skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting this information from? Surely interest on deposits is accounted for as a funding cost and is paid out of the bank's revenues (same for staff costs).

I don't know why you're calling double accounting "trickery". It's literally the way a bank operates. I mean, it's enshrined in law for god's sake. A public company has to publish accounts every year, and the double-entry analysis you see in most discussions of money creation shows where assets are entered on the balance sheet.
Apple never said anything about open-sourcing FaceTime. Jobs said they were going to make it an open standard. That’s very different, but it doesn’t matter because they didn’t do that, either. My understanding is that patents got in the way of the plan, but according to engineers at Apple, there was never any actual “plan” to do this. Jobs’ introduction of FaceTime was the first they’d heard about making FaceTime an open standard, too.
> Recently (just as most of the world has apparently moved on from desktop computing, haha) Linux is pretty much fine for the traditional desktop computing.

It's exactly because the world has moved away from desktop computing that Linux on the desktop has become viable: collaboration tools are increasingly web-based (or is at least web-enabled for the 80%-usecase), and those tools are exactly what tends to anchor an organisation on a single platform. These days, even Outlook has a perfectly usable web-interface that works fine in Chrome and Firefox.
Having had tried most git clients (command-line, SourceTree, GH client, Kraken, Fork, IntelliJ built-in and many others), in my opinion Magit beats all of them to the ground.

I used to use Emacs (Spacemacs) as my main IDE - I have since switched to PyCharm/CLion but I still use Spacemacs+Magit as a sort of a standalone git client because nothing else gets close.

Oh, plus, it works beautifully over SSH/X11 in case you need to do any git stuff on a remote box and want a "UI". (terminal version is always there too, of course)
I disagree. This kind of thinking keeps opens the door for precisely the type of thinking the article is trying to counter.
Post from 5th April 2018 on their blog says:

"We’re already in the process of migrating GitLab.com to Google Cloud Platform."[1]

So looks like they wont be on Azure for much (?) longer?

1 - https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/

Edit: Found this super-interesting architecture overview: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/infrastructure/production-...
> I'm only half-joking as I was surprised to see a Facebook rebuttal so quickly after an article like this

>Market Cap: 561.740B
https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/FB:US

Not surprised at all. Their business model depends on it on people uploading all of their personal information, thoughts, and feelings into the machine for analytical processing. If that trust/relationship dies, facebook dies with it.
most apothecaries here in Italy have a section for cheap glasses. worst scenario you have to buy two and mix the lenses.

if you have special issues and need to order lenses it may get expensive but glasses are deductibles, so you get a little back.

anyway I did a cursory search on amazon usa and one can find prescription glasses with lenses of variable strength for around 20$, of course they're not the best or the prettiest, but there are ways for people to get glasses on the cheap.
No one is asking you to host it yourself. Gitlab is open source and they provide the service as well for those that don't want to manage it.
So when you visited their HQ recently, they told you that they are the same as they were in the 90's?
The vast majority of those are placeholder titles until the keynote is over. That way any titles or descriptions don't give the game away.
A spokesman for Microsoft said "Buying GitHub was cheaper than paying for all our private repositories."
It is one of the most developer focus conferences I’ve ever been to. There is a ton to discuss post keynote, just the same as google io and MS build.
.. but in real time.
> Also, in many years my amount of downtime due to Debian's unattended-upgrades is exactly 0.

That's nice for you, but if you use any non-open software or software not covered by the package repo then there's a fairly good chance you'll see downtime after an upgrade of your linux distro.
Last I checked, AWS is in first place by a wide margin, followed by Azure and then IBM in third. Google is trailing all of them at the moment.
"The issue is that it's a lot easier to build or buy a kilovolt power supply that doesn't have adequate current limiting than one that does."

You can buy Van de Graaf generators all day long. Quarter-million volts minimum for $200.
You can get a certain amount out of growing additional live biomass where there isn't any now.

There was a supposition that one of the causes of the Little Ice Age was reforestation of the Americas after plagues wiped out 90% of the inhabitants. I don't know what the current state of that conjecture is, but I recall the amount of carbon taken up in the process was significant.

If you found a way to eg forest the Sahara, it would be significant on a global scale. Not a one-and-done fix, but significant. Then you would either have to find new land to plant or cut down the trees and not burn them/mulch them to sequester more carbon, but a living forest holds a good bit on its own.
I doubt thier investors were looking for a no growth botique business that never went public and never got acquired. The investors were looking for an exit strategy.
Waay too boring following the safety police rules.

Playing with HV can be fun, just build fly swatter-level inverters instead of using a transformer/capacitors big enough to kill you.

A CCFL inverter from an LCD screen is a good start, you can light neon bulbs and gets ozone
Yes. And they’ve both turned out fine so far.
Every toothpaste brand I can name is owned by either GSK or Palmolive. All GSK ones have the GSK logo on the front of the packaging. It's quite recognisable, if only as an acronym.
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AFAIK, Github went for growth. Gitlab went for cash flow. Gitlab is profitable and, imo, their product is comprehensively superior to Github.

>Keep in mind.. all this says zero about how nice the product quality is or how friendly the people are.

Then don't use the term bottom feeder since that means the people are making a shitty product with no ethics to really innovate. It says the people are shameful hacks and the quality of the product is bad.

In reality Gitlab is a better product and the people involved should be proud of their work.
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You can, it just isn't as simple as a menu option. Considering Linux's habit of requiring config file changes and obscure command line invocations to perform configuration it is hardly fair to judge in this case.
I have read the GDPR. The point is not what this law directly impacts today. The point is what laws like the GDPR open up the industry to.
I hate Android notifications, the are constantly there and a bunch you can not dismiss. It’s my least favorite thing about the OS.
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You are wrong about the average wages. If, as a software developer of middling experience levels (~3-5 years) and educational background (trashy uni or good trade-equivalent school), you do not make ~36k euro per year or more you are being swindled by your employer. That is already 42k USD. If you get to senior positions I have seen it get as high as you mentioned (and also much, much higher for select examples).

The amount you mentioned is what someone straight out of (middle) school with 0 experience would make in the field, and they could expect to have that increase to the mentioned middling wage after ~3 years of real work. That would put them at that wage at around 20-21 years old.
That's the trend for today. In two weeks the sentiment will be "Oh screw it -- this is more involved than we though... we'll stay on GitHub for now and wait and see."

In short: it's the developers' version of #DeleteFacebook
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Git over SSB network.

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This is true if the CO2 increase is the only change. Unfortunately increased atmospheric CO2 leads to higher temperatures, which stops plants growing. In the short term we'll have more plant growth, but if the temperature increase isn't halted it'll stop being so beneficial. There's also an upper limit to which plants are able to photosynthesise in rich CO2 environments - too much CO2 and a plant can't get enough energy to grow, so that stops it too. And lastly, if a plant has a very rich CO2 environment it stops taking on as much nitrogen, which means they're not so useful as food crops. They grow, but we can't eat them.

So yeah, plants can grow more when there's more CO2 around, but that's not the whole story.
That will not work. Some ISP do DNS transparent proxy (forward all udp packet 53 to their own DNS server). You need DNSCrypt or VPN.
Here’s hoping for something that makes their product line (OSes included) integrate better with one another.
Elon Musk must be fired as Tesla CEO, shareholders say as company struggles
OK so try this exercise - associate IG Farben (and to some extent Bayer) with new name - Zyklon B (gas used in gas chambers).

I understand that in complex business sometimes controversies arise, but by they went straight evil during WWII (ie using Auschwitz prisoners killing many)
What mirror universe do you live in where Windows doesn't have a huge amount of 3rd party native applications?
I’ll take your word and the other commenters words for it.
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> "They've had 10 years. Surely they've worked their bugs out".

That's quite a weird thing to think in 1998 with respect to a browser, given that they'd only had any sort of a browser for less than 3 years at that point.
Apple lifts two-month ban on Telegram updates in iOS store
I would not panic over this just yet. It is deeply concerning, but there are some mitigating factors:

- Population growth is slowing.
- Per capita CO2 emissions are falling.
- Good reason to believe this trend will continue.

Another issue is the magnitude of the effects postulated in the paper. 600->1000 ppm showed 10-20% decreases in cognitive scores on tests during short term exposure. That's huge, but it's important to remember that it took almost 40 years to go from 350->400 (which is roughly where we are today). Emissions growth has been slowing, and I guess despite the US President's best efforts, will probably start falling some time in the next few years. So it may take even longer to get to 500, 600.

http://www.acer-acre.ca/resources/climate-change-in-context/...

This includes some projections, and the graph looks scary, but make sure to look at the bottom of the page to see what each scenario entails, and try to judge what you think is most likely.
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Wow. I feel you've certainly made a point.

Originally you declared:

> If you want nice things, you have to pay for them.

And I don't know how that fits in with people releasing / maintaining free software.

I responded to your first rant because you appeared to be 'going all fanboy' over github, declaring them a successful, superior business. I asked you if a company that hadn't turned a profit despite first mover advantage and a decade of trying could be termed a business ... and you weaselled out of that question.
1. Maybe, but we used to play in the street all sorts of ball sports as kids. All the cars were in their garages/car ports, and when a car, roughly every 10minutes came by, we'd yell, 'Car' and step aside. Now, my parent's same house has tons of extra cars on the streets (more affluent families?) and the street has become a thoroughfare as people try to avoid traffic on the main roads. It would be impossible to play on the street today.
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Of these newish programming language which ones would you start using?
I've recently come across the Nim programming language and recalled that I have run into a few interesting language that can compile to Javascript such as Lua, Elm, BuckleScript etc.

I'm curious what languages if any people see themselves using and why?
It's not hyperbolic, I've been through Linkedin and Skype...
I've never understood how May 68 is so important. What was changed afterward that makes this period so important to be remembered 50 years later? Could someone explain this?
This is excellent, thanks for posting.
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Let’s say there’s a part of the American population for which it is very important to leave the wounds open. The rest of the world has long moved on.

As a European (not German) the holocaust topic was just quickly mentioned during history lessons as part of WW2.
> But that can change.

That's because change is the only constant.
...and electron apps have no UI quirks and no performance issues on mobile.
If you do any type of real work on Instagram, most of this article is completely inaccurate. Everyone has reported getting far less engagement after the changes. I've more than doubled followers since recent changes, and my engagement is roughly half what it was. Reach is WAY down, and it's directly affecting it. This is a niche localized account, with real followers. No garbage.
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exaggeration
Indeed.

Since their product is "Private Gitlab Hosting", they only seem to provide the hosting. This is not inherently bad, but they make it look like they are much better than Gitlab.

Personally I'd rather give my money to Gitlab so support their development.
But doesn't the fact that the feature you mentioned has actually been made open sourced, that those business models might well be aligned? IIRC, GitLab's open sourcing policy is something along the lines of "if it's useful to small or open source projects, we open source it, whereas if it's primarily useful to large enterprises with >100 employees, it goes into enterprise edition". That sounds like a pretty viable way to both have a useful open source project and raise the money required to build and maintain it.
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Products show up on HN all the time.
I wasn't saying that it is happening, just hoping it doesn't get to that point. I found it myself (which I consider late) while I was doing steps to verify my Keybase account. I had only heard of Y combinator once through a friend who works at Google, I've never seen ads or any other mentions of it.

Anyways my point was that, like all the cool places on the internet started with some kind of : low graphics, quality content, friendly community. After a while, maybe 5-10 years, more or less, adoption grows to a point where a corporation wants to buy the place. If they are allowed to do so then they modify the rules, curate the content, add the advertisement or subscription fees and start making money with it.

After that your parents join and the place becomes just an ordinary social network, boring and gentrified as the cool people who were there in the first place move out to another small, new, cool community, and the cycle repeats itself.

So all I'm trying to say is that HN is cool and I hope it doesn't fall into the same trap down the road.
If you drill hard enough, what comes out is actually not a interest in justice or society - quite contrary- its about power, pure, un-diluted power, to chase out and behead, whoever you wish to declare to be a missfit.

And it has been here before, in all shapes and sizes. Its the social skill superiors equivalent of facism.
They're not giving manufacturers access to data in exchange for being integrated/pre-installed on the device; they're giving those manufacturers' apps access to data because they need that access in order to be able to present that data to the users who are accessing Facebook through those apps. It's not a quid pro quo, it's something that's fundamentally necessary for the apps in question to actually allow users to interact with Facebook through them.
> lack of political will

Why wouldn't emissions trading ([1]) solve this? If there is economic incentive to remove CO2, then why wouldn't it happen?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading
I almost quipped that vacation rental marketplaces may be the exception but then I remembered Expedia acquired a bunch of them, including a former employer so there went that.
1968 was a crucial turning point in the economic history of France. After 1968 France enjoyed almost 20 years when the working class saw large gains in wages. Income inequality shrunk dramatically. See here:

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2018/05/08/may-1968-and-inequ...
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That's a very good reason to do so. I don't want children so I'm never going to do it. But basically, art is the best reason for it.
I really like GitLab and are rooting for them, but if my experience the last couple of weeks of exporting/importing projects is any indication, a ton of these imports will fail, or even worse, appear to succeed, but partly fail.

One of the most disheartening things is seeing issues like this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43270#note_75...

> Pushing this back to 11.1 since 11.0 is full with major release requirements.

If there's one way to lose new users, a good way to go about it is have their imports fail. My case was Gitlab -> Gitlab, hopefully their Github -> Gitlab is more resilient.
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Having read (been warned) "Chaos Monkeys" and "Dragnet Nation" this comes as no surprise.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/business/dealbook/revi...

https://www.npr.org/books/titles/281981849/dragnet-nation-a-...

Editorial: It's startling to me how outfits as reputable as NYT can time and again parrot a narative (e.g., FB is better than sliced bread), and then after the fact report on something that was right under their nose all along.

Given the book review (link) above, it's as if they don't read their own publication. If I have to connect the dots myself then I'm going to stop reading - which I essentially did, many years ago.

That said, SV has become the ultimate cult / religion. All those followers and zero heretics (i.e., whistleblowers). The irony that so many of the faithful champion the likes of Snowden et al is as funny as it is frightening.
> just got a GDPR email from a company with every single recipient accidentally CCd in. Great start lads

https://twitter.com/b3nfox/status/999565387309158400
It relies directly on itself. The dependency is recursive, and I'll grant that it needs an origin somewhere - but the same can be said for linux built on linux (and yet we do not).
1968 was a crucial turning point in the economic history of France. After 1968 France enjoyed almost 20 years when the working class saw large gains in wages. Income inequality shrunk dramatically. See here:

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2018/05/08/may-1968-and-inequ...

an excerpt:

In France the years 1945-1967 are marked by high rates of growth, but also by a movement of reconstitution of inequalities, with, at one and the same time, a steep rise in the share of profits in national income and the reconstitution of highly ranked salary scales. The share of the 10% highest incomes which was barely 31% of total income in 1945 gradually rose to 38% in 1967.

...The break came in 1968. As a way out of the crisis, General de Gaulle’s government signed the Grenelle Agreements which included, in particular, a rise of 20% in the minimum wage. The minimum wage was officially indexed on average wage gains in 1970 and, most importantly, all the successive governments from 1968 to 1983 felt obliged to grant very high ‘special hikes’ almost every year in a social and political climate far from stable. The result was that the purchasing power of the minimum wage rose in all by over 130% between 1968 and 1983, whereas at the same time the average salary only rose by about 50%, whence a very strong compression of pay inequalities. The break with the previous period was clean and wide-ranging; the purchasing power of the minimum wage had risen by barely 25% between 1950 and 1968, whereas the average salary had more than doubled. Driven by the strong rise in low salaries, throughout the years 1968-1983, the total payroll rose significantly faster than did production; as a result there was a considerable fall in the share of capital in the national income. All this took place at the same time as a reduction in the number of hours worked and an increase in paid holidays.
GitLab.com offers private repos with unlimited users/collaborators for free. You even get 2,000 free CI minutes per month per group.
I've hated Microsoft for much of my life. I try not to make it a religious issue, but I'm worried about github. If they open sourced it I would no longer be worried.

They won't, though. They won't open Windows or Office either.
There is a fascinating project to turn around desertification of the Sahara: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall
You gotta be kidding me. iOS notifications are amateur hour compared to Android’s.
> Did they at least also teach you who fabricated Agent Orange if they focused on manufacturers so much?

In fact, yes they did: Philips Duphar and I learned this in school.

Check out the "volgermeerpolder" if it interests you.

And it was just a question, no need to perceive any insults, I was just wondering if the German school system is still highlighting WWII the way they used to, perhaps not, perhaps it never was done to the extent that it was presented to me in the first place.

As for why it matters: For anybody involved in industry IG Farben and IBM are important because of the ethical implications.

Finally, I never went to a US school (talking about assumptions...).
I see a benefit to lockdown, which is improved safety/security for non-technical end users.

Security is a difficult topic, even for IT professionals, and it is easier to secure a locked down environment for non-technical users than an open one.

If you look at mobile platforms as an example, the prevalence of malware on Android compared to iOS is significant.

Now for many I'm sure that trade-off is worth it, but I also feel there is a place for more controlled environments.
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> When I see an expensive car the only thing I can think is "wow, what a good way to blow money on useless shit".

I'm not alone in this then. I find it incredibly odd how much money people seem willing to sink into cars. Why would anyone take out a loan to purchase an asset that will depreciate rapidly and provides practically no extra value? Why do people buy pickup trucks when they don't need to haul things around all the time (and in fact would probably balk at the idea because it would damage the bed)? People are weird, man.
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