skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice idea.

But I doubt that this could this could gain enough momentum with these prices.
1 hour is a very short time (in the context of checking email). Maybe you could offer something like 2 free 12 hours trials per email address. And the catch is that if someone uses a fake mail, they will never get a match because the other person would not know that new email.

Edit: oh silly me, here could send his fake address in the message field.

You could also try to offer a free 12/24 hour trial for one month. And try to advertise it heavily in news outlets in that period, so that you can get some mind share, and people would get some experience with the product.
Possible candidates theverge/Lifehacker/reddit
People management is very, very different than leadership.

Take Steve Jobs, for example. A complete asshole if not a full-blown sociopath, but an impressive leader capable of creating a cult-like following.

Leadership is about inspiring and driving people towards a goal. People management is about recognizing the strengths and shortcomings of individuals and helping each one of them to improve and achieve their best, as well as selecting and assembling the right team where members complement each other.

Often enough, the two roles are at odds with each other.
I like Fujitsu Lifebook E series. Of course they are not the cheapest, but they come without bloatware since ever. Also my over 10 years old power supply still works with today's newer machines and via versa. And they have not just FULL SIZE CURSOR buttons, they have Page Up and Down buttons (without Fn) too, even on the 13" model. I also like the silver look with the thin red line.
It will be inaccessible until it becomes public domain, but the copy that you download from archive.org will be copyright archive.org. You can get the music from somewhere else, if you can, you most likely won’t be able to.
Ancestry wants your spit, your DNA and your trust. Should you give them all 3?
My industry is defense/aerospace, which doesn't engage in age discrimination as much as the wider 'software industry' does.

Part of the reason I can't seem to land a real lead/architect position (despite what my title says) is that I'm waiting on all the boomers currently parked in those positions to die/retire.
Host your own remote Git repositories
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All that text and not a word about monetization!

I realize that selling binaries directly or via IAP isn't all that lucrative these days, but plenty of developers still make a living doing it. How, exactly, are you supposed to sell a PWA? I assume they're meant to be a value-add for the main product, which is probably SAAS/subscription/ad-based, but I think a world without a good way to sell software directly—a world exclusively centered around services, not software—would be a sad one indeed.

EDIT: I just remembered that, I guess, Android lets you sell PWAs directly through the Play Store. But if you're not installing them from the web, then what's the point?
> The tracking I detest, and I don't think the benefits are worth the cost to users.

Then don't use those services. The choice is yours. Let other users assess the value for themselves.
Not only that but the whole point of a limited liability corporation is that the stockholders cannot be held responsible for the debts of the corporation- and in return they relinquish control of it. That's the trade off. That's the defining characteristic of the corporate form. It creates a division between capital and labor, up to and including the CEO. That's why we call it "capitalism".
Indeed it is. Same goes for other prominent figures, like Steve Jobs. People were/are convinced that the whole identity, all products and every choice was Jobs-bound and therefore without Jobs, what Apple does can't be just as good as it was when he was alive and running things.

So past CEOs can make a lasting impact, and in many ways it works out badly because the negative comments get the most attention.

Where Apple, according to some louder fans is not as good as it was under Jobs, for Microsoft under Nadella the inverse is true: according to the haters, just because it looks better now doesn't mean the (to them) bad years are gone.

Generalising, no matter what direction a transition takes (good to bad or bad to good), it's always the loud messages pointing out the bad past or bad future that gets the most attention and influences choices the most.

It's almost like trust between people: doing things right 99% of the time but doing one thing wrong once always makes that 99% of 'good' disappear and only the bad is taken as the 'true' value. In the extreme: lie once, and you are a liar. Even if you are 99 years old and have never lied before. That one time, once, will be what defines you as 'bad', and the rest does not outweigh it. Of course in reality that extreme example is not super likely, but nevertheless, it should carry the point I'm attempting to make ;-)

It's not the sum, aggregate or balance that seems to count, only how 'bad' your 'badness' is.
The only thing I would add is, culture can be taught. You can take someone who isn’t a culture fit and make them a culture fit in 8 weeks or less.
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If it is an alternative then it is probably not the best option.

You and I use Github not because we don’t know the alternatives, but because Github is better
Nitpick:

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but I thought I'd clarify.

The owner of the copyright can relicense. Third parties can use the code to the license, but cannot relicense the code itself.

While MIT is very permissive, it doesn't give you permission to change the license, nor does it grant you the copyright to the underlying code.
> Sure, but regular quantum mechanics does the same thing. It's
> under-constrained and allows for too many possibilities.

No it doesn’t. There are a few good guiding principles that make it
possible to build models that turn out to be an accurate description
of nature. These guiding principles don’t manifest themselves in a
set of axioms of a mathematical theory nevertheless they are there.
And they are part of the theory, just not set in stone like the
underlying mathematical structure. But that doesn’t matter at all as
long as you are doing science and not math.

Take classical EM, measure the masses of the electron and atomic
nuclei, and write down a suitable Hamiltonians. Viola, you have an
explanation of almost every phenomena that’s relevant in our daily
life and way beyond. Similar principles exist in elementary particle
physics and lead to standard model.
Bingo.

The only mass market "free, but pay at some point" model is ads. Nothing else. That is the last 10yrs of Silicon Valley and pretty much every startup today. Cause if you have a great idea and decent execution, FANG companies have so much power to enter the market and crush you, 1st mover advantage is the exception nowadays. Or at least buy you out, github is a perfect example.
I'm glad your local farms weren't like that, but there are mountains of evidence that the big factory farms that provide the vast majority of our animal products are barbaric. I'm not a vegetarian, so I can hardly judge anyone, but you really should look into the facts of modern factory farming and see for yourself.
This seems like an ideal use case for a zstd custom dictionary.
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"By its very nature, outliers are the only thing that news covers. Exceptions make news."

Eventually won't the fact that the news only covers exceptions reverse in on itself when covering a non exception is in itself the exception?
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Here is a link to the comments [1] from the OP. Don't see a single one from the CEO that I would interpret as insulting. There are however countless others from 3rd party posters that were way more easily interpretable as hostile in nature.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241694
It’s subsidized by AdSense. Like every Google product.
Uber Had UberPuppies. Burro Has BurroGoats?
I understand, although we can argue about 'Most of us' versus 'Some of us'. My experience was that my need for out of area calls went up only after I moved from where I went to high school to where I went to college. And many of my friends stayed local. There was a great piece in the NY Times about 3 years ago that talked about how the typical American lives within 18 miles of their family.(found it https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...)

Something that came with the Internet, and didn't exist for me prior to its existence, was a large body of friends who were not local to me. Today, if I had to go back to metered long distance rather than what we have today it would absolutely be cost prohibitive! And clearly some people move around more than others and for them they might have a lot of friends and family outside of their local calling region back then as well.

The bottom line is that I can see the point you were making but I think we disagree on the magnitude of its impact on the general population that was living with phones at that time.
Back when this was originally decided, most Americans did not have the right to vote. It would be nice if we could reconsider decisions like this now that we do have that right, but not only because we could come up with a different way to hire judges...
you're not alone. I would say that lack of trust is the norm not the exception when it comes to software dev teams :(
I can't speak for an individual ad I haven't seen. Even if I did see it, I don't necessarily know marketing enough to analyze it. I just know that the purpose can be broader than your post was originally giving it credit for.
Depends on how you define a company, I suppose. If it is profitable and has hundreds of millions of customers, that's a pretty significant company to me. As an alternative example, broadcast.com was sold for 5.7 billion.

I'd take continued success, hundreds of millions of happy users and a good purpose over broadcast.com.
Not only recently, but actually this was the cost until yesterday for GKE with HA masters distributed across AZs[1]!

I only heard that this announcement from AWS was likely coming this morning, over here in the thread about upgrading GKE clusters[2]. Given how long we've waited since the announcement at November's re:Invent, there's honestly not a lot that seems terribly rushed about this news, but I bet that AWS really would have liked to have Ingress controllers that are integrated with ALB ready for this announcement to go with their CNI plugins.

"Why am I waiting for Amazon to get out of preview when Google's been giving it away this whole time?" For AWS customers that aren't locked in, that seems like a reasonable train of thought.

[1]: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Regional-cluste...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17236794
It's all good now, though. Nothing to worry about.
I reviewed Weinberg's book and took a somewhat different stance on the issue here:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/VialError/234826

Ironically, given the fact that Morris and Weinberg both prize clarity of thought, I think they are talking at cross purposes when they critique historians of science and are not properly defining their terms.

Take this quote from the OP for instance:

"While studying at Princeton, Morris soon learned that Kuhn held in particular contempt any view of science as a triumphal procession toward a more accurate description of the universe and how it works, a view called 'Whiggishness,' from British politics. The ultimate mouthpiece of Kuhn’s anti-Whiggish position in The Ashtray is an unnamed Harvard graduate student who insists that a new paradigm is not necessarily better than the old one, 'just different.'"

But Butterfield and other critics of the so-called "Whig" school of history are not contesting the proposition that we now understand the natural world better than a cave man (or a Hellenistic Greek) did. (They're also not relativists, incidentally). Instead, they're critiquing the idea that the specific path of progress is inevitable.

In other words, there is an underlying physical reality that sets constraints on what we can know and how we know it. But within those constraints there are innumerable potential branching paths. A Whiggish take on history of science might say, for instance, that it was inevitable that the first moon landing would be achieved by a nation with Enlightenment values. A non-Whig interpretation is not saying that the moon doesn't exist, or that we shouldn't care about the Apollo program. It's pointing out that the specific course taken by our timeline of history of science is not an inevitability. It could have been otherwise.
The project was called Monaco.

It was a massive success, and has since been open sourced here: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor

Visual Studio Code joins the Monaco editor with an Electron-based environment to provide desktop text editing. That's about as opposite as abandoned as you can get.
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Because there isn't any competition. Your average user will never use Linux, and Apple will never sell $400 laptops.
Interesting point. Can you elaborate a bit on what you'd expect from a manager to help that person succeed? Is it mostly case-specific?
Copyrights are not transferable like that once they expire, they expire.

Further, that's opposite the entire purpose of Archive.org

Where are you getting this information?
Idem, using Firefox 60.0.1
What if this request was under GDPR jurisdiction?
Yes, but then there would be two versions of Electron, the public version and the private version MS would keep internally.

This would mean that you'd have to spend work re-merging your changes back with the main branch when a new version of Electron came out.

Now there's just one version, and it looks like MS controls the copyright to it. And that means their patches could come first before others.
That's a very good point. Maybe "noncommercial" here is in fact meant to capture something like "lacking in financial resources" rather than literally "noncommercial".
Good point about materiél. When I wrote the GP, I tried to think of a country with wealth (and population) that lost a war due to a lack of manufacturing capacity and couldn't come up with one, so I stuck with 'wealth'.

Honest question: Can anyone think of such a place? I'm not including countries that had manufacturing capacity but didn't use it for military purposes.

> Smarter software will help equalize and hopefully reduce coordination costs (i.e. command hierarchy & effective intelligence) but doesn't really help with population nor materiél factors.

That omits another application of AI: Autonomous or semi-autonomous robots that do the fighting. That greatly reduces the need for population, because the AI robots are the 'boots on the ground'.

And while you need manufacturing capacity to build lots of robots, likely the software would be the difficult part. Manufacturing capacity is no longer particularly expensive or exclusive - it's so inexpensive that developing countries do most of it while wealthy countries moved on to higher-skill, higher- profit industries decades ago (such as writing software), and arguably the wealthy could rebuild capacity quickly if needed. Also, victory might depend far more on AI quality than on hardware quantity.

That's all speculative, of course. Who knows how it will work out. On one hand, we can't even build an AI that can drive safely on the freeway; on the other, AI might be simpler in a war zone, where safety and precision may take a back seat to destructive power - see it, shoot it - especially for the unscrupulous.
I had hoped for something more like this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De17PIKXUAE27W6.jpg:large
Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.
I'm taking a population-wide perspective. It is unrealistic for me to individually scold every person that runs against my values. Therefore, it is a waste of energy to do so for even one. Instead, I should spend energy focusing on the systems that allowed the behavior at all.
"Why? Why can't we find good glassblowers? Who is telling people they shouldn't take up jobs in the trades? What vile troublemaker is spreading this harmful rumor that the only viable career path is a university degree? Oh, hey, gotta speak at a high school in twenty minutes to promote education."
Fun idea. I hated that color scheme back in the day. Fischer-Price computing anyone?
"nothing" is Elizabethan slang for vagina

"give her the D" is a meme

both of your paragraphs use euphemisms for genitalia

asserting the opposite doesn't make it so

you do not have veto power over the English language

The notion that you are going to quote the name of a Shakespeare play after saying "... isn't a reference to sex" WHEN THE NAME OF THE PLAY IS A REFERENCE TO FEMALE GENITALIA...
Annoyingly it's hard for me to find a citation that says "yes, obviously 'in the union' means the EEA as well", but there's no "most likely" about it. It seems it has for some time been a foregone conclusion that GDPR will be part of the EEA agreement and the relevant nations are already working to integrate it into their national code of laws.

It's hard to find out whether that process is complete in Iceland because I don't speak Icelandic and the parliament doesn't translate everything they produce, but the EU has already started telling people that GDPR protects everyone in the EEA:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/d... (Page 15, yellow box)

More links on the subject:

https://www.personuvernd.is/ny-personuverndarloggjof-2018/

https://chaucer.com/rights-and-scope-of-gdpr-for-non-eu-resi...

https://planit.legal/blog/en/the-applicability-of-the-gdpr-w...
I think that one of the reasons is that the mailing list workflow tends to produce a final deliverable (commit) that makes sense by itself because the whole context will be hard to find (no direct link to mailing list discussion). On GitHub instead when you find a commit you’re always one click away from the PR that produced it, with its discussion inside.
I've tried making the jump a few times with a desktop computer. I lost probably two weeks to debugging issues between Ubuntu and my hardware. Finally got everything working, not perfect, but acceptable. Then I replaced my monitor with a 4k monitor and all hell broke loose again. Linux is great, and I plan on trying it again, but make sure your hardware is compatible.
> Proof of this statement is the average reader's inability to comprehend what I've just written.

This statement is ridiculous without providing some sort of evidence to support your assertion that the average reader is unable to comprehend your statement. I might guess that we are to assume that a low score for your comment is such evidence, but the arrogance of such a position is so astounding that I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt and say you just left off any support for your assertion at all rather than assuming you're the sort of person who would nonironically proclaim that "Nobody understands my genius because I am so deep!"
It's more the scale than the basic idea of gifting books that I find remarkable :)
One thing that is interesting/potentially missed in this article is that Liz Fong-Jones has actually publicly stated her intent to leave Google as of last week. She stated that she was looking for offers just after the emails about the drone program leaked out to the press last Thursday, shortly before Google announced their intention to withdraw from the program. She stated there was some line to her leaving, but didn't detail what that was. It could've been over the drone program, due to the timing, but it could've just as well been related to her activism in diversity.

I'm not sure if this comment has a particular point, to be honest, just felt like a missing piece that the only Google employee they quoted is already a soon-to-be-former employee.
What about massive nuclear mines laid in front of their routes? Or long range nuclear missiles fired from ships? Long range torpedoes? Kamikaze-style mini subs? A sneak attack would probably be creative.

The Ohio subs are supposed to be hard to track. If they are being successfully tracked then they're vulnerable to attack.

The point of the nuclear triad is to be triple redundant. The system is not designed to rely solely on the ability of the subs to survive an attack. That would be a single point of failure.
I'd imagine there are a significant number of developers using VS Code and no other Microsoft products.
Just so that people don't get the wrong idea: small scale terror attacks are not commonplace in France, nor anywhere else in Europe, by any reasonable sense of the word. From what I can recall, there have been two instances of fatal Islamist terror attacks in France in 2018. It's certainly in the single digits.
> Living in a city, there's no such thing as "local community" anymore. Not even neighbours.

Sure there is. I live in a condo with 20 other units, and it makes a great small neighborhood.
My takeaway/distillation from this article basically comes down to this:

* GKE clusters currently can be only in 1 region (say, us-central1)

* But you can create multiple clusters around the world, and deploy the same app on them

* Google Cloud provides global anycast IPs for load balancers

* Anycast IPs are routed to the closest PoP/datacenter available to the visitor of your application

* Then, the traffic is routed to the closest GKE cluster (without leaving Google's private worldwide network)

* This way, you serve to the user from the nearest cluster

* If a region goes offline (disaster scenario) or is under high load, the load balancer will start sending traffic to other nearby clusters

I deployed the sample demo app provided at with this at http://35.190.71.87/ (probably won't work in a month or so). Depending on where you're visiting, you'll be routed to the closest datacenter the app is deployed in.

The demo app source code is here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-multicluster-ingr... You can try it out yourself if you have a GCP account.

Disclaimer: I work on GKE at Google.
I think this is the first of these stories that I have realized has no relevance to me BEFORE I click on the link rather than after. (Currently working on Kubernetes stuff, but all the GKE posts here have not been that useful, though I have played with GKE and like it)
Your message obviously implies that you have no experience with what you are suggesting, hence why you don't realize the downsides.
Yes.

The teams at Microsoft working on VSCode are in Zurich and Seattle (AFAIK).
Polyaxon, https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon, is an alternative project to MLFlow that is also open source.

disclaimer: I am the author of Polyaxon.
Why do attribute that to poor resource allocation and not under funding?

And I've used all of them with little or no issues. The DMV being the biggest pain point in one state, but it works quite well in my current state.
Agreed, but see my edit. The problem is that readers will see heavy coverage as "this is important" and I should be worried about this.

For example, after 9/11, 1k more Americans died in car crashes, because they decided not to fly.
I personally think the people working on things like database and filesystem performance are doing really cool work. Any time you're taking conference papers and turning it into code to solve a particularly hairy problem... that's pretty cool.