skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's likely over the threashold I am talking about.

If you're consistent and do intense aka 75-85 max heart rate at least once for 30 minutes per week that makes a real difference over time. Lower intensity requires a lot more because the body needs to adapt to stress.

Traditionally you see stuff like :
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/PhysicalActivity... and people say I don't have time for that. But studies find meaningful change happens at under 1/2 their recommended levels.
As amazing as this sounds you've got to wonder what this rice would do to peoples' blood pressure.
There is not much community yet. It is pretty new. It is very different than Rails. It is more of an RPC/Rest system than an MVC system. In my testing on FreeBSD with Postgres it is close to 10x faster than Rails. It is a bit faster than Go and a bit slower than Node. It is quite simple to write and the code itself can be read in a few hours (at most). I'll be posting some sample apps this summer.
Yeah that was bad. Which is why I bought SourceForge and removed the bundled adware immediately in 2016. We're completely different owners and anyone involved with the bundling back then is no longer at SourceForge.
Just learned that you can achieve the same with `npm ls`, although the output of `peer-version-check` is nicer ;)
Just posted the petition on Hacker News:

> Github petition: please remain independent

https://github.com/independent-github/petition
The one topic from “hard” computer science that applies to package management is graph theory. Inverting a binary tree is one of the simplest operations you can do on a graph. Google may have been interested in Howell because of Homebrew, but not understanding this simple algorithm probably showed them that he didn’t have the skills they originally thought his project exemplified.
Well, centralisation also has a huge number of benefits, so it's not really a surprise.

The more important thing is to be in a position that makes it harder to be locked-in to a centralised provider. Fortunately Git makes that relatively easy – I could switch all of my work to Gitlab or Bitbucket with relatively little work.

There's more obviously a problem where Github is being used for issue tracking, PRs, and the general open-source community. I'm sure there will be a few scripts available to make migrating issues etc. to another provider relatively painless, since there's no great distributed solution for this at the moment. That just leaves the community aspect, which is going to be the hard bit…
Putnam Questions Archive
Interesting no one has pointed out that those explicitly studying human behavior might have some insights on the subject as well, by which I mean psychologists.

This is one the most unfortunate things I commonly run into when reading philosophy (or talking with those who study it): imagine if once physics became an established, separate scientific endeavor from philosophy (though it was once a part of it), and yet the majority of philosophers kept on inventing their own versions of physics (without ever doing experimental verification) and pretending the scientific branch didn't exist. I think this is a fairly accurate analogy for the relationship between psychology and philosophy.

To be certain there are many subjects bordering on psychology which are still correctly in the domain of philosophy (e.g. free will or the 'hard problem' of consciousness), but then there are many more mundane issues which are already basically settled in psychology which philosophers still treat as if they were some deep fundamental aspect of reality.

I suppose part of the difficulty is finding quality material in psychology, since it's a vast field with many sub-disciplines. That said, the search can be richly rewarding. There are experiments described in Gazzaniga's The Social Brain, for example, which profoundly changed my understanding of the human brain (and have remained consistent with much more reading over the decade following).
Gitlab also lets you register private gitlab-runners on gitlab.com, which is a killer feature for running CI on setups that aren't plain docker-in-the-cloud (such as integration-testing apps that require resources on our LAN, or macOS/iOS builds with private keychain items that is much easier to configure on a local Mac). (A side bonus is that you don't even have to pay for any CI "minutes")
Perhaps there is a market for a really simple Git based issue tracker, which doesn’t require Ruby. This acquisition feels like Freshmeat / SourceForge v2; the hardcore OSS enthusiasts will begin their exodus.
Is there an argument for actually building simple issues management into Git itself with a simple API for pull requests?
When Amazon Goes from Partner to Rival
Not judging if this is a good or bad thing but in general it's annoying to be dependent on a single company. While git is decentralized, github's social platform features are centralized and lock users to github. I would love to see more solutions that allows users to migrate freely between platforms without losing their social contacts. See https://fejoa.org for more information.
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And... what has Microsoft done to you lately? Gates is playing international philanthropist; Ballmer is playing NBA owner. The new regime not only likes open source and contribute massively to open source projects, they joined the Linux Foundation at the _Platinum_ level... there are a lot of "good open source companies" with deep pockets who haven't done that. Like Google.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/microsoft-fort...

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/
What's the argument for state inspection being a "glorified protection racket"?
I would disagree with the statement that coding is faster in statically typed projects. The ease of onboarding new devs is solely based on the code quality of the project. Well written programs are easy to understand regardless of typing. Terribly written programs are opaque regardless of typing.
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Based on the way Microsoft has been “punishing” their on-prem customers since they started pushing O365 this has me a bit concerned about the fate of GitHub Enterprise.
Videos get demonetised for questionable or non reasons

Subscribers don't see videos from those they're subscribed to in their home page(a depressingly large percentage of the time).

Things like the YouTube inbox are so 'well' pushed to the background that most people don't remember they exist, let alone know how to use them for anything.

Recommendations are borked, and often consist of videos you've already seen ten times (maybe even ten times today).

Rules in general seem to applied based on how popular a YouTuber is/how much money they bring in instead of what they actually do on the site.

Fair use is basically non existent, or very poorly applied overall. Sometimes people are able to get paid off content they don't own and it's almost impossible to get it taken down/demonetised, sometimes content is claimed through complete lies by the claimant.

Google account integration means that any setup related issue can break large parts of the site. For example, I couldn't previously get Adsense on my account; not because I wasn't qualified, but because the account I used Adsense with and the one I used YouTube for were different, and the merge basically broke any chance of connecting them.

YouTube comment/channel moderation is really bad, with few tools leading to horrendously toxic comment sections.

And then there are various bits of the interface that make me wonder exactly who designed them. For example, you've got a username, display name and channel name, and all can be completely different from one another. Or conflict. This makes it easy to confuse or mislead people, since youtube.com/user/[whatever] and youtube.com/c/[whatever] can be completely different people/channels.
It was good while it lasted.

We will have to start migrating our software there into a more neutral platform.

I don't like the consolidation in Software in which there are only 5-6 huge players. It means politics and private interest of the conglomerate take precedence over everything else, like competence, and freedom.

Those oligopolies can just send their lawyers against competition or just buy them to stop the threat.
It was, in the day (and market).
I hate when people accuse others of negativity when manifestly negative thing happen.

"Hey, stop punching me in the face!"

"Why are you being negative?"

There are very good reasons people aren't happy about this. Microsoft's track record for one. And the loss of independence of major repo source for another. Not being happy about this isn't being "negative". It's entirely understandable.
I'd say +1 for GitLab. I just checked it out and like the UI better than GitHub anyways. I'm switching over and not looking back.
Some HN reaction reminds me of...

"Hackers come to struggle against the particular forms in which abstraction is commodified and turned into the private property of the vectoralist class." [A Hacker Manifesto, McKenzie Wark, 022]

Big five representatives of the vectorialist class are Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple.
Thank you for this. It sad that these protests came to nothing. Marx is more relevant than ever.

Do you have any good french language sources?
I don't quite understand why people are sad or disappointed about this acquisition. You should be extremely elated about it. You know why?

Github was never an Open Source product itself but sat on top of the Open Source community and used that "goodwill" to license and sell its proprietary software.

Now that another proprietary software-maker has acquired this company, maybe we can all finally adopt the principle that:

> Open Source software needs Open Source tools
> Would it make sense to work on (for the community in general, not necessarily you personally) a header only standard library, a sane STL if you will, for betterC?

It's a very good question. Most of Phobos is already templates or the GC, so that wouldn't be much change. A more complex problem is working without exceptions. I don't have a ready answer for that, it's a good area for investigation.

D already has support for "COM" classes/interfaces which work in BetterC.
I'm losing faith that people are in tech for anything more than the payday.
It says in the article:

GitHub, which has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a profit from its popular service that allows coders to share and collaborate on their work.
Free jazz was developed in the the 50s not the 30s.
You are probably thinking of Codeplex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex
Long live https://notabug.org
Gitlab, no. Gogs [1] or Gitea [2], no problem. I run Gitea on an Intel SS4200 (2.4 GHz Pentium E2200, 2 GB, 8 TB JBOD), it hardly causes a blip on this rather anaemic system. The process generally takes up around 35 MB (RSS), it talks to a PostgreSQL database server on the same box. You would not want to run a service the size of Github on this but for a personal repository it is more than enough. If your projects get so popular that they outgrow the hardware or VPS just move to a higher tier.

[1] https://gogs.io/

[2] https://gitea.io/
The irony. 404 comments.
Sourcegraph is great, but I had to disable the browser plugin because it opens a new tab on every github search. So annoying.
Yep. Sourcegraph is self-hosted on your own network. Check out https://about.sourcegraph.com/ and run the Docker image to get started. Docs on the GitHub.com/GitHub Enterprise integration at https://about.sourcegraph.com/docs/config/repositories#githu....
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Just so you know, when I visited the article from my iPad I was prompted to download one of those scam iPad cleaner apps.

It’s a 10” iPad Pro (maybe you can check the log and see which advertiser is being naughty).
> they surely don‘t want to spend a lot of money just to destroy the relationship again

The old MS — and I'm not trying to comment on how different or similar the current MS is to the old one — did indeed spend a lot of money to screw developers and the developer community, including developers who bought into the MS stack.

> but saying that Github will be ruined? We should be better than this.

I don't think many people are worried MS will ruin GitHub, per se. I think what most people are worried about is that MS will change GitHub enough to inject MS-specific stuff in there.
Codeplex
True--the more I thought about it the more it made sense to me.
Yeah, the open source dev community may very well see Microsoft quite differently in upcoming years if they keep playing their cards this way.
Sure, but it was more the manner of the promotion itself that was off-putting. There was no substance to any of the comments saying why we should switch or why Gitlab isn't going to follow the exact same path and be purchased by Google in 6 months. Instead it was a gloating comment that came off like a vulture circling a sick animal.
I disagree. The popularity of GitHub amongst the programming community means that ease of use / convenience is more important than the notion of “decentralization”. Otherwise, people would already be setting up their servers for hosting git repos.
>And... what has Microsoft done to you lately?

Skype.
I'm not that big of a fan of Microsoft to begin with, but I definitely see a reason to be wary about this. I don't really want any Microsoft integration into GitHub, and really the best case would be for them to not change much with the site at all, although I don't see this being the case.
I am really sick of monopoly and centralization of internet. For last few years many of important projects changed hosting to GitHub... Now this? We have alternatives, and good ones (one may argue much better than GitHub), but where is all of this going?

And Microsoft going around devouring open-source community. To some extent we are the responsible ones. But on the other hand I am getting really tired of this. Then people ask me why I use Emacs... it's free and immortal as of now...
Is Crystal a superset of Ruby where any valid Ruby project is a valid Crystal project -- just lacking type definition? If Crystal can do that then I think adoption of Crystal would benefit greatly.
startup idea: make a real-globe-shaped screen showing these - or any other geography-in-time uploaded to it..
Sourcegraph CEO here. There was always a toggle for that feature, but it was too hard to find. It is now off by default and you can enable it in the browser extension settings. I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I hope we get another chance to give you an awesome code search experience.
Indeed. It would be awesome if GitLab could make use of ActivityPub to create such decentralized network (à la Mastodon)...
Not everyone will need to self-host, it is still possible to host your projects at someone else's instance. If you live in a place where $1 is a lot of money (where is this by the way?) you could either share a server with others who each chip in their $0.10 or just find an open instance somewhere. There are plenty of organisations which host services like these, Github is the best-known but by no means the only alternative.
The missing variable here is whether the market share represented by Billboard #1 songs has increased or decreased in this time span. Is everyone listening to more homogeneous music, or is the market for #1 songs shrinking to a smaller and smaller demographic?

I honestly don't know the answer, but a few decades ago in most towns the majority of the public listened to just a few radio stations and everybody knew the top songs. In the Spotify age, I'm far from certain that's true.
Is this analogous to mypy?
That's insane, not only do developers and maintainers devote a huge part of their life to major open-source efforts, now they are expected to spend more time and money setting up, admining, and securing their own private servers? That's a great way to destroy Open Source projects. Very few people would be able/willing to put that much effort into it.
Can you please expand on that? Are there examples to look at of derelict bindings?
I'd be surprised if the announcement didn't also come with that change. Easiest way to even the field.
proprietary code which is hosted on git hub enterprise is customer-run on premise, there’s no outside access
And why exactly do you think that GitLab is any more profitable than Github?
Thanks! I look forward to diving into this.
If you want to have a main canonical state of the "maintained" repo, that is mutable, similar to what we currently have with Github, a blockchain would be one way to achieve that.
And for the Aristoteles perspective?
>Can anything exist anymore without...

See the recent post about ghost (it has a structure that can't be sold)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17082228
Refinements don't add any peak performance overhead in their final implementation.
That gives the acquisition a very different perspective.

What if MS is really buying Electron? It’s something they’ve been using a lot in all their recent products, and it’s a key technology in the contemporary development landscape. Making it more Windows-friendly would definitely help them.
Can't speak for everyone but that won't happen personally until they start respecting privacy.
At a guess, I'd say a classy and less tasteless move would be a nice post giving their view on this rumour, pointing out the benefits of Gitlab, and giving some background on any efforts that might be needed to scale up. I'm sure it would quite quickly be pushed up to the top of the list and be a useful resource for people who might not have known about it or what it does.

A sloganeering hashtag is basically the opposite of that.
They profit from Linux. They host it on azure and have their own distribution.
How has the LinkedIn acquisition benefited LinkedIn users or Microsoft users?
"Open season on open source"
The phrase ‘lactose intolerant’ does not imply that it is a disease, it is just stating a fact. How else would you describe it?
Extensive discussion 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14972872
I expect partial geoblocking and more censorship.

The chinese government tried to force Github to censor shadowsocks and the NY times repository. But back then it would have to block the whole site with other resourceful content.

My guess is that when Github is with Microsoft, the communist party in China has far more leverage as Microsoft has to follow Chinese laws, e.g., for selling Windows (even a special government-version), and bc China is an important market. I hope I'm wrong.
Especially since Microsoft's own version control thing has this.
I like that is also has CI/CD and other features, and that you can host it yourself (also for free). I do keep hearing about database issues on their hosted version though.

In general: haven't had problems with it, am cheaper than hosted GitHub, cheaper and works better than (self-)hosted Atlassian software.

That is for a developer duo.
Yes Rubinius hasn't had a JIT for years.
So have you seen a doctor? Suicidal thoughts because your friend joined Google is not normal. I'm serious. You need help. Go talk to a doctor.
Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github?
I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github!

Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, it might be too late for github now, but I will myself conduct a review of the free services that I use regularly and reconsider pitching in, since I value independent businesses.

EDIT: looks like my experience may be atypical, that’s good!
Just for anecdata, would you include where you live as part of your replies? In my case it’s central europe.
From 2010: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...

At some point the situation clearly flipped
Probably doesn't give a crap. Microsoft have their Linux disto for embedded stuff already.
Looking at you Atlasian.
> monopolization

Conglomeration, unless you hated github before which I wouldn't object too.

I agree with you anyway.
You place a surprising amount of trust in a hash algorithm with known collisions (SHA1).
> Those most in need of the labor rights and respect unions traditionally afford are often those who have almost no access to the legal system.

This seems like a powerful concern in theory but the facts make me more optimistic. I haven't found, say, OSHA to be toothless in practice, the DOL routinely brings aggressive overtime violations cases, and enforcement of the civil rights act against particularly southern hotels and gas stations by federal courts are all powerful counterexamples.

They are not comprehensively solved problems, but clearly demonstrate that organs of state power can and have been used in defense of marginalized groups. I'd say especially Federal courts, but several agencies have done impressive work too.
> so that developers can be moved around and find a common approach everywhere. Also this simplifies code reviews

Would you agree with me that if you brought Ken Thompson for that to your company (or using that excuse to require from him to "pass the C exam") something is fundamentally wrong?

He actually co-invented Unix and worked on the "first C" before C was even called C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

It's like hiring J. K. Rowling and then requiring from her to pass the Harry Potter trivia quiz in order to allow her to write text messages.
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Were it a consumer product I'd agree. But this is a developer tool and MS have been doing fairly well in that regard the last few years with azure and vscode.

Not happy as others have stated of pretty much the largest neutral party in development being absorbed.
One trick with dealers is to never mention a trade in until you're almost at the end(or defer discussions about it). That way you leave open the option to leave the trade-in out of the deal and force them to give you a number without it factored it.

Also, never do the 4-box and have your financing sorted out up-front if you're not doing cash. Any chance they get to adjust more than one number is when they'll adjust the terms in their favor.
> I would be as worried if it was AWS or Google.

Good. Need more people like you.
I’m not even talking forks. I’m talking largish projects hosted on GitHub (100k+ loc). The actual results will contain less than half the results you’d see with grep, and even then the indexed content may even be out of date. This is exacerbated even more when database migrations are kept in source control, with older migrations archived, and the only search results you get for eg a stored proc search will be a version of the sp from 6 months ago.
GitHub is already an American company. What makes you think the NSA doesn't already receive a full copy of everything on their servers?
That acquisition was almost 7 years ago under the old leadership.
In bed with the NSA, telemetry, forced W10 migration, just off the top of my head.

That said, I do appreciate their recent strategy decisions. Lets hope at some point the two hemispheres of MS converge.
if you mean dump from GH the wiki is a separate git repo. just clone <our_project>.wiki.git instead of <our_project>.git
> I wonder if Matz may consider even just adopting Crystal in the future, considering it is almost 99% compatible with Ruby

This isn't even remotely true. Crystal syntax looks like Ruby. Crystal's semantics (the bit that matters) are not like Ruby.
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