skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically I’m reading Herodotus right now, and just reached his description of the Scythians and how they drink milk.

“Now the Scythians blind all their slaves, because of the milk2 they drink; and this is how they get it: taking tubes of bone very much like flutes, they insert these into the genitalia of the mares and blow into them, some blowing while others milk. According to them, their reason for doing this is that blowing makes the mare's veins swell and her udder drop. [2] When done milking, they pour the milk into deep wooden buckets, and make their slaves stand around the buckets and shake the milk; they draw off what stands on the surface and value this most; what lies at the bottom is less valued.”

Obviously Herodotus repeats lots of tall tales so no idea if that one is true, but I can understand the disdain fir milk drinkers if so.
SBI Launches Japan's First Bank-Backed Crypto Exchange
You do realize Github didn't take their first outside funding until they had been in business for 4 years, and had paying customers?
OK, but software like that can easily include an internal DOH proxy (or just turn off DOH in Firefox).
His point is that github forces you to execute non-free software on your machine. I just don't think that's really true.
Change means less revenue, IMO. Their business model is to keep squeezing every bit of data and seize every opportunity for the next quarter. So, that type of change will happen only if forced.

I've said it before: FB should not have been allowed to buy them in the first place.
They should still be in wg21, but that doesn't change the title of the document.
I don’t understand what you mean and I will not continue the discussion, instead I’m reading this article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a great article about Aristotle’s ideas on the topic. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
Just wanted to let you guys know that the ad free version is almost ready

I'm stuck on removing thr native dependecies, so we can remove the unwanted permissions.

Thanks for all the Support, Love and the eye opening comments.
> You don't need centralization of power in order to have centralization of access.

It isn't necessary, but it is sufficient and that seems to be enough for a lot of folks. You seem to be arguing that I'm saying this is ideal. It's not, but it does seem to be the structure most people arrive at naturally.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, but this is correct. The returns on VITAX far outperformed leveraged housing. (see 3rd final thought at https://medium.com/@usaar33/why-you-shouldnt-buy-a-home-in-t...)

Besides, 10% is about the long-term S&P 500 average return.
> Microsoft isn't acquiring Github out of the goodness of it's heart, they want something of value from it. What is that, and is it compatible with what made Github useful?

What is that? I think its ownership of the huge amount of computer programs (and not to mention the associated metadata of authors and their professional network). The editor and the client provide a continuous stream of samples ready to be drawn from the world.

I believe its in the owners best interest to keep this golden goose of continuously increasing source of computer programs in good health.

The thing that I didn’t understand at first was why did MS gave up codehub (Google had Code, FB never pushed phabricator that hard) only to acquire GitHub later?
The funny thing is that Google is 20x as evil, and the fanboys still love them
Absolutely but overnight successes tend to have that moment.
"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."

I'd prefer it the other way. Monoculture is almost never good in the long run and neither is too much power in one hand.
It's perfectly legal to set up communist communes in the US, and there have been no shortage of attempts. They all failed. It's hard to claim they haven't been given a chance.
All they need to do is build some state institutions to provide care

You cannot institutionalize somebody against their will without legal adjudication (proving risk of harm to self and or others), since court rulings in the 1970s.
> 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...

The Air Force barred an airman from reenlisting because he would not say "so help me God" in his oath, in 2014.[0]

[0]: https://www.yahoo.com/news/atheist-must-swear-god-leave-us-a...
Is your monitoring page a recent build, is it scaling well?

I ask because it's not a particularly good luck that the viewers from HN are capable of bad gateway hug of deaths to the site?
Most notable pieces I took from the article: 1) Facebook does not see third parties (such as BlackBerry) as “third parties.” 2) Facebook told Congress that it disabled third party access to user data, but in actuality did not.

My own strong interjection: Facebook’s competitive advantage is its disregard for ethics. Somehow, Zuckerberg has been able to convince a lot of smart people to do unethical things and build unethical technology, while the competitors have a harder time doing the same. This disregard for ethics has allowed Facebook to “grow at all costs.” Meanwhile, the more conscientious programmers and entrepreneurs (or at least those held more accountable) are busy wrangling with the real challenges and intricacies of civilization. (I personally prefer it that way - I like my work being tied to the well-being of society.)
Tesla: Both Sides of the Case
New ReCAPTCHA: select the correct person for a drone strike to proceed.
It can be sluggish at times (SB2 13”, maxed out specs), usually on boot when a bunch of background tasks are starting up. I haven’t run Linux on its own on this specific machine, so I don’t have a good comparison. It is tangibly slower than my 15” MBP 2017 when running some compute intensive tasks for work, but that is likely due to differences at the hardware level and not OS. I also have encountered some slowness at the filesystem level, which occasionally annoys me when I’m doing tasks that hit the FS very frequently.

It isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough that I don’t notice the warts too frequently. I’m not very fickle though: at this point in my career, I’ve come to the conclusion that all systems suck in their own special ways.
>He's the author of Modernist Cuisine, a cookbook based on science. He has done all the experiments to determine the scientifically best ways to cook things. Instead of making it an affordable book, he priced it at over $600.

$600 is not that extreme a price in the 'technical food book aimed at professionals' realm (which is where the book was originally aimed).

There are 4-volume references like Hui and Sherkat's "Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering" which retail at $1,800 (https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Food-Science-Technology-Engi... a number of single-volume Wiley handbooks have prices around $290.

Factoring in that Modernist Cuisine is 23kg, 7 volumes, had an initial print run at 6,000 copies and an unusual volume (the kitchen manual is printed on plastic)...it's hard to see how this is a reasonable criticism, especially when Modernist Cuisine at Home (which is targeted at a wider audience and covers many of the same bases) is priced at $112.
Why We Disagree with The New York Times
I'm getting intermittent 502's\Bad Gateway errors here on your Grafana dashboard.

Other comments further down are showing other's are too. Hacker News Hug of death?

It's not a great look.
Tencent blocked tiktok on Wechat in China
> github is still the only one providing a search engine over billions of lines of modern code

I'm happy with Github, but I've always found the search to be so unhelpful that it's like they don't even have the feature.
No, you wanted encryption for DNS transport, and I completely agree with that desire. This is a terrible half-measure that bypasses many existing security precautions people have intentionally taken by default, and moreover exposes private data to a company with a history of handling such poorly.
I wonder as well. If linkedin is any indication, Microsoft hasn’t affected their engineering culture really at all yet. In fact linkedin still routinely poaches Microsoft engineers and used slack and google drive and bluejeans instead of skype. If anything linkedin has gone on a massive hiring spree on Microsoft’s dime.
Requisite reading: https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/#!msg/mysoci...
I wonder what this will mean for VSTS? That has it's own public/private git repositories. Though they're more 'enterprise integrated ci/cd' than github's 'portfolio'
China to crack down on fraud in scientific research
Why was it not fun? I had no trouble with sourcedepot when I was there.

I think git and decentralized source control are great, but I get a little suspicious of people saying tooling is "not fun" simply because it isn't their favorite or most familiar.
We should already know better that there most likely is no "secret". That is, it's probably more than one special variable we have to look at. Somehow many scientists are having a hard time to let go of one dimensional thinking.
build Club Med for homeless people in the Central Valley

Heck, homeless wouldn't use a nice, new facility in SF that was set up in 2015 in advance of the Super Bowl because is wasn't within easy access of usual gathering haunts.
I don't know how you can argue that isn't true - loading up Github runs all sorts of javascript you can't reasonably inspect or control. Whether or not that is a bad thing, or, how bad it is, is certainly a reasonable thing to discuss, though.
Good caveats, thank you. Sigh, takes careful thought to really get out of the bubble we inhabit.
The assumption there being that Facebook continues to be economically viable...
I'm on Android 8.0 with location services and history turned off. I'm also logged out from all Google services except Play (I want to update apps.) It works perfectly.
At the time it was bought, Instagram was a major thing for myself and my friend circles. It had been for a little while.
I want Mercurial and Subversion in GitHub.
This is great and all, but I suspect in a year most modules, gems, etc will still be hosted on Github. So shake your fist and proclaim your distrust for Microsoft, but most developers will still have Github as a core dependency of their livelihood.
The Limits of Expertise
It's probably not for the platform, but for the user base and the community.
I searched through the comments to see if anyone else had the same thought I did.
Isn't that what state vehicle inspections are for? If you don't have the latest safety update you should not pass the inspection and not be able to continue to drive until you get the update.
feel like if any of the other companies made this acquisition less people would care. It’s just trendy and good for your hacker creds to oppose microsoft as people did in the 90s. No one is crying about AWS hosting all applications.
This seems like boiling oceans as well. It's hard to guess which oceans are bigger or harder to boil. Clearly Stripe thinks this is the easier way to go. That wouldn't have been my instinct. Maybe they made a really good estimate for how it will be though. I'd be very curious to see their full analysis!
Point being, the data can and should live within the repo like gh-pages has been doing for a while. Not about those tools being integrated to official git tooling.
I doubt it, I think they are doing it because they’ve seen more and more of their enterprise migrate from TFS to git.

This is my opinion, but I think Microsoft tech is fairly terrible for open source and smaller projects, because .Net is a lot of complicated tooling you’ll never use outside of enterprise. At the same time they are rapidly becoming the “only” enterprise option rather quickly, and with that comes the question of why you’d chose AWS over Azure.

Sure visual studio has a free version, Windows now does Linux and .net Core is open but I see those moves as a way to make c# replace JAVA in schools not as a way to make open source love Microsoft.
I agree... GH is evil
How I Turned Down $300K from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)
The point of patents is to spur innovation. This new role is one they are wholly unsuited for.
But controlling a leading platform so completely isn't cheap.
In my opinion, schools have a discipline problem in that schools (teachers) tolerate/ignore disrespect from students toward their teachers and the learning environment yet at the same time except discipline outside of school hours, in the form of excessive homework. The net effect is that schools are a poor environment for learning or constructive socializing, and time at home is spent on homework which severely cuts into social activities and free-play.
Well, sure the economy would shrink, but that is the point. There would be less demand for consumer goods, because preservation implies less consumption.

Imagine a pretend happyland where everyone owned their own home and had a stockpile of 30 years of food. They change their usual work week to take Mondays off and sit comfortably at home. 20% of the economy literally disappears overnight. It isn't obvious that the anyone would be suffering.

The reason the economy shrinking is so terrible is because people generally live hand-to-mouth. If you have enough resources stockpiled to last you the rest of your lifetime, you technically no longer need an economy. It is still nice to have and some resources can't actually be stockpiled (eg, a doctor's time) so I wouldn't advise doing without it, but the economy is mostly important because people don't stockpile resources.

There seems to be a feeling that we should not stockpile resources because the economy is important. That line of thinking is very popular, but imo precisely backwards. Links the right things in the wrong order. Bit of a non-sequiter, but that thinking is why governments and central banks keep printing money.

All this is an interesting but philosophical point. People, in the main, consume everything they have available to them and then work to earn more.

EDIT It is notable that if no-one borrows then by definition no-one can make money by lending money. Again, although this is radical compared to what we do now, it isn't actually obvious what the problem would be. Again, it isn't advised because borrowing money for the purpose of investment is a source of fantastic economic efficiencies. The issue is we all know there is borrowing going on to fund consumption. That isn't a good idea, although the cost is carried by the people responsible so I have no beef with it happening.
Ya, they can’t do the same tricks they did before. You do have to wonder what new tricks they might pull though.

“I can’t hurt you now, I have these handcuffs on” doesn’t mean you can full trust someone who hit you.

(All that aside, I have notice what does appear to be real cultural change at MS)
"The company continued to build new private APIs for device makers through 2014"

"Michael LaForgia, a New York Times reporter, used the Hub app on a BlackBerry Z10 to log into Facebook." -- this is a phone announced in 2013.

I understand the concern with Facebook, but this article is presenting information from 4 years ago as if it's news.
The only hard part is securing your server, since setting up a remote git server only requires two things:

1. Running git.

2. Providing SSH access.

But even securing the server is not necessarily difficult, depending on the level of risk acceptable for your purposes.

Put another way, reasonable security is not too hard and AWS makes reasonable security fairly easy. Even self-hosted *nix servers can be pretty secure. However to seriously harden a service against skilled and determined attackers requires an experienced team and even that may not be enough.
Blatant what-about-ism.
Why not build a Black Rock City

Burners are mandated to be self-sufficient and leave no trace; only chemical toilets are provided. If that ethic was practiced by this population, there would be many more options.
Keep up the good work! The next few weeks could get interesting (:
You're absolutely right! Building probably was a lot like boiling an ocean. Grafting static typing onto a very dynamic language is a massive and complex undertaking.

That said, it's one item that can be built greenfield. In some senses, that makes it easier to apply to other codebases once the tool is in a working state. It also means one thing to work on, rather than N, which is much easier to plan for.

You're completely right that this is an ocean to boil, and it's rarely easy to guess the size of any given one. Yet it's possible that the naive intuition - when boiling oceans, prefer fewer - might be reliable in this case.
Nathan, this is a bit transparent...
Demystifying CORS
Maybe for Microsoft.
And even that is made seem harmless by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

To wit, endless channels with endless videos including adults dressing up as babies, cartoon kids doing all sorts of fucked up stuff, adult hands pretending to enjoy playing with toys or unpacking things (and/or pop colored balloons and do the finger song, so children can "learn colors nursery rhymes"). And the best part is, so much of it is aimed at kids that can't talk.

> On November 28, Forbes presented Elsagate as an example of the "dark underbelly of the digital age". The article's author commented that the "gargantuan scale" of the problem seemed to indicate that children's content on YouTube had become "a monster beyond our control" and that "it's terrifying to imagine how many toddlers have been affected" by Elsagate, "in ways beyond our comprehension".

By the way, don't think just because many talk about it in past tense or picked themselves up quickly with some fluffy rationalizations after they stumbled onto the subject, instead of actually looking at it, that the issue is over. New channels are still made, old videos constantly get reuploaded, and new material is still made. But even in November 2017, some articles referred to it in past tense. Amazing.
Also problematic:

"0 - Off (default). use standard native resolving"

...

"5 - Explicitly off. Also off, but selected off by choice and not default."

It seems that the plan for the "0 - default" is to switch the users to other modes without the user knowing it, and to keep the behavior off the user must specifically change the option to "5."
What Tim Cook should do is ask why the EU government decided to apply their 'understanding' of a tax rule a full 25 years after the activity started.

It's perfectly reasonable for the EU to say to Ireland 'you can't do that, it's stretching the rules' - but it's entirely unreasonable for the EU to change their minds willy nilly and submit to populist pressure and de-facto re-interpret the rules of business as they go along - and then apply them 25 years retroactively.

Especially when the very head of the EU, Jean Claude Junker is literally the guy who invented the tax-avoidance schemes for an entire nation - Luxembourg - while he was there.

The episode is rotten and stinks to high heaven.

The EU should focus more on harmonizing and clarifying their tax rules instead of deciding after the fact who they don't like - and more importantly - should be focused on developing competitive players in tech so they don't have to try to get into penalization wars.

Asia is undergoing massive growth, as is S. America, the US is doing really well, while the EU is kind of in a slump.

The loopholes should not have ever existed, but it's the EU's/ Ireland's job to make sure they don't exist, not Apple's.

Also - this is just the tip of the iceberg on this issue.

Finally, the EU wants to call Cook to the table not because it will provide any light on what's going on, rather, they want to try to make a public spectacle of it, i.e. 'Look Europe, we are taking those bad US companies to task' - it's all cynical optics.

Better to get their own house in order, Apple et. al. will follow whatever rules are on the table, just make them fair and clear.
Re: macs. Yes. MacOS releases up to 1999 lacked features common in other systems, like full preemptive multitasking and memory protection. Windows NT had that in the mid 90s, and various Unix flavors had it for decades. I liked the UI on the macs vs windows95/98/NT or Linux/Solaris, but the stability of macs was a joke. Everyone was pretty happy when they cleaned up NeXTSTEP and turned it into the basis for OSX - that was a very smart move.
That’s fair, I’m probably being too harsh on it. It was my first job out of college so my first time interacting with professional-scale source control. I don’t remember specifically what I didn’t like about it, I think mostly that it was slow and a bit unintuitive, but I can’t say with any conviction that it was actually a bad system. I do remember there being a general sense on my team that people wanted to move off of it and onto something more modern, so perhaps I just internalized that.
EC2 was released over a decade ago. And Microsoft could’ve done it way easier than Amazon.
Broken hearts.
This is the first time I've read about this test and the correlation of willpower to being good at managing money looks like those theories that people share on social media but are just fake news.
Was at the Kaigi and on the opening keynote Matz talked a bit about it. He doesn't really support adding it since he feels like in 20/30+ years, advances in technology will make writing types "obsolete".
It sounds like it's a separate, single instance. Definitely doesn't use the same infrastructure as gitlab.com itself (which is a good thing, since that's what it's monitoring), nor is it built to be scalable really. So, no great surprise that HN-level traffic overpowered the instance.

I do hope they're using Prometheus federation to expose this instance to the fickle internet and that they have one or more internal Prometheus instances that aren't directly queried by this instance. After all, that stuff is responsible for paging if something goes wrong in prod.
If you are in the rubber bin jewing psycho candy you are statistically irrelevant
I distrust Google far more than I distrust Microsoft, I generally don't know why people see it otherwise, maybe it's simply because when they were surfing Slashdot in 2003 everyone told them to hate Microsoft and in their heart Google is still the "good guy." Imo, the roles have reversed.
Edge actually uses the platform’s engine - on android that’s blink, on iOS it’s webkit and on Windows it’s EdgeHTML.
GNOME made the move a few days ago.
China increasingly challenges American dominance of science
You're absolutely right! Any Turing-complete language can be transpiled to any other.

That said, you can't always expect sensible or human-brain-friendly results if you're moving between two languages that work very different.
Why not just use a service that supports them?
We manage them with env vars now. But we use salt (encrypted) to deploy a secrets file onto the server which is sourced before the app is started. With something like ECS I didn’t know if you could feed it an env file, and if you could, how you could make it available.
Scanner nach B. Sher sind vielbegabte und neugierige Menschen,
Linux can't change its license without getting permission from the (tens of) thousands of people who contributed to it, or throwing out their code.
I find the Wells Fargo commercials absurdly self-serving. I can only imagine what the makers of “Chairs”[0] would conjure up.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNA
Is that rhetorical or do you really wonder?
My question as well. If it’s “I got $50k worth of RSUs last year and now they are worth $150k”, that not earning $250k per year, that $150k plus a good bonus year.
"The Jungle". Over 618 tons of trash (not counting hazardous waste) were removed upon its closure.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-silicon-valley...