skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time this argument is made I wonder how capitalism would look if a fair comparison were made. All the mortality and cruelty of the slave trade and it's aftermath, all the genocide around the world that accompanied colonialism. Marx's ideas would not have created the defacto religious fervor they did if they had not created hope for an alternative to the horrors of 1800's capitalism. The real problem is that humans are too easily swayed by men seeking power who offer simplistic purist solutions. We are better off recognizing that we will always be in an unstable equilibrium where we work constantly creating changing complex mixtures of insights from Marx and Smith and wise humans of all stripes in a never ending battle against entropy and human nature.
There's another great thing about the west coast that cheap houses can't get you- and it's a beautiful culture of outdoorsiness and insanely easy access to mountains, oceans, and desert within an hour or twos drive- this is true from Seattle to San Diego.

You can seriously go on a little mini vacation every weekend for almost no money. I suppose if money were no object - why would you choose to live elsewhere?
Walk into any tech company office in SF right now and ask whether they desperately need to find engineers. 99% of the time you will get a resounding YES. The shortage of engineers is not a myth. Most Satellite engineering offices are meant to find those engineers; not to simply save labor costs.
> Neighborhoods used to be packed with kids running around all the time. Now they are empty. There are quite a few kids in my neighborhood, but the only time you see them is when they get off the school bus. None of them roam the neighborhood or anywhere. There is a huge park in my neighborhood, too. It's always empty. I never see packs of kids walking on the sidewalks going to the theater or to corner stores. School playgrounds are empty and stay empty unless school is in session.

Everybody, watch "Momo". Or read it, but the movie is a wonderful, too. Anyway, just like 1984, it was NOT supposed to be a handbook.
I can definitely imagine the stereotype being caused by a combination of climate differences and lactose intolerance with ethnic prejudice. That is:

—“I hear they take a lot of milk, butter, and cheese, every day!”

—“Every day?! But those things spoil so fast, they must be eating rotten milk all the time—and it’s so bad for the digestion, they must always have flatulence and diarrhea. Ugh, those barbarians are so gross.”
Shooooooooocking. This getting pathetic. Personally I am using Facebook less and less and attempting to block it as much as possible.
This makes me want to choose N medium-size startups and create 5^N Twitter accounts, one account for each possible tweet series of predicted acquisitions by Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, or Microsoft.

At the end I’ll delete all the accounts but the one that was 100% accurate, and use it to start my own data science election wonk website.
Are you saying we should remove women from the workforce?!!
That, and HPV.
People cite the case of Socrates in this way and in my opinion therein lies the fluff. I suspect Socrates was, in fact, corrupting the youth, and the desire to execute him was probably well justified by the norms of that society.

Everything is cyclical. Just because things happen repeatedly doesn’t mean they’re “invalid.”
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We call ours Berkeley and Oakland. It only works if you commute to San Francisco, but plenty of people do it. (As an amusing sidenote San Francisco was jealous of the NYC merging and tried to annex Oakland: https://www.google.com/amp/s/hoodline.relaymedia.com/amp/201...)
I’m willing to believe this, but what’s it based on? It seems like they have so many customers. What’s the free/public-to-paid/private traffic that would have made them sustainable?
And if everyone thought this way then society would be a lot better about preserving and growing what we have.

The Paradox of Thrift says that the economy would actually shrink if everyone saved to such an extent, and people would have less overall with time. Even Hayek remarked that individuals can save, not an entire country.
> Github is running on $350m of VC funding.

Gitlab is also running on a bunch of VC money.

> In response to my question 'can you call a 10yo company that still isn't profitable, a "business"?'

Gitlab also likely runs at a loss. Gitlab has certainly never claimed to be profitable and some estimates are that as few as .1% of their customers pay for Gitlab.

> I understand that you're claiming gitlab is salting the earth, but still don't understand why / how.

It's pretty clear to me at least that neither Github nor Gitlab have sustainable business models. The OSS community is crazy to think that either business will continue to subsidize OSS development while losing millions of dollars a year. All of the anger against Github and the new "faith" in Gitlab is pure delusion. Both these companies subsidize OSS development while losing millions of dollars. This will go on until it stops. It certainly can't go on forever.

Personally I suspect the absolutely best thing to happen to both Github and Gitlab would be being bought out by real companies that heavily depend upon OSS and, you know, actually make money.

It came up before and now the chatter has started up again around Gitlab. I think it still makes a lot of sense for AWS to purchase Gitlab. There's a fundamental strategy alignment there (both Gitlab and Amazon aim to be a "one stop shop"), Gitlab offers the potential to lure a bunch of developers into the AWS platform with a free offering and, ultimately, Gitlab offers the same computational economics as other Amazon products because it is just another hosted product that requires a database. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see such a transaction in as little as 2-3 years.
But you are putting down only your savings in other investments , much lower amount.
The basecamp folks have always understood the "business" side of things just as much as coding/tech.

While it may seem prescient, the telltale signs screaming Microsoft always existed.

And if you're worried about GitHub's future, think back to Visual Studio code and how one of the most hated software companies in the world built one of the most love editors, open source none the less
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Microsoft reportedly acquiring GitHub tomorrow
linkedin employees say microsoft has largely left them alone since acquiring them, so i'm going to assume they will do the same thing with github.
I think the shortage is a huge myth. Companies want more cheap engineers, because they use the engineers more like they are office furniture to look pretty and serve as fancy headcount for an acquisition or new funding round. Only a few of them are expected to know how to build anything.

What I see in the market right now is wage suppression at almost any cost for the vast majority of jobs, and then a huge jump up in wages for those few specialized roles where actual productivity is required.
Honestly the only way might be American regulation specifically targeting Facebook. And the next player might be just as insidious. It would be extremely hard to avoid this result without a dramatic shift in public opinion and frankly culture.
I specifically avoided the example of roads, because, yes, everybody uses roads, and so everybody should be taxed to pay for them. My point was that people shouldn't have to pay for a service that they have never, and will never use. It is immoral to force somebody to buy a product or service against their will. Be it health insurance, education services, or whatever else.

By the way, I never said anybody should die. If you had actually read my comment, you would see at least one potential solution to the problem. If somebody with 5m gets sick and the medical bills cost 10m, then they could theoretically get a medical loan which they pay back over time. They might be paying it back for the rest of their life, but at least they're not dead.

I don't have statistics that indicate one way or another about the majority of people voting against public healthcare being those that need it the most. It doesn't really make sense to me, but I'm not arguing that point so I won't debate that.

I don't know what is considered middle class in America, but in Australia, 120k household income before tax is considered basically the bottom of the middle class. I could afford private health insurance in a single income family working as a cashier. So I would question the validity of the middle class being "People who are literally one job loss, accident, or injury away from homelessness".
Opera and Musicals are inherently visual. And Opera singers are not necessarily pretty.

Nobody cares what the pianist looks like :)

To be fair: Taylor Swift and Beyonce - if you see them totally without makeup, are not super attractive, they look in the range of fairly normal. Also there's a double standard for men and women to some extent. Top male artist right now is Ed Sheeran and he is one ugly mofo, then again, to my point - he's highly talented ... when he's not writing pop tunes 'designed for a mass audience' he does some cool stuff. On Charlie Rose he basically admitted he writes a lot of stuff for commercial purposes, it's a business.
I have to wonder if all the blocking might be an intended outcome.

You have created something like the Great Firewall of China, except that you outsourced it via a vague law with serious legal danger.
Yes, of course it depends on the state. CarMax operates in 41 states.[1] Given that some customers are known to cross state lines in order to purchase vehicles, CarMax likely calculates taxes for every state except Alaska and Hawaii. In some states, the tax rules are arcane enough that they depend on the municipality as well.

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I'm not surprised.

You know that feeling when someone makes a service you really enjoy and you know you can trust? GitLab is definetly one of those services.

Self hosted? Check!
Open source? Check!
Community Edition that include the features small-medium teams need? Check!

I'm a huge fan of GitLab, and with the current business model and how community editions work I'll definetly continue promoting GitLab every chance I get.

Keep up the good work! :)
It turns out antibiotics are actually pretty awful - they wreak havoc on your microbiome, they modulate your immune system in weird ways, they cause some weird allergies.

But they are still way better than the diseases they cure, and definitely better than death!
I'm just making to clear that though racism and Confederate flags are the first two comments in a thread about a state, that's not representative of the state as a whole, regardless of their unfortunate experience. Not to downplay it, I don't doubt it happened, at all. It's just not representative of the state.

If the top comment on this thread was "California is full of racists, anyway", you'd bet you'd get the same response.
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- Online store: https://xibalba.xyz

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> The basecamp folks have always understood the "business" side of things just as much as coding/tech.

Sure. "Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can’t figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re unlikely to ever do." [1]

[1]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
It's easier than ever to host a server transparently for end user software. You don't hear users complaining about node.js running in most Electron apps. A http server for DNS can easily be compiled to binary and ran like any other system daemon.
The plan of record is already to build pymc4 on top of TensorFlow: https://medium.com/@pymc_devs/theano-tensorflow-and-the-futu...
My original comment was a bit of satire aimed at the so-called gig economy and the companies that make money by exploiting contract workers through marketing themselves as hipster cool, e.g. uber, postmates, taskrabbit, etc.
>I have more contempt for the lawmakers in front of him, who actually enabled Facebook to become such a monster by either facilitating or simply not understanding what it was doing.

Does your contempt extend to the billions of non-technical minded users who also did not understand what FB was doing?
The lactose persistence gene variant found in Europeans is a one time mutation. It has evolved independently in Africa a few times too, but these variants are not found in ethnic Europeans.

Far less than 35% of the worlds population is lactose tolerant as an adult. I will take a look at the review linked on wiki and try to see how robust this number is.

Edit. Ok trekking back through the literature the estimate is based on old measures of the lactase persistence phenotype which is not very reliable, not on genetic data. It is likely to be wrong just on demographic growth alone in the last 40 years. My guess is around 15% of the worlds population is actually able to digest lactose in adulthood.
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Agreed, and very light on the technical. A few months ago when I was working on setting up a pi-hole with and testing DNS blocking, I came across a few articles like this. Long story short, I could not find a -verifiable-, in depth and even slightly scientific method approved study for the major free services. Ended up going with blocklist on the pi-hole and using quad-9 just for the DNSSEC addition. No problems so far, and not buying into the other snake oil.
I'm sure they will come up with some plausible reason like the project having incompatible goals, or embracing a different design architecture than the one they wanted.

Truthfully, these 'prestige' projects are done for reasons other than actually improving the development standards. They probably didn't use RDL because it was more fun to write their own then figure out someone else's thing.

For all we know they may not have even had a real need for a new typechecker. Stripe could have a valued engineer who seemed bored so engineering management gave him or her an intellectualy interesting project to do - even if it wasn't that important to the business.
French posters and Spanish civil war posters were so great. The events (the Spanish Civil War) was terrible, but man the art in the posters is always very compelling.
Missing from this: all the research that points to a substantial link between the virus (HSV1 specifically) and Alzheimer's in some subgroups (notably the ApoE 4 group). Selected opinions and studies from the most basic of google scholar searches:

https://www.j-alz.com/editors-blog/posts/case-viral-role-alz...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019841/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2014.0020...

But HSV1 is also the most commonly transmitted form, so... shrug. Unless there's a viable cure for it, nothing any of us can do.
Interestingly, many people say the same thing about our epidemic of gun massacres.

Are there any mental health startups out there?
I think the evidence for Bill Gates as a force for good is strong. Sure Microsoft attained and maintained its dominance in unethical and maybe illegal ways. But I am not aware of much destruction beyond preventing other software companies from similar success. I would much rather all those billions be concentrated with Gates, whose foundation is really doing things, than scattered among a dozen software companies and supporting generic medium-wealthy lifestyles with respectable 5% of income given to charity.
Reminds me of the enantiodromia principle as popularized by Carl Jung.
Those existing contracts are about see quite a few "scope changes"
Do you think Gitlab will stay independent? They’re burning money. They’ll in all likelihood be acquired in the coming decade as well.

Or do you think GitHub didn’t want this? Microsoft didn’t force anyone here. GitHub received hundreds of millions in funding. They couldn’t just stay put as a money losing entity.
Today, it's hilariously illegal to put this kind of thing in an official employee communication. No government agency would even dream it.

Even in the 1960s, that kind of overtly religious appeal would have been very, VERY controversial. This kind of material _never_ appeared in military stuff, and I am very surprised to see it in NSA publications.
Perhaps, it would be like lottery tickets as assets. But the point was that it could certainly be something that isn't covered well, or at all, by standard accounting methods and practices.
Very cool, especially the "SEM with a fixed target" analogy. I've often wondered how the old SAGE terminals handled character generation, and this post fills in the blanks nicely.
No, the kids aren't roaming in Canada either
Hard to know what the outcome would be.

I would argue that any violent revolution has great risks. You just never know who will come to power and what their choices will be...
I believe it's describing "First-party apps with Facebook integration and/or OS features connecting to Facebook". It was OS-level integration to provide you with convenient access to Facebook data and features. The best example in the article was from Apple, who used it to allow users to post photos to Facebook directly from the standard Photos app. It wasn't so that the device makers could rifle through your data and influence elections or sell you things.

There's nothing to see here, but it sure makes for a provocative headline that will get lots of clicks and make the NYT lots of money from personalized ads. You have to love the irony.
MySQL is a great example. Bought by Oracle, still a good product, but also forked by some big players as well as some open source groups. I'm sure it is still the most commonly used database on the web today and Mariadb and percona both maintain great MySQL forks as well.
Why lump git into this?
I do agree with your assessment that kids are the biggest expense and possibly the biggest joy in life. Well it’s a risk and difficulty worth for many of us. But do your math.

After certain age family is the biggest and maybe the only close friend.

Social ties are important and usually healthy. Having kids and family can also be very motivating. After all, why do we live?
That is super misleading. In that case it adds virtually no value over Evernote's own offering (except perhaps eating more battery).
That and working 60hr a week for a decade or two.
You want to buy gitignore.io? I'll sell it for a fair and reasonable price :).
Any breakup, if it were to happen, would be likely to be triggered mainly by the EU, IMO. For all the complexities that EU regulations sometimes bring in, I see the EU as the only hope in such cases.
I’m not arguing about happiness. Or about how to be happy. My point is that Aristotle and others did not know about the role of some chemicals in the body that produce a feeling of happiness.
I think you're reading way too much into it.

I'm basically speaking from personal, anecdotal experience selling (and buying) a few low-end cars via Craigslist and equivalents.

I have other things I'd rather do with my time than either handle a bunch of prospective buyers inspecting, test driving, and low-balling my car (and dealing with potential fraud), or myself inspecting, test-driving, and low-balling other people's cars, even though that may be a way to save/earn some money.

From an economics point of view, the transaction costs are significant (even if not dollar-denominated), so the arbitrage opportunity exists for someone who can minimize or simply disregard those costs.
I echo your comment. I use it and I like it just barely more than the other HN readers out there. It's the only website based APP I actually have installed, for the most part I hate dedicated apps for existing website. But, the swiftness and usability of this one make it worth using; for now.
So if the purpose of your comment is to point out that the homeless tents are not illegal, you are incorrect. The tents are illegal.

But my frustration, as you can see by my comments elsewhere in this thread, are grounded in that a city of such wealth and technological progress cannot take care of it's lowest citizens.

Aside from the odd choice of perspective - have you considered that the homeless may be infringing on others rights as well? The right to an unobstructed sidewalk? The right to feel safe in my neighborhood? The right to not have to watch out for needles when I visit my nearest Muni station (Van Ness)?
If you're a HN reader, I highly recommend Jason Lemkin's writings. Gitlab is a classic case of a bottom feeder late follower: https://www.saastr.com/dont-confuse-room-at-the-bottom-with-... .

And what that means is, yeah, either they keep burning $$$ every month and selling more of the control to VCs to feed the war chest until they maybe buy 2nd place, find an acquirer (and with that much ever-increasing VC control, a likely push), or yeah, layoffs will happen. Gitlab is extra interesting because their definition of innovation is biting off even more surface area (e.g., CI), and therefore even more burn.

Keep in mind.. all this says zero about how nice the product quality is or how friendly the people are. But just in the same way you don't get mad at what happens if you stick your hand in a lawn mower (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=34m7s) ... there are financial forces at play from being a high-spending bottom feeder that are hard to escape. Possible, and I wish them luck, but that's a real bet.
It’s not just compiled Ruby, but a completely different language with a superficially similar syntax. You can’t really port anything.
How is it anticompetitive if Microsoft buys GitHub?
Care to share the extension? Ever since the 'redesign' I have had non stop "Sorry something went wrong! Try refreshing!" issues. It really is driving me away from Reddit (which in itself may be a good thing), and I'm constantly rewriting URLs to the 'old.reddit.com' format.
I mean, if we attribute this to the period during the Peloponnesian wars, the kids were definitely not alright. The generation of Athenians after Alcibiades definitely didn't do anything good, and Athens ultimately lost the war.
Unless I misunderstand the need you describe, git can in fact bundle in at least two single-file formats.
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Around 10th and Market.