skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue Firefox was easily far more fleshed out, but Chrome was simply faster when it first came out, and I made the switch. It turned out all those features didn't mean jack when a faster option was out there. Of course, Chrome has added a lot of features now... and Firefox has gotten vastly faster than it used to be.

When I left Chrome a few years back, the sluggishness of Firefox was quite palpable. I eventually moved to Edge, which, while crashier, overall performed better. But after both the Electrolysis project, and Quantum, Firefox won me back quite solidly.

Long story short: Speed > features when it comes to web browsers.
That's not true, but it's close; at least according to US law. Microsoft was deemed a monopoly in 2000 (which is actually legal) and abused it's monopolistic powers (which is not legal) while other OS's existed in the market: Apple, BeOS, Novell, Linux, OS/2, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
> will be an absurd hassle for a very large number of organizations

they can disable it, any organization that modify /etc/hosts can also change Firefox's preferences file
The San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters has things to say about London Breed (http://www.theleaguesf.org/#london) and Jeff Sheehy (same page, scroll down).
Why this is shocking, or even news?

When you create and use a Facebook account (or when a shadow profile is created for you), Facebook has (and has always had) the right to share anything and everything you publish on their platform with anyone they have a legal responsibility to (e.g., law enforcement) or commercial agreement with (e.g., advertisers).

All Facebook content is essentially public and should be treated as such.
Was GitHub under monetary duress? I thought their private Git hosting business was doing well.
This article is more about Japan's large debt crisis than anything else. Japan is at 253% Debt/GDP, while USA is at 105%. Even Greece is at 180% which is already considered very bad. For other economies there's time to balance the budgets, for Japan not so much.
You're wrong. This is a case where whatever you're comfortable with is the best solution. Just because you personally don't know frameworks, or js frontends, doesn't mean the people who do are inferior or less secure.

I guarantee someone who knows how to work a framework can turn out the same work much more quickly and more maintainable than someone who is working from Vanilla PHP and having to implement basic logins and email templates on their own. And a "throwaway project" can also be turned into something customer facing much more quickly as well.

I agree, you don't need to pick bleeding edge tech, but you should pick something stable and well documented and run with it rather than basically having to rewrite the same project in the framework once you've got it up and running in vanilla PHP.
Any reason why existing typecheckers for Ruby didn't make the cut? There are projects like RDL [1] which provide similar functionality. I know for certain that people from Stripe were taking a look at it last year from the issues they had raised.

Disclosure: I am a grad student, recently started working on RDL.

[1]: https://github.com/plum-umd/rdl
And no one should be surprised by this either.

Violating privacy is their business model. As long as it is legal it would be stupid for them to change it.

As a former French banker (now standup comedian) once said: "Hoping to regulate companies by asking nicely is like going to the prostitutes with a flower bouquet"
Even with the influx of users due to this I was able to not only setup a repo, but push all code up, and deploy via GitLab CI all within minutes... Speed is very good. I don't notice a difference between it and GitHub.
Rust's cutting edge compiler is free, for one thing. I love Ada, but Adacore may well have killed any chance it had of being a commercially viable language (its use declines precipitously each year, even in the defense and avionics industries where it used to be strong).

Plus, Rust has a thriving community whereas thanks to Adacore, Ada has a dying one. Community is critical for programming languages.

But otherwise, Ada is a brilliant and ultra safe language whose safety features go far beyond the memory and type safety that Rust features.

It's a shame.
Modern-day college is a huge rip-off, especially book sales.

I'm waiting for a really progressive college to take MOOCs and make a degree program for the masses, one that carries enough prestige to be comparable. Hopefully, that day will come soon.
What are these 1000/4000 year starting points? From when mankind evolved?
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I haven't seen all of their balance sheet but I'd guess most of their overhead is in salary, not in hosting.
Zcash Foundation Update – May, 2018
This is a furphy. GitHub is already monetized -- it is highly profitable, selling fee-paying plans to corporations. MS's major customer is corporations. Of course they're not going to do a SourceForge because this is a traditional acquisition where the purchaser has recognised that GitHub's current monetization ties in well with their existing business model, and they gain value in the acquisition from it building their reputation with business as the go-to place for corporate cloud. They have no interest in damaging the corporate value they gain by fiddling with the consumer and open source side.
Except that Atlassian aren't really working on Bitbucket any more. There's lots of issues with the system that are not being resolved. Last time I had a problem with Bitbucket I found they had known about it for months and done nothing, with no plan to do anything either.

But then, as I understand it, Bitbucket was an acquisition rather than a brainchild of the Atlassian team, so you can expect a certain amount of neglect.

An omen for github?
>The company continued to build new private APIs for device makers through 2014, spreading user data through tens of millions of mobile devices, game consoles, televisions and other systems outside Facebook’s direct control.

So Facebook says "we don't sell data," but they are giving manufacturers access to data in exchange for being integrated/pre-installed on the device. How is that not "selling" data? Just because they aren't receiving cash?
I'm not personally concerned but some big companies definitely are https://www.retaildive.com/news/report-target-opts-out-of-am...
[Replying to sibling comment]

> MS do not tie an analytics product (on most sites around the world) into the world's largest personal-data-mining and advertising network.

They're trying pretty damn hard with Windows 10, which by default collects pretty much every keystroke you make. That data in turn gets shared and sold to advertisers - see MS's own privacy page: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
That other person has just as much right to that nick as you do.
I would love to see someone with an old BlackBerry write up whether this uses a unique endpoint (different from public api) especially to see if it would be possible to 'spoof' a BB device to get the data.
>IBM controlled powerful segments of the market, and would defend or compete by buying technology.

Right, but IBM used to comprise almost the entire hardware and software market. Over time, they failed to consistently deliver the best experiences to consumers and clients, so they definitely declined from their glory days. I understand your comparison about real estate developers, but I don't think it applies here. IBM can buy competitors, but if they can't make sure their acquisitions remain the best in the market, then the acquisition loses profitability, or even becomes a writeoff.

As an anecdote, I used to work on one of their analytics products, which they acquired in one of their biggest acquisitions ever. Nevertheless, we were competing for clients with smaller, leaner, and sometimes better teams in the same field. We had no inherent advantage in development over our competitors either. Sure, IBM could always buy them, but then they'd have another x billion dollar investment to turn around, and still no way to stop new competitors from taking the clients, other than creating the best product - which would be net beneficial for society anyway. In many cases though, IBM's attempts to exert control by acquiring other companies backfired because they failed to provide client value, and the company has had to write off a lot of losses by trying.
I like to comment on how my next door neighbor's rent (here in SF) is under $300/month. He moved when in many years ago when the rent was $85/month. I pay just over $1600 for the same 250 square foot layout.
> but biggest part of all, its PHP based, written to a very high standard through & through

What?! Holy shit. Is that considered a positive thing these days?! I must be quite out of the damn loop.
Just to clear up further confusion: Frank was indeed at Oxford previously – he moved to UBC this Spring. The tutorial actually took place at NIPS 2015 in Montreal.
You need to live in more interesting places to know what someone, who gets out and complains about this barren husk of what used to be, looks like.
Report Suggests That Microsoft Is Buying GitHub for $5B
That path is as rarified among software engineers at bigco as software engineering at bigco is among software engineering at large as that is to the general population.
He did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_Cuisine
Wait, it's an internet law that every article that asks if "<something> may be the solution to <some problem>" it is never the solution.
By the way, what I really love about GDPR is that now I finally can disallow a website to log and analyze my behaviour to provide any kind of "personalisation" they want and still use it. It's just so great they can't say "agree or go away" any more.

I thought it was going to be another stupid thing like a "cookie law" (which, I hope, is going to be canceled now as we''ve got the GDPR), the recent US FOSTA or a "store all my data in my country on a government-certified server with a police backdoor" law but fortunately it absolutely is not.

I really hope non-EU countries are going to clone this law, it seems to be the second (the first being the US net neutrality policy) law I love.
Japan does owe most of its debt to itself in its own currency. Greece had a bunch of German creditors breathing down its back and no control over the euro.

Japan’s huge debt has as much to do with the saving habits of its people as it does with too much debt-based spending.
Because Microsoft was never that evil and they aren't evil today. It took me seeing the stuff Apple got away with the iPhone to see what a non-issue Microsoft 90s desktop hegemony was. The fear was overblown.
My take:
Resources, though limited, are not fixed. Their availability also depends on science and technology available.
I wonder if instead Apple had acquired GH and today morning introduce laptops with 32 GB RAM, discreet GPU and fully tinkerable laptops for geeks to recapture losing mindshare.

Well I can wish!
doesn’t matter what you do. there will always be a competitor that takes the money and kills you. If not, the big companies themselves will fund their own projects with 100x your budget
This recent change in Starbucks restroom policy should lead to a reduction in this type of behavior.
We live in a post-OS world. Having an 'Apple'Script for Apple-only devices isn't scalable.

A cross platform, OS, processor agnostic equivalent of Apple script should do well in today's world
We (society) made the rules, and we can change them. We have the power to make laws dictating how Facebook can use the data, regardless of what the contract says, regardless of their current "obligations", and regardless of how "public" this data might be. We made new laws about medical data -- we can make news laws about social data.

That's what these stories are about -- things we can think about when drafting this new legislation, or interpreting old legislation.

Our system of laws is not set in stone, we can update it, and we will--for better or worse.
You don't even have to look at startups. Look at all the teething issues that Tesla has had ramping up production, versus an established car company. Look at production issues for things from established companies like the Nintendo Switch. Even the iPhone X had its production issues.
There are a couple examples of this:

Comanche (from a Ute word meaning "they fight with us.")

Apache (from a Zuni word for "enemy.")

"The term Maliseet is the exonym by which the Mi'kmaq people referred to this group when speaking to early Europeans. Maliseet was a Mi'kmaq word meaning "broken talkers", "lazy speakers" or "he speaks badly," or differently by which the Mi'kmaq contrasted the other tribe's language to their own.[3] The Wolastoqiyik and Mi'kmaq languages are closely related but distinctly different. The Europeans met the Mi'kmaq before the Wolastoqiyik, and adopted their term of Malesse'jik (transliterated as Malécite in French) for the people, not understanding that it was not their true name. The later English colonists anglicized this term as Maliseet, in another transliteration of sound."
It can but it's mostly not especially in the pop music sector and anyone who works in the music industry knows this. Most of the so-called artist in the pop industry are assets for the industry not artists.

I see I get some downvotes for saying this, none the less it's true. And I say this as an former full-time now hobby musician/songwriter myself.
Thanks for all the references:)

May I ask in which field do you work right now?
they haven't changed. they will not change. why should they change. this is their normal. they are rotten to the core.
3D Print a High-Power Electric Unicycle
I’ve been using the keybase.io git repos. It’s cool that it adds encryption. Unfortunately there’s no pull request system so it falls short on teams that depend on that.
Ohhh yeah! I don't have an FM but do have an FE and it is probably my favorite camera full stop. It's just the right amount of "camera", and is never annoying or frustrating to use, in either automatic or manual modes.

Agreed 100% on the indestructibility - whoever used mine before I got it dented and brassed up good. The camera doesn't care.

The focusing screen is a joy and better than any DSLR. It's telling that the big and bright finder is a selling point of the D850. If you still use your FM2 I would suggest getting a K3 screen. Nikon still sell them new!
I hope you're not trying to say that's a better solution.
Hosting is cheap, resources involved would be insignificant.

It's more about having too many people working on non-core products that don't deliver value. Gitlab seems to be doing fine and has built a full-featured CI system in the same time Github has only managed to add a basic project board and include commit messages in search.
While I highly doubt that, GitLab is Open Source - Github is not Open Source.
Whether google does it or not, China will.
I think it was this one: https://twitter.com/hamandcheese/status/1001166897113595906
I mocked up a new Facebook apology ad: https://i.imgur.com/EWDJjwx.jpg

Let me know if marketing wants to license it.
A vacuum tube ROM?
I like your idea. However, few performance problems are global. We have a public monitoring dashboard at https://monitor.gitlab.net/. Embedded in this dashboard are various metrics which will often show a drop in response time if we improve performance on a particular item. We usually find a page or set of pages that hit a particular bottleneck and improve that one point. Also, you will usually see mention of specific performance improvements in the changelog (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/raw/master/CHANGELOG...) and in our release blog posts.
He calls some deadlines "aspirational", and it appears that he uses them as a motivational tool.

Every aerospace project comes in late anyway. The key thing is that SpaceX appears to be great at hitting their development budgets.
Agreed. Obviously you are being voted down by people who are spankers, but just can't reach you through the intertubes, no matter how hard they try. We have never had to spank. Maybe we'll regret it when they turn into heroin addicts in their 20s, but right now they are decent, loveable people.
Reading the book poorly made in China was eye opening.
They will operate them as a loss leader to Azure.
PHP applications are extremely easy to install and keep running, and Phabricator is probably the cream of the crop in terms of code quality. The devs have done an incredible job with it.

So the answer is "it can be" considered a positive thing.
GitLab is so overloaded right now that the ngnix server is returning 503 Bad Gateway. Do they have the capacity to handle all the projects being moved over from Github?

We've had to do this before. Remember when Sourceforge tried putting adware into open source downloads? Many projects left Sourceforge then. That was tougher. Github to Gitlab is easy.

Microsoft has put adware and spyware in their operating system. We have to expect that they may try something like that with Github. They may say they won't, but that's non-binding and meaningless.
MSFT announced the acquisition of LNKD in June 2016. Your article is from March 2014.
Where do you mingle in ATL?
A lot of things we call classical today was actually pretty low down and vulgar music. Here's a bit of Mozart:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55247/3-dirty-songs-mozart

Chopin, for example, wrote 59 marzukas, which is music for a traditional Polish dance of the same name.

Beethoven wrote many dance songs, especially waltzes.

Albeniz, especially wrote music derived from traditional music. Suite Espanola is a wonderful exploration here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_Española_No._1,_Op._47

I could go all night on this topic, but the point is that, although we don't recognize the music as dance, it was to the people of that time.
This isn't an acceptable compromise.

In general it's not acceptable to break functionality and then demand people invent workarounds. But it's insane to demand that every organization in the world write new portable system integration software that has to take into account 100 varying things just to disable something nobody has asked for. And it's even more insane when the software in question is the underpinning of all internet access that has existed in the same form for 40 years.
> SV is the new New York

Pity it doesn't have the good parts of NYC, like decent public transit, Broadway, Central Park etc.
It went down again for a short time. We're continuing to monitor and adjust resources as needed. We weren't expecting this traffic to our monitoring dashboard, but it's great that so many people are interested in taking a look.
>America towards a police state.

I think this and what the article discusses are symptoms of the same thing: constant fear of everything. I'm not sure if it's that Americans scare easily, or they are constantly barraged by hyperbolic worst case scenarios everyday by the news (current business model), or a mixture of both.

When FDR said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was keenly aware of this fear. Americans are easy to manipulate through this, there are many examples both current and historic.

I'm not a big worrier about the boogieman; I realize chicken little when I hear him. The main thing I'm scared of with the kids is internet weirdos, so I tell kids never to put their real information online other than an email.
Funny you say that, as 1999 was the year that SourceForge was launched.

Back in the day that was the centralised site that people used to host code, mailing-lists, issues, and etc.
They're trying to improve the security of a fundamental protocol - if we waited for committees every time we wanted something new, we wouldn't have HTTP2, HTML5 or a dozen other technologies.

I agree they shouldn't take away the "god-mode" /etc/hosts, which is only ever populated very intentionally by sysadmins and power users. If anything, that should be a flag just like the various modes of using TRR.

And finally - it's an open protocol in development, and anyone can set it up who wants to. If you don't want to use Google or Cloudflare, you don't have to. And FWIW millions of people are already using 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 and Cisco's OpenDNS as their primary resolver. That GOOG and CF are at the forefront of another increment of Internet standards should not be surprising.
The solution is for people to leave.
> The real scary part is that they are scared of what will happen if they don't do something

In the context of these posters, the implied "what will happen" is mostly worldwide Communist revolution with the U.S. losing the Cold War. You can see that for example in the poster depicting the edited version of the Gettysburg Address, which someone commented on elsewhere in this thread. The concern is worldwide totalitarianism on the Soviet model, and that's mostly the danger that these posters are meant to allude to and frighten the NSA staff with. If you say the wrong thing at Christmas dinner, Communism may win.

That sounds like a joke nowadays, but I'm sure it didn't sound like a joke to the people who created the posters or the people who saw them every day. Both sides of the Cold War fought it super-hard.

One problem that the people making the posters left out is that the Cold War also led to vastly bigger, stronger, more secretive states—including on the NATO side. It led to creative people being given billions upon billions of dollars to dream ever-bigger dreams about military and intelligence capabilities. We still don't even know what some of those dreams were, partly because generations of classification holders brought up on these posters and other versions of them have taken them to heart so strongly. So, we've got states that continue to be extraordinarily ambitious and capable in some ways that they don't really want anybody to talk about. To me, that's a tragic legacy of the Cold War. If the people who made the Gettysburg Address poster were serious in their concern for the state's apotheosis, they might have done well to also consider how "war is the health of the state"—evidently, whether it runs hot or cold.

We kind of know about some parts of the nuclear side of that, and we kind of know about some parts of the espionage and covert action side of that, but these parts all kind of hurt to think about and the people who've dreamt and are still dreaming those billion-dollar dreams would mostly just as soon that we didn't go too far down the rabbit holes.
It just seems odd that a company that threatens to sue companies for using Linux, unless they pay their patent licensing extortion royalties, may control GitHub.
Sorry about that. We had to scale our monitoring dashboard due to increase in traffic.
Assuming they can get enough fresh water for the dilution

New filtration technologies are emerging that make this far cheaper.
But you can’t live in your other investments.
Basic public sanitation measures, including isolating human waste from open air spaces, is the most significant factor to increased average lifespan than medical technology. Reverse that in even just one of the legs of basic sanitation and you invite in a host of (in America) extraordinarily expensive pathogenic consequences. Expensive to treat and expensive to prophylactically ward off after an outbreak starts.

Like code defects, it is magnitudes cheaper to fix earlier in the development pipeline.
What about https://strapi.io/ ?
Nope. Leaving kids unsupervised (under 10, depending on the state) is often a crime now.
because m$ wanna buy it?
If any Mac or iOS developer wants to help create a native app that automates this tedious procedure, I’ll be happy to design it.