skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@natfriedman, thanks to come public and sharing with us. To summarize in one word: transparency. That’s what GitHub community expects from the platform and you are the key person to drive it.
Microsoft has been increasingly open to the whole open-source idea, which is great. But coming to the point, please, understand the following concerns:
1 - There is without doubt a conflict of interest and trust issues on Microsoft hosting thousands of private repositories, where some potentially compete with Microsoft commercial interests;
2 - There are concerns that the platform would become a exclusive marketing weapon in the hands of Microsoft, eventually killing the spirit of openness and free competition.
3 - The developer community fears that Microsoft see them as “potential clients” and therefore as target to its products. The developer community doesn’t want to be monetizing neither be bombarded with Microsoft products ads.
4 - GitHub has always been a community driven and community centered platform. What will be the role of Microsoft as it changes from “one more user” to the owner of the platform?
5 - What is now business model of GitHub and how entangled is it with Microsoft?
More than ever, and more than anything else transparency will be the key for the success of GitHub. I wish you lucky on the new task.
Maybe but let's think it through. Why do you think it is 10x cheaper? (Is it, I don't have numbers, please link them?) Is the market really so inefficient?

Apple is looking to maximise its revenue and will put up prices as far as they can in accordance with that. ie discounts are to get more revenue now and/or in the future. Why is traditional tv able to charg 10x more?
> expressions handled by precedence climbing

I fixed up operator precedence in a hobby project a few weeks ago, and found a really fun way to do it that turned out to require almost no code (but half a page of comments :-).

Basically I just parsed left to right, ignoring precedence (making everything right-associative and equal precedence) and then fixed up the precedence in a simple term rewriting pass after the fact.

The worst-case asymptotic complexity isn't super (quadratic for chains of multiplications, I think) but the code was so satisfying to write and the parser code itself is unbelievably simple.

Oh man I love to abuse term rewriting, I get so much mileage out that one little function...
I'm not saying you shouldn't complain but on the other hand to me it's like a director complaining someone didn't watch her movie under perfect conditions or a book author complaining someone read the last chapter first.

the game designer sold his idea to his company and then complained the customer didn't use the product the way the designer wanted. it might be frustrating but it's not the designer's choice. the designers choice was arguably not to sell the idea in the first place. once sold it's no longer theirs to control

in general that designer's attitude was forgetting that they had actually gotten paid for their ideas. they took their salary for granted and forgot they had a business arrangement of getting paid for their ideas.
This will happen in Q3 - they want to get the maximum out of the "last quarter" of federal tax credits.
Well, this is a huge difference.

If FB is correct here, then the whole thing is a non-issue. Some API giving access to the data otherwise available through a web browser is a good thing.

On the other hand, if an API provides access to information that isn't accessible through a web browser (and doesn't show in the official FB app), then it's reasonable to loudly complain.
It's already trivial to host on GitHub and deploy on Azure using Visual Studio Team Services - in your deployment pipeline you choose github as your source repository instead of the built in git repo that's part of VSTS. It works using web hooks just like every other CI/CD tool.
Classic invert is still an option. If you hate the smart version, just use the old one.
> wheel spacer
> improved handling

X) doubt
I literally accidentally read your lines as:

"""
Use taxes to pay the authors...

then make it free for the public...

This is even better under Stalin's model:
"""

It took me about 5 to 7 seconds of rereading before I finally saw "Stallman's model".

So I have to grant to you, you are probably right, if and only if you can find a perfectly fair and just agent to do the taxing and not become corrupt. Have any volunteers?
> I agree, my biggest concerns are:

> 1. What is happening to Atom? I have tried VS code and don't really like it due to the difference in how the 2 systems are designed to work (Atom being more "plugins are king", VSCode being more "kitchen sink included by first-party"). I'd hate to see my favorite editor lose it's major backing. If MS makes a commitment to continue to develop Atom, or they work with someone else to "transfer" development over to them in a way that's not half-assed, it would go a LONG way toward solidifying the trust they are trying to build (at least to me).

> 2. How will other companies who are hosting on GitHub react to this? Will Facebook/Google/Apple start pulling their code from GitHub? Will we go back to having to learn how to contribute to each project individually?

> There's definitely major benefits for diversity in this area (meaning not having the vast majority of projects on one platform), but I'm hoping we (as developers in whole) don't throw the baby out with the bathwater here.

> GitHub has by most accounts helped bring in a renaissance of open source software. It's never been easier to contribute to FOSS at any level, and I'm hoping we don't lose that as everyone diversifies where they host their source code...

I started with sublime, went to atom, went back to sublime, and finally moved to vscode.. trust me you can't go wrong. It has everything and extensions.

It's everything I wished for.
Build time is not just compile time. My app is Ruby so deployment time is nearly nil, but we have a regression suite that takes inching past an whole hour, that we run before every merge, and consult in detail before prod releases.

I hope I am an outlier (admitting that regression testing should not take this long, as there are larger projects with much broader scope that get the job done in significantly less time than that), but without CI this strategy would have already failed a long time ago, and it has helped us immeasurably with onboarding new developers and keeping release quality high.

"Build" time is not compile time.
For sponsored TLDs, it's up to the sponsoring entity on how to establish and enforce rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsored_top-level_domain

They probably have a TOS you can read on their main page. You mentioned the .house TLD, and according to name.com (which is one of the places you can register that TLD) "There are no restrictions on .HOUSE domain names. Anyone can register for any purpose"

https://www.name.com/domains/house
I am going to agree with what doctorsher said in response to your comment. I can confirm that what SiVal said is not a typical experience in Apple.
Microsoft already offers free private git hosting, project management, build servers, etc through VSTS for up to five users.
Yes, total coincidence. Although many mergers get announced after the weekend.
I'm closer to 50 and certainly not a teenager. Yes, Steve was the issue and his style was old fashion. There is no going back once you open up the shed. Why do people continue to want to punish a company for their past when their present has been so good? To keep punishing them and not rewarding them for their good deeds?

P.S. I thought the whole anti-OpenSUSE movement was also plain old stupid.
> Police can prevent drunken driving by announcing they will have DUI checkpoints on New Year's Eve.

Well, it’s only prevention if it succeeds.... otherwise it’s just a failed attempt.
Ask HN: How to reach Telegram Support?
Long story short: one user posted a bunch of porn on our channel, reported it in the same moment, now channel blocked on iOS devices.

We've sent few requests explaining this issue at abuse@telegram.org and at https://telegram.org/support and even mentioned this on twitter several times, but never heard anything back.

Maybe someone knows alternatives?
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But iOS is a lot bigger than macOS.

You notice that Apple supported OpenGL while they were making most of their money from desktop and laptop sales; but once iOS became so profitable, they decided to go their own way and start pushing Metal.

Lock in, or at least getting people to do more iOS first development (helped by lower profits on app store sales on Android, Android fragmentation, etc), helps Apple out a lot. You get the first version of apps and games, or more polished versions of apps and games, on iOS this way.
I think it’s a great idea to alienate developers from every other operating system out there and ensure that great effort is needed to maintain and port apps from other platforms. This is what we expect from Apple anyway, right?

Who’s going to start working on an OpenGL to Metal wrapper?
And they are all terrible.
There is plenty of gray area in human protections law. Source: I'm a researcher who spent most of last week dealing with lawyers in multiple time zones on exactly how to write a bit of protocol in order to preserve the grey area (so as to avoid setting unnecessary precedent), while honoring the more stringent interpretation (to avoid even the appearance of skating onto thin ice).

Four years ago, having talked to some of the same lawyers about the same topic, none of us had any thought that it was a grey area. An a priori interpretation of the law was pretty clear: a more liberal position was (and is) perfectly legal. But the most anxious minds tend to prevail in these matters.
By implies, I mean that the laws of physics are approximating the actual laws of nature, which would be causal.
Yes, you need an all-out mobilization of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War to move even faster. Not in the consumer segment, though.
This seems like an argument that comes pretty close to saying we should disregard all expertise and stature, except for your preferred sources.
Who wants their pull request comments to be used as metadata for Microsoft to benefit from knowing what each software developer under the sun is working on at any time? Didn't we just face the same abuse of leverage personal data from facebook? I will privilege my communication either private or professional by refraining to use both github and facebook.
Makes me curious, has anyone launched a pelletized version of soylent?
I removed performance piece mostly because it's meaningless discussing performance without in the context of designated implementation and benchmarks.

Above catch is my point so I tweaked the words to `Performance is not good generally when dataset is huge unless you use a library support streaming parsing or writing.`
As opposed to every other large company? All companies are only concerned with their own interests.
Nvidia CEO says it will be 'a long time' before next-gen GeForce GPUs
That's comparing oranges with a monkey. How do they relate?
You meant "POST, PUT, etc"
Articles related to immunotherapy and TILs/CAR-T cell have been appearing in the mainstream media for the past five years. And each one of them has hailed one or two miracle cures.

For patients (as well as their immediate caregivers) who are dealing with advanced/metastatic breast cancer, these articles tend to do more harm than good. The reason is because for an informed patient who is vulnerable, such pieces tend to strongly start influencing treatment decisions.

My sister completed her journey with advanced breast cancer in April. And she was on immunotherapy for 8 months. She was also evaluated for TIL based treatment at MSKCC.

An earlier extremely similar article had strongly influenced our decision making. Now we realise that information such as this influences families a lot. I really feel the tone and underlying theme of the article should not be to convey it as a revolution. There is a reason why certain thresholds of success are built into clinical trials. Articles such as these should be written by guest oncologist and not journalist, as they tend to overemphasize the optimism and underplay the risks.
You are correct. It all kind of blurs together at this point :) Thanks for pointing that out.
This is also why we should have low marginal tax rates, including for the wealthiest. Immuno-therapy tech was basically angel invested by Facebook's Sean Parker https://www.parkerici.org/our-model/ It is important for society to have significant resources outside of the control of politicians and bureaucracies.
This is such a stupid article. Why do people insist on pursuing the idea that there may not be enough demand for the model 3? A car that Tesla can’t even produce enough of yet to meet a fraction of the demand from people already on the waiting list, all without having done any advertising, and everyone’s fretting nobody will want to buy it. It’s absurd.
Yes, authors have their own particular algorithms in the employment of literary devices. Easy example is great speakers like MLK.
The filmmakers had substantial cooperation with the CIA and military, which means that this narrative is likely what the government wants people to believe:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/what-do-we-reall...

> The opening credits announced that the film was based on ‘‘firsthand accounts of actual events.’’ And, as a trove of documents made public via the Freedom of Information Act amply demonstrated, the C.I.A. eagerly cooperated with the filmmakers, arranging for the writer and director to meet with numerous analysts and officers who were identified as being involved in the hunt for bin Laden. The director, Kathryn Bigelow, has described the film as ‘‘the first rough cut of history.’’

I'm not arguing that it is the truth, but it is, like it or not, likely the most popular and well-known narrative, partly because it was billed as being informed by official sources.
I don't see how their reputations would be even garner half the trust.
Would Tini help?

https://github.com/krallin/tini/blob/master/README.md
Perfection is not a prerequisite for being beneficial.
The impact of Microsoft buying GitHub on the community
> A proper analogy would be to compare your citations to the ethical condemntations of Facebook made 50 years from now.

When the findings are published has no bearing on the ethics of the experiments. Ironically, the half century lead time does not impinge on the impact, as much as the chronology strengthens the impact.
Apple started using GitLab internally after switching off of GHE years ago. Not surprised at all by this
I don't see why working on your country's DoD contract is for "bad guys".

Remember the guys building ARPANet for, well, the military's Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Why not?

There are countless interviews where he rants about his hatred of corporations. Saying "no he doesn't" doesn't demonstrate any counterpoint. Tell me, what is he saying then?
If only they could address the root of addictive behavior on the internet.... ads. Seems kind of weak without giving the user control of the incentives they represent: the abulity use apps and the browser without ads.
Microsoft aims to make most of its money in the immediate future by convincing every major business in the world to let MS host that company's email, internal documents, spreadsheets and powerpoints on Microsoft's office365 servers.

It would be highly contradictory for MS to take the position, as a matter of policy, that it is too risky for them to ever place confidential business data onto a third party cloud-hosted SaaS system, because that is precisely the risk they are asking every one of their customers to take.

Similarly, if you have concerns about putting your company's source code into GitHub now, you should be equally concerned about putting your company's prerelease annual report on the office365 onedrive.
A change of the guard?
Even on github (which does not include giant codebases like chrome and android) I would argue Googles contributions are more influental.
> Internally, hedge funds backtest against measures such as IR (information ratio) and not against returns. IR penalizes for volatility and rewards consistency.

Hedge funds are not a homogenous enough group to make a blanket statement like this.
Thanks. Yep, her oncologist's words were "unfortunately someone always has to be in the 8%."
The best iOS 12 features that Apple didn’t talk about onstage
AFAIK, no.

Heck, Chrome and Android both use (separate) in-house ones.
Where I work it's because the senior management in engineering consists of people who last held a development role over a decade ago, who value complete control over everything, and who don't trust anyone outside their little in group to make any technical decisions.
Or—novel idea here—offer an actual choice and get user approval.
did they announce all the fixes? if not then I'd assume that's why people aren't focusing on them.

I too would appreciate stability and fixes. I know they are listed in the notes for each release. Still if that really was the focus that needs to be communicated

note I didn't watch the announcements so if they did emphasize that great!
You'll have a higher CoL than living in Ohio, but you also won't live in Ohio. You can also work at either in NYC, easily afford living close enough for a walking commute, still come out ahead, and still not be in Ohio.
GitHub* ;)
Real slick work. Just in time for a new SaaS i'm working on
I don't get the "Aztek is ugly" thing. The front end is a little odd, but the back is Prius-ish and it is overall a generic small SUV crossover.
I'm going to have to disagree. As a consumer, every single time there's "market consolidation", I lose. It happened when local cable companies went away, when one of the two daily papers in town folded, when Microsoft drove every other OS out of business, when pharmaceutical companies merged, when the US allowed large scale branch banking. I can't think of a single merger that had any benefits to me, the consumer. Choice goes away, prices rise, customer service sucks. Github is going to sour because of corporate requirements to "interoperate" with something-or-other, or because of "strategic partnerships" or whatever. Mark my words.
Ask GitHub employees: are remote work and balanced IP dead?
^ in title. These both seem like things a big company like MS won't tolerate :(

You probably already know, but definitely don't answer on your work computer or main account! Probably should use Tor and a throwaway.
The UIKit apps on macOS will require a pointing device like a mouse or trackpad. macOS is not becoming a touch-oriented OS.
I am using them to run node-electron hosted WebRTC proxies, to enable UDP-like networking for a real time browser game.
Among some of these, I've also built an internal microservice for analyzing URL redirect chains. Input a URL and it will provide me with all of the redirects it goes through and information for each one including method (html meta, 301, etc), timing, etc.
Microsoft did snoop through the email account of a blogger who received leaked information[0].

[0] https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624792/blogger-psa-dont-u...
Yes. It's the level of PA search you would do if you expected your patent to come up against a mega-entity like Google, Apple, Facebook, De Beers, etc.

If your patent applications are mainly to check the IP box for investors, it would be more like the $2K you suggest.
Maybe. But there is room for improvement on the notifications, there is no reason why the phone needs to ring and vibrate on every notification.

If it notified the user a few seconds ago, it should have a delay until the next ring/vibration.
Elixir was a wrapper for people who already knew Erlang

Elixir was a wrapper for people who already knew Ruby.

Which is why most Elixir users come to it from the Ruby/Rails community.

It was created by Jose Valim, a Rubyist and Rails committer, who was looking to improve Ruby/Rails concurrency story [0]:

Back in 2010, I was working on improving Rails performance when working with multi-core systems, as our machines and production systems are shipping with more and more cores. However, the whole experience was quite frustrating as Ruby does not provide the proper tool for solving concurrency problems. That’s when I started to look at other technologies and I eventually fell in love with the Erlang Virtual Machine.

I started using Erlang more and more and, with experience, I noticed that I was missing some constructs available in many other languages, including functional ones. That’s when I decided to create Elixir, as an attempt to bring different constructs and excellent tooling on top of the Erlang VM.

[0] https://www.sitepoint.com/an-interview-with-elixir-creator-j...
It runs on Windows and can interop with Windows applications, that's already an extension by itself.
Universal Scene Description
Yes:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
Yeah that is not the same as a Model 3 comparison.

With the Model 3 you were led to believe a $35K car existed, but it never did.

A C300 4 banger will be not be confused with a AMG C63s before ordering.
Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
head(less)s up: the links in the footer of your docs are busted. it looks like they all point to an `/en/` route but the actual URLs include no such tier.
The full content of Hersh's remarks are linked to in the first sentence of the previously linked commentary:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/01/22/transcript-the-obamabush...

tptacek's summary is accurate; Hersh did not just claim that "many" people in the military were in this cabal, Hersh claimed that "a large percentage" of JSOC and SOCOM were involved or supported this religious cabal, including Admiral McRaven, who commanded SOCCOM from 2011 to 2014.

> That’s an attitude that pervades, I’m here to say, a large percentage of the Special Operations Command, the Joint Special Operations Command and Stanley McChrystal, the one who got in trouble because of the article in Rolling Stone, and his follow-on, a Navy admiral named McRaven, Bill McRaven — all are members or at least supporters of Knights of Malta. McRaven attended, so I understand, the recent annual convention of the Knights of Malta they had in Cyprus a few months back in November. They’re all believers — many of them are members of Opus Dei.
Integrated CI backed by Azure (with paid options for non-OSS projects) could be a positive outcome of this acquisition. Done right, could be a good gateway to get OSS devs experimenting on Azure.

More viable competition on cloud hosting is definitely a good thing for society at large.