skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is happening to Atom?

Since they said Github will remain independent, so Atom will, I think. Maybe I'm too optimistic but when I think about VSCode's business model, promoting Azure rather than selling the editor itself, they have no reason to kill Atom. They might be integrating Azure with Atom.
You can definitely rent a room in an apartment in NYC for that much. It's probably not going to be very nice, you'll be far from the city, and you are subject to roommates.

https://www.apartments.com/559-vincent-ave-bronx-ny/0kg0371/
You and GP are talking about different things. As you say, Gitlab.com has been deteriorating and has continual performance issues, however Gitlab Core (the OSS project) has made big strides in the last year in adding features like excellent CI/CD integration, issue boards, merge request templates, web based IDE for quick edits, etc. For teams of people working together, these tools are really useful and important, less so for big community or solo projects.

Unlike Github, you can host Gitlab on your own server, to get whatever performance you're willing to pay for.
Come on, I still see the deformations in our industry caused by MS, Oracle and similar companies and nothing of the bad deeds was undone (nobody is going to resurrect progressive businesses/ideas they killed off). Instead we have Bill playing a philanthrope and getting admiration by outsiders and Satya being the jobesque face of "new MS", with Windows 10 fun. I worked for their main competitor and another company that was eaten alive by MS, and they tried to poach me as well.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

Microsoft has had a vested interest in Git and Open-Source for a while now.
The Microsoft bashing is painful. I also wonder about outcomes like that, positive ones for Microsoft, GitHub the platform and GitHub the community.

So much negativity!
I even believe Git has the open source high ground since it’s released under the GPL-2 license, providing freedom. Whereas Fossil uses BSD-2, which does not bring the same freedom.
This wouldn't be the first time Apple's had a perf/polish focused release. For example Snow Leopard had almost no major features and was mainly perf and polish over Leopard.
There probably isn't a plain time symmetry, but maybe there is CPT symmetry. Lucky 10000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPT_symmetry
As a non-user of Facebook, I completely take their side with all of this.

1) If people don't want to read the fine print, whose fault is that? 2) How have we gotten to a point where we are abdicating our choice voluntary, and then acting begrudgingly toward the new owners when they misuse it?

I must apologize for my cynicism here, but we've been going around this mountain for a very long time now (circa 2013 IINM?). I'm getting tired of hearing how people are feeling violated due to their own actions.
Microsoft ran these ads in Germany back in 2000:

http://xaharts.org/funny/i/Microsoft_Linux_ad.jpg

Translation:

An open operating system does not only have advantages

An open operating system can mutate. With Windows 2000, however, all services are from a single source. This saves time and thus money. More information at www.microsoft.com/germany/windows2000
Another reason to pass on these, they suck quite a bit of power and will heat a small room.
I really hope this includes a setting on Do Not Disturb to always silence calls/texts from numbers not in my addressbook along with the ability to schedule it for further silencing during sleeping hours.
I've been trying to do the same. Most of the communication has moved to WhatsApp and the "here's what's going on in my life" blasts have moved to Twitter and Instagram. It seems like people have reverted back to using plain old email (or Evite) for event invitations (thank God for the former ehhh on the latter).

The big impediment left has been Facebook's function as a social space to share photos with all and sundry. If not for it being the place to post photos of kids, weddings, vacations, etc. I don't think people would be spending much time on it. Seeing pictures of their nephews, nieces, kids, and grandkids on there is definitely what keeps the old people plugged in.

There really isn't another service that fills the niche either. Instagram is geared towards individual photos rather than albums or chronicles of events. Flickr kind of did, but it's basically dead now and its narrow focus on photography alone wound up gearing it towards pro or hobbyist photographers and didn't get much buy in from everyday users.

Facebook also seems to be something of a default space to host a bulletin board or community forum. Next-door has been trying to muscle in on that territory but it's been plagued by problems with racist usage patterns. Those would probably go away if it was more common, but it's created some real issues with optics. Also, I have no idea what their security practices are like so who knows if it's an improvement.
Apple reveals watchOS 5, complete with new Walkie-Talkie app
I think I can kind of understand those users: I like paying for apps but a number of them will still try to abuse me by adding all kinds of monthly payments etc, start adding ads, remove the features I bought it for etc.

I also acknowledge there is a problem where authors should be able to secure an income to do security updates etc and I've no "one-size-fits-all solution" to it but I think between

- feature keys for new features

- optional extra services (support, server side ocr etc)

- reasonable fees for special cases (for example I loved to pay USD 1 a year for a user friendly, secure messaging service that promised not to spam me, datamine my data or leak it voluntarily.)

- etc

there should be room for better alternatives than many of the ones we have today.
Microsoft accounts are a trainwreck... I've got at least three or four of them all with the same email address, and despite years of effort to link them together and consolidate, I still have to use all of them to log into different services and access different resources. The permissioning on things like Azure and VSTS doesn't make a lick of sense.
I also thought they were training image recognition for self-driving cars. I also thought it was an ingenious way to solve two problems at once.
Changing an arrangement from strings to saxophone does not a jazz song make.
Then I'll change part of the URL I've soft coded from ...hub... to ...lab... to ... bucket...
But the fact that he's done it twice with SpaceX and at least once with Tesla seems to indicate he's better average at running those races.
Favicons in Safari with OS Mojave
Favicons in safari are now a thing in Mojave!
Exactly. "But this came from Monsanto" discredits nothing.

Monsanto has provided a list of factual statements. If you don't trust them, you can fact-check them. You either are going to have proof that they are lying, or proof that they are telling the truth.

Refusing to accept what Monsanto says by virtue of them being Monsanto is, again, just another part of the anti-GMO hysteria...
It's easy to armchair theorize about how one should be able to pull themselves out of poverty, but it's not quite as simple as you make it sound.

Poverty/Homelessness is a cycle. Once you're in it, it becomes exponentially harder to climb out the longer you are in it. Even if you maintain your mental faculties, don't have a drug/alcohol problem, and are willing to work - doesn't mean you will find a job. In cities it is a bit easier to take the first job that comes up, but if you live in a rural area you are subject to geography. Maybe the only job that is hiring is 30 miles away and you can't get there because your car is broken down.

>>Living isnt hard to do in first world countries where food is plentiful, jobs pay decent, and getting space to live in is cheap.

I don't know your history but this seems like a comment made by someone who has never had to struggle for those things. It is absolute hard for some, just as it comes easily for others. Casting out blanket statements like this does nothing other than turn a blind eye to an issue.
> Personally, I think using "open source" to mean "the source is open to the public" is as misguided as using "free software" to mean "the software is free of charge," but in practice there's a lot more ambiguity in the former, not the latter.

I would disagree. Both the terms "open source" and "free software" existed prior to the open-source software movement. Either way, you don't get to co-opt the plain English meaning just because you've invented your own jargon. That's not how language works.
People should at least formulate and exit strategy. It would be wrong to do otherwise[0].

[0] I firmly believe in preparedness.
There's honestly nothing new here. GitLab calls itself open core because only the Community Edition (CE) is open-source and the Enterprise Edition is source-available.

Anyone, after five minutes of looking at GitLab.com, knows this. They aren't hiding it and it's already incredibly public.

They've even publicly talk about their 100+ user-relevant rule for features that decides what CE doesn't get [1]

I don't understand what compelled the author to write this but GitLab CE really is open-source. Stop the FUD.

[1]: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10923838
While i'm confident that Atom will not "die" any time soon, if MS pulls the team that's currently working on new features and reassigns them, then at best it's going to be a large blow to the project.

A fork won't have the same team working on it, a fork won't have the same domain knowledge over the internals, a fork won't have the roadmap or what was currently planned and how to do it, a fork won't have the same unified development effort (if MS "kills" atom, FB won't be the only one picking it up, there will absolutely be others that won't like the direction FB is taking, and now you don't just have Atom, you have AtomFB, Atom2, NuAtom, etc...)

It won't be that big of a deal at the end of the day (it's not like there is a shortage of competition in this area), but I would be much more on-board with this if MS handles Atom well.
I’m thrilled about this change. Been trying apps to block for time such as Freedom, but it’s difficult to time blocklists, find how to block apps, and do all of this on a schedule. After a while I’ve realized every feature to effectively manage screen addiction while still remaining a good experience really needs to be baked into the OS. The direction Apple is taking looks fantastic—the only thing I hope for is specific Safari blocks in a addition to the app level timers.
You're making an incredibly false analogy in the first scenario and misreading the case in the second.

In the first case there is no discrimination on the basis of religion, skin color or sex. In the second you are being disengenous because it was clear that they were not in fact kicked out because they were christian, but kicked out because of both what they were actively doing near and in his coffee shop. If they were kicked out solely on the basis of being Christian then yes, that would be a clear problem.
Probably a reference to this sort of analysis: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-mi...
I think these are some of the most exciting features that I've seen in iOS for a while, and I suspect it will push iPhone sales quite a bit as parents decide its worth getting their younger kids of that old refurb iPhone 4S.

Also great to see the focus on performance improvements on old models.
The idea that a country to take care of its most vulnerable citizens first, before consideration of refugee, is not only a good idea it is common sense. The idea that bringing up that idea is considered "flame bait" or wrong think, isn't just dishonest, it is hostile to civil discourse. People that down voted you should not be entitled to their opinion until they understand it. Consider your downvote a badge of honor. You should be entitled to point out common sense where it is needed, esp when the subject of the article specially asks the question and invites conversation. You should look up the Codenhoven Caligery plan to figure out why this is going on.
Why Microsoft is buying GitHub: It's all about developer relationships
Yes it's definitely working on the note, envelope and timbre level as opposed to the production, mastering, soundscape, etc. level. But I think it's ok as a stepping stone. Something like this could still work as a backing layer for the original.
Have you considered the implications of when people can force others to perform services, involving expressions of speech, against their will? You could go into an Islamic cake shop and demand they draw an image of 'happy Mohammed' on a cake for you. You could demand Bob's Marketing Company create and execute a campaign stating that Bob's Marketing Company is the worst. And so on.

That's just at the high level if you can actually get the law to function. Which is itself a huge question. That's where you get into questions like what is sexual imagery? What is hate speech? Who defines that? For instance back in the more puritanical times of the US, which really was not all that long ago, there were numerous laws against indecent material. And again the problem regularly faced is how do you define it? Consider all the content that would be naturally ambiguous. Consider other content that intentionally slides in or out of the restrictions for whatever end. Not so easy!
I don't know how useful this tool will be:

>"This trial is ongoing. It must report results 82 years, 8 months from now."
http://fdaaa.trialstracker.net/trial/NCT00068692/

Yep, they scraped the correct info:

>"Estimated Primary Completion Date :	January 2100"
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00068692
Monsanto has presented you with a list of factual statements. If you believe them to be inaccurate, you have an ocean of public records at your disposal that would make doing so very easy.

Of course, nobody has ever debunked this page, because there's nothing to debunk.
How is it going to get marketed/sold? What I've found is that's where the 50% or more of the value comes. Once you have some paying customers and feedback to improve and get word of mouth.
Great. Can you manage your contact groups from iOS yet?
This is my most wanted feature. Similarly, if we could just send all unrecognized numbers to voicemail that would be awesome.
As a response to the GH acquisition: this is like suggesting dvorak because Microsoft made a qwerty keyboard.
What I hear you saying is:

1. You don't necessarily want to develop in the same environment you deploy to.

2. You don't want to install some things on your development machine.

Together, those are dictating some development directions for you. That's fine. Those are perfectly valid choices. But I think it's easily summed up in your case as "You use sqlite because it fits well with your current development pipeline."

On the flip side, I do development on remote servers using vim. For me, sqlite provides little-to-no additional benefits, since MySQL or Postgres are a package install away (if not already installed), and that's a small price to pay for their additional benefits (for example, a much richer set of data types). At the same time, this type of development pipeline makes certain types of development harder (there's lots of tools for vim/emacs, but some things graphical IDEs provide are harder to achieve).

There is a middle ground, which is emulating the target environment through a VM on the development machine. It should provide the best of both worlds, for a cost of a little most complexity. I've never really gone for that, as I'm happy with the remote dev setup I have, and it's easier not to have to devote local resources to that for me. It's a popular choice as I understand it though.
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They appear to be a brighter cut than they actually are.

To know the difference you would need to examine one closely. They're pretty much identical on casual inspection, especially mounted in a ring.
I don't agree with this assessment. Open Source does not require that the maintainers will allow you to push changes upstream that they don't like. Is AOSP not open source? Chromium? Atom? Linux? Linus rejects a lot of stuff.

Now, it may be poor stewardship if valuable changes are rejected, but Open Source is about your freedom with the code, not the willingness of the project maintainers to commit your pet features.
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The Effects of the Mongol Empire on Russia
I think they shrink it a bit down and cut administrative overhead (synergy) and some engineering (eg atom (buuh)). The later they can also reorganize.

For them it just does not need to lose too much money.
Reminds me of the last time Apple and Pixar announced a format they developed together, back at WWDC 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixlet

Pixlet didn't take off because it was yet another non-standard codec in a market that was converging towards video standards that could be accelerated in hardware.

The argument made by jsheard about gITF's design being better suited for GPU acceleration is very important IMHO.
I really hope this works better than the current awful, awful parental controls.
Yes, different employers, or targeted for different jobs/situations. That's a solid point though - they probably won't care that it's named after them.
Ironically, De Beers. They've promised a line of lab-grown diamonds this year at $800 for 1 carat, which is the lowest price I've seen. The line is starting with pink, blue, and white.

Colorless is still a pain, though - apparently 1 carat gem-quality colorless is still about $4,300 at market rates.
> when was the last time we saw something revolutionary in OS design?

Isn't part of the problem the endless parade of these "revolutionary...OS designs?" Precisely what makes them delightful appears to make them addictive.
Perhaps I missed in the other comments, but is anyone else here shocked by the price tag? That is an outstanding amount of money to pay for Github, certainly a very large premium.
The Github repository for the kernel is a mirror of the actual kernel.org repository.

The kernel does not use a Github-style workflow, either.
Fact is Microsoft is a hostile company and will have access to private repositories.
The point is not to be without the Internet, the point is to have more time to spend on things you appreciate; "doing bills" offline takes more time than doing it online.
It's the network effect that you can't move.
> There once was a day when we demanded our social media platforms to provide these “open access” APIs

And we still demand them for other types of apps.

If I have a Mac or iPhone, I can connect the Apple-supplied Mail app to Gmail with IMAP or POP or whatever it uses. If I have Windows with Outlook, I can connect it to whatever mail server too. And this software gets access to all the content of my emails, which is private data.

Likewise, on a smartphone, I can install a third-party app to access Hacker News or Reddit. Because both of them have an open API. (In fact, for a long time there wasn't an official Reddit mobile app, and they encouraged you to go third party.)
They know a guy in the industry and offered 10% stake to him. Its an app targeting physicians, so pretty niche.
Apple introduces macOS Mojave
Fair point. I had remembered $800 for 1 carat synthetics, which is apparently true for colored diamonds (including pink, which is popular). But colorless looks like its still >$4,000 synthetic, which is hardly cheap.
That's a good point - I'm not really sure why I save previous versions as I'll probably never need them again, but I feel comfortable when I do for some reason.
Progressive Web Apps are upcoming alternative to Electron. Microsoft already added support for PWAs in Edge, now they should work with other browsers vendors to add missing functionality, like file system access.
GitHub has helped to maintain git itself for years, in addition to creating and open-sourcing libgit2, a massive engineering effort, which ironically, GitLab is built on.
Hopefully MS can reign in Github's ridiculous remote work policy. Github's product velocity has been effectively zero for the past few years, and remote work is likely part of why.
I can hardly imagine what level of dysfunction is possible in an organisation as large as Microsoft. I have only worked in small companies, less than 30 employees, and my mind has already been blown.
Nat Friedman as CEO has mostly placated my knee jerk reaction of RUN! Really happy with how this is going so far.
As somebody who got refunded: As much as I want to support Elon, I later realized the full total cost of the car (having a garage, doing the maintenance,..) wasn’t in my budget and that it’s simply better to invest in a lifestyle where I just don’t need a car. Interrestingly, I had the same conclusion about buying an house versus renting a appartment.
Is there room in this space for a de-centralized, blockchain-based solution? Seems like that is an ideal implementation of the technology.

I ran across OS Coin [1] on Twitter but couldn't find any additional info beyond what's on the website.

[1] http://oscoin.io/
I don't use fossil, but I have fantasized about keeping docs and issues in version control alongside the code.

My organization has churned through several different issue trackers in the last few years. And a lot of that old data is just gone; project owners never bothered pulling Fogbugz tickets into Phabricator or never pulled Phabricator tasks into JIRA. If we had issue tracking that lived alongside the source code in version control, then the underlying data would last as long as the code did.
Your code is worth much, just like ideaguy/gal's idea, unless
... some one is willing to pay you for using it. I think this should be a corollary of ideas are worth nothing.
> As far as we know, conservation laws are not baked into reality.

I think that's going too far. As far as we know, the symmetries could be baked into reality. And, via Noether's Theorem, so therefore are the conservation laws.
I actually have some hope that people will hold them to a higher standard because of their past failings.