skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's either an article or a documentary detailing how some of the modern pipe glassblowing has its roots directly in scientific glass blowing.

The one problem is they don't seem to need anywhere near the degree of precision.
"A couple of years ago Microsoft was anti-open-source."

Then quotes stuff from 18 years ago.... ok
Problem is that there was an entire industry that supplied glass blowers (for example, there was a time incandescent bulbs were hand-blown)

If most of the glasswork in your lab has to be hand-made, you need dozens of people to do the job, junior personnel can be trained on the easier pieces, and the best of them can grow into experts making unica.

Nowadays, there’s no need for junior glassblowers, so to get an expert, you’ll have to pay a candidate for years, possibly decades, without getting any benefits from it.

Worse, there’s no guarantee that the person you hire will ever become good enough to do the job.

Health and safety also may have made it more expensive. Glassblowing also isn’t the healthiest job. Burns and cuts go with the job, various fumes are toxic, there’s “glassblower’s cataract”, and it is heavy labor (e.g. when lifting a few kilograms of glass at the end of a pipe that’s meters long)
A society that never invests in research into anything that in hindsight was obviously silly, is also going to miss out on a bunch of things that looked unpromising but actually paid off in a big way. I'm glad NASA investigated the reactionless drive recently, even though I was pretty sure it would come to nothing. We need more willingness to finance far-out research projects, not less.
https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/sherpa-they-die...
I'll add to the list of recommendations "V-2" by Dornberger.

https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Rocket-Weapon-Walter-Dornberger/...

Although Dornberger was not an engineer, the book does go through many technical difficulties and how they were resolved. The V2 is, of course, a direct ancestor of the Saturn V, and the solutions to those difficulties are present in the SV as well.
Ask HN: I suspect person I don't trust to has got access to my startup ideas
What can I do to save them?
Does anyone here work at Archive.org? Can you speak to how well-funded the organization is and what sort of measures are in place to keep it afloat? I think it's a fantastic service and I donate, but I worry that it could vanish the next day if funding suddenly dries up. I feel like a large corner of the Internet collectively takes the site for granted and don't bother doing their own in-house archiving because "TheArchive will just suck it up for us."
That is a lot better than nothing, but they still need to fix that -- if I submit a patch as part of my job, the project now has paid contributers, even if they don't know it.
I can't remember where I read this, but if you're prone to dehydration headaches (which is what a hangover headache typically is), don't drink water, or at least not just water.

Instead, mix a pinch of sugar and a pinch of salt into a quarter-glass of water. Mix well, drink. You'll rehydrate far better and faster with this than with just water.

This is probably why Gatorade works so much better than just water, but this method is far, far cheaper.
We are running out of categories. Really, everyone will have availability to the book given that the chances that one person will upload it is pretty darn high if it isn't already available.
Because now github is owned by a company that was formerly very hostile to open source software, and this company is magically not.
I'm not sure how useful this comment is in that terse form... I've heard many voicing opinions that now is a good opportunity to jump to the superior Gitlab for reasons like self hosting if not for future proofing.

Edit: OK, this was in response to your unedited comment
That sounds like an artifact of Intel's artificial market segmentation. If we imagine a world where ECC was mandatory then it's likely that ECC gamer RAM would be available.
Why non-self hosted is supposed to be free for non open source projects?
I have a Toshiba laptop that runs linux very well. Everything works perfectly. Too bad they had to go out of that business. They got hit really hard recently by having to get out of the nuclear power business.
I appreciate your protective feeling for HN, but you're simply wrong about Taibbi. We could lose 90% of our journalists, those whose efforts are primarily focused toward sticking to their assigned scripts, and we would be both better-off and better-informed. Taibbi is not among that 90%. HN is also not about sticking to the script.
[jwz] The history of Microsoft should not be ignored because of “recent changes”
Honest question: Besides more traction among the open source community, where do you feel GitHub is stronger than GitLab?

I’m not affiliated with GitLab, however a little biased because we’re using GitLab instead of GitHub at our company.

Feature-wise, It seems to me that GitLab is running circles around GitHub. Curious about other opinions.
From people I spoke to everyone seems concerned with what might happen. It is possible nothing bad happens at all but people cannot trust MS after what happened to a lot of the companies they acquired in the past.
I just rounded down (to give a conservative estimate) the $7.5bn I've seen everywhere. If they are giving them new MSFT shares worth $7.5bn, buying those shares back would cost around $7.5bn assuming the price doesn't move. Of course it may be significantly more or less that depending on the evolution of the stock price.

By the way, I said they will buy back stock in the next six months but it will be in the six months following the closing of the transaction (which is expected to take place by the end of the year). I've edited my previous comment slightly.
there also arent nation state actors pouring in millions into cracking them. Or if there is, at least they arent going to tell the internet about it.

And for the record the ps4 has had kernel level exploits published.
Direct Link: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/06/lol-github/

I used an archival service because jwz doesn't like HN and has a referral redirect.
I was going to point out that GitHub pages are so great for hosting static content that that alone keeps me in GitHub. But looks like GitLab already implements their equivalent.

Too bad it looks like they don't handle enabling TLS/SSL for custom domains as conveniently as GitHub does (e.g. one click to enable and they will then get the cert through LetsEncrypt or something without me having to bother with getting it from a CA, renewals etc.) [1].

Already commented about this elsewhere, but if anyone from GitLab is reading, this thing would make any potential transition much more convenient for me.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/getting_starte...
I like to think of myself as reasonably well-informed and unbiased, with a pretty decent set of tools for looking at things I see in the news but when I read it recently I learned quite a lot. It's a very good book.
Yep! Choice and competition is good! I think it's good that people like Gitlab and use it, just in the same way that there are people who prefer GitHub and use it.

But I wouldn't say at all that it's the result of stagnation as a result of abandonment -- rather, it's intentional selection.
> if it’s 8, you can no longer call them “core”

You are lucky if you think 10-12 hour work days don't exist in software development. You might also be forgetting about flex schedules, core hours may include the entire working day and may be a signal that substituting 9-10am for 5-6pm is not acceptable because you were hired to do a job that depends on your presence when others are also there. There are multiple legitimate reasons that core hours exist in 8 hour blocks in some places.

And that's all moot since the specific hours in this discussion are unrelated to the point @jph was making, which he already stated kindly and clearly.
I doubt it. My tax dollars are already spent on lots of things that are known to be actively harmful, not just "low probability of ROI". For example, any 'critical theory' university program.
Monitization methods that have kept me employed full-time developing open source software are

- selling plugins/extension onto an open platform (basically what you call open core, not a fan of that term though). Works great for https://vcvrack.com/

- offering support for $$/hr. You'd think that would work better than it does, but even large companies try to find ways around getting your help. They'd prefer spending 100 of their developer hours than 10 of mine it seems.

- GPL/commercial barely works, but it's better than $0. Honestly I'd rather just make it fully commercial than this, because what's the point. I don't actually consider GPL to be fully open-source (an unpopular opinion.)

My stance is that you should plan ahead of time whether you want to monetize so you can determine if the time is worth it at all. I'm a firm believer in separating fun and work, so if you want to develop software for fun, keep it that way, and if for work, have a viable business plan. Otherwise bite the bullet and say that the project isn't meant to be exist.
I've never used Github for personal, closed-source projects, but if you have and want to switch to something that provides absolutely no features except git hosting, here are 3 I've used:

- Keybase git: https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone (my preferred solution these days).

- AWS CodeCommit: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ ("encrypted", but I don't know if AWS employees can access it).

- Dropbox git remote: https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox (it's slow and unencrypted, but uses Dropbox).
That's it, the open-source community is there. Performance doesn't really matter when there's tons of amazing projects being hosted in one place. If features were important, Gitlab would be more popular than Github.
The AI winter is well on its way
No one knows the difference online, just choose a college from the drop down and via
Firefox has a new side-by-side tab feature for multitaskers
There's also (Fedora) Pagure, available hosted at https://pagure.io/, and it can be self-hosted. Though it's not quite as painless as gitea/gogs. Example of a more active project: https://pagure.io/mlocate
Show me a world without violence, and I'll show you a country without an army.

Until then, I'd say the Swiss, Israeli, and American models are the most moral realistic options we've come up with. (Each with their own terrible moral compromises and failures)
Really interesting observation, does look pretty shady.
Well, it can be argued that most of the “structured” languages were “dropping something” from Algol. Or later from Ada... yes, nothing fundamentally original happens often. But people give the names to the languages they make... even “dropping” is something “creative” often worth naming. Apparently Unix kept only minimum of Multics. Sometimes exactly the “bigger” variants aren’t fit to survive.
The only reason I'm not convinced yet, is that it would be somewhat easy to run a statistical significant experiment with 1,000 people to verify if it's definitely real or not.

Have been expecting some research to come out from either a security firm, university researchers, or other to verify. Don't think it would cost too much to run, hoping something comes out soon.
Put the url of the article into https://outline.com/ to get around most paywalls (including wsj)
Rather than fiddling around with quoting bash, you can put the import line in a startup file: http://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/tutorial...
One of the best things about reaching the Bill Gates level of wealth is probably being able to say, "man, I really liked this book, I think every college graduate should read it," and then realizing you can literally buy it for all of them.
I'm a .NET fan but there's still some friction. There's Azure free tier to be sure, but I'm not sure about the backend - CosmosDB?.
The script is protecting sleazy men because they’ve made some contribution we value. That’s not a script we should stick too.
There's no actual requirement of proof that you're graduating from college. It's just a free download that makes you click a button saying you are.
What is 'deep xp', and what do you mean by 'core labs'?
You are both right. I was specifically asking about "stackfull coroutines" as tatterdemalion says, but I stackless coroutines with await/async would be as good for code readability.

Thanks for your work btw.
Some people still don't trust MS, even after the recent changes. Can't blame them
I was alive when Microsoft was evil and I don't want my stuff to stay in a Microsoft service. I moved my pulic repositories to GitLab today. It's slower and it doesn't looks as nice but it's ok.

I self host my private repositories, no need of a third party service for that.

By the way, Bitbucket looks a little better than GitLab but its usability is abysmal. I always have troubles finding the things I want in there.
I mean that if reality (nature, the world) isn't responsible for our experiences of a world, including scientific experiments, then what is? Does the empirical just a appear for no reason with nothing behind it?
Burn them, then update all your projects on GitHub to have nothing but a readme with a link to the video :p
Expanding the Github Education package, integrating Github offerings with the Spark program, applying Bing search expertise to Github code search, creating a more flexible pricing model for hobbyist users, expanding their free offering, creating better Desktop/mobile applications for Github services (better the the open source ones currently available at least).
Agenda – An elegant new take on Notes
I, personally, just used the Rails docs, and watched DHH's introduction. The Rails guides are really good (the official guides, that is).
Came here to say that, feels a little eerie. Just like that other reply pondering about a cure to that disease. Definitely makes for a great SciFi plot. :)

Going further down that road, it also means that pretty much everything mankind has achieved is just a byproduct of said disease.
There is plenty of gray area in human protections law.

Of course, which is why the conversation continues. If it was settled at the beginning without nuance, it would be defined in black and white.

I'm not sure how your reply relates, though, since I was merely imploring GP to demonstrate any awareness of the state of research rather than jumping in with a lazy question-comment.

Elsewhere this is expressed by the slogan, "I'm 12 years old and what is this?"
I think it's sad, given how smart he is, that he is unaware of this dark side of connection and being connected and of facebook in general. So he's either to wrapped up in himself to realise, or at least acknowledge the dark side of what he's doing. Or even worse, he knows, and is aware but just continues to do so
Agree with all of it, or not, it's a good and thought-provoking read.
Symbolic Leisure
From the comments on that page it sounds like you just need to fill out the form with anything and you get the file. No validation. Also libraries :)

Anyway, I hope it's a clever trick to get people to feel like they beat the system and go read the book.
So far, the GDPR only applies to members* within the European Union, which Iceland is not. Iceland is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), to which GDPR is most likely to extend in the future. If you are posting from the future, then disregard this reply.

*businesses and organizations, if you will.
> Writing those things, which he undoubtedly did, is an indicator of being a misogynistic asshat.

That depends entirely on context and intent, doesn't it? As called out in one of the articles on this very subject, as the creators of South Park misogynistic asshats for writing characters that behave in this way, when it's done as satire and to lampoon those that actually act in that manner? That's what the defenders are contending, and what at least some reporting is saying female employee(s) at the time are stating.

If you think the counter-arguments don't hold up, that's one thing, but so far your arguments seem to ignore all the points raised in the Paste magazine article. I'd be interested in what you think about them, since it didn't seem to sway you at all.
Because the open source kubernetes components have thousands of developers contributing to the code, as well a whole ecosystem of components built to kubernetes’ api.
Pen and paper, iOS/macos notes or iOS/web Dynalist. Sometimes I say it out loud or to other people for non essentials.
was suggested on #emacs
Well, someone wrote all those ready-made libraries/ SaaS services. If that's what you wish for, why don't you try writing one yourself? It might lead you to new interesting problems to solve down the road...
> Planning well, finding out what to do, is harder than the actual programming. Again and again, in all projects, I find that the >90% part is finding out what to do. There

So you've advocating an approach where you... don't plan? I'm confused.

Perhaps you're getting too hung up on the half day part? That measure is a useful forcing function that ensures the dev team has thought through the approach in enough detail to identify where the risks are and what smart trade-offs can be made.
Damn, that is a brilliant idea. Spread the word :)
The only reason some of my clients (of my own company) and some of the clients of my employer (so.. someone else's company) choose GitHub over GitLab is track record. GitLab isn't old enough with a long/stable enough track record to be considered on par. Feature- and functionality-wise, GitLab always wins.

A small, but second reason some of my clients and workgroups choose GitHub is pure because of the brand name, but I suppose that could be thrown in together with track record or age.
The Truth About Cars. Product Management, strategy, and product-market-fit are not isolated to software, and we're frankly not very good at them compared to 100 year old companies.

Watching Tesla show the faults in the SV way of doing things has been really fascinating, for example.
Also Kallithea.

https://kallithea-scm.org/

I guess it's a wiki so I could add it myself, but apparently you need a github account to edit this wiki?
For what it's worth, I started using Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/) for my static sites a while ago, and it's been great. Automatic LE support is definitely one of my favorite features.
Assembla's version control has been working well for me since 2011

https://www.assembla.com/
I would disagree here. In my opinion, a good leader has to be a good people person (and ergo likely a good manager - not always though), by definition. A good manager, or people person does not always make a good leader though. In my limited experience, I would think that a leader would demonstrate an ability to expand boundaries more so. My use of good can be substituted with effective.
From the imported projects graph, looks like there was a spike, then it settled back to normal.
>such computer systems would be able to think for themselves, scouring huge amounts of data, including satellite imagery, with a speed and accuracy beyond the capability of humans, to look for signs of preparations for a missile launch

Replace "a missile launch" with "a peaceful protest" and the statement suddenly becomes dastardly.

The increasingly authoritarian Chinese government would absolutely adore a technology like that, I am sure of it.
Do you mind putting out a number of hours (per dev team) that get spent in Backlog curation, story generation, and other budget planning every week? I think perhaps an important missing ingredient for getting budgets right is actually spending the time to do so. The smaller the company, the harder it seems to justify.

Indeed, for a lot of us in smaller companies, getting our clients to actually consider taking an agile approach at all is a stretch.
I’m glad for your response. It reminds me of why I am able to come in such a high salary.
Ehh, I think the community would move to a better site if there were distinguishing features. From a source-viewing and code-review perspective, they’re all more or less the same: basic.
Ah sorry I kind of skimmed the article realizing I listened to him about this book on Fresh Air and assumed that statement was more general since it's possible with psilocybin (and I guess psychedelic trips in general).

RTFA and you know what making an assumption and all that...
Steve Ballmer is no longer CEO. Companies are run by people - they are not people.
Or better yet, have apprentices at each institution, with a traveling master whose cost is shared across institutions.

Apprentices take care of day-to-day work on their own, have oversight, and universities don't have to afford their own master glassblower.
xp = experience.
cores are a university thing. They are like mini specialized businesses inside the university shared across the university.

for example if you are in a lab and need a single cell sequencing but the equipment is too expensive or you lack the expertise, if your university(or another university) has a "single cell sequencing core" with equipment you can use it for a small fee.

example of a core search:

https://search.eagle-i.net/central/#results?q=rnai&t=http://...
You can AOT compile with PGO (Profile Guided Optimization) though.
Yeah, that's another way to do it. The lack of constraints here means that we can explore the space of solutions very freely. :)
Fixing an imago set by a guy calling open-source and Linux 'a cancer' is really hard. The last few years of changes doesn't magically wipe away that bitter taste, and the last 10-20 years doesn't magically make you forget the past.
Pure curiosity, does anyone know how much this type of position pays? At his level of expertise, and at a university specifically.
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Hi,

Especially given Matt's recent experience getting caught up in a #metoo whirlwind, how do you think about creating a new business in publishing with two white cis male founders and a marquee journalist from the same background (doing a story that invokes the race of a non-white person in its title no less?) Do you think that the struggles of SV/VC culture to accomplish its stated goals in the area of diversity pose a particular challenge to a startup focused on publishing?

Thanks for your time, and best of luck!
Forrest
Tesla is going through an insane amount of raw material and cash to make Model 3
Training package to help you learn to program while you build your idea
Launchpad is not only for Bazaar. It supports Git, too:

https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Git
AWS might be larger than GCP, but the rest of Google (Search, Adwords, Adsense, YT, Gmail, Maps, Apps, etc.) is larger than all of AWS+Amazon and that's the kind of resources over which Google can amortize things.

https://electrek.co/2017/11/30/google-is-officially-100-sun-...

Google has been running almost everything, GCP included, under Borg and can squeeze mixed workloads more tightly than the industry average. My understanding is that Amazon's technology is less uniform, but perhaps they have improved things and thus increased their utilization. You are basically printing money when it goes up by even just 1%. Or you can afford to hand out freebies like Kubernetes masters, since they're lost in the noise.
Right, but it still involves several gigabytes of largely unused functionality to get a “hello world” and it pigeonholes you into a specific ecosystem. Unity is an entirely different offering from a graphics api.
I like GitHub's UI better. I'm not even sure what is the latest iteration of GitLab UI. They change it in every release and it's a mess. I still can't find stuff.

Also, GitLab is slow. I'm sure that gitlab.com service would not way handle a fraction of GitHub's traffic without a complete rewrite or something like that.

I like GitLab as we have a CE installation that we depend on and I want it to be successful (which it already is I think). However personally it feels worse than GitHub on casual use.