skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but you can certainly buy a brand, a customer base, a bunch of product trademarks or even a patent portfolio.

What happened with Apple and NeXT is the exception, not the rule.
This affects on so many open source projects in addition to RHEL. ANSIBLE, Ceph, OpenShift, Linux kernel, JBoss as well as everything Red Hat acquired from CoreOS.
This goes back to the whole, “hacking the election” 2016 fiasco. Why are we talking about these potential flaws more than the glaring flaw that adversaries already exploited, that of a relatively dumb populous easily manipulated via social media? There’s already a 0 day we don’t know how to patch, our adversaries don’t need to invest in complex cyber attacks when they can achieve the same end via free broadcasting platforms.
Can you provide a credible source to your claim?
First Microsoft buying GitHub and now IBM buying Red Hat.

I wonder how the next year will be for Linux and open source in general, looks like we are going to have a lot of drama.
This article isn't about becoming an AI expert. It's about learning enough AI to be able to build applications that help the world.

Having taken Fast.ai's Deep Learning course, I can confidently say that their course is enough to help a software engineer with no previous AI experience build extremely powerful real-world AI applications.

Jeremy Howard (the cofounder of Fast.ai, the former president of Kaggle, and the former #1 Kaggle competitor) only has a B.A. in Philosophy. One student who started the Fast.ai course as a violinist is now working as a researcher at Google Brain. It may have been true in the past that you need many years of work to become competent at building AI, but that's not true anymore.
I can't see how it is satire if it is a more fitting description to what the system is designed to do.
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This is from beginning of February. Things have indeed gotten worse since then. Especially the mortgage rates.
The only effective way for this to work is for RedHat to be an independent company
Wealthy people don't consume in the way you understand consumption. Wealth, at the higher levels, is almost synonymous with power. It's what amplifies your agency. By owning large organizations, investing in new developments, starting new organizations, controlling organizational output (think media companies in particular), wealth is converted into control over people and to a certain extent, governments.

Wealth gets "consumed" by bad investments. Those "bad" investments might even be considered as expenditure, almost as consumption, by the wealthy, e.g. subsidizing a newspaper - but what does sales tax (or some other consumption tax) look like when it's applied to journalists' salaries? Doesn't really make sense, does it.
Hoping they will stick to this:

"IBM to maintain Red Hat’s open source innovation legacy, scaling its vast technology portfolio and empowering its widespread developer community
Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team"

I guess this was an important part of the deal, otherwise it wouldn't make much sense.
God help us.

Will there be any independent open source/open source friendly company that isn't controlled by some corporate giant?
Online is real life and there’s not a significant difference between someone making death threats online or over the phone or through the mail and I wish law enforcement would take it more seriously and start jailing people and not just laughing it off.

It’ll only take throwing a few obnoxious kids into big boy prison for making terroristic threats before the ‘pranksters’ stop doing it and we’re left with the real crazies.
Please provide a citation
Hah, but I am the op :-) I didn't want it to come out negative. I don't think my critique is unsubstantial though. Essentially we switched Slack with Basecamp, which also offers a chat part, so you can replicate the same behavior, but it also offers other means to communicate. Slack in this case was just the chat tool we used, I think the problem is with chat as primary company communication, independent of vendor.
I am astonished how you even came to that nonsense.
Less cynical, true. But also, less apt.

There is no real need for arctic oil, nor Saudi oil for that matter. There are other, easier and cheaper, ways to replace Saudi oil then digging for it in the Arctic.
Because your body is more capable than what mainstream modern medicine is telling you? Keeping you in the dark about the healing benefits of fasting is their No. 1 agenda along with pushing life-long "treatments".

I do two 8-day-long dry fasts every year, and have completed several 12-day ones as well.

I also water fast for 30 days twice a year.

You have no idea what you are missing out on, health wise, if you are suffering from any sort of disease modern medicine is telling you is incurable.
Then why do electronic machines in the first place?
Exactly, the worst driver is you, when frustrated, distracted, or bored. Driver assistance means that stop&go traffic or long stretches of interstate can be made more tolerable and safe. It means rubber necking as you pass that accident on the other side of a barrier won't cause another accident on your side.

Of course reliance on this breeds complacency and allows longer commutes, but so do automatic transmissions, straight tracking wheel alignment, or cruise control. Maybe we would all drive more safely if there were giant spikes that killed us instantly rather than airbags, but we aren't going back... and hopefully one day (before I need it) we'll have true self driving.
Actually, I think you are confused.
You spoke about passing stationary objects, and you wrote you crashed at 35. I wrote that you didn't, you fell down with 35 (which you seem to concede). If you would have crashed with 35, in something hard, parked car, tree, wall of a house, or another stationary object, it's as bad as if a car hits you with 35, which indeed is very dangerous. (It's actually slightly worse, because a) the car is designed to minimize damage, and the wall is not, and b) a house is often heavier than a car, car and house building practices in the US non-withstanding)
My father started suffering from ME/CFS about 20 years ago. Fortunately it is not so severe that he can’t enjoy life, but he had to stop working (and the authorities didn’t support early retirement because it’s not a well understood condition).

I remember my father was initially off work with a virus, and then subsequently was diagnosed with some sort of thyroid condition which required lifelong prescription drugs to treat. But he never fully recovered (complained of constant fatigue, muscle aches in the morning, and a flu-like feeling) and eventually was diagnosed with ME, although there is no test to prove it definitively, whatever it is.
Also in practice glibc, systemd, GNOME, etc. have a ton of maintainers from Red Hat, even if they're not Red Hat-owned the way Ansible or Ceph is.
NixOS maybe? Don't know about memory footprint, but as a fellow fedora laptop user, I find this distro the most appealing to switch to (arch being the other option, but too high maintenance for my taste).
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They didn't fire theirs - they ordered them to move to an arbitrary office, most commonly not the closest geographically either, without relocation money. If you didn't move, it was considered a voluntary departure. There was often no room at these offices even for the minority who accepted the moves.

It was/is a deliberate attempt to dispose of senior, less portable people without having to pay layoff charges.

Who needs fusion power when you can run off the Watsons spinning in their graves at relativistic velocity?
So can everybody else, almost. I guess we should stop doing software altogether, to be safe.
They call it bluewashing.
revival of the good old https://www.google.com/search?q=i+alert+u+mac ;)

It had some funny features like shooting a picture of the intruder and so on :)
The mistake you make is correlating the rise of the internet with the reduction in crime. That correlation could be better explained with the lead-crime hypothesis rather than assuming that the internet is somehow causing less crime.

What we have seen is the number of hate crimes increase quite drastically over the past few years as well as the continued rise of school shootings in America.
I'm surprised at the amount of backlash here.

IBM's had the Linux Technology Center (LTC) for a long time and has been contributing to the community. All the platforms Z, POWER etc... support Linux as a first class citizen and plenty of other ecosystems are also supported (i.e GCC, OpenJDK, etc...)

Maybe its time to re-evaluate the old biases? The old incumbents like Microsoft have warmed up to OSS, not sure why Big-Blue is getting this much flak.
Probably if things go wrong, every community will just fork the code and move on.
IBM to acquire RedHat
“Y buys X for it to operate distinctly within Y.” usually doesn’t mean much. It doesn’t imply independence.
Quote from the now flagged article.

> Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called the decision an important step toward “American energy dominance.”

We can no longer afford the delusion that our leaders are mature and practical men.
This reminds me of an article[1] I wrote predicting shifting trends in Open Source development, in particular of core infrastructure tools.

There is a huge ripe opportunity for a new company/non-profit to step in and set precedence on the future of developer tools. People don't "Dream Big" anymore, and having the biggest OSS companies absorbed by the most proprietary of companies is a perfect example of hope being lost. I hope we can revert this trend, who wants to help?

1. https://hackernoon.com/the-implications-of-rethinkdb-and-par...
Are you sure you hadn't opened the post from somewhere else at some point in the last couple weeks?
On the top of the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321937

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18322262
> "It's a major reason why taxation should focus on the rich (as opposed to the 'well off' e.g. high incomes). They really will not notice it aside from ideological opposition."

I don't understand what the srawman you think I was making is supposed to be. The quote is what I was replying to. He was referring on taxation focusing on the rich (not the well off). My original reply was commenting on that.

Is the strawman supposed to be that 1% is too high a bar of entry to be considered rich? Or something else?
I'm sure that you can draw a line where it does not count as "core product", but Eclipse has to count as something.
Well, I can easily imagine something worse, like for example Oracle buying it... ^__^;
Turning drug addicts into serfs like in Interstate 60[1]. Perhaps it would be an improvement but doesn't seem like a desirable end goal.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/
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I hope CoreOS succeeds regardless. It has built a very nice ecosystem around it.
Eclipse is hardly a core IBM product.
>My instinct is that it was a result of running Linux as it is likely the majority of spam requests come from Linux servers whereas the majority of legitimate requests come from Windows computers.

I don't believe this to be true because I use Windows often.
Tell us the name of the PhD research groups that were critical in the success of Cisco, Microsoft, AirBnB, Uber, Oracle, Salesforce, Apple, Google (Page Rank is a simple idea, not rocket science)?

Maybe Intel, but then there are arguments there as well.

The kinds of 'R' that PhD's are trained to do is fairly academic and pure. It takes so long for that research to meet applied reality in the competitive sense. I know that Google has made some improvements with voice recognition etc. but it's not hugely material, it hasn't changed their business one bit.

I can't even think of a single important startup these days that was founded on key research.

Of course these people are important, and fairly pure 'R' is important, but the world is far, far more applied than most people like to think.

The kinds of 'professional' aspects you describe simply aren't necessary in most scenarios.

Also - remember that a lot of what researchers churn out isn't necessarily valuable, a lot of the results are not reproducible, and that 'publishing, giving talks, having a network' are not in and of themselves hyper relevant to making progress.

In many ways I feel that PhD's are to 'applied R&D' what 'MBA's' are to business - it's all very academic :)
I just checked the link to the proposal and I don't think there was anything wrong.

A little discussion about the proposal. Some didn't seem to like it because of 'language clarity'. Some group of core developers discussed it and rejected it.

I don't know what one expects but I have seen quite some language proposals (rejected) and this didn't seem inappropriate to me. They don't want it.. accept it or move on. They gave a reason. If you think it's sufficient is another thing and mostly about opinion.
I feel like there's something I'm missing: it doesn't make any sense that this book would be published...

Reading some of the preview material at Amazon, the chapters often start with brutal depictions of violence against African American slaves. I get no sense of the purpose of these passages; they don't appear to be taking a stance in anyway, just quoting from old sources.

The only charitable interpretation I can think of is something along the lines I remember Asimov writing about: humankind always uses slaves; they stop when it's economically viable to use machines instead. And in a way automata theory is a very general theory of abstract machines which we use to substitute human labor in many ways... So maybe he's giving a visceral reminder of the importance of the subject matter at hand (automata theory)?

Additionally, the table of contents does look interesting. I've read Sipser, and I'd now be interested in this different angle on the subject (Sipser felt more isolated from other parts of mathematics; this starting out by connecting to semigroups for instance seems interesting)—but that said, it's just too bizarre:

Its 'Chapter 0,' titled "Mathematical Preliminaries," opens with a full-page passage of the sort I described above. To give the flavor, here are a few lines included in it:

"... Who are generally presented, being secur'd by Bastias or negro drivers, And instantly tied Up to the Beams of the Plaza, or a Tree, Without so much as being heard, When the flogging begins, men, women, or children, without exception, on theyr long naked bodies, by long hempin whips that cut round at every lash, and crack like a pistol, during which they alternately repeat Dankee Massera, /Thank You Master/, but while he stalks up and down with his overseer..."

—and on and on. wtf.

The next page is the standard sort of presentation of mathematical notation you'd expect.
If you decentivize being rich you decentivize generating value

There’s no real evidence to support that. Why must gross overcentralisation of capital be the only way to invest in productive activity?
WAS is not open source.
I have on big problem with the protonmail web interface (and apps). It can't do full text search, only subject and sender which makes it hard for me to use.
Time for an increased focus on productivity and deadlines and shareholder return until all talent leaves from burn out.

Good news for any tech company looking for talent in the next few years.
I think Microsoft should buy Ubuntu now, and we are all set.
A new icon seemingly confirms that the next iPad Pro won’t have a home button
The task force couldn't operate because the states most suspected of having this problem would not supply data. One could infer that this means they know they have the problem and are hiding it.
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I'm saying:

It's the goal of some engineers to write clean code for the benefit of the business.

It's the goal of some engineers to slap together something new and shiny, present it to management and get it approved for the benefit of their careers.

Engineers goals sometimes align with the business and sometimes don't.
I'm ok with Facebook and Google censoring their platforms if it prevents people from being radicalized.

If you want to host your own hate page, you can. I think there are a lot of negative externalities of the massive communication infrastructure that people are involved in now that aren't fully understood yet.

Violent crime is down - the number of idiot antivaxers is up, for example. I think we all need to just admit the idea of connecting everyone to everyone else is actually a terrible idea - tech was wrong, the positive techno fantasy was as absurd as communism, and we need to now deal with the beast we've created.
Confirmed - I suffer from mild sleep apnea and do have these symptoms mainly because I'm not getting enough oxygen at night.
I hope all companies using opensource software would contribute back either by returning some percent of their profit or in-terms of work-force.

It's like many companies take, but doesn't give back.
as fully remote

Didn’t IBM have a massive crackdown on remote working recently? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/09/ibm_workfromhome_cu...
Unless I'm mistaken, almost all of open source is driven by corporate development. The linux kernel is an alright example: roughly 85% of development seems to be sponsored by a corporation[1]. I felt a little weird when I first learned that

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2610207/open-source-softwa...
> I have learned to be productive when I have a quiet space and can tinker on a problem without getting interrupted. Slack makes this very difficult.

I have personally suffered from this far too long, specially when my work has been a hybrid of maker and manager. It becomes extremely hard to create pockets of maker time.

My solution has been to schedule 2-3 hour blocks of focused time around a project (Feature X) or responsibility (customer support) once or twice a day so that at the very least, I can create focus during those times. The key is to not over do it and get hung up on scheduling every minute, but just a few hours per day like this.

To facilitate this, I've built a slack bot that integrates with my calendar and I can mark these events as "Focus" events. The bot sets my status to "Do Not Disturb" during the event and if somebody tries to message me, they get a message that I am in heads down mode. They can then leave a note on why they were contacting me or if I they need me urgently, they can click a button and I get an immediate notification. When my focus time ends, I get a list of notes from my team on why they needed me and I can answer them one by one.

Effectively, I've found that once a team moves to Slack, all internal communication moves to Slack (instead of using slack for urgent sync and email for other async), and this brings back email like async model to Slack for the times when you need it.

You can try out the slack bot at https://slack.com/apps/A5MJB641F-oliv

In full disclosure, I've build the bot for my personal usage and don't intend to monetize it. It's just my way of giving back to the community. It's not very polished and doesn't have an onboarding flow, so if you need any help in using it, contact me at ishan.chhabra [at] gmail.com. I'll be happy to help.
I wrote a js wave function collapse implementation earlier this year and really enjoyed the process and its results. Constraint support is a feature I'm still looking forward to adding in the future, so it's pretty neat to see how others have tackled similar things.

This algorithm is really amazing -- it's effectively very similar to a markov chain to generate map/image data.
It took me a while to figure out that on HN you get downvoted if you aren't agreed with or your opinion is disliked - quite often nothing to do with any actual intellectual argument. I've learned to ignore all the downvotes that I get - they are meaningless, and usually associated with what I consider to be my more insightful posts. (Since more insight implies that more other people haven't made the same observation - thus more downvotes.)
YMMV, but I consider my residence address (or, generalizing - my live geolocation) way more sensitive than my photo, fingerprints or DNA.

Personally, I have to trust someone much less to send them a photo, than an address of residence.

I'm not exactly sure what can be more undesirable - being recognized or being physically interacted with. However, my first impression when I started to reply to your comment was that it's the latter.
BuzzFeed is part of the toxic behavior we see online.
how is "CFS and fibromyalgia are conditions that see incredibly positive results after prolonged fasting. Don't take my word for it, and do not do it without extensive research on your part - but do conduct this research." a flaggable comment? He's very clearly stating to do your own research and not take his word for it.
Add Fedora to the list - while technically a community project, Red Hat is the main contributor.
The parent poster is not correlating internet going up with crime going down, poster is correlating internet going up with hysteria over crime going up.
I hope all companies using opensource software would contribute back either by returning some percent of their profits or in-terms of work-force.

Many companies take, but doesn't give back.
I look forward to IBM marketing taking over.

"yum, powered by Watson"
Hi HN, I believe S-1's should be more widely read, but are intimidating to first time readers. Here, I've taken Eventbrite's S-1, took only the most essential sections (~1/5 of total text), and overlaid a simple WP template to improve readability. Do you think it would be make sense for something like this to exist for ALL S-1's?

Here's Eventbrite's original full S-1 for comparison:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000119312518...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884.
Indeed; sorry for that. I have no idea whether I can correct my submission.
Example? BuzzFeed News has in my experience been one of the better, if not the best, news portals.
There was an era when IBM's "core products" were hardware. I think today their "core product" is consulting.

Open source hardware exists but is rare. I don't know what it means to open source consulting?
If you have parathyroid issues it could be a boron deficiency.
A lot of this is because with the rise of the internet we've seen that it's become easier to push people into these conspiratorial narratives. Before it was largely limited to relatively local radio shows but now you have large media sources spreading not-so-subtle news about how the Jews are ruining America or the deep state controlling your lives.

We see these charlatans spreading vile bigotry and hatred, often directly resulting in the harm of innocent people. People spreading narratives that school shootings don't actually exist. The overall audience these people can reach has grown dramatically and the problem is that it's similar to cult behavior. You can't actually beat them with facts or through arguments. At a certain point we're going to need to face this problem head on and treat it as a proper cult.
That URL looks like the best one so far, so we'll use it. Thanks!
And just like that, I get flagged by the "modern science" brigade on HN... classic. They can't fathom a civil conversation outside their comfort zone.
Facebook's political ad system is still easily tricked
Remember Annie Dookhan!
Why can't the overlords just accept current profit margins?
Given the definition of crazy = someone who lost connection to the reality.
If you don't agree with somebody on the reality, how do you tell who is the crazy one?
Is it possible that the majority is crazy?
Isn't having about half of your gross worth in one city's housing market more risky?