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Likewise, this is why acquisitions come with golden handcuffs and lockups.

I think everyone handled it well. They fought for what they believed in, they lost, and they chose to give up money instead of sticking around and being a pain in the ass. Facebook rightly said "we bought this and control it and here's what we want to do."
Your talking about long distance, local calls were inexpensive and available to all for low prices.
Definitely not Saudi Arabia. A close friend of mine worked there as a engineering contractor for a big European aero-defense company and he said to me that the “engineering capabilities” (so to speak) of his Saudi colleagues were definitely sub-par. One of the reasons he gave me for this is that the Saudi electrical engineering students were still taught the Coran in university instead of the teachers devoting that time to useful EE knowledge. Maybe the new ruler will change things, but we’ll have to wait at least a couple of decades for the changes’ effects to become really visible.

My bet is on Israel, though.
fwiw, i've done a bunch of LSD and mushrooms and I think it sounds as stupid as you do.

That said the experience of a psychedelic trip feels completely impossible and indescribable on every level so I can understand how people reach for absurd metaphors to come to terms with the experience. It's a very difficult experience to integrate.
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The hate on Oculus by its very community when selling itself to Facebook was "sudden", too, but it wasn't senseless.
You could always host the open-source variant (Community Edition) of GitLab on your server.
> to advocate for parents to test their minor children without the child's knowledge for drug use

This seems kind of overbearing. Why do think this is something important to advocate for?
Phone calls were expensive because telcos were (still are) a monopoly. Phone calls got cheaper only because they eventually got competition from VOIP-like solutions.
When you've got a notification on your smartphone drawer and you tap or slide down on the notification to see the beginning message contents.
From what I've heard, TFVC would have scaled just fine, and was similar enough to the internal to Microsoft ancient Perforce fork called Source Depot, but it wouldn't have been particularly agile. TFVC like CSV/SVN has a harder time branching because it is branch-as-path/copy-on-write, for one instance. Scaling a repo that size requires intricate lock systems which TFVC supports, but aren't very developer friendly, etc, as the Windows team was already fighting with Source Depot.

The issue isn't that TFVC wouldn't have scaled, it's that Windows developers wanted git for many of the reasons that most of us use git: cheap branching, distributed/lock-free code development, etc.

GVFS is nothing like Clearcase/Perforce/Source Depot/TFVC. It's still git, it's just offloading some of the .git object database on a machine to servers, just like you might not download every file in your Dropbox/OneDrive account to a local machine.

GVFS doesn't even have to be "centralized". GVFS uses a simple REST API to query object servers and I still don't think anyone has had the need to do it yet, but building a GVFS daemon to pull objects from IPFS (and pin objects to it) is entirely possible.
>> The surface quality of these objects was rough and slightly yielding [see diagram]. Analytic responses to the site include broken down pier pilings or a group of elephant seals.

Actionable intel received. Drone strike inbound. Cannot wait to sea the remote-viewed damage assessment. It will be either craters or ice cream trucks everywhere.

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789...

Remote-viewing of a UFO / extraterrestrial probe:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789...

"A remote action investigation with marine animals" (ie how Aquaman talks to fish. Not joking. They were attempting this in 1987!!!)

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787...
Yeah, I would be running Gentoo so on their laptops. It just seems the hardware compatibility for these are WAY better than most on the market today
At least provide some useful feedback beyond "I don't like it" so the developers on here can learn something.
I don't think any amount of AI can predict light sweet crude over 60s within 5 ticks of accuracy either.
It's true both Intel and (especially) AMD sell fused-off core CPUs as downmarket models, it's not true that Intel only uses a single die from their 4 core i3 models all the way up through their, e.g., 28-core models (as mentioned in TFA).

AMD's Zen arch is an 8 core die, and they get very high yields out of it. Even the downmarket parts mostly or entirely had 8 working cores before fusing off.

Intel's big 28 core parts are (at least historically) a huge single die, with very very low yields. They charge a huge dollar amount for the parts because they cannot afford not to — the manufacturing costs are very high. There is some speculation that this 5GHz part is actually a bridged smaller die design, like AMD's Zen platform. Intel's bridge design is called "EMIB," if you want to google that speculation further.
Make it explicit for some period of time as you introduce them. If they need review they can be part of the weekly/biweekly retro. If it needs more personal reinforcement then 1-on-1's. It's the manager's job to communicate these and KEEP communicating them.
Unrelated, but your home page has some horizontal scrolling. 2015 MBPro/Firefox Dev Edition
You've proposed a reason for Tesla's reluctance to release data that Tesla itself has not used, so it's you that's bringing up unrelated arguments. Why speculate on the proprietary formats Tesla may or may not use when Tesla doesn't appear to have argued that the data was proprietary?
Why not just first wait for their actual moves before spreading panic. I don`t love microsoft and use 0 of their software/hardware products but I don`t believe they will ruin Github. It would ruin their reputation with developers to a very large degree.

But if they do, it is so easy to switch, that I do not see the point in "all hell broke loose" panic attacks before anything actually happened.
I've seen this sentiment many times here on HN. I wonder, who are your customers exactly?

At one of my previous jobs, "my customers" were the managers of some company who asked managers of the company I worked in to deliver some software that will be sold as a part of a software package, to be used by someone downstream. I don't know who ended up using my work and how, because we were isolated by several abstraction layers from that. I did care about the happiness of those people, little I knew about them. But I couldn't care less about the happiness of our customers - a company I didn't hold in high regard, with managers not being particularly helpful. I suppose I did get some small sense of satisfaction when their managers told my managers that the work is good. But that was it.

So, are we talking about happiness of customers, or happiness of people actually using the product? Those are very often different groups. Or, in other words, are we talking about finding happiness in generalized servitude, or making people's lives better?
Generally the technical stuff is fairly easy, at least compared to understanding the business requirements!

That said, probably 50% of my job is involved with interesting technical problems, combining cloud scale analytics and machine learning in the engineering sector.
Your summary is incorrect. Lowe's position is stated at http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/05/25/fed... . He writes:

> I think Right to Try laws are largely useless, and have the potential to cause actual harm disproportionate to the good they might do. I think that there are sincere, principled advocates for them, but at the same time, there are many people on that side of the issue who are either ill-informed about medical research or who are simply grandstanding for votes and popular support.

> In short, my biggest reasons for thinking this way are: (1) most investigational drugs don’t work. The failure rate in human clinical trials is around 90 per cent, and it’s been that way for a long time. (2) there are disease areas where a tragedy-of-the-commons situation will mean that controlled clinical trials (which are still the only way to determine if a new drug works) will be much more difficult to run under a “why wait for proof?” system (I have to note that the current bill restricts right-to-try to those patients who are ineligible for clinical trials, which is a good provision). (3) opening up unproven therapies could lead to a moral hazard, where it becomes lucrative to put useless-but-harmless “drug candidates” into “clinical trials” so you can charge desperate patients at “cost”. I mean every quotation mark in that last sentence. I am not the only person who thinks this way. My own suggestion for the last point has already been made: antioxidant phytonutrients – i.e., dried grape juice pills – for Alzheimer’s. Won’t do a thing, but hey, you have the right to try ’em.

> There is empirical evidence for all of these positions. Many states have passed their own right-to-try laws (in various forms), and if there has been any decrease in human suffering or advance in medical knowledge through them, I have missed it. To get specific, when Colorado passed its own law in 2014, one of the first companies that announced plans to offer treatments under its provisions was a stem-cell company, Neuralstem. And guess what? None of their treatments ever worked. Most things don’t.

Note that Lowe talked about harm which is disproportionate to the good, not the un-nuanced statement that that there may be harm and therefore bad, as you summarized it.
Hardware compatibility for Apple laptops is horrendous! I wish they would just open their drivers to the community at large! I would run *nix on an Apple Laptop no problem.
How about "blacklist all countries where bounce rate is > than 80%". Would that make sense?
@naikrovek, @prophesi: I know about these solutions but I would like to avoid having to self-host, because of time.
Nvidia's support always had integration problems, because they never upstreamed their driver. And Optiums (used on laptops) is an especially bad case. On desktop their diver kind of works, but has a ton of quirks because of bad integration (especially with Wayland).

Today you'll be better off with AMD GPU no matter on laptop or desktop. AMD did a good job with upstream kernel integration (amdgpu) and developing Mesa for Vulkan and OpenGL (radv / radeonsi). I myself was Nvidia user for a long time and switched to AMD around a year and a half ago, when Mesa finally caught up features wise, so I know this first hand. Nvidia is clearly a worse choice today.
You can customize your key mappings. I found a dvorak keyboard with esperanto key bindings on the internet. If that exists, I'm sure anything else can be done (assuming you touch type).
Agreed! Nothing I disagree with here. But last minute itinerary changes from France to Australia back to France again point to a larger, more systematic problems IMHO. Perhaps it's a lack of understanding of the market and customers, or just bad management and lack of company vision - but no software process is going to fix that.
> That's around $268 per Github user.

That seems like a decent deal for MS... Assume on average a user is an active engineer for 5 years (of course this is back-of-the-envelope and not even taking into account the growth of the field, and new engineers are likely to use Github for it's network effects).

Is the value of owning the central platform of an individual engineer worth more than $50 / year? Even if all you did was run basic ads I'd say yes - although I'd expect more services including edging in on Atlassian's turf as an upsell opportunity for MS.

All this, not even counting future value... If Slashdot is still around and somewhat valuable, Github will probably also still be around and somewhat valuable at least a decade from now.
Former magazine/newspaper editor here. (Disclosure: I briefly worked as a copy editor at a Rolling Stone sister publication, but never met Matt.)

One potential criticism of this sort of subscription business model is that it increases the echo-chamber effect, where people only subscribe to writers whose opinions they agree with. How do you answer that criticism?
Is there any particular closed source component you have an issue with? I self host gitlab-ce and have yet to find something that I really wish I had, so I'm curious if I'm just missing something.
No. Because they make Jira
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>I can't understand why people today lack the ability to see a scam.

While I know that for some people in SV this may come as a shock but not every company is a ploy to use investor's money to pay yourself a fat salary for a year or two before declaring that grubhub for toilet paper is not a sustainable business model, laying off everyone and selling everything you scraped from your users cell phones to whoever will do the most harm with it.

Some companies actually optimize for making a sustainable profit by taking other people's money in exchange for delivering goods and services.
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As far as we, the general public, know for certain, telemetry is used to gather usability and preferences data, and bugs.

You can avoid using their software if you are concerned about your privacy, that's totally legitimate, You can also warn others about it, if you wish so and believe that it is an important cause. I'll walk most of that walk with you. But I believe you have no justification for your accusation.
Does Atlassian have better rapport with the businessy set that often makes purchasing decisions? Yes.

Better rapport with developers? Probably not.

(and, FWIW, we use Bitbucket/Jira and honestly I'm fine with them - their updates just tend to be full of the annoying things a bad PHB would love and light on the things developers care about)
The GitHub story is complex. There was a time years ago when they were profitable: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-... They and Sidekiq were the poster children of bootstrapped profitable businesses around open source. Something very clearly changed (most likely raising a boatload from VC firms and the ensuing perils) that flipped the situation.
Let us know when scientists tell us we got a soul :) That will never happen. Nor because it's not true, we do (i think so anyway) but because it's not something you can find by digging around in the body. By definition, the soul is not physical.
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Correct. And Cyber-based attacks are much less visible and easier to hide than overt attacks e.g. a cruise missile. But as things get more automated, the attack surface and concomitant damage will only increase.

This could have very real military effects. Suppose your supply lines/defense contractors are targeted by foreign digital attackers. Even if your Military itself uses secure communications and infrastructure, if their dependents are disrupted, it will directly impact their effectiveness.
If they themselves say they discovered a product that they were interested in, how is that not value addition? Value isnt defined in your advertising free ivory tower.
I appreciate your response. I will think again about subscribing. I would love to get hooked on books the way that I seem to get hooked on mediocre television like Game of Thrones and Westworld. I think it would definitely be better than reading the news every day.
This is why blocking ads is pretty much a moral imperative. People should block ads until we no longer have to put up with business models such as "let's shove our sponsored content down their throats".
It wasn't a particularly friendly service for developers, anyway.
> 3 physical button trackpoint with textured nub gifted upon us by the Thinkpad Gods of old

Ah how I wish I still had a laptop with the nub (even if it had a touch pad too). I've never really understood why that didn't become standard since I think Toshiba and maybe even Dell had a variant of it.

The multi-gesture touch pads are nice, but for precision and minimal interference without a standard desk mouse the nub is supreme.
A.K.A. deadline driven development

this can work really well if you pare down the list of features and build the simplest version of these features
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16326517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16289846

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139798
Just not Microsoft, which is the topic here.
It's called "dry testing", and the FTC might come after you if you're not clear about what you're doing https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/adv...
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> That seems like a decent deal for MS..

Indeed, as cost of acquisition of an active developer, it doesn't seem either absurdly high or absurdly low.
That's a work-for-hire, in which the authorship of the work (and thus the moral rights) is agreed by all participants before the work starts to be FooCorporation.

Classic work-for-hire includes ghostwritten novels and autobiographies, corporate reports, web pages, and most likely every line of code you've ever written while employed by a corporation.

There are jurisdictions where moral rights cannot be sold, and others where they can, but work-for-hire nearly always sidesteps the issue.
I never said anything about who to hire.
IPython still makes nicer-repl-for-python. I don't know if it has a name beyond just IPython, which is a bit confusing.
Are docs available yet? The pages aren't working for me.

- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/what-is-eks...

Same with getting started guide - https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/deploy-kuber...
Totally agree with this, and like another commenter said, WordPress can be a nightmare. If you need Woocommerce because your site is already built on WordPress and you can absolutely keep WP secure [1], then go for it.

As much as developers love to hate on done-for-you website builders like Shopify or Squarespace [2] they are a good first step to get to MVP.

[1] https://sucuri.net/guides/wordpress-security
https://premmerce.com/complete-woocommerce-security-review-i...
[2] https://www.whatsthehost.com/shopify-vs-squarespace/
Can you blame Gitlab for capitalizing on this opportunity? Not everything is based on hate, framing this as hate and senseless only stirs the pot and adds nothing to the conversation. Every individual has their reasons. People in general are reactionary; so this was probably the tipping point on a decision they had long been exploring.
So do I, and many others. Nowadays you can type "jupyter console", which gets you almost the same thing; and JupyterLab has console components.
Its time to pull the plug
We've been pretty happy with Phabricator. Its code review is miles ahead of the others, in my opinion, and other parts also work well for us.

Of course, it's not a direct replacement, since they don't have free, centralized service like GitHub/Lab does. But, it's 100% open source and you can easily host it on a potato.
I think it's a question of does signing up for gold for open source repos exhaust his free repos from the base version?
This method is how many small businesses are started. It's just not glamorous so we don't hear stories about it.
AI can transfer human facial movements from one video to another
Doesn't help that a lot of Tech companies actively promote that AI can deliver a lot more than it can (e.g. IBM, Tesla)
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That Cinebench score reflects a multi-threaded benchmark, which is not a workflow where the CPU would (or should, anyway) turbo a single core.

Also, while not AVX-intensive, CB does use some AVX, which usually draws more power (and thus limits clock more) than pure integer or even ordinary FPU computation.

Jumping from 3.8 GHz single core turbo to 5 GHz 28-core turbo is a big jump in power.
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I'm out of touch with modern desktop tech and want some suggestions for a data navigator app I want to build.

Long ago I had looked into Eclipse RCP, Netbeans, Adobe AIR, and JavaFX. Today we might use Electron or maybe something Qt-like. I'm looking for cross-platform (web optional) with some UI elements or window management and some light graphics like icons that open to tables or such. I fast edit/test cycle is very important. Prefer static language envs but ok with js-like if framework/tooling adds a lot.
Hello Matt
I posted this before so forgive duplication if the other came through?
I am CEO of a Texas NPO that is starting a nationwide initiative to advocate that parents drug test their minor children without the child's knowledge to eliminate plausible deniability and move through the process to a higher than average possibility of success, intervention. I am doing website content research now and love the work you are doing. Question: would you consider allowing us to use some of your writing here (with full citations) as website content to illustrate some of the inherent problems, dangers and probable outcomes?
Well, he has to own above a certain percentage (about 3.04%) of the company, which to be fair he almost certainly does ;)
I would argue that Atlassian has better rapport with engineering manager types. Their products integrate and bundle quite nicely which is compelling for many organizations. As a dev, I'm not a fan of their UX but I've known quite a few PMs that are JIRA masters and love the fully integrated solutions Atlassian offers.
I don't have the slightest idea of whether this is something that's plausible -- but is there any mechanism that this rna could use to go from mother to child during pregnancy or vice versa?
I would disagree, and I believe that others would as well. A 'millionaire' in my mind is someone with liquid assets of at least one million dollars.

The company isn't worth more than $1 million until someone else exchanges shares or money for it for over a million dollars. VC funding does not make someone a millionaire, except in rare cases where founders are allowed to sell shares to 'take money off the table'. VC money is the hope that the company will be worth $X in the future.
In some sense we are all terminally ill so I'm interested to see how far they will push the definition of a terminal illness.
Great writing there, though I can't really get past the repetition of 'sparkling with life force' as the most apt description for extraordinary people. Surely there's more to be observed?