skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github is a niche product. Average people do not use it at all, its utility value is entirely niche. The average person will never know what Github is or what it does. It's useful to less than 2% of the US population, and less than 0.5% of the global population.

They've killed / destroyed / butchered large acquisitions before, yes.

Metaweb / Freebase cost them a reported $200-$300 million.

Feedburner cost them $100 million.

Slide.com cost them $228 million.

Motorola was a $12 billion disaster. They might as well have killed it.

DailyDeal cost them $114 million.

Wildfire Interactive cost them $450 million.

There are a couple dozen more in the $30m to $100m range.
Great ffi perf too! From the benchmark over at github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead, julia is on par with luajit.
I just want two goddamned armrests so I don't have my elbows pinned to my ribs for a half dozen or a dozen hours. I'm an average-sized male and have no issues with legroom in economy; as long as I've got 1-2" in front of my knees I'm golden -- most seats provide more than that.

I'll rant about this until the cows come home; I can pay $39 to upgrade to slightly-more-legroom class, but all I really want is some armrests. Premium economy, fleetwide, nationwide, STAT. Currently the only real PE products are on international flights (from the US perspective).
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> Only the presidential elections need to be single-winner.

It sounds to me like you're thinking of the US as more monolithic than it is. If we only had the federal government, sure, only the president would really need to be single-winner. But pooling congressional seats logistically cannot happen, because congress is not parliament. The entire point is that senators represent their states, and House members represent their districts. Pooling them would be like pooling the EU Council and having all Europeans vote together on national ministers.

Remember that states are semi-autonomous, with their own governments following their own laws according to their own constitutions. Obviously our federal government is more powerful and rather more cohesive than the EU, but only up to a point.

(Note: I'm not saying this is a good or sensible system. In many ways, I would love for our resources and our voices to be pooled. The autonomy of individual states is a huge part of why the right wing is disproportionately represented at the federal level. And the fact that only states—not territories—get representation is a travesty.)

You're absolutely right, though, that the single-winner aspect is why we have essentially always had a two-party system (though _which_ two parties has changed several times over the years).

The way I once heard someone put it is that in parliamentary democracy, people vote for representation and their MPs form coalitions, while in the American system, the people themselves have to be the ones to form coalitions, in the form of the two dominant parties.
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This move comes two weeks after they announce a new strategy to fight against "misinformation and foreign interference," namely, by partnering with the Atlantic Council, a think tank heavily funded by NATO allies, gulf states, and weapons contractors. While Facebook was never really the democratic information platform everyone assumed to be, this move seems like a death blow. Does anyone else view it that way?
It's abundantly clear to me that Apple is not interested in improving the desktop experience. They simply want to show some shiny new features, and to continue to reduce the dimensions and weight of their laptops (even at the cost of usability). At this point I am hoping for a new unix-based alternative to windows with the same level of stability and usability as macOS. Long gone are the days where I would expect Apple to do what so many of us want with the operating system.
Lyft is reportedly close to buying the company behind Ford GoBike and Citi Bike
Wait, aren't DNS lookups done by the operating system?
Well, only approximately: as a double it is actually 10000000000000000159028911097599180468360808563945281389781327557747838772170381060813469985856815104
What the parent thread suggests is that if you EV range continues to increase, access to convenient charging becomes less relevant.

I think the parallel here is to cell phones.

If you cell phone battery sucks, you're probably carrying around a portable charger, and a usb+wall charger.

However if your phone normally goes ~2 days without a charge then you can simply charge nightly at home without carrying a portable battery and/or cable + wall plug everywhere you go.
The new Microsoft has made it clear that they want to support as many areas as they can. Azure does not have any lock-in of a specific platform (other than Azure itself in some ways) and Microsoft is constantly trying to get their tools to work in Linux and Mac. While they obviously would prefer you to be on .Net, they realize that lock-in ultimately hurts them.

Just give it a little more time. They are turning around years of company culture and they're doing a great job at it. If VS Code is a sign of future products, I'm excited to see what they come out with down the road.
> unusable

I'm genuinely curious what you use your computer for - what kind of work, or if for entertainment etc..
Version 1 was really good.

That's where my frustration over the app comes from. It used to be pretty much perfect.
The blanket example reminds me of all the handwringing about people "misusing" LLINs as a fishing aid, as though fighting malaria is more important than not starving.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2532690/
Adding to your last paragraph: Medium to large sized ISPs and web entities are also highly likely to use a third domain, which never touches the public internet. You might have:

a) your public web presence, www.widgets.com for marketing, sales, customer web portal, customer billing, and so forth.

b) your domain name used for public reverse DNS for your ARIN, RIPE, APNIC etc IP space, for an ISP that has its own AS, such as as12345.net. This is the function that the 1e100 domain serves for Google.

c) your internal domain name that is used by your management network to address every piece of network equipment, hypervisor, virtual machine and so forth. This could be something like "widgets.internal". The company internal DNS servers that never touch the public Internet will be authoritative master/slave for this, and your intranet clients will be set up to query these DNS servers. Your reverse DNS for all of your RFC1918 IP space (10.x, 172.16.x, 192.168.x, etc) will have forward/reverse matches for everything that you manage and monitor in your network, so that automated tools can crawl the network and auto discover/auto-provision new equipment.

Internet users outside of your intranet will never see item C, but it definitely exists in a lot of companies' infrastructure.
I would love that!

I go to Facebook for the cat and baby pictures, and knowing what people are actually doing in their lives. I want to see vacation pictures and people just living and enjoying themselves. I don't want to see re-shares from accounts who post polarizing shit that's mean to make everyone angry.
I think you are saying that they shifted from the full holocracy ambition to one with a more traditional management element because it wasn't working as well as they wanted.
I would love the ability to customize the location of notifications so that I can set them on the bottom right corner instead of having them fixed to the upper right. Really hate how calendar notifications can hide my chrome extensions and many other things.
Bought MBP retina just for the neat 16:10 screen. There are no 16:10 on PC side.
In honesty, I use the least-effort solution - Fire-And-Forget. Then again, I'm not applying to a group of highly technical jobs. I do various types of office work, management, and training mostly and I'm near NYC. When I'm in full "search" mode, I can send out 200 resumes/CV applications a day. It's not always the best method, but I find that 2 weeks of that, I usually get a few phone interviews (yep, that's 1K+ sends for 5 or so contacts). Usually one or two of those will turn into something real - I don't call a recruiter "real".
I noticed that. I was thinking it was an UnderArmour kind of thing that Google bought out, or, only available in a certain locale.
> I don't think Microsoft has anything to contribute to GitHub.

Microsoft has experience handling online code repositories and team services. Azure integration has the potential to improve deployment pipelines for many users. Microsoft has lots of experience doing things at scale, and can potentially find cost reduction maneuvers for Github. Visual Studio integration can bring more users to Github. Cooperate users are more likely to upgrade their existing agreement with Microsoft than they are to enter a finical relationship with a new company. Microsoft has just as much or more to offer Github as any other top 5 tech company.
Probably because the son inherited the land. And daughters where married away. If you run this simulation a couple of generations you will probably get similar results.
I want customizable "later/snooze" options for reminders/calendar notifications. Specifically, I want a "Snooze until tonight" or "Snooze until I get home".

… Mostly when I tell Siri to remind me to do something and she records the wrong time and the reminder comes up at 2pm at work instead of 8pm like I tried to record it.
the range can be as high as it wants, if you're living in an apartment without access to a personal charger you need public infrastructure because at some point you'll need to charge your car somewhere.
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So the money comes from utility customers? That seems amazingly fiscally regressive, especially for California.

At least early on, the main beneficiaries of this will be affluent people. That is hard to avoid when you're trying to incentivize a new technology (early adopters usually tend to be wealthier, for obvious reasons), but at least they could have funded this from general state revenue.

But instead they seem to want to get the money from utility customers. That seems like one of the most regressive forms of "taxation" imaginable... pretty much everyone uses electricity, and while bigger households use more, the multiplier will certainly be much smaller than the one for income.

Then there are industrial and commercial customers, for sure, but it seems equally misguided to specifically increase the burden on productive activity (rather than, say, on investment income, whose taxation would contribute to the general revenue).
Ugly 16:9 screens. No.
Strongly disagree. MSFT is aggressively chasing the "open source"/Silicon Valley crowd, even at the expense of Joe .NET Developer.

Their main competition is AWS and GCP. Very different world.
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So you're saying that the EV is an essential appliance like a refrigerator or a stove? That would be quite a change in POV from the usual advocacy against individual car ownership at all.
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> the US certainly isn't 100% trustworthy.

The US is the most wildly insane, two-faced and upside-down country in the world right now in terms of military. The commander-in-chief routinely makes nuclear threats, actively hurts his own citizens in times of need, and seeks to decrease military stability by accelerating climate change and isolating his country from the world. The commander-in-chief lies about every single thing in his day-to-day life, as well as his political life; he is mentally unstable and not fit to serve.

The US military is 100% untrustworthy as its direct leader has shown himself to be literally insane.

> there's a real don't-rock-the-boat problem here

The US is the one rocking the boat. It has already happened and it happens daily.

> A world without a dominant US military is a world with fewer US-driven injustices. That doesn't seem like a good bet to be a "better world", though.

I disagree. That seems like a very incredibly great bet, to me. The time of US military leadership is over. That happened the day our Military Commander In Chief stood on his inauguration day and lied about the number of people in front of him.

Perhaps the US will return to a positive leading role one day, but it is not there now and it has not been for years.

All this aside, I do not agree that Google is the right place to develop US Military technology.

Edit: Additionally, the commander-in-chief of the US military also stated point blank that we may not have presidential elections any more in the future. This is not a time to champion US democracy, military might, etc.
That's almost entirely because of the competition with Gitlab.
Pardon the pun, but I agree the current lack of charging infrastructure is an "inconvenient truth" for many EV owners (or would-be owners). For those of us that live in apartments/condos/townhouses where residents don't have a dedicated garage, figuring out the charging is the hardest part. From personal experience: some newer apartments have charging stations installed, but there's typically only ~3 of them in a building of 200-300+ residents, so if >3 people buy an EV, they have to play charging musical chairs. For condos and townhouses, there's the trouble of figuring out how to install a 220V outlet and run a charging cable to your car in a way that people won't trip over it. While charging at other locations can be an option, it's also pretty annoying to have to wait around a grocery store or parking lot (or some other random location) for at least 2-3hrs for your car to charge. It sucks because I want an EV, but without having a convenient spot to charge it, it feels like running around with an iPhone5 when they first came out desperately looking for a lightning cable.
Microsoft has been investing in developer services for a number of years - they acquired hockeyapp (mac/ios crash analytics), and have a whole bunch of other tools under the azure brand https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/

It's almost worth re-asking the question as...what does Azure want Github for, to try and strip away thinking about MS's windows/office products. There could be some crossover between github's Atom efforts and VS Code, and MS already worked on projects like Git virtual filesystem (GVFS) for their own needs ( https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs )
This all depends on how much happiness you derive from an expensive new car. My every day commute is my happy time because of that new car that I enjoy driving. YMMV
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I came for MacOS, but the trackpad/scrolling is what prevents me from being able to use any other laptop. The scroll on MacOS is just so much more fluid than any other OS, any time I use a different operating system I feel like I added a 30fps cap or something... So choppy.
> then nothing prevents them to make the opposite turn and return to the monopolistic Microsoft

Well, the world has changed and there is no longer any opportunity for a 90s Microsoft. So I'm pretty sure that unless the world changes back to the 90s, Microsoft wouldn't survive such a turn.
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I never started buying. My local public libraries got enough copies that I could read them when they came out in dead-tree.
If anyone wants it, I put a copy of the actual order here: https://www.woodlaw.com/casedocs/gov.uscourts.cand.305531.24...

Even though it is marked as an opinion (and should be free) I don't see an easy way to access N.D.Cal. opinions from their webpage without a pacer login unless it is whatever they deem a "Case of Interest".

I also downloaded it with the RECAP extension[1] so it should be available on CourtListener[2] soon.

[1] https://free.law/recap/

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/
Don't they already support a bunch of scenarios like deploying from GitHub? It'd make sense in that way.
So if your house caught fire you'd tell the fire dept to fuck off and let it burn?
So this is why they have closed Codeplex!
Google Wave, yes. For as much as they pushed it and acted like they were confident, they bailed really fast. Google Talk, Google Code, Google Notebook, iGoogle. Various APIs for maps etc. Big pushes that never go anywhere like Google Books. Wasn't there Google shopping at some point? Or non-discontinued things that aren't really taken seriously: Google Plus, Allo, Google Scholar, any number of rebrands of their payment service. Lots of acquisition-shutdowns or just embarrassments like Nest.

But more importantly, they just don't seem to actually have a strategy. Every few months we hear this is the future, and then that thing is never mentioned again. Or they announce a clone of some existing successful service and then don't seem to have any follow-through willpower.

All these renames/migrations/rebrands usually come with breakage of the UI/API/functionality. It's irritating to actual users and feels sloppy to everyone who pays attention.

However Google earned this reputation and however fair it is or isn't, it undoubtedly hurts new product launches. So the question is, how does Google throw off the reputation of being completely untrustworthy?
I have never seen any good .NET code in the wild. A typical story IMO is to come into a workplace where they are trying to dump legacy .NET systems as soon as possible because they are incredibly brittle. .NET seems to be one of the biggest software scams of all time. Great vendor lock-in though. Visual Studio, MS-SQL, LINQ, Entity framework etc... the only solution is to rewrite everything.
This is a question that should be taken seriously. I am not sure whether they did or did not. But I can imagine there could be valid reasons. For example, living close to potential major donors could increase the chance of convincing some of them to donate. But this too is a thing that should be measured.
>The "pay off balance within the month grace period" works only if you are on top of it all the time.

If you think about how many people using the "maxed out CC" as a loan because they cant get anything else, the financial model looks rather sound. The interest rate on those things is drastic if you are no longer in the grace period, and its an easy trap to fall into, especially if you are falling on bad times or are simply gullible.

I dont think people who have their CC balanced at the end of the month are the business model. They are in the business of providing high interest loans.
You seem to be moving the goal posts a bit here, from 'please show any evidence of X' to 'prove X is without potential flaws'.

I mean, is there any sensible way to prevent regulators from bankrupting a company without some level of discretion and case-by-case consideration?

Moving everything into the legal system also has issues, as you point out.
It's just language, get over it. The rest of the English world lives with US bastardisations like 'color' and 'favour' just fine.
It’s really a competitor to Q, not so much Python or Go or whatever
This study investigated the extent of bed net misuse in fishing villages.

Wow. There is something incredibly fucked up about funding a study into bed net misuse rather than a study on the dire need for more help with meeting basic necessities like adequate nourishment as evidenced by so-called bed net misuse.

Or, you know, the sarcastic reply: If you die of starvation, I guess you no longer need to worry about details like malaria.
Updates are ok when they're bug fixes and security patches. They're not when they're forced feature and UI changes and often break installations.
(I have not tried either of these solutions, so I'm not sure if they actually work.) Although still separate applications, Karabiner and Scroll Reverser are both free. (I mention this since you stated having to "pay for an app".)

(1) Karabiner: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ → Cf. Kellen Mace, "Separate Trackpad & Mouse Natural Scrolling in Mac OS X" (2014) https://kellenmace.com/automate-trackpad-mouse-natural-scrol...

(2) Scroll Reverser: http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
Corvidae are smart, and seem to have good memory.

I've heard that a good way to keep them away is to kill one, and hang up the corpse on display. Others will stay away.
There's .NET Native, not to mention older techs like Win32.
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It's OK now, they no longer show a captcha on most websites behind Cloudflare.
Maybe I'm explaining it wrong, here's someone who actually understands the science explaining why happiness is not and should not be the default state of the brain: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2018/05/21/yanss-128-the-neuros...
History has proven that every company in the world will always exploit every possible opportunity to make a profit now matter how corrupt or illegal it is? I don’t think history has proven that at all, and I don’t think you actually believe that.
Let's not forget that they developed GVFS to support large monorepos.
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Agreed. More IPFS adoption everywhere is ideal. :)

Missing URLs are a common problem with failing builds in Nix: https://github.com/cachix/cachix/issues/25
I don't know what you're on about. C# is basically a "better Java" so there's no particular reason you can't write good software in it.
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I think his point is that mathematics has always been an abstraction of physical things before the effort to basically invent first principles of mathematics, axioms.
The option to enable Windows-like click-through behaviour would be great.