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Edit: copy/pasting my more extensive comment from the Sponsors thread.

All the recent additions to Github are superficially very nice and convenient features (Actions, package registry, Sponsors, Dependabot).

But they represent a very significant change in mindset. Github is turning from a neutral code hosting platform with a myriad of equally empowered third party integrations into the direction of a "all in one" dev tool and platform.

I understand the internal pressures to do this: increased popularity, added value proposition for customers, more revenue.

But: all the built-in tools will have an inherent advantage over third party solutions. This inevitably leads to increased lock-in and homogenization.

I was very critical of the Microsoft acquisition for similar reasons, and considering the monumental role Github represents for open source today, I am very sceptical of the way things are going.

We might very well regret centralizing everything open source around Github in a few years.
Definitely les than the 90s but there are a lot more rich people so you can try to sell them shit like the worlds most expensive whiskey cube maker or notebook or whatever
SpaceX Rockets Were Imperiled by Falsified Reports, Prosecutors Say
Of course tech companies have their own unwritten dress codes, which is also unfair to people. If you wore a suit to a Google office you’d a get similar reaction of ‘this person doesn’t get it’ as you would wearing the wrong thing at Goldman Sachs. The situation hasn’t really improved in terms of making expectations plainly understood.
I would put Amiga, BeOS and NeXTSTEP on that context.

Although AmigaDOS isn't UNIX compatible, it had lots of cool features.

And in what concerns having a GUI with REPL-like CLI, workstation OSes from Xerox, ETHZ and the last iteraction of Plan9, Inferno.
Whenever someone claims that robots will destroy our jobs, I point them to spreadsheets. How many people in the world were using physical spreadsheets before the advent of their software cousins? Ten thousand? How many people use Excel today? Hundreds of millions? Spreadsheet software has increased the number of spreadsheet workers by many orders of magnitude. It's a very extreme example, and not all automation will be the same story, but it's not all doom and gloom
Which network is it?
You've shown that Techcrunch requires paying, you've not shown it requires PII. The service has to actually need PII, and not be able to reasonably offer it without.

Do I need your insurance renewal dates before I can serve you a pint of beer? No. But if I had them I might be able to give you slightly cheaper beer (and feed back to the insurance company that you drink beer; a fact they might use to increase your insurance). So, under GDPR can I refuse to serve beer to people who won't give up PII, no, I have to come up with another way to ensure payment, like asking for money, or advertising to you without PII, or ...
TE make toys - finely designed and polished toys supported by a finely designed and polished web site. But still toys.

OP-1 has a lot of options that make you feel like you're making music, when in fact you're trapped in an endless round of "What happens if I...?" inside the feature space.

Hence the novelty tag. They're not particularly productive instruments, but they can be a fun way to pass an hour or two.

A software environment like Max, PD, or Reaktor is much less limited. But the learning curve is much steeper, and the instant gratification factor much lower.

And then there are the code-based environments like Supercollider, in which you can implement the OP-1 sequencers and synths with a few lines of code, and easily create your own variations - but the learning curve for non-coders might as well be vertical, and it's not shallow even for experienced coders.
Anonymity in Account-Based Blockchains
Joining the best of both worlds, i love it.
Kudos :)
To give a specific example, there's a lot of headache that new Python users could be spared if only they used requests instead of urllib2. But they don't know that it's compelling if they never go look, and just stick to stdlib.
When I install the first 2-3 dependencies that causes npm to install 200 packages. I don't particularly like that, but it could be argued that this is a testament to how easy npm makes using third-party packages and how painlessly it does recursive dependency resolution.
I would rather use the original fvwm actually. :)
Smart contracts are vaporware.

If you are not a programmer, you will require a “great expense” of a programmer to write it for you (with no way for you to verify it).

After you have your “smart contract” you have no way to enforce it if the other party doesn’t abide by it.

The “great expense” of lawyers and courts provide a host of features smart contracts can never even imagine providing:

- identity validation (that the signatories are who they say they are)

- actual validation of terms (that they are not mutually exclusive, that they are reasonable, that they benefit the parties etc.)

- enforcement of the contract

There are many other things: like verifying that a party can actually pay for goods/services, that co-signatories are notified and/or agree to the contract, that goods/services are as described in the contract etc. etc. etc.
We all know this isn't getting investigated correctly, if at all.
> Obviously, I'm a bit biased, as I run a project for creating transparent open source infrastructure. But I do think this is a important issue, and I'm getting more and more scared GitHub is out to make open source development more ivory tower-like.

This point is brought many times. Why use GitHub if we can host git repositories anywhere? (A: GitHub providers discovery). Why use GitHub PRs if we have mailing lists? (A: GitHub has better UX).

The same is with their Sponsors program, registering billing method and clicking on a button is all that's needed. No separate sites with different UI.

For the record I'm also not happy with the centralized structure of it (it reminds me of early Google), but I get why it's getting popular.
> and have a pro-economic growth bias

Sarcasm? Forgive me, but it's honestly tough to tell.

Amusingly, I think anyone who can make a model of the climate which can predict 100 years into the future really should make a model of the stock market a modest 1 year into the future instead. Having done so, they could make enough money to buy whatever technological or political change they think would solve the climate problem.
And basically every free product released by large companies which prioritizes mass distribution and user base over direct product cost. It definitely makes it much harder for the few remaining competitors but also benefits the far greater number of users.

They definitely have a competitive advantage where they're able to build and give away features for free to attract larger mind-share, but it's also the playbook of most large companies with freemium or gateway products. Not seeing why Microsoft needs to limit themselves to the same constraints as their less resourceful competitors.
You'd be paying somebody to stand there all day at multiple points for each station. This isn't a situation that happens once a half hour, it's every minute or so.
Yes, in fact I used to do that when I worked at Google and people would call security on me. The same thing happened at Facebook
I have to admit that I don't "get" the concept of the viewing (in most cases, apart from identification of course). My grandma died a few years back and the body was available for viewings. Unlike most of my family I didn't go.

My last memory of grandma was us all together as a family at my aunt's house on Christmas day, her sitting there in an armchair beaming at how proud she was of her family and giving out hugs and kisses to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She died a few weeks afterwards of heart failure.

It's one of my fondest memories and I'm sure she'd rather be remembered that way than as a cold, lifeless body on a stainless steel slab.
America!
Honestly I like the idea of using declarative code for infra stuff because this way it becomes an inventory-like configuration language. There is a reason why YAML dominates today.
> The Trump administration is simply following the law

How is that an argument for anything. The nazis also followed the law ...

The law is made by people, contrary to what a lot of Americans think, especially concerning the constitution, it's not some kind of immuable magical code that's written in stone.

There are human being behind these numbers and visa codes, living in the US for a while and paying taxes as everyone else.
I've also found what must be the most well-hidden park in all Paris, the Atlantic Garden, above the Montparnasse train station, with apartment buildings on three sides and the entrance as far as possible from the main exit of the train station.
They discovered and conquered these places a long time ago. Those places basically belong to them. That’s how it works.
World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions [0] If my math is right, if the top decile reduced their emissions at least to the level of the second decide, the global emissions would fall by 30%.

Dear HN crowd, I bet a fair share of us belongs to the top 10%, please reduce your emissions.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/worlds-r...
The issue is not one of "monetization" vs. "non-monetization", but one of priorities being driven primarily by the interests of a corporate surveillance capitalist owner rather than what's healthy for the community.

Google's agendas (advertising, amp, etc.) are clear in the design decisions taken for Chrome, and slowly we're beginning to see analogous prioritisation come to GitHub. Expect more to come in time.
Yeah they should stop what they're doing and get that sorted first, or be charged with hiding evidence. I mean what's the punishment for when a police officer doesn't have their badge or gun on them? Doesn't read people their rights?
I mean, it was in the New Yorker. That's what the do. I enjoyed it, but it's not everyone's cup of tea. Also:

> wrapped in the unassuming guise of a common news item.

It...really wasn't. It was presented as a snarky piece about people wearing the "midtown uniform", which it was.
What it would have achieved is to enlist Amazon as an ally in lobbying for the necessary legislation.

Corporations don't like to watch their competitors profit from things they are not allowed to do themselves.
There is even an Instagram account poking fun at the phenomena of bros in vests in NYC - https://www.instagram.com/midtownuniform I now see it everywhere :)

This "Midtown Uniform" is as versatile and practical as the hoodie in the bay area, but for a colder climate.
Laser flares are a thing and potentially becoming new regulation. Possible to test, last longer and aren't a dangerous pyrotechnic stored in a confined environment.

http://myboatsgear.com/2017/01/08/odeo-laser-flare/
Brave, I wish I liked you more. As much as I am cautious with trusting Google, your motives and history are somehow more questionable to me.
Patagonia. Named after a region where nobody wears the brand.

Reminds me of cheap textile made in the Far East with some kind of generic blurb about New York on it.
I love the UX of GitHub and don't get me wrong, I use and depend on GitHub for my day-to-day work and also my own hobbies.

I do understand that people like it as well. It's so easy to get started and it just works, most of the time.

But it just doesn't sit well with me, that we as open source developers, are depending on a platform that is closed-source for so much. I think I could see past that, if GitHub in itself was sustainable.

But with the new owner who sees GitHub as a way to get marketshare of developers, and not as it's own entity, it's hard to continue to cheer on them. When Microsoft have to either increase profits/decrease expenses and they choose between Azure and GitHub, I'm pretty sure the effort will either be to decrease the expenses of GitHub, or increase the profits of Azure. None of those two ways are good for the users of GitHub in the long-term.
> I don't see any innovation.

To me to Windows95 UI (not the OS) is peak productivity usability. All UI innovations that came later were just distractions except maybe tiling window managers and the "Exposé" function in Mac Os X which later was completely botched in Snow Leopard. At some point no further innovation is required.

I'd rather see innovation on another level: Do away with C and introduce a new programming language which gets rid of the need for a MMU or preemptive Multitasking at compile time.
I would really like to say that Microsoft is currently infiltrating the OSS world and pursuing their strategy, which they have successfully implemented dozens of times. Does anyone remember EEE[0]? If this is the case here, it would be the greatest successful coup in the history of the Internet.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_Extend_and_Extinguish
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I agree.

All the recent additions to Github are superficially very nice and convenient features (Actions, package registry, Sponsors, Dependabot).

But they represent a very significant change in mindset.
Github is turning from a neutral code hosting platform with a myriad of equally empowered third party integrations into the direction of a "all in one" dev tool and platform.

I understand the internal pressures to do this: increased popularity, added value proposition for customers, more revenue.

But: all the built-in tools will have an inherent advantage over third party solutions.
This also inevitably leads to increased lock-in and homogenization.

I was very critical of the Microsoft acquisition for similar reasons, and considering the monumental role Github represents for open source today, I am very sceptical of the way things are going.

We might very well regret centralizing everything open source around Github in a few years.
Judging from the earliest Github issues, it's been there since late 2018.

edit: As pointed out below, it looks like the title refers to recent source code commits, not the creation of the repo.

Relevant links:

https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/720

https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/727
Turtle graphics is really handy for teaching programming. And it's important for new users to have minimal friction when setting things up, so having it in stdlib does make sense.
wow, generally the suicidal thoughts don't hit immediately at the point of arrest because you are really amped up on all the adrenaline especially if you've been fighting the cop.

And generally it's men who shoot themselves, but I guess she was just looking inside that car for some way, anyway to kill herself quickly and found an unattended gun. And luckily for her, I guess, she had the energy to actually pull it off - what with all the contorting that was required .
Well, that is the whole point of unikernels.

Memory safe languages with rich runtimes, only need a mini kernel to run bare metal.

Windows has been pushing for user space drivers for a while now, including GPUs.

Android is following the same path with Project Treble, and who knows what will happen with Fuchsia.

Likewise on many high integrity OSes for embedded deployment.
Are you being sarcastic? I didn’t claim they’d call security - just that you’d be judged for not knowing the (unwritten, which is the problem) norms.
No - I think having a pro-economic growth bias would be helpful, because they would likely have a higher hurdle for being convinced that we may indeed need to sacrifice economic growth to change the course of humanity's future for the better.

If they do their research and are convinced, it would mean a lot more to me than if someone who supported the conclusions of environmentalists' policies apriori reaches the same conclusion.
If there is any such bias among climate scientists (e.g. people that go into climate science already hold certain beliefs about what should be done politically, and inadvertently favour the models / parameters / methodology that support their beliefs), this would help mitigate it to some extent.
It’s also really limited. I do a lot of shell programming and I lean heavily on Bashisms to get any work done. Even in Bash I’m hitting the wall constantly. Sh-only is utterly impractical: Reading code from big projects that try to stay compatible (e.g. automake) really show-cases these limitations. For instance, performing proper argument quoting of variables without arrays is next to impossible.
Well, it proves that not everything should be able to do tons of stuff.
Who will get id=20M
Reminds me of the Russian engineer, Korolev. One of the greatest minds in history was thrown in the gulags, beaten and tortured because a group of his peers got jealous and falsely accused him.

Of course we say "doesn't happen here," then again groupthink also killed everyone aboard Challenger, we ended up riding Russian rockets to space while our generation's greatest rocket engineer was tinkering in his garage until Musk hired him.

People and history have an easy way of putting other people down, including exceptionally gifted and valuable people. That's a danger I think we take for granted.
> If people see the police as their partner, they'll be happy to help them do their job (at least in the UK).

Unfortunately, that ship sailed long ago when the police stopped treating the community as their partner and started treating people with suspicion by default.
Of course we can’t agree it’s an existential threat. If you consider the people who study existential threats in general, climate change doesn’t even make the list.

I think we can agree there is a some risk of higher costs if climate change is ignored.

Most likely it’ll be beneficial though.
Hi kev! Thanks for your comments, you are 100% right.
Yes, living in the states make this hobby waaay easier. The surplus auctions help as well, having various goverments with various languages going in Europe does not make it as easy :-).

Was $3000 your outlay for the system + the DS6800? Or just the shipping? That is a great find in that case!

I just want to correct a small thing: You need SEs (the frame mounted laptops), you do not actually need an HMC as far as I know. Do you have any information that tells another story? If so I will update the article.

Thanks again!
Oh yea. Its absurd. Police departments probably pay hundreds of dollars on a 'camera' that can so easily 'fall off' and get 'turned off'.

When GoPro is sitting over going "hey guys we had a guy free fall 12,500 feet with one of our cameras on and it was fine"

Murder is murder and any time something like this happens and the camera was 'turned off' the cops should be charged with murder.

But hey even if the cameras were on would it matter? In Vallejo 6 cops shot a man 25 times who had fallen asleep in his car at a taco bell drive through. Dude was asleep, was surrounded, and shot 25 times. Best part? One of the officers was already being investigated for what you ask? Why possible excessive force that resulted in a death.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/07/vallejo-poli...
That's the scary part!

OpenCollective for example, being developed via their own platform, need to make sure the platform is sustainable, and can't just throw cash wherever they want to gain marketshare.

The result is a sustainable funding platform that will survive for as long as people fund it.

GitHub on the other hand, can develop the wrong features, spend too much, give cash away and a whole bunch of other things, while not actually achieving sustainability in itself in the long-term. Microsoft will cover all of this, until they wont.
Can they please get on with switching on 3G?

4G has come out, and 5G is about to come out, all in the time they've spent delaying.
It's been a couple years, but when I was in Paris last, the area around the Eifel Tower was swarmed with pickpockets, people trying to sign you up for scammy petitions, and furtive junk souvenir sellers. Combined with the heavy paramilitary police presence, swaggering around with submachineguns, it wasn't very inviting.
Would be cool if there was an easy way to sponsor all the projects I've starred. Then I could just pay (say) $10 per month to "support open source", without having to worry about any of the details such as picking projects.
> This point is brought many times. Why use GitHub if we can host git repositories anywhere? (A: GitHub providers discovery). Why use GitHub PRs if we have mailing lists? (A: GitHub has better UX).

Using Github as a git repo hoster is okayish in the sense that it does not lock your code in. Using Github as a central management tool is problematic, but still manageable.

But this introduces money into the game, and it's dangerous. Github will be the gatekeeper for money flows. It's the same for Patreon, but Patreon has less incentives to lock the whole Open Source ecosystem into their products (Github: hosting, code, issues, PRs, pages with CNAMEs!, package registry and now financial transactions).

My bet is that due to the current state of the ecosystem, people will jump on it and forget that Microsoft is behind all of this. We need organisations which are forced to be open and collective to handle Open Source, not privately owned corporate.
A round trip or two on the circle line was not very popular, but popular enough, for cohorts of bankers sleeping the night or lunch off. I never did it myself.
What Java implementation?

OpenJDK is a mix of Java and C++, with long term roadmap to replace more and more with Java, also known as Project Metropolis.

IBM J9 is a mix of C++ and Java.

JikesRVM is bootstraped in Java.

Then there are PTC, Aicas, Websphere RealTime, J/Rockit, Azul (with LLVM integration), GraalVM (mostly Java), Ricoh JVM, Cisco JVM, Gemalto,...
In addition to Haussmann's works, there's also all the reconstruction that had to took place after the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath.
In Russia, people also kill themselves with dozens of AK bullets...in the back.

All you need is one person signing /stopping any meaningful investigation and you get these results.
Keep in mind that much of the article is discussing a Patagonia-brand fleece vest. It retails for $79, and it actually is a useful accessory when going on long hikes in the Andes or whatever. So yes, there is more of a focus on experience over luxury goods, and one of the ways you can see that is in the elite wearing relatively cheap clothes that (hopefully) imply that the wearer does cool expensive things.

So I think you're right; while there's still a focus on brands, the brands being discussed are relatively reasonably priced. For Wall Street, I guess that counts as progress. :)
This is passive listening to unencrypted data. Anyone could do it.

I actually commend them for announcing it. Most businesses just hire an 'analytics' company and end up getting all the same data from their customers without asking.
They restocked at some point in the last few months but sold out instantly.
13.9% is hardly a big surface and I bet those C values come from C++ header files.

Also OpenJDK is just one implementation among several.
Time to change the shareholders
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Are you honestly saying that you believe someone who was handcuffed with their hands behind their back was able to shoot themselves through the mouth from the front? I've got a bridge to sell you if you are.