skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between 1949 and 1978 they did massively screw up economically while experiencing a population boom, which obviously led to GDP per capita numbers to collapse. On the other hand, since 1978 they've experienced probably the biggest economic boom in human history.

After Mao's death the government was pragmatic enough to realise that if they did not kick start the economy the regime would collapse (as it did in the USSR), and they rightly concluded that socialist economic management does not work.

Beyond that, it's difficult to compare with South Korea (since someone else mentioned that country) just due to the population difference.
The problem of course being, that Holocaust victims were asked to be more logical about genocide while denialists defended the notion that it didn't happen at all.
Busy today: https://gitlabcommit2019brooklyn.sched.com/directory/speaker...
Thanks. These look good.
There is no shortage of businesses and individuals that will pay you to write software!

What you're saying is that someone who might enjoy gardening as a hobby should be able to make a living mowing other people's lawns for free. Which is, of course, as ridiculous as expecting to make a living on free software contributions.

We already have a perfectly good system for exchanging goods and services for money. Free software is not that system and that is fine. The issue comes from misunderstanding what that system is and how it compares to basic capitalism.
Ubuntu 19.10 update: kernel 5.3.0, GNOME 3.34, new Yaru theme
U-boot just made the transition.
He clearly does not care. If he did, he wouldn't have taken as much cash out of the company as he did, and would also spew less bullshit about the brand.
He co-invented the website which all developers use on a day to day basis?
The pricing for GitHub Enterprise is "Contact Sales", which as a smallish yet privacy focused company we don't even bother with anymore. That uncertainty plus the keyword "Enterprise" have always amounted to "ridiculously expensive".
Morality isn’t universal, in space or time. What was moral 2000 or 100 years ago is not today, same between the USA and Chad Africa.

If morality is relative, only the legal framework is something that we can evaluate. Laws are crafted from the relative morality in that jurisdiction.
Caller Info Attributes in C# 5.0 – CodeProject
I loathe WeWork, especially their 'photograph everybody that visits our building high res and up close and with the names attached to the record'. I stopped going there to visit companies after the first time they pulled that. Oh, and got into a tiff with a receptionist that insisted I not block the camera.

Here's to hoping they go bust.
> Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects?

The marketing is pretty bad for one. Go to gitlab.com and you see a site that is mostly extolling the virtues of their commercial product and pricing. There is a "try gitlab for free" but it is aimed very much as a try-before-you-buy for businesses. That's all good and fine, but it is the polar opposite of how github went about acquiring their network. github was marketed heavily as a social site, their marketing was viral.

I don't think it is wrong, but if gitlab is trying to convey messaging that they are "social coding" platform or even an open-source project host, and not just b2b, they are doing a pretty poor job of it.
It was beta before today? These channels have been a thing for forever, I assumed it was already GA.
I've wanted more music like Lowell Liebermann's piano compositions ever since I discovered them. Somehow extremely melodic and natural, while harboring the most absurdly strange harmonies.
If someone was raped, I assume there will be a court case that will ultimately decide if this was the case?
The alleged spying on US citizens. I know the rest of us are fair game somehow.

This could be a chance to get this before the courts, was my actual (badly communicated) point.
Bingo... They certainly how to know how to spin their reason
Well, this is a terribly nonconstructive way to start a conversation.

If anything, it's Classic POTUS, as his predecessor attempted to prosecute more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all prior POTUS' combined.
He and his team created Stackoverflow, a site used by every developer every day. He's a prolific writer around software engineering & managing software engineering. He's got an incredibly blunt writing style w/o any fluff and his writing on topics such as interviewing, refactors, and technical debt are shared around often.
Which cop?
Thanks for reminding me of awesome times as a kid at rainforest cafe!
Original announcement: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/17/gitlab-series-e-funding/
> Why do honest people need anything to keep them honest?

Curiosity and children.
Four months is the length of an academic semester, which is the length of a typical introductory programming class. Millions of engineering students around the world succeed at that every year, so there's no reason why you can't.

Of course, having finished a first course doesn't mean you know everything, or even that you have a good idea what you don't know. There's more to do after that.
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+1. Also Wendy Carlos made at least two wonderful microtonal albums -- Beauty in the Beast and Tales from Heaven and Hell.
Fair point, but I see it simply as an intentional decision to operate a business in this manner. Proceeding with care, deciding up front how to evaluate a change, execute the plan, and post-mortem analysis.

Test-driven development of business operations.
> Worst case senario the party can print money nonstop to keep the prices from crashing.

History says that that has its limits too.
Yeah it's been in Beta for like 2 years I guess.

https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-ca...
> Small-scale FOSS projects are the perfect platform for a lone developer

Perfect platform in what sense? A perfect platform for burnout when the project becomes too popular?
I used to order a ton from amazon, I now strongly dislike the company. Why is that?

-Prices used to be universally pretty good so I could pick an item and order without much outside research. Now the prices are universally bad to the point that I have to do lots of outside research before ordering which ruins the convenience that I previously enjoyed

-The review system is awful. Previously you could click a product and trust that the reviews were for that exact product, now sometimes reviews and products are bundled together under a single page (even if the products/manufacturer are not really the same) making reviews virtually useless. Again ruining the convenience and requiring more research

-Shipping used to be reliable. Towards the end probably half my prime shipments showed up a day later than the "guaranteed delivery date" and I live less than 30 minutes from their Seattle office

-I don't at all trust the people they use to ship. My last package some idiot in a complete junker filled entirely with boxes drove very quickly over the sidewalk and parked partially at an angle in my lawn and proceeded to throw the box onto my porch and then sit in the car for another 15 minutes on my lawn

-The product bundling has led to me getting items entirely different than what I actually ordered, which again ruins the convenience that I appreciated and forces me to make returns and wait even longer

-And on a personal note, based on what I've read and heard from amazon employees, I dislike bezos as a person and businessman and don't want to support his business
It's the founder's responsibility to accept responsible funding terms that facilitate the next round.
A related note is that Github repos have much better SEO than gitlab repos. It is probably a combination of Github being weighted more heavily by search algorithms, but also because Github has a far better network effect. I've tried searching for a repo that is hosted on Gitlab, that is an extremely well written Pytorch library with hosted HTML documentation, etc, and it wouldn't even show up on the first page of Google search results. Meanwhile, a couple of repos on Github with the same or similar names (of far lower quality) were in the top-5 results. The only way I could reliably find the repo is by adding "Gitlab" to the search terms.

I'm also convinced that the repo would be quite popular were it posted on Github because many related Pytorch repos on Github with far poorer code quality and documentation have 1000+ stars. As much as I love Gitlab, it is very hard for me to use anything but Github when working on an Open Source Project that I want to get lots of eyeballs on and hopefully the satisfaction of having other users use my code.
The article refers to a neutron star being a giant atomic nuclei. How did this happen? The mass of the neutron star and the star before the collapse are similar. so why did the matter change into atomic nuclei? This makes me think that gravity is not the only thing at play here; density also matters. Is my this correct? So, is gravity dependent on the density? I guess I am confused.
This might be 90% accurate.
GDP growth rates are generally reported "real" i.e. inflation is taken out. But yes you want GDP to grow at least as fast as population to maintain a given standard of living. The US population growth rate has been below 2% since at least the mid-70s.
High value comment triple A+ good job!
Github Enterprise support has been awesome. We had an urgent issue and they helped resolve it within the hour.
he's cashed out hundreds of millions. maybe his ego is taking a hit, but that's about it.
Perhaps it would be better to use the word "unconstitutional".
>> With arbitrage you also have to beat the fees and the time.
I have to add - coins that you use for trading is also important factor, volatility may lead to situation when you were able to increase volume of some alt-coins, but next day their price severely drops
Why do people pay $1.00 for a lottery ticket that is worth 50 cents?

People and other animals react well to a variable reinforcement schedule -- we get pleasure out of gambling.

On top of it there is the prestige value of the prize. A $12,000 prize could get you a $120,000 contract out of the blue.
> I still contend that most of the value of Uber is tied up in their brand, and I think the same is true of We. I’m not sure either of their operations are all that valuable.

What good is a brand if it's losing money?
Two decades of experience building great software. Including Microsoft Excel, Trello and his obviously most important contribution: Stackoverflow.
Open source or not, the big companies will always win. The only real difference is that as a whole society would slow down and be worse off without open source. Either way, it'll be equally unfair.
Yup, this is what I’m talking about. I’ve been following googles WANNs and other methods for reducing the size of these “strategies” drastically. In the WANN paper they have an example of going from About 2500 Parmams to 40. I’ve got my own hunch as to where it is going, but I’m wondering if openai is studying this at all.

Like there are simple primitives in civil engineering like the level and pulley, I expect we find a zoo of tiny primitives which are the things that these agents are learning.
Apple September Keynote Event 2019
This is kind of an academic point. "Reshaping the economics of the web" probably shouldn't involve assuming all consumers will want to change what brand of laundry detergent they buy so they can read more blogs.
I did something similar (https://github.com/Metabot-Tech/artis), I stopped when my bot wasn't fast enough to place order. I had a lot of fun trying to optimize round trip time with various datacenters around the world.
Several places I've worked have pushed Artifactory on us for various reasons from security to resilience to network outages to bandwidth saving.

It's not the worst fate.
> There is a Coriolis force here too; it's just much smaller than the centrifugal force.

Yes, agreed.
Yes it came across as melodramatic.
I hope this doesn't torpedo meetup.com. They aren't the best for sure, but they are the right mix between old school mailman list and facebook.
The Pentagon taps Microsoft and Ball to pilot new military satellites
> maybe we should quit arguing which gender gets the most money and try to figure out what makes a human happy.

That's a bit of a straw man, I didn't argue money primarily, and neither does the article. The article is talking about self-determinism, education, and opportunity for women, not money or power specifically. These things are all well known to be of primary importance to happiness.

From the article: "the average woman spends more than four hours every day doing unpaid work. Men, by comparison, average just over one hour per day."

How do you feel personally about doing unpaid labor?

> I meet (on average) about the same amount of unhappy men as women, so from a happiness perspective it would appear that neither men nor women are winning and focusing on money and power instead of well-being is short sighted.

That's purely anecdotal and has no bearing on what is happening in the world to people outside your class & geographical region. Drawing a global conclusion about gender inequality based on your personal experience is a pretty bad idea.
This doesn't feel like enough to discourage others from doing this, so what's even the point? Accessory to murder is 15 months now? Someone died from this! Also, what about the cop who shot him?
There are multiple seekers, and the seekers may not be placed close together.
Part of the application for open source projects here requires you specify how many "seats" you need.

> The number of seats is the number of different users that will use this license in the next year.

This seems counter to how many open source projects work where contributors come out of nowhere to make a contribution and may or may not stick around. How does this work when you have hundreds or thousands of unique contributors a year, and you have no good way of predicting?
Discovering patio11, codinghorror, tptacek, ahoyhere etc has made tremendous impact on my career / ways of thinking. I would have never negotiated higher salary or shipped my own apps / books without reading their HN comments / blog. It allowed me to work lesser hours and earn money from products.
I still don't understand how github was worth 7+ billion.
SEO and the website isn't as friendly to navigate as Github is. Github makes your project look like a first class citizen while Gitlab has too much going on.
I think one difference between the typical VC model and Movie Pass / WeWork is that VC-backed companies typically own assets, such as valuable IP and software. WeWork doesn't own anything and operates a real estate splitting service. This is a thin-margin business. Similarly, Move Pass didn't own the theaters, the films, and didn't ink any exclusive deals - they just took 10 units of money from customers and gave them 100 units of tickets. There is no real value there.
Ghetto technically refers to a neighborhood into which a racial minority tends to be segregated. It comes from Jewish ghettos enforced legally in Europe in the 16th century, but it is also used for neighborhoods where minorities live for other reasons (such as social or economic pressure).

Project refers either to public housing, or more generally any group of buildings where economically disadvantaged people tend to be segregated.

Because these very frequently overlap in the US, people often use them interchangeably.
What Happened to Web Intents? (Chrome)
I love it when services make it easy to quit. Shows that it can speak for itself.
There's a problem with this perspective. I have an insight that would help you see the picture more accurately. I would share it, but here on HN people from profit-making corporations could also see it and benefit, so just ask me in person next time you see me.
PrintPen: Portable Printer for All Materials and Surfaces
It's a fun read. The interviews are decent, the technical background writing contains a bunch of errors.
I looked a while ago and it seems to be due to some of the webextensions I have installed, probably uBlock Origin but I can't be sure (28 extensions). Basically some things get cached that don't need to be, and then the cheap 5400rpm disk drive makes the browser stutter swapping between tab content processes.

I'm waiting for the hard drive to die so I can justify getting a new SSD or laptop, which I'm pretty sure will solve the problem, so no, I haven't filed a bug.
It's generally not a problem until the big companies start asking for features, asking for bugs to be fixed, etc., expecting anything more than what the maintainers choose to donate. If someone from Amazon reports a bug it's kind of scary, you feel like you've broken Amazon. You might even try to set aside time you weren't planning to set aside. It's hard to remember/enforce that you don't owe them that time (especially if they're nice).
There are speech rights that are not protected legally, rather based on culture, tradition, and so on. I don’t know what these are like at MIT, but they are fairly broad in a lot of western educational institutions.
Having known other people who have worked for the NSA, they've had to clear any publications with them before publishing (eg, academic papers in a field related to their work, resumes describing work done at the NSA, etc).

My understanding is they're enforcable for the rest of your life.

I'd expect to see this if anybody published a book without clearance. It's only newsworthy because it's Snowden.
We are Gitlab customers since 2017 and I can tell you that your expectations for what support can do for you are very unrealistic.

Per their own policy all they do is finding relevant tickets and send you there, from there on you are not their problem anymore. You as customers is also not a developer/product manager problem either, they do their planning and priotization using their own ideas and unless ticket is in the next milestone you won't even get response to your comments or suggestions for months.

There is literally nobody, who has your interests as part of their day to day agenda. Except for sales at the time of your license renewal of course :)

This time we are likely not going to renew and be switching to CE version after our current license expires.
Unpopular opinion warning: Not an expert here but I worked on NASA's "Mission to Planet Earth" program for a few years. Cherry-picking of models that produce results that meet the current agenda is not uncommon. Just as researchers have a (deserved IMHO) reputation for publishing data that concurs with their topics...
This. I use permissive licenses mostly, but if you're disgruntled about companies ripping off your work without ever giving back, it could be that you've used the wrong license.
Our whole company has relied on this for the past few months in order to communicate with some of our clients, rather than invite them into our private Slack. It's been wonderful.
> This isn't in the courts.

Clearly, as the angry Twitter mob of virtue signalers clearly has no desire or respect for objective arguments and accusations based on facts, let alone what the law actually says.
Circumventing Trade War to Source Apparel
> Are those NDA's even valid anymore?

Surely the NSA/CIA's NDAs are permanent?
There's often not a clear line separating the professional and the personal, and people in a job can feel uncomfortable with a person who has expressed troubling opinions outside the job.

But this is presuming that Stallman's behavior was only personal in the first place. He has a history of poor behavior at MIT and in his roles for the FSF, which definitely bleeds into the professional.
This makes the US government look like petty idiots. As is the government wasn't already the laughingstock of the entire world. They can't even arrest Snowden (not that they should) and now they want to bankrupt him. I assume Snowden would publish this book with a publisher that's not US based but I don't know the details. Hopefully it doesn't get a penny, this criminal government that forced him into exile.
What strikes me about this issue as a whole is what it says about the true state of "AI". This is a perfect job for such technologies. I mean how is it that we're already making 'deep fake' videos and audio but can't feed a video stream which is just a stream of images to an algorithm which can determine if it's inappropriate. I recognize that some such tech is being utilized on the front end in this case, and that the problem is non trivial, but I see this as FB saying 'good enough' and not pushing as hard as they could to improve the tech to where it can be trusted to make the decision. I sense that they may be telling themselves they're doing social good by 'creating jobs'. Why must humans be subjected to this torture? What happened to "move fast and break things"? Why not put the algorithms out front and let them have the final say, and let them learn and improve quickly? I suppose just because meat is cheaper than chips.
JDK 13 General-Availability Release
All of this is true, but it was the SoftBank capital flow that made this all possible until now. The reconinging and reform would have happened sooner with WeWork if SoftBank was not providing "free jet fuel."

>Softbank is an enabler.

Enabler is true, but a lever requires both the rod and the fulcrum the rod pivots on. Without the enabler the lever would not exist.
There is a difference between 20% overvalued on the expectation of future growth and 400% overvalued.
Should you also have a right to misrepresent the speech while agitating for someone's termination, in order for community and news outlets to pick it up, turn misrepresentation into lies and effectively force the termination to happen?

I don't like using the word "emergence", but there is a phenomenon here that's much more than a sum of its parts, and maybe should be considered differently. There's also the element of intent.
Most of those obligations are through special-purpose entities for each location. They just walk away from all but the most profitable ones and leave the landlords holding the bag.
17 with parental consent, but don't be dense; it's the conditions under which these girls are being passed around that is so abhorrent to most people. Stallman should have just kept his mouth shut on this one, and I don't believe HN would maintaine this position if it were e.g. Donald Trump in the middle of this instead of RMS.

This was just the straw that broke the camel's back. RMS has done a lot of great things, but he's also done a lot of bone headed things and some of his colleagues understandably don't want to be associated with him anymore.
Stallman used to argue that 'voluntarily paedophilia' should be decriminalized, cf quotes from 2003 and 2006[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d59r46/richard...
LinkedIn used to have their Resume builder under LinkedIn Labs. They shut it now. It was pretty cool.

As of now, you can download your profile in PDF format with no choices of templates.
For the last point of people who got rich during nineties by embezzlement, here's a relatively prominent case: Vancouver's ex mayor's ex girlfriend's mother. She was alleged embezzled 350 million rmb yuan which was supposed to be the compensation for factory workers[1]. When many of the state owned factories became privatized during nineties, many many workers lost their jobs and they needed those compensations desperately. (There's a quite good movie depicting the lives of those people called the Piano in a Factory[2]). Anyway my point is not all people who fled mainland China are freedom fighters.

1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanting_Qu#Personal_life
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%A0%E6%98%8E%E6%9D%B0_(%...

2.https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gang_de_qin