skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the difficulty lies in having to deal with just-whatever-the-users-and-their-MUAs-do. It's a bit of a mess. But a bit of convention can be taught to users -- think of Markdown, which has been quite a success because it's just a bit of convention that users were often accidentally using anyways. A bit of convention can go a long way.

The real challenge is that the GUI MUAs often make it hard for users to use even a bit of convention in plain text... I'm thinking of Outlook in particular, but it's not the only one. Even with an MUA that does angle-bracket quoting the right way and encourages users to trim quotes and bottom-post, the fact is that editing plain text is difficult and boring for most non-vim/emacs users out there, and that is most users. This problem can't be solved by the author of TFA, but if the author of TFA solves the problems that are in their bailiwick, then that could add pressure on MUA developers.
Wow. Am I missing something or is Ardour a more capable kind of Audacity?
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I would rather look at smiling people around me, even if the smile means nothing, than looking at sad faces in Russia. Everytime I go back to visit friends I notice how grumpy and angry most people look and you become to look like that too - the more you look at them.
Would you mind sharing which curcumin supplements you take? I'm currently taking one 750mg capsule of curcumin per day but I've been considering switching to theracurmin after reading about it in Hacker News comments.
There's been progress, just not from those people. Festo, the big German automation company, built a better gripper using a silicone semiliquid rather than ground coffee beans. Festo has many different end effectors for industrial automation.[2] That's more useful in this space than a one-idea company.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7l-87r4oOY
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZScJsaepg
Which is why we got the Sherman Antitrust Act during the last gilded age. Odds are we won't get one this time around though, as our democratic institutions have been completely defanged in the name of "pro business".
Jonathan Thomas over at Openshot Video Editor:

https://www.openshot.org/

It's had its share of bugs, but the amount of work he has put into it over the years is pretty incredible. Most other video editors for Linux don't even come close, and it recaptures a lot of the lost glory of Windows Movie Maker before it was rewritten and made ugly.
Indeed. I make an automatic small monthly contribution of a few dollars to the project (they make it super easy to do it).

BTW since Harrison Consoles have a commercial version of it (MixBus/MixBus32C) and are actively contributing to Ardour, I wonder if they are also supporting it financially.
You're right to emphasise good data-structures and algorithms (also concurrency, parallelism, etc), but compiler optimisation is nothing to sneeze at. '10%' is laughably off-base.

From a quick google: compiler optimisation can accelerate CPU-bound code to over 5x the unoptimised performance. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clang-gc...
There are a lot of engineers and financial quants using Matlab, and the Octave project makes a lot of that Matlab code usable without an expensive Matlab license.
I'm pretty sure you're agreeing with the thesis, despite your initial sentence.
I used to use and love GNU octave, but much prefer Julia these days, which is also open-source.
You think that people who are now homeless should be looking for legitimate residential opportunities in the most expensive city to live in in the world...by mechanism of lowering rent in said city?
Ya.. I go back and forth in my head a LOT about the importance of moats. Constantly second guess myself. You sacrifice SO MUCH velocity building a moat, and you cut off any possibility of other companies helping “rise all ships”.

But at the same time, aren’t there competent cloners lurking behind every corner ready to jump on your product market fit and outpace you?

This article pushed me a little further into the “don’t worry about moats; make your partners successful” camp. But I waver.
It means you're drunk.
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> libgit2, aka “the secret sauce”

I would describe GitHub's real "secret sauce" as the issue-tracking, wikis, project boards, and release management parts, that don't get represented in the repo itself.

Which is to say, if you wanted to commoditize GitHub (which is basically what "open-sourcing your secret sauce" means), you'd have to create some sort of library that allowed you to treat a git repo + all those other things as one structured data-object. You would be able to use said library to both operate on all those pieces of data locally; and to sync them between different Git hosting services that all share those features.

Or, better yet, figure out a way to put all those features into git itself, so that every git repo automatically transports those pieces of data alongside itself.
It's light years beyond it, it's a full fledged digital audio workstation capable of high quality studio recordings and mixing. A good analogy would be Paint vs. Photoshop.

EDIT: Not to downplay Audacity which is also awesome, it's just not meant for the same use case.
I'm not a rocket scientist so I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the O ring would be required no matter how it was constructed.
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Then the human can fix the awful service and stop feeding us bullshit.
I am not a big fan of GitLab-the-company. But GitLab CE is licensed as MIT. You can do with it what you wilt.

I have a hunch that your actual complaint is that they too do with it what they wilt, and what they wilt is not "give to you everything they add on top of GitLab for free and forever".
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It really depends on what you qualify as tinkering. I switched to Debian stable as I found the constant upgrade cycle of rolling distros to require to much tinkering.
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An amazing self-hosted cross platform file syncing/sharing service. Being based on git allows for (somewhat) unlimited version history. Simple and elegant, really surprised more people don't know about it.
It's true that the most approachable distros (SUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and its derivatives like Elementary OS) are more or less "tinker free" these days.

For those of us who still like to tinker while maintaining a stable base, there are distros like Debian, Slackware, Void, and so on. And finally, for those who consider Linux a hobby or pastime (or who are comfortable living on the bleeding edge) there are projects like Arch, Neon, and Gentoo.
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Dividends are income. It's farcical that they are not treated as such in the US tax code.

I believe the point is that in the example above, someone living off their nest egg, able to do nothing, are paying less in taxes than someone still in the workforce, earning.

This exacerbates the concerns over wealth inequality because those who have built wealth, can then grow their wealth at a lower tax rate than those stuck at the bottom of the income ladder.
Exactly. I wonder how people would react to if Microsoft made the GitHub source public (and available for further extension by the community) but didn't grant the license to redistribute/deploy it anywhere else. Would people be content with that, or would they be grabbing more pitchforks and protesting Microsoft's actions as some kind of toxic evil? I'm skeptical that that would make people happy, and if it doesn't, then it goes to show the ulterior motivation isn't actually to just to extend the platform and "scratch my own itch", as they put it. It's to let themselves move off GitHub.
Oh yes! OpenShot is so great. I haven't used it in a couple of years but when I did it was a pleasure to use as an occasional user with 0 knowledge of video editing software.
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The style of coinductive reasoning is very different.

In general, in induction, one has a base case and an inductive case. Hence, you can only build "finite" objects (since you start with the base case and you can apply the induction rule a finite number of times)

In coinduction, you start with an infinite object, and you show that you can "progress" - that is, take a step in your computation. So, this shows that you can _reach_ states in finite time, even if the full structure is inaccessible, since you show progress on each state.

The phrase that I've heard is "induction is to prove what's true, coinduction is to prove what's not false"

Please do Google "practical coinduction" it has a wealth of examples.
> Do they even have prisons for minors?

Juvenile Detention ('juvie') looks pretty unpleasant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_detention_center
Honest my ass:

>“I think people think it’s a lot worse than it is, this catastrophic mess all the time,” she said. “I’ve had to put a moratorium on talking about the trains with my boyfriend. We had to say no talking about the trains. He’s part of the public. They just see the bad parts. They don’t see the strides we’re making and how this information that we put out makes a difference. They’re caught up in the negative part.”

The "negative part" is the trains being late or stopping in the tunnels almost daily. The "negative part" is our lives being constantly disrupted by the MTA's unbelievably poor service. She's damn right we're "caught up in the negative part".

This is a bullshit spin operation. Fix the damn trains, don't hire some PR operative to tell us we're somehow delusional and we're not really having these problems.
I appreciate this counterpoint.

It's much easier to see a pattern than to understand why it occurs.
Yes, they have prison for minors. Quick search shows over 70k in juvenile detention at last count. Juvenile detention is just prison for kids, looks no different than adult prison to me.
>Microsoft open sourced Xamarin after acquisition and it was good for community.

I don't think Microsoft's previous open sourcing of Xamarin is a good indicator and may lead us to misunderstand MS's strategy. To me, it would be very out of character for MS to open source Github.

Yes, MS has released things like C# compiler (Rosalyn), Visual Studio Code (Javascript Electron app), and Xamarin to the open source community.

But, MS has not open sourced CodePlex, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Skype, Linkedin.

I see a difference between "programming tools" and "collaboration platforms" and Github is in the 2nd category. I see no strategic reason why MS would pay $7.5 billion for Github to just turn around and open source it.
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It does. The fair price of the loan is the price that doesn't cause social harm.

The lender figures out how to translate that into APRs and possibly turn a profit, or perhaps there's no price that's profitable and socially good. That's perfectly fine.
Primary takeaway, for (Haskell) programs compiled with GHC: "Code size: overall binary sizes are reduced by ~5% for large programs, ~3% for smaller programs."
This kind of greeting is, however, not appropriate to complete strangers and might be considered an inappropriate familiarity.

From the top answer in your link. I’m with the gp, it’s grotesque when everyone I come across in America in a supermarket or pharmacy all ask this.

Edit: why does this comment minimize?
The "IP" lobby seeks to treat patents as indifferent from physical property. Casually granted and infringing upon the rights of others, their cause is a danger to your own free exchange of ideas.
> One version of the article laid out both sides of a given controversy, similar to a traditional news story — arguing the case in favor of gun rights, for example, followed by the case for gun control.

I'm not sure how this relates to investigative journalism. While investigative pieces give the target of the investigation a chance to respond as part of the article, they do not devote paragraphs to "both sides" of the corruption/wrongdoing revealed.
> IANAL, but "would allow us to" is a far cry from "we will do so"; could be as simple as that? They never _committed_ to lowering prices post-merger, just said they _could_...theoretically.

Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines, but I didn't want to rely on Ars Technica's paraphrase.

I would hope such "arguments" could be efficiently shot down by the observation that, by the same logic, buying Time Warner would similarly allow [AT&T] to buy every American a pony. The likelihood of that happening is similar to the likelihood AT&T would lower its prices post-merger.
> "Physics Professor Aleksei Aksimentiev and his post doctoral researcher James Wilson found that a high electric field applied to a tiny hole in a graphene membrane would compress the water molecules travelling through the pore by 3 percent."

Ahh, "3 percent" means that from a fluid dynamics point of view, the incompressibility assumption is still a good assumption valid for most macroscopic applications. :) Still very impressive to achieve that under ambient pressure with an electric field gradient.
>It really does seem that the social media team calms down a lot of angry people.

Great, they've mastered spin. People are angry for good reason. Don't calm them down, fix the damn trains, now. This is just more of the MTA's endless bullshit.
> I probably would have written it off as floating point shenanigans.

Pretty sure anyone in actual scientific computing stays far, far away from floating point numbers and sticks to arbitrary precision ones instead.
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Small screen? Again, 17in is rather difficult to come by in a laptop.

The real fallacy is in denigrating the side-by-side workflow. Just having every window be fullscreen would be madness.
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Yeah, one other thing that works is to use a foreign wireless connection (of course it is carried by ChinaTelecom etc) like AT&T or BT. I've rarely seen those connections blocked, even when hotel/local wired connections and the company VPN were all... "slowing down" for certain sites.

I haven't been to Hainan though so I don't know about any particular issues there.
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This is a great opportunity to educate our less-technically-minded civilians on the pitfalls of large, unaccountable corporations, and the benefits of anti-trust enforcement... It's easy for the mainstream to understand how this particular monopolization negatively impacts all of our bottomline.
Re: COM, that works because MSFT can a) commit to an ABI for C++, b) they can stick to a subset of C++ that makes that easy enough. Similarly for OS X.

The point isn't to stay in a C-like world. The point is that it must be possible to specify an ABI, file formats, and so on, in the host language. Yes, we can use external IDLs (even user them as DSLs if you like). I know all about and have worked with quite a lot of them (e.g., ASN.1, XDR, and many many others). But when you get down to a certain level, a light-weight approach really pays off. For example, at the system call level, and for many sufficiently simple file formats and such. At a higher end in complexity, on the other hand, then ASN.1 and friends pay off instead, mostly in a) obtaining interoperability with implementations written in other languages, b) managing extensibility.

Another thing is that some of us think about how things work at many levels. It's nice to be able to think about an interface and accurately picture what goes on at a low layer. It's difficult to do that with HLLs. But HLLs can easily have features that allow fine-grained control of or exposure of low level details, and that's what I'm saying I want to have as an option.
In 2017 SF had about 7500 Homeless people, if your numbers are correct (cannot find the source), then it means city spends per homeless person annually somewhere between $40K to $53K, which seems to be insane amount of money.
I hope so! I think the MixBus team has contributed some code back to Ardour.
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I’m guessing that the age of the system is defined by “first light” of the star (PDS 70), since once the star lights up, the cloud around it starts evaporating.
Github has had stunning stability. I bet their architecture is nontrivial, that dozens of parts of their code are tied intricately to their architecture, and that opensourcing only the bits that will run on typical AMIs or on debian^Wdevuan would be little more than opensourcing helloworld.rb.
Have you think about including Golang based Lambda function in your benchmark?

As you're guessing that Cloudfare superior JS runtime plays a big role, it could be interesting to see if it can compete against Golang Lambda as well.
What? It's like a conscious strategy on the part of homeless people? That would be cool.

No, I really just think that people should stop overthinking problems like this. You don't need to go around asking everybody's life story to work out that homelessness is tightly coupled with rent prices. Fix one, you fix the other. Or, if you think that's too expensive or onerous, own it. Accept that you're basically OK with other people being homeless. Everything else is just crocodile tears.
Most of the talk about blockchain seems to be from the intersection of the set of people who don't understand cryptography with the set of people who don't understand economics, perhaps with the set of people who don't understand databases thrown in for good measure. >99% of the time there's a better solution for the problem.

Blockchains aren't useless. They're just a lot less useful than what they're currently promised to be.
I can agree with most of this, but what is a "zode"? I grew up in the mid-west and have never heard that term.
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Seriously?
Pay the homeless
Parked cars are always in the way, the ones double parked blocking the official bike lane are hugely disruptive and dangerous and the nearly permanently parked cars along the side block what could be actually effective biking and pedestrian infrastructure. Just because cars are parked on the "street" and this is the status quo doesn't mean its no longer an inconvenience.
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