 5 years ago. I've decided to quit and find something worth doing not just making more money. Since then I'm working in a support role in cancer research for not exactly faang salary but it's definitely worth it.
It all depends on how we define better, and for any negative situation, you can change your definition of better so it is not included.

If one believes that all human life is equally valuable, even when still in the womb, then our world has become drastically worse. Worldwide, the population of America is aborted every 6 years, or one WW2 every year.

Or, consider Iceland's recent achievement in eradicating Down's syndrome, by killing all babies with Down's syndrome.

Our world has dramatically improved in certain aspects of livelihood, but has dramatically worsened in our respect for human life. Proof of this statement is the average reader's inability to comprehend what I've just written.
>In notebooks, the answer is that you have to jump through a lot of hoops to write things in a non-notebook-way -- that is, specifically in a way where you factor things out into the text files anyway -- if you want those good patterns.

I guess I still consider this a "notebook-y" way. Its just good practice, instead of bad practice. But still notebooky.

You seem to be using notbooky to mean sloppy and disorganized, whereas I mean it as interactive and literate. Those need not be correlated, and I think that "driver scripts" still benefit a lot from the interativity and literateness
>There is no chance

Stating anything without doubt is the definition of hubris.
I find it likely that they will find a way to do this. Current technology is using a silica/polymer mix and fusing it bit by bit with a laser.
I personally know of zero that can support themselves and the other contributors with a system like Patreon.
I don't think Steemit will become mainstream enough to be considered for that, there are too many issues with their ingenious yet majorly flawed hierarchical structure and payment model
I'm pretty sure the statistic is that every year 1 in 7 people in the U.S. face hunger.

Saying 1 in 7 people in the U.S. face hunger every year implies that the same group of people are hungry year after year. While a large portion of the hungry population probably are hungry multiple years, surely not all of them repeat every year.
“Your either with us, or you’re against us”, Thats the confidence of Bush noting that nobody can ever do anything about it. The ‘fear of the American’ and the constant self inflicted antagonism by it’s own media, has been so effectively monetised, that it should probably be described as a self full filling perpetual prophecy machine.
Sounds more like I'm challenging your values . . . how can you not blame agents (people) for acting to further something you don't like? Those people have a choice, and they're choosing to further something you don't like, how is it not logical to blame the people for making that choice?

What you're saying is what's usually said about animals, "don't blame the bear for eating you if it's hungry and you're there". Only difference is that animals are pure instinct, whereas people aren't.
How to Make Tough Decisions Easier
1) Its not about "there being christians" in the military, thats a total straw man. Its about the most lethal branch of the service being dominated by those who see their conduct as the prosecution of a religious war. How is this difficult?
2) I never said that "we should ignore what a journalist says in public" I was contrasting a few comments that are pretty uncontroversial to anyone with domain knowledge to a deeply reported piece and treating those comments as if they were in any way determinative of his worldview, or that to quote tptacek "he's suffered a precipitous decline" because he notes the dominance of a radical theocratic bent among JSOC.

How have ya'll spent more than half a dozen comments now with out reckoning with any of the pieces I've linked? Seriously. I've linked a number of pieces now backing up what Hersh has said. Aren't you a journalist? Even a professor of journalism?
I think perhaps what's being described is akin to a bulletin board with fliers outside the doctors office, with general advice to the public, not specific directed advice to a patient about their specific health issues. I'm not sure that falls afoul of HIPAA, I would imagine it doesn't since it's not specific at all.

At the same time, that also makes it irrelevant to the point at hand, since it's not Facebook messenger at all, just general health posts and items offered by that medical group.
Why? Having messages be iOS only, is working out perfectly for them.

Most iOS users get annoyed at the android users when they get green bubbles, instead of getting annoyed at Apple.

As long as that continues to be true, I don't see iMessage ever coming out for Android.
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It does have more features; they're banking on the fact that users who try out Gitlab will like those additional features, and thus will want to pay for the enterprise edition when their business decides to self-host.

Though I will say that this can be a sneaky business model. Users might not realize some of the features they depend on in the gitlab.com version isn't from the community edition.
Which laptop to buy as a developer in 2018?
I develop in Gogland.
I use arch on desktop but need laptop.
How Yelp Modularized the Android App
I want also add https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent Cool concept.
It would be great if the publisher would make digital copies of this book available to everyone for free. I wonder if Gates explored that option but the price was too steep.
Notice: "Viewer needed prompting in verbalization."

This would be amazing if it was double blind study but I don't believe it was. The monitor knew the picture and was unintentionally affecting the outcome.
> objective, widely agreed-upon definitions for poverty

No, there aren’t; this is a political line that doesn’t make any sense at all. This is why “livable wage” is a phrase: just getting above the poverty line does not imply you can live on your income. The poverty line is pegged too low to be meaningful, at least here in US.
I searched for microphones with an integrated low power DSP, and the first hit [1], from 2016, described a device for always-listening voice activation using an EEPROM configured DSP that claims to consume 0.4mW at 1.8V (0.22mA). That seems astonishingly low, and would be unnoticeable in terms of battery drain on a modern smartphone.

While the article describes a 'trigger to activate' scenario, I guess the DSP could also be configured to output data at an earlier stage in the chain for post-processing on a server. The volume of data would be orders of magnitude lower than sending raw waveforms. Of course, this would introduce the need for some memory for buffering, which eats into the power budget, but having read about this device, I'm pretty convinced that it's technically feasible.

Whether or not phones actually do this at a low level is another matter. It would be an interesting experiment to graph the current draw from a sleeping phone's battery while conversations were being spoken into the mic.

[1] https://www.sensorsmag.com/components/mic-hears-all-all-time
If he was to spend that money to fight hunger, how should he have done it exactly? What would he spend it on? How lasting would its effect be?
Arguably, turning college graduates into better citizens by giving them a book can have a bigger long-term effect than directly solving the problem. Not that immediate action shouldn't be done, but both are valid attacks to the same problem.

I think Bill Gates' underlying reasoning is that by giving all college graduates this book, the future generation will be better thinkers and therefore that society will be better than today's. Hopefully, this will lead to a situation where that 1 in 7 number will turn into 1 in 70, and every place in the US will have access to clean water.

It's kind of like that saying "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.".
I really like how he uses the term "symbolic leisure" here. It makes a good point about what work-places are and how we convince ourselves that it's something else by mixing other symbolic elements into the space. It's a very well done talk IMO.
Something this article goes into in more detail with regards to Git:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/05/30/optimizin...
Was reading about the income levels I-IV in the book and looks like II-IV have access to cellphones form this article:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/25/more-people-have-cell-ph...
Requiem for GitHub (2016)
Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)
Brutus said eventually, and that's an entirely reasonable statement. Microsoft has burned many, many billions on foolish ventures to try to regain namespace, while at the same time the entirety of their revenue is still based on the coasting remains of the empire they built a decade ago. Microsoft's revenue has stagnated, despite endlessly acquiring and adding new verticals to the stack.

To put it another way, simply doing the SAP and squeezing Windows + Office would have netted a much more profitable business than everything Microsoft has been doing.
Hello,

I run a community of freelance programmers. I frequently get requests for simple, first store setup from nontechnical customers. I would be interested in finding someone who could supply that for a flat fee, which we would then mark up 100%. Obviously, we spend a large portion of our revenues on our marketing budget, driving nontechnical customers to submit inquiries, but we're responsible for all those expenses. You would be entirely welcome to work directly with the customer for ongoing work as long as you joined our community with a $25 monthly membership.
Dell XPS 13 has been a dream for me
We choose... We choose... we expect

That’s the royal “we” isn’t it?
The fundamental problem in media is their financial incentives, leading to clickbait articles, and sometimes even fake news.

Government subsidies for proper, independent news reporting could help tremendously here. But unfortunately, now all politicians are looking at Facebook to solve the problem.
I regularly buy books for friends for whom I think it would be useful. Sometimes business books for entrepreneur friends, sometimes fiction that I think they would enjoy (or I really want to talk to them about!).

Nothing stopping any of us from doing something similar at a smaller scale. (though the ability to reach people who we don't know, at a large scale, is definitely much much harder)
Well, a lot of people use Youtube as a music service, so that makes sense. I think there may be a domain whitelist for non-active page video in chrome, which was brought up and discusses here a while back, but I can't recall. Or maybe it was auto-play? Maybe they share a whitelist though.