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Halfway down https://www.cncf.io/projects/ has the best overview of why you should host your project with CNCF and the services we provide.

In the automotive industry, I would recommend our sister organization, Automotive Grade Linux.
https://www.automotivelinux.org/
Other than Github's icon, I had no idea what the icons for the other check boxes were. I figured it out, but I would recommend using the name rather than icon especially since the names aren't long. I also recommend to start with them all checked by default then let people filter later.
I've always found it interesting how there's a difference between actions the user initiated and those the user did not. You'd think that would be very challenging to enforce, given how flexible browser scripting is nowadays, but it seems to Just Work.
I was never terribly fond of GitHub either. I disliked how they somehow became synonymous with open source, and I dislike how people have focused on GitHub rather than software freedom. I also wasn't a fan when they decided to step into politics.

I think self-hosting is a better choice for almost any organisation. Remember, 'the cloud' just means 'someone else's computer.'
Now that would be how to to show people you mean it. By making themselves liable to being forked, they would be convincingly committing to doing a better job than anyone else as judged by the community.
IF MS BUYS GITHUB IMMA OUT
HN is less receptive to humor than most other sites.
This and the discussion here is obnoxiously bad. Facebook gave some device makers special APIs to access authorized data. This is literally no different than a web API or scraping facebook HTML, just more streamlined. What you guys seem to be objecting to is that non-facebook code was able to interact with authorized user data. But that is a necessary feature of displaying data of any kind (unless facebook owns the entire software stack). This is a non-story.

And HN's facebook derangement syndrome continues.
> 5) Monsanto is very legally aggressive defending its seed patents, since why would anyone pay to license their seeds if you can just steal it? Monsanto spent a lot of money developing the science for roundup seeds.

Or, alternatively:
Farmer Joe plants heirloom seeds that are quite rightfully his. Farmer Bob plants patented GMO seeds, which then cross-pollinate with Farmer Joe's heirloom crop. Next year, Monsanto sues Farmer Joe into oblivion (or otherwise forces him into pay-pay-paying them forevermore) for "stealing their technology."
Besides GitLab, is it also worth looking into Bitbucket free tier? I am just curious where the trend will go as far as porting of projects goes? I am guessing a lot of BIG NAME devs are going to jump the ship.

One thing Microsoft failed to comprehend is that if you want to be all buddy-buddy with open-source community then don't go out and buy the condo they are renting in and lay out new rules.
Microsoft already had a open source hosting site called CodePlex until they fucked it into the ground.
I promise there not only has been research on small children and corporal punishment and that it's not at all effective and that it is damaging. Above I linked to an article on the subject by the APA. Here's a link to the meta-analysis referenced in the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10567-005-2340-z
I hope it will be embrace, extend and empower instead of the usual embrace, extend and extinguish.
Where CORS got complicated for me was adding custom request and/or response headers to a cross-origin GET request. Different browsers handles this differently. For example, Safari would make a pre-flight request if certain request headers are sent, while Chrome would just send it. And Chrome would not make a pre-flight request, and won't populate the "Origin" request header, but will then drop "unknown" response headers (and doesn't give you any way to force a pre-flight request or Origin header). I eventually figured out you can just always respond with `Access-Control-Expose-Headers`, even though it doesn't look like a CORS request, and then Chrome will expose the headers to the JS.
Yes. Are you not aware now that kids are more likely to play video games than watch television yet we pay into PBS. Are you not aware that much of what we enjoy and work for in life was because of the awareness brought by an artists passion. Arts are just as important to fund as research. Otherwise life is not worth living.
> Feel free to give me a shout if you’re considering moving your business to Gitlab and I’ll share my experience.

I'd love to hear your input on this.
The degree of gullibility in these threads is unexpected. You'd think the hacker community would be vaccinated against PR by now but it seems to work just fine.

Next up: "Our incredible journey".

When it all comes crashing down, don't say you weren't warned.
I've had more good experiences, I mentioned that one because it's such a stark contrast, not because it's unique.

Microsoft is hardly philanthtropic. I'd say it acts like a fairly enlightened bigco these days, that's very different from around y2k. My experiences are such that I did report that bug, I'd never have bothered doing that 20 years ago.
We have been dealing with exactly these issues at the Intercoin project (https://intercoin.org)

Credit is a voluntary thing. Both sides can agree to create credit lines (trustlines) out of thin air without any third party ledger or permission. (Well maybe except Usury laws.)

Now the problem with credit is that you don’t know how solvent the debtor is and many debts they have. Credit agencies have sprung up to try to address this somewhat.

But the whole POINT of value based money is to introduce a third party representation of real assets, and that real world scarcity requires solving the double spend problem.

So the whole thing with every technology is remembering that A paid B, and not forgetting it (eg make collusion really infeasible).

Many blockchains are just append only databases stored on every node. They elect a leader based on PoW or PoS and it’s horribly inefficient. There are far better ways.

But anyway back to credit. Money is a social phenomenon that benefits from a network effect. A casino’s chips are worthless as a medium of exhange outside the context of the casino and the same goes for JPY, EUR etc.

Inside a community currency where everyone began to accept it, you can have the ability to print more money same as a Harvard Facebook has the ability to add features you don’t like but you keep using it. The only difference is that these decisions can be done democratically. So like living in a city whose policies you don’t all agree with.

They can use this money for Basic Income and other things like public infrastructure.

They can peg to an outside currency AND print/dilute it gradually to redistribute wealth in a voluntary way that even anarchco capitalists will accept.

That’s one of the features of Intercoin.
Now fix the explore page
4.5 sigma is not an outlier. It might still be system error of course.
Ask HN: How to get into an AI PhD programme without being an A+ student?
Hi there. I'm finishing my undergraduate studies (Computer Science) in Spain, with a 7-8 average. If my marks were good enough my current university would probably keep me, but I don't think I really have options to get into their AI masters and PhD programme.

What should I do in order to get into an AI programme? Is it feasible? For instance, I'm looking for AI masters in Europe, but I'm really lost.

Thank you very much.
> BUT here is the question I have. What is the best way to UPDATE the software on the back end?

GitLab has the Omnibus packages. We build it for few major linux distributions and you can get the package from here: https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce (you can also add it as debian/rpm source, see installation).

Upgrading is a matter of `apt update && apt upgrade` and checking for eventual configuration changes/deprecations in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`. If you read the release note posts, upgrade instructions are always on the bottom of the page.

All packages are GPG signed, so you can check for tempering. If you don't trust our builds, you can fork our omnibus-gitlab repo and trigger a build on your own hardware.
Yes there is. I have no problem with people saying Windows 10 isn't good, even if I personally think it's good. The "goodness" of an operating system is pretty subjective.

I do have a problem with people calling it barely usable, which is a much more objective (and incorrect) statement.
I don't understand this. To me it looked like Github never much strayed (or progressed) in terms of functionality. It stayed a git repo management tool and that was it. It is obviously what people liked about it: it stuck to a single function.

They had so a huge role in popularizing git IMO, they secured some room and ample time for (non-overbearing) experimentation. Their issue tracking was very basic, and there could be so much work done there they could subsequently sell as something additional to core git repo functionality. Or they could improve code review tools etc.

I am afraid this is what will also happen to StackOverflow eventually with their attempts at Documentation, Jobs and now SO for teams. It looks like they are trying to compete but in the end it might turn out being them signaling their willingness to potential buyers by "moving in the right direction".

It is not the fact that it's Microsoft, it's the fact that the finality is almost always acquisition. I always looked at SO and github as an alternative to Linkedin's walls of enumerations, as a way to speak to other developers instead of HRs, and now it is not so for Github.
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I really liked the Maemo and Meego phones that got released, but your scenario would not have happened. Nokia's DNA was not in software development, and they couldn't really compete with Google on that.

Furthermore, Nokia wouldn't have shared a successful OS with others like Google did if they had one. That meant all other manufacturers were going to stay with Android, and I greatly doubt that they would've succeeded in building the whole ecosystem alone like Apple did.
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There aren't two requests; at least not normally.

Preflight requests are only needed if you want to send unusual headers in your request or use HTTP methods other than GET or POST. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS#Simpl...

But you make a good point about developers not caring about security. If I look at it from that perspective it totally makes sense. If you don't have any reason to care, CORS headers may just seem like an unnecessary annoyance that you don't want to bother learning. "Not allowed access? Why? I don't care about your darned security headers, I just want to make an API request."
Mine has turned into hot girls and yoga.

You click on 1 too many photos of a girls chest popping out of her shirt and you lose control of your IG.
Mildly annoying nitpick:

The name is BitHubLab (Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab) yet the checkboxes in the bottom are in Github - Gitlab - Bitbucket order.

As if the name is HubLabBit rather than BitHubLab
If we should do something serious about it, we should first confirm that will power is heritable, right? How do you propose to validate the heritability of will power? And I'd love to hear more about what you'd do about it, and what the problem is.

Why do you think will power is quite likely to be substantially heritable? Are there other better publications that already validate this hypothesis?

If you’re right that it is, then the test I described above would still corroborate, or at least fail to demonstrate that will power isn’t heritable, don’t you think? If will power is heritable, then it will follow the same genetic inheritance patterns as other heritable traits, and one can predict the likely willpower outcomes given that of the parents and grandparents, right?

I still think that it should be relatively easy to demonstrate whether will power is heritable, and that controlling for income is useful and doesn’t pose any threat to determining the truth.

Also, wouldn’t the premise of the original marshmallow test be somewhat moot if will power is heritable? If will power isn’t an environmental or learned trait, then there’s not much you can do about it except for marry up, and excuse the foibles of people who’s bad luck left them with less will power.

FWIW, this isn’t the first follow up study that challenges the marshmallow test, previous studies have also pointed at confounding factors.

“A 2012 study at the University of Rochester (with a smaller N= 28) altered the experiment by dividing children into two groups: one group was given a broken promise before the marshmallow test was conducted (the unreliable tester group), and the second group had a fulfilled promise before their marshmallow test (the reliable tester group). The reliable tester group waited up to four times longer (12 min) than the unreliable tester group for the second marshmallow to appear.[11][12] The authors argue that this calls into question the original interpretation of self-control as the critical factor in children's performance, since self-control should predict ability to wait, not strategic waiting when it makes sense.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...

That doesn’t prove that will power isn’t heritable, but it does tend to point in that direction.
Investors would never accept that as an exit strategy.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish
I am not successful yet but experience the same feeling for my own job. Honestly Jen Sincero's book: https://jensincero.com/ has helped me keep going. I've listened to the audio version like 8 times now.
It really is about creating something that will excite you so much that the pain of going through it, is nothing compared to the pain you have without what you are trying to build and achieve.
I'd love to see some sources on your claim that they are colluding to avoid paying market rates to developers.
Yes. It's nearly impossible for farmers corn to NOT cross-pollinate.
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Ask HN: Can President Trump Really Pardon Himself, As Tweeted By Him?
Today President Trump tweeted that he can legally pardon himself: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1003616210922147841

I am not aware of US laws, but found it really interesting that the law gives absolute power to the President to even pardon himself! Can any legal expert on HN weigh in on this? Can the President really pardon himself and continue serving?
I think they were saying the experiments themselves were outliers, rather than the data within them.
Funny, then, how we don't keep hearing about big Azure outages like we do with GCE and AWS.
I had a serious dislike of MS under Ballmer, and every single one of your examples in that post was under his reign. But the argument that "they used to be bad, so they still have to be bad" is just silly. Ballmer may have screamed "developers" on stage, but he was the one who lost them - which cost them dearly (mobile, cloud). Shareholders and the board pushed him out for that reason, so the new management had no choice but to sail a completely different course - which they did. It's no accident that their new CEO is the guy that was heading the Azure division, which is effectively selling Linux.

But yes - it's still a company that will act in it's own self-interest, as any company will, and right now, that aligns pretty well with playing nice with the opensource community. That could change - in the future, so some caution is always a good idea (but that's the same for Google, Apple, Amazon, ...), but today, I have little issues with MS's attitude today towards opensource. Tomorrow, we'll see.

That said - I don't mind them buying github and I like that people are actively looking into alternatives, github is simply too big imho, and too many things just expect git = github, which sucks too.
Well, they just split up their Health division back into Withings. https://health.nokia.com/event/nokia-withings

I only know that because I have one of their awesome scales (https://health.nokia.com/gr/en/scales). I was shocked they were Nokia when I found out about them. They're absolutely awesome, highly recommend them.
From GitHub to git-ssb (decentralized Git repos)
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Look at the general corporate response in this thread.

They embody 'reassurance'.

Heh.
> Haven't they killed Nokia

To be fair, Nokia was already dead when Microsoft bought them. MS just pulled the plug.
Learned that lesson from Facebook.

Tried to pay a marketing company to grow my website. Instead they flaked after turning my page into a business page.

I get 100 people instead of 400 people seeing my posts.

And then I stopped using facebook completely. If facebook is only going to show my political garbage shares and they wont show my website? Theres 0 value from facebook.
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OT, but I'm excited to see TiddlyWiki in the wild.
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CORS as a concept is dead simple. CORS as an implementation in decades old Java services is anything but. I can spend hours trying to get Charles to allow a proxy from localhost development to a backend service.
There are lots of videos on YouTube where people discuss being shadow banned. Basically their engagement plummets and they stop showing up for hashtags and (sometimes) the explore page. They may also be showing up less for their followers too. Maybe Instagram doesn't think of it as banning and thinks of it more as penalties. Your content isn't hidden, but it's not promoted as much.
Surface Pro was also released a while after RT.
Could you expand on that a bit? I'm interested in promoting gRPC over thrift at work, but so far the only benefits I see are the HTTP/2 transport which allows for better load balancing and request tracing on the transport level.
Solar & wind have already over taken nuclear.

Even so, we need to eliminate stockpiles, waste. Traveling wave reactors (TWR) seems like the best technical bet. Maybe we'd get some electricity out of it.

(I'm not clear why we don't drop radioactive waste onto the Marianas Trench and let the earth eventually devour it.)
I think what I said yesterday stil has relevance:

—-

Can anything exist anymore without

A) Getting acquired by a multinational

B) Becoming one

Sure, MS visual code is open but as a few players get more and more power we all become subject to their whims and not them to ours.

MS is pushing their ads within their own OS more and more, will GitHub get the same treatment, or will it’s data be useful to MS for those ads?
What sort of integrations can we expect to see with other MS products that encourage a more closed ecosystem?

This may all seem alarmist but with so many companies having so much power this sort of behavior get through unchecked. *For example, MS hasn’t changed all that much: they still force device makers to sell Linux at a higher or equal price to Windows so people won’t jump ship.

The only recourse people suggest is “well then don’t use it” but what options do employees have when higher ups mandate technologies? What about most users who just go with the wind and just let these snowballing large companies skate by? It all makes me very sad...
Samsung hires two AI experts to boost machine learning
PDF is a proprietary format. Is it really considered better than JS?
I've read so much articles about the Mashmallow test that to make this the front news in every paper would be a service for society.
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It's not clear to me why you think that the linked article shows that naive JITs perform better across-the-board than well-written bytecode interpreters. The reported speed improvement from JIT itself is a mere 2.3x, and the listed benchmarks mostly involve numerical code, where JIT tends to be effective.

Relevant post here:

https://rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-faster-than-cpython/

A simple JIT can get you to the point where you reliably outperform a bytecode interpreter for certain types of code. What takes a lot more engineering effort is reliably performing at least as fast as a bytecode VM for all types of code.
even if the peanut gallery is still out on whether this is a 'smart move' from microsoft or not, the point in the article is real. Sourceforge and Gitlab are both having serious issues keeping pace with the number of users moving their projects.

gitlabs grafana instances are all but completely unresponsive as of this post. Timeouts and such from the web UI were rampant as of 0700am PST but they seem to be under control.

If i were a gambling man, I'd venture this to be the worst decision Microsoft has made since they hoovered up Minecraft for six billion dollars only to be left to watch PUBG and fortnight run miles past it, and multiple open source server implementations show up.
That's been my experience as well. I haven't done a great deal of work with it, but the work I did felt very nice. It's a refreshing improvement upon older, flawed languages...but doesn't seem to have the evangelical community that, say, Rust has behind it.

I wonder why that is? Maybe it just needs a cooler name (:
Do you know of any details on how/why probabilistic programming is used over traditional methods? And why Stan? My assumption is b/c it's a legacy framework.
Because no one really wants to self host their own version of wikipedia. But many companies want and do host their code themselves.
I doubt that, and you have no way to prove it.
We really need Authorization added to simple headers. Needing to preflight every single SPA request either causes a huge performance hit or else forces super hacky workarounds that introduce their own security issues. Not good for the web.
India.

I saw some model with 1.1m followers. Went to her website page + looked it up in alexa.siteinfo

1.1M followers, top 11m website, most traffic coming from India.

So basically a fake instagram. I think this is extremely true and there are a few real users that make it all worth it.
If Microsoft wants to make Github better, it needs to improve the search functionality and maybe add a "related libraries" section when you're looking at a particular library.