skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check the recent history of computing. They willingly botched many good standardization efforts and devalued many by throwing their industry weight around - all in the name of self-interest.

And oh, their software sucks. Sometimes it's kinda bizarre even how much their software sucks, bad engineering abound.

Have you tried updating Windows 7 recently?

They took over the world of computers and made people believe that computers suck and are boring, which they do when they run Windows.

They brainwashed so many corporations and governments to use their stupid solutions for every problem and plague tech people with incredible headache in the process.

It's even worse in the "developing" world, where every single comapny is like: "Oracle! Microsoft! Oracle! Microsoft!". You will never know till you experience it.
That is what I thought the very first time I played, then it turned out I was speaking to a 'robot'. Still I think we have established the final result is not accurate.
Usually you can sign your work in a cryptographically verifiable way https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work
One can find I think here[1] quite good analysis of Roman inferiority complex towards Celts and other milk-drinking people of the North. Simply speaking dreaded Roman legions consisted of very short men and they weren't able to look down at 'unusually' tall Celts and others.

The ability to enjoy dairy had some advantages too.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8078106-the-ghosts-of-ca...
Although this doesn't directly have anything to do with open-source; look at what happened to Skype, LinkedIn, and other companies they acquired.
Cool, for sure, thanks for the response!
I think you can pretty much kill anything if you heat your spacecraft enough. Of course, you might kill the spacecraft too. It might be very difficult indeed to destroy certain types of spores, and the "cook the spacecraft until they're all dead" approach might be possible but completely impractical for any real budget. Obviously any temperature that's hot enough to melt standard space-hardened circuit boards is going to be difficult. On the other hand, it sounds like the clean room approach is no panacea either.

As an interesting tangent, the engineering used to design a heat-resistant spacecraft might be re-used to design a long-lived Venus surface probe.
Well, they must be over the moon at GitLab!
Extinguish.

I mean, if I had wanted to troll. Still..almost everything about MS's choices in Win10 (aside from Linux Subsystem) bother me.
Charles River might use PPLs for determining drone targets.
How many build from source as opposed to downloading binaries from atom.io?
Your site completely refuses to load with noscript.

Are you sure the complexity needed for it warrants this?
It's a double edged sword - onboard some devs on "advanced" scala code and let me know how the 10x is working for ya. I also feel that sometimes types cause additional congitive load - you have to mentally model the types and what they do. OTOH I'm pretty sure most people can onboard a js project that's well written.

I think exploratory, debug-based onboarding can be easier with poorly written static lang codebases that dynamic, but then again depends on what convetions are used. I don't care much about autocomplete unless I have to type ReallyLongClassNamesThatAreSupposedToBeMeaningful; besides coding is mostly about avoiding errors, not typing faster.

In the end, whatever floats your boat but dyn langs surely have their place.
> Is Crystal a superset of Ruby where any valid Ruby project is a valid Crystal project

No. So the idea pretty much stops there.
So skype isn't shit any more?
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For every language, every framework, people are going to have their own favourite ways to actually make sites fast.

I'll say though, surge.sh is the fastest way to get up static sites and zeit is the fastest way to get up webservers. One command to deploy without any configuration and you're done.
Yea totally, github is much more reliable.

https://blog.github.com/2010-11-15-today-s-outage/
We ended up finding a local place where they manufacturer the foam mattresses in-house. Rather than pick and choose which model you like, you pick among options. There are 3-4 firmnesses. You can choose the firmness on each side of the bed. You can choose thickness of the mattress. You can choose exterior quality also. In the end the finished product looks as good as the major manufacturer and costs half the amount. They also get it ready and delivered in 2-3 days.
Jelly raised this above too. Pasting my reply at the end here.

But I agree with you that values are central. I'd back more investigations to uncover corporations with internal cultures more like Enron and root out bad actors in such places earlier, if we could do that fairly.

> Those most in need of the labor rights and respect unions traditionally afford are often those who have almost no access to the legal system.

This seems like a powerful concern in theory but the facts make me optimistic. I haven't found, say, OSHA to be toothless in practice, the DOL routinely brings aggressive overtime violations cases, and enforcement of the civil rights act against particularly southern hotels and gas stations by federal courts are all powerful counterexamples.

They are not comprehensively solved problems, but clearly demonstrate that organs of state power can and have been used in defense of marginalized groups. I'd say especially Federal courts, but several agencies have done impressive work too.
I guess it'll just take a lot longer for this generation to see MS as anything but embrace, extend, extinguish.
> I assume he would consider a question about inverting a binary tree more of a joke

If you refer to this:

https://www.quora.com/When-do-you-need-to-invert-a-binary-tr...

I also don't know why would anybody ever need to implement "inverting" a binary tree except for the Google exam.

> Most likely he implemented more binary trees in his live

"Most likely"? Actually he "just" invented (not a complete list):

- Unix (with Ritchie) (in assembly first)

- the language B, based on which Ritchie developed C.

- the notation for the regular expressions everybody uses today

- the algorithm for fast regular expression handling

- the chess computer that won the 3rd World Computer Chess Championship 1980
There's a certain irony that you're hoping people will forgive Sourceforge after two years, because of a change of ownership, from people who haven't forgiven Microsoft for things that happened upwards of twenty years ago when it was also under different leadership.

Good luck, though, we need more alternatives out there, and today's probably a great time to remind people you're an option.
I think the shift from a traditional sales focus to one on subscriptions and "The Cloud" is a pretty monumental change. Losing traditional sales markets like selling phones really hastened that change. I don't think you're looking for proof that they're genuinely enthusiastic, because imo desperation is the rawest form of genuine enthusiasm. It's whether or not they're altruistic in this particular field, and that has yet to be seen.
I think they purposely weakened the search because people were using it to find secret keys.
That is great to hear! I'd love to read the details if you happen to have a link to more information. I've tried Googling for it a few times over the years but never found anything.
You didn't say anything about that. I've never used it, so I don't know anything about its quality.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-requiring-...

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/06/03/0626246/microsoft-s...
I dunno, as an Azure user, they've launched good products like Azure Insights, that were really good, which they deprecated or merged with PowerBI etc... that totally tanked them.

So I'm not super hopeful.
The hiring process has proven that I am not.

But it hasn't. You're putting faith in the veracity of "the hiring process" that isn't justified. Nobody in this industry actually knows how to properly evaluate people, and especially not over the long-term. If it worked like that there would be no stories of the guy/gal who gets rejected by Google and then goes on to start a "unicorn" startup, etc. The "hiring process" is full of false positives, false negatives, etc.

I'm wondering if it persists over the years

You are not static - unless you choose to be.
Java also doesn't run collection unless there's interaction with the GC. This is why people put a lot of effort into avoiding allocation in inner loops via primitives and object pools, because doing so ensures that the GC won't cause problems.
I never said it was. I am just pointing out that the article says Github hasn't even turned a profit yet while the OP said they were profitable.
I feel the same way. The website works great on mobile, and it's super fast. My browser already has tabs as well! Why would I want to install an app?
>I think everyone here would agree with that assessment.

Ah, for the days when HN was a refuge from this type of bullshit.
Maybe this is an unpopular question.

People unwilling to pay for a service they think is important for their work, yet lose their shit when the the said service does what is best for them. That is, to be sustainable.

AFAIK, GH charges for private repos and yet they are not-profitable. Gitlab offers free private repos, how will the story end differently?

EDIT: Typo
You should go after the person directly rather than relying on the 3rd party platform to enforce law and carry out investigation.
Microsoft ruined Skype, why wouldn't I think a company whose main source of income is from closed-source software wouldn't ruin GitHub?
Improbable [0] is building (and has open-sourced) Keanu, "a general purpose probabilistic programming library built in Java", where Bayesian networks are represented as DAGs. It's feature list includes Probabilistic Programming Operators and Distributions, Auto-differentiation, Inference, Maximum a posteriori, Metropolis Hastings, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, Sequential Monte Carlo (Particle Filtering), and Support for Kotlin. [1]

[0] https://improbable.io/

[1] https://github.com/improbable-research/keanu
Device allows a personal computer to process huge graphs – MIT News
and yet the response to anything by microsoft is reminders of EEE, while google gets praised for blatantly awful abuses of power.
Then study for 4 more years.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DezCaWaUYAAa5ih.jpg:large
I think he/she meant instead of giving the normal (the 95% of the population) a label, it would make more sense to give the special case (the 5% of the population) a label.
Quick and Dirty PoC for Git CVE-2018-11235
Said by people who probably cheerfully use AWS.
It's not just the children who don't socialize outside. I hardly see adults either. They pay landscapers to manage the property.
> In what other field does someone with no education, no relevant experience, no resources, and no connections vastly outperform someone with the best education, the most relevant experiences, the best resources and the best connections?

I’ve seen it happen a bunch in the IT field.
I keep hearing stuff like this on HN, just out of curiosity:

> my calendar (org-gcal)

Can org-gcal show calendar notifications? Can it access shared calendars?

> my email (mu4e)

Can you see and/or compose HTML mails?

> my pdf reader

Can you open and render correctly complex PDFs? Graphs, tables, images, tables of contents, maybe even forms, etc.?
Nokia too, although it didn’t affect people directly, as opposed to the series of ultrabad decisions on Skype. Acquisitions aren’t always successful with Microsoft.
As urban soundscapes go, passenger cars are basically silent. Buses, trucks, trains, and motorcycles all make drastically more noise. Especially when the buses are operating their airbrakes and audible announcements, trains are blowing their horns as they crawl away from stations, trucks are accelerating and decelerating, etc. In other words, I couldn’t disagree more. It’s the slowest-moving everything-except-cars that make an unbearable racket. Maybe this is different in places with more prevalent diesel cars?
I am forced to use Windows for gaming, and let me tell you what Microsoft has done to me lately.

- Forced updates are a travesty. I should be able to delay or ignore updates indefinitely as I own my computer.

- I'm not allowed to not run an antivirus program, despite having no need of one. I can only temporarily pause Windows Defender's real-time checks before they'll helpfully turn it back on for me. This results in a loss of gaming performance.

- Turning off their spying telemetry is essentially impossible and will helpfully turn itself back on.

- They hold some good games hostage and refuse to release them on Windows (Halo Master Chief Collection) since they don't take gaming seriously on PC.

- Every once in a while, they become dedicated to PC gaming again which simply means they will use their power to force something awful onto the community, like the Windows Xbox Game Bar, Games for Windows Live, etc. in their quest to make my gaming PC into an Xbox.

- UWP is trash and greatly restricts what the user can do with their game, such as mods or fan patches to fix bugs developers ignore.

- The Windows Store is horrible in and of itself and is full of even more low quality software. Instead of releasing their games on Steam, Origin, GOG, or even UPlay, they force them into this dumpster fire.

- They install Candy Crush and other drivel by default on a fresh copy of Windows, and sometimes it magically reappears.

Just because Microsoft has put on the "I'm changed!" act recently by releasing some FOSS and donating some money does not mean they have actually stopped being a negative influence.
Well, because the strategy was really nasty stuff and acquiring github might fit into this kind of pattern.
Thanks. We still have 500,000 projects and over a million daily users, so at the very least, we're focused on doing right by them. But the more the merrier, and the more options out there the better the OSS community is.
Personally, I am not against the gdrp but rather against the idea that I cannot opt out of laws created on another continent.

I don't trust their enforcement because they aren't my government. If I lived in the EU, I would at least know my countries government is the one enforcing the law, but as a non EU resident I don't know who will enforce it. I don't have a home country to give me recommendations, protections or support.
I wonder if Stallman will be right, again, and whether we will see the rise of the Fossil SCM? (Or a similar clone)
How does this fit in with the Unix philosophy?
Which has recently gone even more steeply downhill now that they've tried to push React/Electron everywhere.
In a few years we might look back at this period and think: oh, it was at the time when we thought gut bacteria was the solution to every health problem known to mankind.

Remember when it was vitamin D?
Ben Thompson at Stratechery has been banging the centralization drum for a while. His take is the sheer scale of the internet imbues tremendous value to any centralized service that can organize it (e.g. what Google does for web pages or Facebook does for your friends).

If this is the case then the internet may end up more centralized than previous forms of media and communication. I hope that's wrong, but it seems to be happening right in front of us.
I know plenty of orgs paying for Github. I don't know if your experience is typical.
I use it for work like everybody else here, but being so comfortable and happy with it, I paid $7/month for a few private repos which maybe used $.02/month in their resources. Just a shame companies and the developers paying for it wasn't enough
Ask HN: Why is there so much hatred and distrust of Microsoft?
The overwhelming reaction of commenters here at HN to the news that Microsoft might be acquiring GitHub is negative at best and "OMG, the sky is falling" at the most hyperbolic. Why is that? Microsoft is a Platinum level member of the Linux Foundation, a huge advocate of open source in general, and is open-sourcing more projects and technologies of their own every month. Why, then, is there so much antipathy for this company?
I'm a believer in the importance of the microbiome, but this study seems fishy:

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

* the figure 1(a) in their paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-25382-z#Fig1) doesn't show a big difference from plain probiotics to their formulation, but does show some oddities in the Y-axis where, for the control group, there were clearly exactly just 10 flies' mortality measured (integer steps down), but apparently many, many more for other cases scaled to the 0-10 axis.

* it's unclear if the treatments/evaluations where blinded – the word 'blind' is not found in the Nature article

* the 1st comment on the Nature article wonders: "the control flies didn't live to their normal expected age or even close. What gives?"

(Perhaps the flies that lived longer just had more food in total?)
My company (SAP) has a GitHub Enterprise installation that, given the number of active users, is going to be a very pleasant revenue stream for GitHub.
That's one big reason why we switched.

The other was the self hosted option.
Since GDPR began to come into force, I've seen an increasing pivot from ad-based revenue models to subscription/pay per view based models, I imagine motivated in part by the fact that if you have to acquire non-implied consent, so you might as well force that friction point to fully onboard a user, and part as well by fears as to how targeted advertising will continue to provide a revenue source given the new requirements. It's fair to say that this may be an overreaction, but historically these sorts of experiments don't get reverted, once the infrastructure is in place. I personally do not find the benefits offered under GDPR to be worth losing what was previously a "relatively free" ecosystem. Others can disagree with whether they are OK with the prior state of affairs, but this is not the law I would have written to change it, and as I said before, a lot of my frustration comes in from having 0 say in the matter, (or deriving 0 benefit) yet being exposed to the friction of the legislation.

(One can also observe that this may serve as a regulatory moat protecting e.g. large ad networks that have enough scale to merit the overhead/costs of global compliance infrastructure, but not new startup networks. We've seen similar problems in recent HN writeups re: starting a bank; where something much more consensus, financial security, can still serve to overreach and serve incumbents more than it protects users.)

As a meta comment, I notice you are _very often_ present defending GDPR in threads where I've stayed quiet in the past; to the point that as someone who almost never notices names on this site, I've noticed yours before this interaction. Can I be curious about why you advocate this so comprehensively while also answering your question? (because, frankly, even the advocates I know personally agree that there are costs and risks involved, and that the letter of the law itself also left a lot up in the air)
Death due to malnutrition would be a rather extreme case. You can be very malnourished without actually dying from it.
Show HN: A golang library to find and return random stocks from indices
I’ve paid for private repos on my personal GitHub account for years, and many of the companies I work for/with have paid organization accounts for GitHub, since the integrations and access control / management is really slick vs. setting it up internally. I can see many of these orgs (and myself) determining it’s worth the effort to move to GitLab / self-hosted depending on what Microsoft does.
They profit from hosting Linux VMs on Azure and Office for Mac.
Hmm, of those, if I could specify "pick one of these 20 DNS resolvers at random for each query" I might...

Sorry, tangential thought, I agree with your main point, and the others are much tougher.
Did i miss some news? Skype is still Skype and Linkedin hasn’t changed much either. ?? if anything those two proves being Acquired by MS is not as bad as for example Google who loves to eventually shut down their acquirers.
Yeah, Americans really don’t like spending time in public spaces unless each person is individually enclosed in a hermetically sealed metal box on wheels.

As a result, places where humans regularly talk to each-other in public freak us out. Why won’t they stop abusing the commons like that?
I don't think you have to be altruistic to have genuine enthusiasm -- some companies have fantastic plans to support open-source as well as their business plans. But I agree with the first point you are making.
This is anecdotally true from my experience.
Battery Pioneer Announces New Cell That Doubles Energy Density of Lithium-Ion
Good for Github. Bad for Github users.
IMPORTANT INFO re US income tax:

A rough rule of thumb is that if you are making $50,000 per year gross salary in the USA, you'll be taking home roughly $3000 per month in net pay.

This number changes a bit if you are married, have kids, have an expensive house, and so on.

If you are making $100,000 gross per year, especially in NY or San Fran, you realistically might have a take home net monthly pay of $5700 or even a bit less as a non-married human.

Realistically, mandatory expenses like rent and commuting (unless you are sleeping under your desk in the office!!!) will be about $1,000 to $3,000 per month, most people around $2,000 in those cities.

And yeah, lifestyle creep is totally a thing in the USA. There are people making $5700 a month who are spending $5700 per month, certainly.

Also, minimum wage is $1600 per month full time post tax at places like burger king and mcdonalds.
"Please sign in with your Microsoft account".

"Requires Windows 10".

"Best viewed with Microsoft Edge".

"This project violates our terms of service by competing with a Microsoft product."

OK, where do we move everything?
Check you routers' DNS configuration
The AmigaOS was far more advanced than MacOS in 1990 just as the Amiga hardware was 5 years more advanced than the Mac at launch. There were about 5 million Amigas in circulation, especially in Europe, by 1990. How many home users owned Macs at that point?

Apple users seem to overstate the importance of early pre-OSX Apple. For example, The Apple II was brutally outsold by the Commodore 64 which was far more powerful and became the most popular 8bit home computer ever sold. (That is, the Apple II was far less important than the hagiography makes out)
Petitions don't pay bills; GitHub is bleeding money. The solution is not signatures, but for developers to start paying for all the free hosting GitHub has given them. The open-source community itself is strapped for cash, so this is an excellent time for all the users of that open-source software (especially companies) to start chipping in for hosting and development costs. However, the cynical side of me says that ain't going to happen. :/
The source research paper:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.8b02322?src=recsys
Woman born without vagina gets one made from tilapia fish skin
Self hosted/open source vs SASS for onse. Contentful is nice but quite pricy.