skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse, in China they are sold OTC and are as popular as you suggest (aside from being the thing that is prescribed on nearly every doctors visit to a health center). Even though anti-viral medicines (for what little good those do...) are also available OTC...
DigitalOcean spaces certainly has a few bugs and glitches that I have noticed while playing around with it. I don't have the confidence to do any production work with it yet. But it is also a relatively new product even though no excuse for losing data like that.

Btw, offsite backups folks, offsite backups. Always run offsite backups on any system
Yes, the pieces are just perfect. Any good lecture series on major sites like Coursera have it that way. 1.5 hour lecture give me a good sleep.
It is not a Ponzi scheme if the returns do not exceed actual economic gains and taxes by which they are paid. Please do not misuse words for a libertarian strawman.
Of course these bonds do drain money and other resources from economy so you are profiting of work (and taxes) of others.
In a much more diffuse way than say dividend stocks or futures.

The treasury bond is essentially a low return loan to the government, expected to be paid by economy via taxation and economic growth. If you do not invest in bonds you are taxed the same as someone who does. (Mostly.)

Governments can and do default on loans, but more rarely than companies. The other form is by adjusting interest rate on the bonds.
> There seems to be a trope with Microsoft that they're still the same company they were in the 90's, but the senior leadership aren't the same people and I'd imagine neither are the staff.

Their senior leadership consists of people who were obviously OK with working for Microsoft when it was performing all those misdeeds. They may have changed as people perhaps, but at some point the very same people who are making the strategic decisions now decided that working for the 90's incarnation of Microsoft was a morally acceptable choice. I'm not sure why I should suddenly start trusting these people now?
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Remarkable result. Transforming a video of one person into another person.

Accepted for SIGGRAPH 2018.

Video demonstration (in the first few seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc5P2bvfl44
How about Atlassian?
How were you burned by google wave? It was never a finished product and for the longest time (probably forever before being canceled) was a beta product.
Same, I've had it running on a proxmox VM on a nuc in my room for years. It's considerably better than github, and damn that CI is good.
I think they mentioned they will present more information in an up coming conference. And it makes this TypeChecker possibly the most battle tested solution out of all the competing ones.
Also don't forget that Microsoft Research has published an enormous amount of papers, whereas Apple Research ... (does it even exist?)
> Is that in the funny dialect they speak?

Catalan is not a dialect of Spanish, if anything it would be a dialect of Occitan. And seeing how condescending are hurtful you are trying to be I suspect you already knew that.

> Why do people waste their time with that?

It's the native language of ~5 million people. We learn it for the same reason Swedish people learn Swedish, Danish people learn Danish, etc. It's just the language we speak in our country.

There is already a de facto international language (which is not Spanish BTW), and we also learn it.
> Pre-industrial outdoor level from about 1820 to at least 25 million years ago - no effect

A good example on how we know this article is rubbish.

How can we know there has been no effect?

I can't be bothered* tracking down their alleged proof, but I fail to see how they could prove there was no effect on lowering the levels we've had to deal with 25 million years without also doing a same experiment on increasing levels and seeing if there is an effect in the better/worse direction.

Seems like they are just playing the religious, mother nature knows best game.

In fact since 1820 our life expectancy has hugely increased. We have increased life quality by increasing CO2 levels, even if it's correlation and I see no reason why that won't continue.

*If the reference is this, which is seems to be, it documents nothing of the sort - doi:10.1038/ngeo1186
To see data being lost in the cloud is truly terrifying. I don't have the insight into DO or cloud management in general to assess whether this is a one-off. My guess is that most providers would go to great lengths to keep incidents such as these under the radar. DO didn't seem to be willing to go the extra mile (buck) and will no doubt pay a much bigger price now. Would be interesting to hear if the HN community has any insights into similar cases, regardless of provider.
I don't disagree with any of what he says. But he only includes the negative things they did. It's also worth remembering that ms also helped democratise computing. In the late eighties, early nineties Unix was an ivory tower. Only large organisations could afford it. Apple was expensive and closed. Windows was cheap and open. It worked with every kind of hardware and peripheral. And with dev tools like VB a lot of software was written and systems built for people that otherwise would just have had to stick with paper.
Ironically, the status page itself takes 5-6 seconds to load!
I see no evidence that they are a better company.

They are currently embracing open source and Linux, very visibly.

Phases two and three will be along soon enough. (Extend, Extinguish)
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Well..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214257

Unrelated, is this standard practice when sharing a link to the HN Discussion?

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Oh, I agree with everything you say!

But we have to put this in the context of an elderly lady who is terribly frightened of breaking the computer and always believes it's her fault when software screws up, because the feedback loop of computers is terrible (either absent, or opaque jargon, or marketing lies). That is, my mother.

And keep in mind that I live abroad. Helping her out remotely is a very difficult and slow process - if I lived close by the story would be different. In that context, when it comes to Windows or OSX, my mother has a lot of people who can help her out other than me - my sisters, my father (they're separated but still get along), some of her friends.

Now, my younger sisters are getting into programming (because all professions need it) so maybe I can get them into Linux too - they're definitely capable but the question is whether they consider it worth the investment. But still.
At which point can facebook start suing around for [slander/damages]? It's not like they did all this in secrecy , they were quite open about their platform with developers (which has helped developers warm up to a company that basically sells gossip). They never will of course, because they 'd be retroactively judged with today's standards. E.g. I find their unfair advantaging of the Obama campaigns a lot more troubling than this.
Wouldn't it benefit the Linux community if switching from Windows to Linux becomes easier? Also at the moment SLES, OpenSuse, Kali and Debian are available in WSL.
was this when they decided, nah fk it let s just aquire the thing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...
aren't they already on savanna, CVS, Fossil, Subversion and git email patch lists?
the best out of a bad bunch... what does this even mean. They are killing a neutral force in the market space there is nothing good coming from it.
And maybe my $20 pickaxe can be used to mine gold nuggets?

They can be valued with at least their acquisition value, which is a start. For all we know the "true" value (come liquidation) may now be zero, but still it puts a practical cap to how much IV can hype its business model.
"No country has adopted a foreign currency to make their central bank impotent."

There are a number of countries who's currencies are pegged to the US dollar at fixed exchange rates. Notably Hong Kong, as well as gulf states such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.

This means their central banks have very limited scope to control domestic money supply and interest rates via monetary policy.
I can appreciate some of MS Research's papers and former personalities whilst still having zero trust in MS Corp.
The biggest problem with the acquisition is that it's yet another core piece of infrastructure gobbled up by one of the big players.

Do we really want to move towards a world where there will be just one huge tech company that owns everything ? Because that's where we're heading.
Personally I believe that the only difference is the marketing. There is little two way communication going which is the same old Microsoft. Are they listening to their customers complain about telemetry, enterprise licensing, support and product stability and dependability? No. They're blinding everyone in an attempt to cover up the decrease in privacy, data collection ramping, gouging of enterprises to force them into the cloud, the declining quality of support and declining product quality. Even targeting the platform is like hitting a moving target that is on fire.

But it's ok because someone said they're a new company and they have a new figurehead.

I don't buy it. I'd be an idiot to buy it. I've been around a long time and this is a typical corporate cycle. They run like the sunspot cycle. We're at a solar minima at the moment.
First, MS hasn't stop its bad behavior. When did you think it stopped ? They became better at PR (their teams even pop in HN, Reddit or ...Imgur, they are very good), and they can get away with less BS because they have better competition. They did not get better.

Secondly, with your point of view, as a society, you just promote abusing entities. Politicians, companies, anything with power really. They make a lot of bad things, on a lot of years, then benefit from it, and now boom, what ? Stairway to heaven, along with the loot they got from the misdeeds ?

This is how you end up with corrupted systems and unfair societies.

You don't have to punish them again and again for the crimes of yesterday. But yes, it's perfectly fair, and actually sane, to remember, and say you don't want to have more relationship with them now.
That would essentially be a merge with BitBucket, so people would complain about there being less choice.
The real lesson here is that GitHub should have tried to develop a profitable business model by increasing the range of products services they provided and experimenting with universal tiered pricing.
Like iOS yes, and some, but not all, Android manufacturers/phones.

"Others do it too" is not a very good justification in my mind.
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Just watch as the crappy small scale hosted stuff moves to Gitlab while MSFT kills 50% of their on prem business migrating over to the new GitHub... MSFT have the channel, the customer base, the Azure Stack story (kinda), it's a no brainer for them.
-IMHO even a tiny minority of actual, true, false positives are enough to warrant getting rid of capital punishment (for that reason alone; there are other arguments, too!)

To phrase my question differently - if we take your concerns about false positives into account, and accept that trying to help dispose of the body or providing a weapon makes you fair game, capital punishment-wise - how large a remaining false positive rate is acceptable to maintain that fine institution, capital punishment?

1 in 100 fine, upstanding citizens being wrongfully convicted and executed? 1 in 1,000? At which point is the collateral damage, if you like, acceptable?

The matter was discussed here on HN recently, in the case of Kevin Cooper[0].

That's but one instance of what seems like a case where there's definitely reasonable doubt - to put it mildly - regarding the convict's guilt.

Whether the person was a 'fine, upstanding citizen' IMHO is largely irrelevant, unless one wants to set the bar for being sentenced to death lower - like, for being an accessory to murder, for instance.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17098059
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> [..] DOH increases privacy, security and sometimes even performance [..]

Does anyone know how TLS over TCP can be faster than UDP?
Microsoft is pure evil

- they wanted to access my computer after I upgraded cpu and motherboard as Windows 10 deactivated. That is despite I have full retail version. It took three days so that they acknowledged they won't get remote access. They required me to run some weird binaries to activate Windows again. That was super creepy.

- Soon after I bought VS2015 pro, VS2017 was released. They didn't want to give me a refund so I would get VS2017 or didn't offer upgrade price. Consultants were rude.

Windows is a spy machine. I only run it for software that doesn't work on Linux.

I hope Microsoft dies.

I am in the process of moving my stuff off of GitHub.
> The idea that some companies must be forever tainted by their misdeads in the past seems odd to me.

That sounds odd because pretty much nobody has that idea.
The alternative to looking too much at history is not to ignore history completely.
> senior leadership aren't the same people and I'd imagine neither are the staff.

This is largely irrelevant. Saying Microsoft makes a lot of money from hosting Linux workloads on Linux machines does not change the fact they'd make even more profit if Google and AWS were unable to compete. In that regard, open source is a tool to lure workloads into an environment Microsoft can control and shape to its will.

Microsoft's incentives are still aligned with harming the parts of the open-source ecosystem that don't run on Windows. That has not changed (and won't, as long as they make and sell proprietary software platforms).
If your AC is the type that vents out indoor air then this makes sense (though smaller AC units tend to just circulate the indoor air after cooling/dehydrating).
Depending on the sensor technology in your CO2 meter, it could be sensitive to temperature, so that may be worth trying to exclude as a factor.
Here in Norway our debit cards (BankAxept) still work without communication.

The customer has to sign a copy of the receipt which is then sent to the bank by the store (with next cash drop/pickup).

It's a bit of a chore when the whole system goes down, but at least you can still get your groceries and whatnot.
I concur, the author of the post doesn't even talk about their own backups but assumes DO does it for them. I personally love DO but I'm not about to skip over my own security & resiliency measures.
You can use the online tools on Linux.
+1 That Apple still can’t put 1 and 1 together shows just how utterly ignorant they are of the mind-bogglingly powerful product technology they’ve been sitting on for the last 25 years.

The great irony is that unlike painfully tedious low-level object-oriented API/IPC systems like DOM, CORBA, and SOAP, the Apple Event Object Model (the IPC architecture used in “AppleScriptable” applications) is driven via RPC using simple, high-level relational QUERIES. VERY powerful, amazingly (when it works right) elegant.

Apple event IPC has its issues—inconsistent implementations, notoriously inadequate interface descriptions, and a security model rocking it like it’s 1995—but it’s still remarkably close to being Siri-drivable, and has the massive benefit that it’s already implemented in hundreds of apps and is free for the taking.

(Or would be, if Apple hadn’t left Sal to run it into the ground.)

..

Not coincidentally, I put together a proof of concept for a hybrid Logo/AppleScript replacement a couple years back, designed from the start not just to enable traditional text entry, but also to be skinnable in a Workflow-like GUI or even driven by voice. Other commitments got in the way, but POC files are here:

https://bitbucket.org/hhas/entoli/src/master/README.txt

Key USP: true whitespace support in command names, making them very easy for non-programmers to read and write, particularly with modern autosuggest+correct+complete assistance (command interfaces are fully introspectable too).

Add Apple event capabilities (https://bitbucket.org/hhas/swiftae/src/master/) and wrap some friendly end-user tools around it, it’d be very powerful indeed.

Classic turtle example:

Turn right 135°, pen down, move forward 2.5mm, turn left 90°, move forward 20cm, pen up.

Named “entoli” (phonetic Greek for “instruct” or “command”) in HT to Seymour’s Logo, but also nicknamed “SiriScript” for fairly obvious reasons. :)
I prefer it to show me things I hadn't seen since the last time I visited, in chronological order. Close to what Slack does and shows you a _New Messages_ indicator.

With that being said, in case of Instagram Im kind-of OK with it as it's just pictures.

In case of Twitter, if I was a product manager, I'd file a bug report with highest priority. The kind of bug that developers would not sleep until it's fixed.

I get a series of tweets about an ongoing event in a random order.

It's like watching a goddamn movie with scenes shuffled randomly. It makes no sense.
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Agreed, as much as I dislike the acquisition, even I just wait and see. I'm setting up a migration plan right now of course, but I'm not going to activate it unless I have a good reason to.
Do you have any evidence of deniers waking up? I haven't yet seen as much, especially at policy maker level, it rather seems to have gotten worse with the Trump election.
Considering your point, what has Microsoft done since the 90's to make you believe they had a change of heart/culture/orientation?
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The stated he was only using the subset of C99 that could compile as C++.
I know lots of people think Microsoft did this to kowtow to the NSA, but I'm willing to bet it was really done for the same reason that Apple fundamentally re-architected FaceTime: patent threats.
I don't buy the usability argument of WSL. The thing isn't anywhere near a useful Linux environment other than for some noddy stuff that cygwin can already handle. Try running a background process, a service, use a serial port or drag some half decent performance out of it and you'll see.

It is ultimately backed with NTFS and NT's buffer cache. Running a VM is still several orders of magnitude more productive. And you can't fix NTFS and NT now. It's impossible.
Libraries benefit very heavily from unit tests, built applications or frameworks derive more benefit from regression tests.

For a small unit of code, or a library, the unit tests effectively prove that the code/library does what it says on the box.

For a continuously worked on application, regression tests holds the guarantee that the application continues to work correctly for whatever thousands or millions of use cases built up over its lifetime - even when the implementations, algorithms and libraries used change underneath.
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> - they wanted to access my computer after I upgraded cpu and motherboard as Windows 10 deactivated. That is despite I have full retail version. It took three days so that they acknowledged they won't get remote access. They required me to run some weird binaries to activate Windows again. That was super creepy.

Are you sure that you were not scammed?
Is it possible that in millions of years the microorganisms we have inadvertently sent to Mars will evolve? Even in the short term, that seems like an interesting experiment in itself.
Rationality and efficient markets are never mentioned once, to my knowledge, in Man, Economy, and State.
Perhaps the whole concept of having trust in a company is flawed, as board members come and go, and shareholders keep pushing the company to the boundaries of what is desired/acceptable from a societal perspective.
I'm with you so far, but the bit I don't understand is that for bitcoin to be said to support fractional reserve, don't you need to have the balance of your loan issued in bitcoin as well, so that you can pay other people for services in bitcoin, and they can use that to get a new loan etc? It doesn't seem fair to say that bitcoin works for a given purpose, if "working" presumes the presence of a trusted fiat money system?
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> Well sometimes.

Perhaps I should have explicitly written "Everything we can do [to reduce GHG emissions]". Of course there's lots of things we do that makes the situation worse!

> Recycling turns out to be more energy intensive than deposit and reuse.

Sometimes, sometimes not. Say, smelting recycled steel produces a lot less GHG emissions than producing fresh steel with a blast furnace, particularly if the local electricity grid has low carbon intensity.

But yes, there are other considerations in the world than GHG emissions. And in some cases increasing GHG emissions might be worth it (say, lifting 3rd world countries out of energy poverty). I'm just saying that GHG reductions should have a lot higher weight in policymaking than what it has now.

> All the moves to efficiency, LED and CCFL lighting, and can be offset by permitting a single additional fracking or shale oil site.

Maybe. But, it would be even worse if we hadn't done the efficiency, LED etc. stuff and instead permitted two additional wells! Everything, well if not actually helps, at least makes it less bad.

> Makes it difficult not to logically become a pessimist who gives up when the idiots have orders of magnitude more leverage.

I agree, it's hard. Have to keep trying!
I don't see the tradeoff honestly. Sure, make it a little difficult, show a big red scary warning, perhaps even require the use of a screwdriver to discourage "casual" users from being misled into compromising their machine's security.

But ultimately true ownership, recyclability/reusability (Linux on aging hardware..), and hardware-independent OS competition are norms with significant benefits that we shouldn't give up lightly.
It is paraphrased. The argument is, that it improves things for the mythical naive mainstream user, and for where it break things, well they are minority anyway.
Their pattern of bad behaviour extended far beyond the 90s, and all the stuff that happened with Nokia gives me pause as well.

As was their OOXML, ISO-stacking shenanigans.

Microsoft have a history of bad behaviour, and repeatedly abusing monopoly positions. How many chances at goodwill should I give them?
From what I understand, the biggest issue was their product required fast fan out messaging. Tumblr, for example, is still huge but can get away with 1000 lines of PHP for their feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154403
Some? There is only one (out of 31) listed at http://mc-stan.org/about/team/
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