skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "Others are hopeful that Microsoft’s stewardship will make the platform even more valuable."

Perhaps I missed it, but nowhere in the article were any of these hopes articulated. I may lack imagination; so, can someone tell me how Microsoft can make GitHub more valuable? I don't mean how they can use GitHub to make more money for themselves, by selling "enterprise-level" support, or by making their development tools better. I'm asking how GitHub is going to be made more valuable to people who currently are not using Microsoft products.

Any ideas? What exactly is there to be "hopeful" about?
Salvaging the Nauvoo [video]
I unintentionally backed my way into my own business. Back during the dot com bust, the large consultancy I worked for went bust, and I went back to the small consultancy I'd previously worked for. Then, after 9/11, they went bust. The economy was in rough shape, and I was only getting interviews for junior positions. Meanwhile, friends were calling to say 'Could you come do this gig for a month or two?' Having plenty of free time, I read up on how to start and run a business (Nolo Press is a great resource), set up an LLC, printed business cards, worked hard at the gigs I got, and kept my ear to the ground for new ones. I'd kept good relations with my previous bosses and co-workers, and wound up working for five years running my own little consulting shop (That might be my suggestion: keep up with your old bosses and co-workers, and see if they're aware of any suitable opportunities).

Life circumstances changed, and it made sense to go back to work for somebody, eventually, but I found the experience, and the confidence it built, to be invaluable.
> compiler developers have started feeling justified in saying "if (&myref == NULL)" is nonsense they can "optimize out" (as if I somehow typed that by mistake :/...); but that is just the compiler making an unwarranted and clearly incorrect "assumption": nothing in any of the language standard, the compiler, or the runtime "guarantees" that references point at something

I don't see how there is nothing guaranteeing that your references are nonnull. My understanding was that the standard prevents you from having a null reference because the methods of trying to generate one are codified as illegal or performing undefined behavior. Am I wrong here, or misunderstanding what you're trying to say?
You aren't measuring the people they keep off the street using that money. Dollars spent per homeless person is useless. If they spent 5 dollars more to reduce the homeless population to 1 would you say they spent 300MM per homeless person?
They could simply be retelling the story as told by their child. A respectful thing to do.
Are people worried that they're trying to eradicate free software at the source?
I was just thinking that the positive-negative developing system described in the linked document sounded not entirely unlike the one Polaroid developed for their cameras, in particular the Type 55 sheets.
I’ve discussed how pregnancy discrimination impacted me (male) before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105745

Lawyered up, lawyer said “it’s not worth it to me, nor you.” This is the world we live in now, folks.
Yes. And they do in countries which charge VAT. They should arguably be taxed on the profits they make in the territories they sell in, but that is much harder to do in practice without international cooperation.

GP mentioned the Corporate Tax.

VAT is an indirect tax. It's not a tax on profit but consumption, often paid by individuals.

Supplies used as input by companies are vat exempt.

Capital gains are only taxed when they are realized. E.g. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway hasn't paid a dime in taxes on the 15.4 billion dollar capital gains on its 16.7 billion dollar stake in Coca Cola (a position he initiated in 1987). Since Buffett has indicated he isn't planning on selling Coca Cola ever, those capital gains won't ever be taxed.

I also mentioned taxes on dividends.

Buffet is not the only one operating in market.

Of course they can: by becoming more efficient or by growing GDP.

And how can they grow GDP or become more efficient without investment? Where does that money come from if not from the individuals (buying product/service) and government (spending on infra/healthcare)

Nonsense. If you had looked at the OECD government deficit data [1], you would have known that the US is running one of the biggest deficits in terms of % of GDP (4.94% in 2016 vs 1.546% for the EU as a whole, or a surplus of 1% for Germany). Similarly, personal savings are 2.8% in the US [2] vs 10% in the EU [3] or 50% in Japan [4]

Not sure what you are trying to prove by this random data.

US is the largest Foreign Direct receipent.

Yes, Europe the largest buyer of the US securities.

As US become more attractive to the foreign investors. The trade deficit will increase and will be financed by the foreign investors. Where is the problem?
People want it... Yes, but do gitlab users want it?

I’m not arguing theres a place for a web ide... sure. That’s a thing.

...but as part of gitlab? really?

...and lets be explicit here; part of gitlab instead of a stand alone product?

What if you want an IDE that uses a different source control?

Whats the benefit to me of having it as part of gitlab?
The book and movie do a pretty solid job about explaining what CDOs, derivatives, etc. are.

What the book and movie don't do (unless I'm forgetting something) is explain how anything involved with the 2008 crisis was illegal - the sole exception being that CDSs are very arguably insurance contracts and should be regulated by insurance laws.
The Big Short made it sound like credit rating agencies engaged in intentional negligence, which doesn't strike me as something "too abstract to prosecute" (or whatever the excuse is supposed to be here).
I have no idea what the "Andre Walker Hair Typing System" is or what it has to do with being black, but if it has anything to do with hair, it would seem completely irrelevant to how good of an employee one is (As is ones skin color). Further, the question I propose is a simple yes or no question, with the option to elaborate. And if you couldn't tell by my last sentence, I don't actually expect the response to be particularly meaningful in most cases.
How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR
What a great idea, to feature this fellow's Primitive Technology blog (and his outstanding Youtube channel) here on a high tech news site.

Fire making, clay pots, mud huts, stone axes, rope, hunting weapons -- these are what kept people alive for eons, and ironically in our modern high tech era, many if not most of these skills are largely forgotten by all but a few remaining primitive tribes and archivists like him.

These videos are worth watching not just to celebrate these high achievements but also to disseminate and preserve the knowledge. Should you find yourself stranded in a forest hundreds of miles from civilization, you may indeed need to build a friction fire, knap a stone knife, weave some cordage, rough up a shelter, and hunt for food.

As a "primitive survival skills" fan (I'm a viewer, not a doer) I have learned so much that I feel a certain confidence that were I to somehow fall off civilization's ship, and be forced to fend for myself, or to help a group of stranded individuals to survive, we would somehow make it.
Solutionism

SBT has an extremely non trivial start up, and spin up time. Even using a client JVM (more aggressive JITing). You need to know the hot paths, before you can JIT them.

And as a CLI tool, by the time you start optimizing your hot paths your tool will exit.

Now C/C++/Rust/Go compilers can be slow, when your compiling A LOT of crap. But the tools will spring to action extremely quickly on smaller jobs. And while build farm services exist, they’re useful for handling instances where you have GiB’s of sources, or sources which expand into GiB’s of input.

Overall a generic build server API sounds good, but this doesn’t solve the core problem Scala has which can be summarized by running:

sbt -version

and seeing it take 1-2 minutes to display an error message.
The beauty of all this is that people can simply run their #openscience in Github and gitlab and bitbucket and (hopefully) their own gitea instance running on a $5/month digital ocean instance.

It’s funny that this is a complaint about a company controlling a centralized resource because they worry. But any centralized resource has this risk. Did they think Github would lose money forever and subsidise infrastructure in perpetuity? I think it was a situation of users being oblivious to risk and then murmuring because the externalized risk they ignored is now more apparent in a smaller risk.

So maybe these jarring events are good, because it helps us realize that many users are stupid and don’t assess data risk well. Luckily for us Github was really principled and Microsoft is a good fit for a PR/biz perspective. So the risk didn’t hit.

Having these discussions now, so scientists learn to push to multiple public repos (or universities run their own instance for a few thousand a year), rather than rely -falsely- on one source.
What’s good for learning is almost never good for reference

Maybe. But stuff like The Perl Cookbook helped me a lot in the past.
Diamonds aren’t a good example since their price is build on artificial scarcity and marketing. Dare I call this a straw man?
> “Open Science is not compatible with one corporation owning the platform used to collaborate on code. I hope that expert coders in #openscience have a viable alternative to #github,” tweeted Tom Johnstone, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Reading, UK.

This shows an astounding lack of understanding, both of Github and of git itself. Github was always owned and operated by "one corporation" - now it is owned by a different one. And "the platform" isn't Github - it is git itself! If this neuroscientist is so concerned about the acquisition, he can just set up a git server for himself and his colleagues and start citing that URL instead of Github.
And there was the sort of famous (at least in Scala circles) rant by Paul Philips about how insanely dumb the compiler is, how slow and unhelpful, as it builds up all the structures from scratch every time, just to throw a syntax/type/other error, instead of keeping the state and only processing the delta (the changes and the minimal related nodes in the tree).

So (type aware) programming should be a conversation with the compiler, trying to prove more and more about the code, while trying to clarify the intentions of the programmer.
Although standard awk has the advantage of being installed on all POSIX systems, for bioinformatics there's a nifty bioawk (https://github.com/lh3/bioawk) that extends awk so that records aren't necessarily lines but fasta/fastq records as well. Pretty neat for oneliners.
Interesting, but kind of strange that the mascot is based on (I suppose) one of Git's least used/useful features.
The pump drill/firestarter is a particularly interesting bit of tech; it dates back to at least the Phoenicians (1000 BCE).
This sounds like a story of someone growing personally to be a contributing member of society.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be beating these people over the head with debt for trying to better themselves.
I’d like to see research in bringing captured small asteroids back to earth cheaply for processing. Maybe attach a large ballute. Or the bfs payload version could land one.
Good for her writing openly about her struggles! Sharing is often hard, but can have an immensely positive effect on others who may be stumbling on the same path.
"I now owe more than what I originally borrowed because my payments haven’t even scratched the principal."

It is not "absurd". It is a working solution to a socio-political problem [for the modern Lords]. See Serf for a historic reference.
شاهد ملخص وأهداف مباراة فرنسا واستراليا في كأس العالم 16-6-2018 – NewsA
Looks very interesting, thanks!
Does anyone have an idea when these procedures by humans could have been done? The techniques this guy used could have been done 7000bc? (Super recent) They look advanced requiring: passed down knowledge, seasons knowledge, plant knowledge, fire creation, pot making etc. Doing this would have also created villages since you need to stick around to tend plots of land - which would have invited attacks from other tribes.
Well, sorry but you're wrong about React. You haven't shown any evidence that these things are related to React at all.

Here's some counter-evidence though - https://reactjs.org - that site is built with React and everything is instant.

Also, my own React apps perform instantly and that's because I didn't put in a shitload of JS to do things like track your mouse pointer and do other types of analytics like Twitter probably does.
It troubles me that topics like this usually turn into FUD about the 1% instead of recognizing government interference and subsidation as the problem.
The parable of the scorpion and frog [1] is exactly relevant. I wish Americans would stop shouting for more government to fix problems the government created in the first place.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog?wp...
Getting stuff up into space is hard and expensive. But if you have a big chunk of metal in earth orbit it's not hard to get it down.
In the US, do student loans need collateral?
I recently went through the process in India and was quite surprised at the amount of rigour - the bank requested a lot of information including grades since high school, discussed potential earnings and requested that the familial home be hypothecated to the bank.
It was so exciting when he finally built up to smelting bog iron. He only got a little amount, so not sure you could say he hit iron age technology, but it was cool to see that potential with such simple clay and fire.
I completely understand now where you’re coming from. Thing is, we’re taking an existing data model that has REST in front of it (a layer or two up), and trying to instead use GraphQL. I think, though anecdotal for me, that this is the more typical use case since most won’t be able to re-engineer the database to be more conducive to GraphQL.

And I think this now makes some sense as to why there is hardly any documentation with respect to practical GraphQL and ORM (in the vein of Spring Boot and Hibernate for us old Java folk).

Thanks for the explanation!
The formal term for how the price of something changes when the supply changes is the elasticity of demand. Well, really that's the term for how the amount people buy changes with the price but if we assume the person with the asteroid lowers the price enough to sell all the metal it comes to the same thing. It's known to be different for different sorts of goods and different circumstances. For instance platinum is mostly used in catalytic converters and people don't tend to make more or less of those as platinum prices change so the price would probably go down quite a bit as more supply becomes available. I got that by googling "price elasticity platinum" and you can do the same for the other asteroid components you might want to sell.
Hacker replaced Syscoin #Windows client with tainted version
Oh, I see. That does seem quite pointless.
Another tip: watch it once without the captions, then again with them.

There's more 'wonder' this way.
Man, give me a break. What is it with you boot licking corporate apologists?
What tool do you organise your project idea with before arraying them as tasks
I am a software engineer and has started working on a project, as my get away vehicle, away from Codding, but I have a great challenge, I find it very difficult to get my project to MVP. and it has span for months. What tools can I use to cob this?
"I don’t regret my MFA"

So you've learned nothing.
It's not that hard because the goal is to clickbait:

Watch how this reacts to that!

(Then automatically remove all links to sources and further information from the text)
> Fact, one of the ladies had twins and came back after a month

In most cases this isn't optimal for the baby, mother, father or society. Just because one family decides to do it that way doesn't mean we should support a system that punishes those that don't make the same decision.
How did they get this engine working on sprite base systems like the SNES?
What do you mean by "extra" on "extra CA PFL"?

Companies I am familiar with continue vesting through the full length of their paid parental leave.
Banned Chemical Still Depleting the Earth’s Ozone, Study Reveals
I'm probably able to give this kind of advice myself but I certainly know a few C-levels at public companies listed on Eurostoxx 50 that don't have the proper digital practices

I have more than a couple times witnessed and thought "are you actually exchanging highly sensitive information with your board while using an open wifi in the same room as 5 of your direct competitiors, their staff and 1k random guys like me?"

They can ask legal or IT but either way it will end up being a project relegated on a larger roadmap and will not be properly implemented in a timely manner.

I guess what I'm looking for is a piece written by a reputable source (from their POV) such as Bloomberg or the WSJ. Any ideas?
Just don't pay. It is shocking that people feel compelled to repay crooked loans issued by crooked banks run by people who are just playing a game of who can steal the most.
Thanks! I didn't check them out because I wasn't interested in leaving the city (and only included FB because I'd heard theirs was good).
Show HN: SalesPendingCRM.com BETA - Lead and sales tracking for SMEs
Reminds of the story of a theater student who was swindled by the "Nigerian mafia", left penniless, and turned that calamity into performance art.[1] The irony of analogizing a swindle to debt from an MFA is rich, of course.

[1] https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-5-helen-brown
No, in the US the government guarantees or buys the loans, which are non discharable.

You are free to drop $70k a year on a bachelors/masters in preschool education and make partial payments for the rest of your life!
Not at all. You can spend six years get a degree in photography and museum curation at an expensive art school, get 130,000 in student loan debt, then live with your parents while you pay 20% of your income in perpetuity. (A friend of mine’s real life situation)
What if the database of hashes gets leaked then there will be no possibility of throttling. Furthermore as somebody else set given a false positive the proper API may be used.
we need a shorthand s/he :)?
`tldr`[0] can be helpful for quick references like this. I never worry about commands like `ssh` anymore because of this. This is the output for `dd`:

$ tldr dd

dd

Convert and copy a file.

- Make a bootable usb drive from an isohybrid file (such like archlinux-xxx
.iso):

dd if=file.iso of=/dev/usb_drive

- Clone a drive to another drive with 4MB block and ignore error:

dd if=/dev/source_drive of=/dev/dest_drive bs=4m conv=noerror

- Generate a file of 100 random bytes by using kernel random driver:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=random_file bs=100 count=1

- Benchmark the write performance of a disk:

dd if=/dev/zero of=file_1GB bs=1024 count=1000000

[0]: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
“MFA in creative writing”

The article should be titled “The Absurdity of Useless Degrees”. It’s a very different calculus for someone taking out loans for an engineering degree.
Google has a hard time holding on to its black employees
Middle class should be able to afford college tuition. Stop being fancy when you're not and live within your means
Once you have your rock in a stable Earth orbit you can aerobrake it down into low orbit and from there probably land it into some shallow sea.

Though possibly the asteroid would be more valuable in orbit than on Earth. It's hard to get materials up there!
In the US student loans are for the major part unsecured and guaranteed by the government.

The idea behind is that a better educated population is more productive and pays, on aggregate, higher taxes. Part of this tax surplus can be used to pay for the debt defaults.

The reality is that the loans in too many cases are too high and will be paid back only in minimal part.
This doesn't make any sense. It's in the financial interest of people selling you addictive drugs not to kill you. "But they are criminal" is no explanation.
>Theranos’s investors, most of whom poured money into the company after its commercial rollout in Walgreens stores in late 2013, have collectively lost nearly $1 billion. They include the Waltons, heirs to Walmart Inc. founder Sam Walton, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Atlanta’s Cox family and the family of Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education. Each invested more than $100 million in Theranos—investments that are now worthless.

edit: sometimes you are brought to justice b/c you conned the wrong people...
Parents’ Screen Time Is Hurting Kids
"In 1966, Marvin Minsky at MIT asked his undergraduate student Gerald Jay Sussman to ±spend the summer linking a camera to a computer and getting the computer to describe what it saw². We now know that the problem is slightly more difficult than that." (Szeliski 2009, Computer Vision) :)
When people like Gillette take on debt, why is there never minimal cost-benefit analysis? Or do they ignore it? It's refreshing to read a reflection like hers.
That must be why landing the space shuttle was such an easy and inexpensive problem.
That doesn’t work when they’re government backed loans. It doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong, the government is the one with the guns and they’re going to make you pay one way or the other.