skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> June 4 is expiration of 25-day quiet period for analysts at underwriting banks. Expect bullish initiations on this date

Why? There are plenty of examples of equity research analysts pulling no punches on names that the other side of the Chinese wall took public months earlier. And Uber is a classic opportunity for a smart young analyst to get invited on CNBC by throwing some sharply worded shade in their initiating coverage.
You need to focus, no one is talking about electron. It's in its own world of nonsense.

> There is a way, named "Dear ImGUI"

I'm not talking about immediate GUIs (and they use a heirarchy for layout too of course). You put some example c++ and said every GUI has that same structure, which isn't necessarily true. A heirarchy doesn't have to be implemented with a tree of pointers.

I'm not saying these things can't work, but saying 'this is how it must be done' is just not true.
You’re comparing the invention of a nifty replacement for horses with, for instance, the complete destruction of every city in the United States with a population over 1,000,000 in a global nuclear war.
Lol, if we are thinking that way, they stole their entire business idea from GitHub!!! They are upset GitHub copied a single feature! Unbelievable.
I've been using duckduckgo as my sole search engine for years. I've been totally satisfied with my results. In fact I've had other people mention how my googlefu is exceptional since I'm always finding stuff that they can't seem to find. It just occurred to me that maybe it's the search engine that I'm using instead of my search skills.
The problem is that hosting and bandwidth aren’t free and abuse is a big problem. Managing a distributed petabyte-scale archive which gets updated so frequently is a significant engineering problem even for a single party — now consider how you’d handle redundancy and routing when you can’t rely on any of the parties involved, and you have enough different objects being accessed to turn away most participants unless you can guarantee that participating won’t blow your ISPs data caps, interfere with other use, etc.

Abuse is the other huge problem: think about what happens when you’re hosting some BLOBs and the FBI shows up at your door because someone uploaded some kind of contraband and some of it was available from your IP address. How many people are going to setup completely independent hosting accounts to avoid fallout from something like that which happens so regularly?

The closest thing which comes to mind is the Debian mirror network and that is something of a historical fluke, predating centralized hosting being possible, and scoped to a much smaller set of more trusted participants. That also hits the big problem that even with a fair amount of infrastructure backing it, it’s hard to match the user experience of something like Github or NPM so the most likely case is spending a lot of time in hard problems but not overcoming the basic economics, as seems to be happening to IPFS.
I use the Docker Registry as well, it does work great. Is there some special integration for npm/Java, or is it because you can just download the artifacts if you specify the URL?
It's simple. You wait for five years before you start developing in any given technology. By that time it will either have been substituted or polished.

UWP was a clustefuck from the beginning, especially after everyone realized that MS intended to give-up on mobile. There aren't many people who bought into it and given Microsoft's infamous support for legacy code it's no surprise that they decided to tank it. Bottom line, my guess is that very few people will be hurt by this decision. They've all moved to greener pastures long ago.
See for example this PEP suggesting they use GitHub issues for the CPython repo hosted on GitHub, opened a year ago https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0581/
It was diagnosed autoimmune. I have pictures of white blood cells attacking my hair follicles.
If his cultural background is that no one in his culture has ever called him out for being inconsiderate I can see how he might make this mistake.
Agree. It would be good if Github could enforce some standards as well. Maybe I should read the docs to see if they do...
Ok, we'll add a sighting above.
I mean that will happen in a decade or so anyway, so
Maybe's it's just me, but it seems like Gitlab lists every issue they suffer, while Github is listing when it's (practically) down and non-functional. Would be interested if someone could fill in some details though.
And what I'm suggesting is a very specific form of a bank. Strict regulation is implied.

I just prefer to give people of choice of what kind of institution they want to trust. And bail out none of them, a regulation of what government is allowed to do.
Any stronger taxation scheme to make the rich pay their share is probably fine.

I personally prefer a small financial transaction tax.
Why CDC and NIH instead of the EPA?
The Bolivian women who knit parts for hearts (2015)
Ok, so again, why is it "offensive".
A little description of the services provided would be helpful. The name reminds me of the concept of a dead man’s switch. But it’d be cool to know a little more about it before I sign up.
>> So whenever someone ask why you don't short an individual stock its always valid to answer that you believe you are right in the long term but the short term could wipe you out if you shorted.

Agreed.

The biggest disconnect here is simply not understanding how the short mechanism works. It is not simply a bet against a stock and call it good. There's a chain of events that have to occur, culminating in someone's previously-held security of said stock.
It's not the VC's money - it's money from wealthy investors and more recently sovereign funds and even pension funds.
Elon Musk’s ‘pedo guy’ defamation case is going to trial
Free flow of capital and trade is one of the best way to deescalate conflict between nations, and is something both sides should restrain from interfering no matter how much they hate each other.

A China-US-type confrontation is much preferable over an Iran-US-type confrontation.
Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_or_the_Discovery_of_Televi...

>As the first film streamed across the Internet in 1993, the New York Times declaring Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees an “historic event.”

>Blair performs in the film, which additionally features a cameo by William Burroughs. As an anti-war statement, Wax provided an early critique of the Gulf War and current-day drone warfare. A combination of innovative digital animation, found footage, and live action, Wax’s visual form is a unique representation of the technologies and politics that it critiques, which still reverberate today.

http://www.waxweb.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl3eEzuLwPk

Wax or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees [85:00, 1991] [English version]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6mXatS-4ns
That doesn't make sense. The stock grant will still be considered normal income to you and taxed as the salary is taxed. Any difference in the stock price after it vests and you sell will be either short term or long term capital gain.

So if you consider getting all salary in cash and then buying GOOG (or any other stock) with it, you come off only a month or two late on the period for which you are holding the stock. And for that, you lose out on the diversity of the stock.

This also assumes that your GOOG stock starts vesting immediately and there is no cliff. Otherwise, you will be holding the stock for "cliff" period longer if you just get cash salary and buy the stock.

Disc: Googler but this comment doesn't have anything specifically to do with Google. Google is just an example here.
>> Not me, but my mom's a COBOL programmer for a Fortune 50.

Smart girls learn COBOL.
I run a few servers that use Virtualmin + Postfix. I'm militant about outbound mail, and I make sure my accounts don't get compromised. If my mail queue reaches a certain size, I get notified and I go mop up the mess. Most recently it was an unprotected form that wasn't linked to, but existed.

As for inbound spam, I can use RBL's but the most effective thing has been to block email servers that have rDNS that is either mismatched or nonexistent. I also host at a provider that isn't known for having their IP's on the "forever banned" lists.
This has to be the worst advice I've ever read in this site
> In human interaction, it is often the case that specific exhortations not to do something with only concessions explaining why it's so great for the non-exhorting party tends to be interpreted as the exhorter having something to gain by doing so.

So what?

> In a mutually beneficial contract like employment, if someone specifically went out of their way to tell me not to unionize, that's the first sign a Union might be a damn good idea. Given that as time goes on, and unions fade further and further from the limelight as youngsters take over who have never had much union interaction except through stories from grandparents, it strikes me as disingenuous to acknowledge the company's right to post backhanded smears of the right of labor to organize without tempering it with a bit of perspective.

What perspective is that, exactly? There's no smear here. They're stating their view.

> The fact this campaign puts off such slimy vibes (I've seen less slimy cigarette ads, and that's saying something) entitles Delta to be treated with whatever scorn and loss of goodwill this move generates.

All you've done here is re-assert your negative emotional valence. Not given any sort of explanation for it.
This is true, but having just a keyboard shortcut is still a disaster for discoverability. I've used Windows a fair bit and have spent a decade using various Linux DEs; it was only two weeks ago that I discovered Ctrl+L.

It's a wonderful shortcut, useful in browsers and a huge number of other applications, but having buttons and menus and other UI features - which may take up a tiny bit of space and piss off designers who want ultra simple UIs - are what allow people to become good at using software naturally, without having to actively seek out knowledge from the few enlightened ones.
The story for public transportation in most large cities in the US is not awesome.

1. Crime
2. Forces you to come in contact with people you would not choose to associate with normally
3. Public transportation vehicles are often dirty/unclean
4. Long waits during off peak times, often, which forces you to revolve your schedule around public transportation
5. Commutes are often longer
6. Can't get to your destination often without a long walk, or another vehicle
7. Usually still requires walking in the rain/hail/snow/sleet/wind/sub-zero temps
8. Initial build out and future expansion are very expensive.

Unless those are addressed in new buildouts, public transportation will continue to have the reputation of public housing and public schools in many places.
> Precisely why I wear one - it's my natural state

This. I guess I can understand some people prefer how they look shaven, but I can't understand spending so much time and money to avoid looking how you really look.
Having been at a company that was a heavy Atlassian/Jira/BB user, it seems the only reason for companies to ever use BB was because they already used Jira, and/or because of pricing differences vs Github (although that has changed a few times since I've left there).
It has local network effects.
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624725
It's probably worth considering this question from the perspective of how we know most subatomic particles are real. They can't be directly observed either - the LHC and other particle accelerators only ever observe electrical disturbances in their sensors following a pattern of results from decay product interactions. No one sits down with a microscope and says "yep that's a gluon".

EDIT: Consider that the Higgs boson wasn't "directly" observed till very recently but was assumed to exist for decades prior for the exact same reasons - you needed to add an additional term to the equations to break the symmetry and cause particles to have mass, which in turn implied a pervasive field throughout the universe we hadn't observed yet. Which in turn implied it should exist discreetly under high energy conditions as a particle, which became the Higgs.
Url changed from https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/uber-and-lyft-may-be..., which points to this.
Of course Facebook dislikes free speech. I'm also not surprised that France feels the same way, but what's up with Europeans and setting up fines that are a percentage of global revenue?

Also, I really hope that France doesn't get to push that through in the EU, but I don't really see how we could stop it. Divide and conquer seems to be very effective in the EU by the big countries. The more I read about the big countries in the EU or what the EU itself decides to do, the less I want to live in it.
It’s not much different. That doesn’t mean DM is wrong, though! Logically, there’s two possibilities: laws of gravitation are 100% correct at all scales and the discrepancies we see at level of galaxy rotations, etc, are due to matter we can’t yet observe in other ways (hypothesized dark matter). Other option is gravity dynamics are in need of further refinement, much like GR refined Newtonian gravity. Or some combination... maybe GR isn’t the full story but dark matter is also a real thing.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19605065

I think there’s often sloppiness in how things are stated - dark matter is inferred based on observation of X (edges of galaxy rotate too fast) and an assumption that GR is 100% correct. X is then said to be “evidence for DM”, but there’s that unstated premise.
Can you elaborate with an example or two? I’ve always been fascinated by Prolog and thought of it as a language that is very well suited to a specific class of problems. It would be interesting to know what class of problem Prolog excels at and why newer languages or new features in existing languages can do what only Prolog did before.
1. What a very strange ordeal. Someone please explain but it seems like the only way this works out for Musk is if he brings some incriminating evidence on the diver? Why wouldn’t they just settle this out of court?

2. Everything else aside, I remember seeing the narrow squeezes, and remember seeing the submarine. That was never going to work.
Your loss. At least they have a self-hosted open source version for you to try. That is way more than GitHub offers.
Was Amazon as big as Uber in those first 17 quarters (in ters of revenue)? If not, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
GitLab has this feature and it can be self-hosted.
If you truly believe any of the conclusions you've drawn from the numbers in the links you posted, then your favorite programming language REDUCES statistics skills.
If you really believe this then you can probably make a healthy amount of money buying put options.
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Amazon is definitely misleading: they became profitable within specific business areas (e.g. books & music first) but invested that money in new businesses. The analogy would be if, say, Uber was profitable in San Francisco and Los Angeles but still bootstrapping Phoenix and Denver.

I haven’t read anything which suggests they aren’t subsidizing rides in their most established markets just like everywhere else, and both their drivers and customers can switch to competitors so easily that it’s not obvious how they can change that.
Have you seen all the features they offer for free, as well as their self-hosted version? Wayy more than GitHub.
I've had great success finding devs for my company on SO. I would hate to see it go away.
No they're just potentially not particularly useful models.

To be a theory they have to be making some direct claim we can use to predict future results.

To be rejected we have to find evidence where one adjustment would invalidate previous evidence (bring the hypothesis into contradiction with itself).

Being a good scientist means being positivist about your models - if the model works, it works, and it's irrelevant in some respects what it says something actually is if the name is not part of an additional claim of how things should behave.
Can somebody explain the technical accomplishment here? What's new about this? Github already hosts source. What do they mean by "package"? Is it just source? I don't get it.
As a long-time React dev, I booted Windows and started looking thru the "vnext" setup. But then took another look and saw this:

System Requirements: Visual Studio 2017

Oh. Well, sorry but I'm not going to drop my current IDE (i.e install and run a branch new IDE rather than my everyday tool I've customized greatly).
here is the SEC filing:

https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2019/34-85828.pdf?mod=articl...

question to LTSE employees: do you plan to host your matching engine in California?
Make public transport remotely competitive with private transport on a time basis and people will flock to it in cities. In cities where public transport is effective (many European capitals and pretty much just NYC and select parts of DC and Chicago in the US), people of all strata of life use it because it's time effective to do so. Because "everyone" is using it, it feels (and usually is) reasonably safe, clean, and "normal".

In other cities in the US, it's so broken that people with time pressure and money in their lives don't use it (and so don't particularly support it from a policy/voting perspective either). Predictably, it's no longer "normal" and feels less clean and safe (and might actually be so).
It really hasn't. People who drive to work park in monthly lots, usually with assigned spots. Uber replaced people driving to restaurants and bars.
You can achieve the same thing by just titling the commit:

fixup! Exact title of commit

We actually use that workflow during PR reviews on Github. That is, someone comments on a PR and the person who opened the PR will make a fixup commit with the appropriate title and reply to the comment stating that it was addressed and link the fixup commit by its abbreviated sha1 value.

At the end of the PR review, the person who will merge the PR will run:

git fetch origin
git rebase -i --autosquash origin/master
git diff @{u}..

This basically updates the remote tracking branches (including origin/master), rebases the feature branch on top of the remote tracking branch for master, and then checks if any changes were introduced in the rebase process by running a diff against the remote tracking branch.

If there is no diff or the diff only shows changes made on the upstream master branch since the feature branch was created, then they can run:

git push -f origin feature-branch-name

and then merge the PR.
Have you seen GitLab CE? You can deploy it in Docker or on Kubernetes using their official Helm charts. It has a ton of features compared to GitHub.
This is already a thing in GitLab?
nope this is a real national securities exchange approval: https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2019/34-85828.pdf
'to_a' and * are not at all the same, and neither are 'to_proc' and '&'

unary * is the splat operator. While it tries to coerce arguments to an array, consider that this:

x,y,z = *(1..3),42

gives x=1,y=2,z=3, while:

x,y,z = (1..3).to_a, 42

gives x=[1,2,3], y=42, z= nil

'&' meanwhile passes a Proc as the anonymous block to a method. E.g.:

def foo; yield; end
pr = proc { puts "here" }
foo(&pr) # is equivalent to foo { puts "here" }

It too will try to coerce arguments to a proc by calling '#to_proc' on objects that responds to it, but 'to_proc' just returns a Proc (or should), it does not in itself convert a Proc to a default block. 'to_proc' has other uses - proc's can be passed around in all kinds of other situations too.
The latest Soyuz capsules still have an extensive set of manual displays and controls for the cosmonauts to use when necessary. The point is not to hand fly the spacecraft during re-entry, but rather to deal with system failures or unexpected situations which the autopilot can't handle.
Too late for me to edit, but it looks like gitlab has been working on this too and published a response: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/10/github-adds-package-regi...

It looks like from that post they only support Docker, Maven and NPM right now so they also have some catching up to do in the genericization world.
No, a lot of cross-platform applications are going to be using this infrastructure IIRC still. In this case, they only need a subset of the Linux APIs and they can optimize it to produce the right translations.
The only reason people pick them is because someone in the tech department got some sweet kickbacks on an expensive deal.
Speaking as someone who runs a commercial antispam SAAS, content filtering is increasingly irrelevant, and isn't nearly as effective as reputation filtering or bayesian classification.
Excited to see someone other than JFrog and SonaType in this space. Personally, I think the major cloud providers are missing an opportunity by not doing the same.
I'm puzzled by the fact that you've been downvoted, as far as I can tell everything you've said is valid, and certainly not
anti-python.
Assuming that aging is “curable” and not some fanciful daydream to avoid thinking about dying.

But again, it’s just perspective I guess. I don’t care when some rich dude buys a basketball team. If this is how they want to spend their money then go nuts.
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Disable JS. I find the web is much nicer without it.
I speculate whether this observation indicates that most of the chatter around "design" is signaling focused on appearing hip/trendy -- largely a branding effort overlaid on top of company goals, rather than an effort to think through actual user needs from the ground up. That would explain why so much of the focus is on fads.
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I'm afraid I can't -- sorry. I'm not a Prolog practitioner. My above observations are just culled from what I've read over the years. I suspect some kinds of expert systems remain best implemented using some Prolog.

Perhaps someone who uses Prolog regularly can chime in.
I think they are probably very happy Microsoft didn't buy them. The culture at Microsoft would have been so terrible everyone would quit.
I suppose it could end up as only a slight loss for Musk if the diver can't demonstrate damages? E.g. if Musk's claim was so absurd and non-credible that nobody took it seriously?
> hosting on any of the notable VPS providers (DO, Linode, OVH, etc) has had fine deliverability in my experience, though emails may occasionally get flagged as spam.

I can share a polar opposite experience: Yahoo and Outlook would categorically reject anything DO at the SMTP level with a 502. Luckily enough, at least they were explicit about it. But no leeway, not even accepting the envelope body.

So YMMV, but it will almost certainly be poor :)
It's one thing to say "I think there's a high chance the world will end, for these reasons." It's another to quantify it to two-digit precision.
Google wouldn't allow that, as that would remove one of their primary means of influencing things in their favour.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19862536.
I remember Pixar doing something similar for the interior rooms of the cruise ship in Wall•E, it’s surprisingly realistic.
If you have to ask, please refrain from acting and study a bit. Shorting is risky business.
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We use the CLI you're referring to on ci/cd servers. Frankly, I had no idea it was deprecated and couldn't find much on this after a little bit of googling. Would mind sharing a link?
yes, and I had to pay for a lot of ram on servers because of it ;(

The creator of notch chose java because when he started minecraft he thought that would let it run in web browsers. He wouldn't choose java if he could do it over again.