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New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft and GitHub: Empowering Developers

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New best story on Hacker News: Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

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Show HN: BitHubLab, Search for projects on all the major Git platforms

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Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub

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A major physics experiment just detected a particle that shouldn't exist

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/major-physics-experiment-just-detected-particle-shouldn-t-exist-ncna879616 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225957 Points: 18 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2kOFHGR via

Online dating lowers self-esteem and increases depression, studies say

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A major physics experiment just detected a particle that shouldn't exist

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Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub

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Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5B

Article URL: https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227299 Points: 20 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2kM0BpO via

Microsoft and GitHub: Empowering Developers

Article URL: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286 Points: 91 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LleK8Q via

Data serialization

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Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers

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Tactics of Israeli Psy-Group, Black Cube Revealed in Canadian Court Battle

Article URL: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3739390,00.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226900 Points: 21 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LkJBm3 via

Memorandum on Microsoft’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software (1998)

Article URL: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226485 Points: 40 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1PEciJO via

XML v/s JSON v/s MsgPack v/s Protobuf v/s Thrift v/s Pickle v/s

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Tactics of Israeli Psy-Group, Black Cube Revealed in Canadian Court Battle

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Halloween Documents [Microsoft vs. Free Software, 1998]

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Bayer to retire Monsanto name

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer-closing/bayer-to-close-monsanto-takeover-to-retire-targets-name-idUSKCN1J00IZ?il=0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226243 Points: 28 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2HhZy9X via

Your GitHub Alternative

Article URL: https://shop.ungleich.ch/github-alternative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226106 Points: 25 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2JsxqWE via

Apple Leaks Video of MacOS 10.14 Showing Xcode 10 with Dark Mode, News App, Etc.

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/06/02/macos-10-14-xcode-10-video-leaked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226063 Points: 11 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J8iTjX via

WWDC 2018

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Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)

Article URL: https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226169 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1fmcP39 via

GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)

Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225725 Points: 16 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2sDXoft via

Bayer to retire Monsanto name

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Your GitHub Alternative

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WWDC 2018

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Apple Leaks Video of MacOS 10.14 Showing Xcode 10 with Dark Mode, News App, Etc.

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GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)

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Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)

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I lose all my data by using DigitalOcean Spaces

Article URL: https://medium.com/@nodegin/i-lose-all-my-data-by-using-digitalocean-spaces-247888cc05ae Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665 Points: 15 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J7iyhf via

What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub

Article URL: https://jacquesmattheij.com/what-is-wrong-with-microsoft-buying-github Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225599 Points: 88 # Comments: 79 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Jc6DL3 via

I lose all my data by using DigitalOcean Spaces

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What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub

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Do We Need Central Banks?

Article URL: https://professorwerner.org/shifting-from-central-planning-to-a-decentralised-economy-do-we-need-central-banks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225327 Points: 21 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Jfu3iH via

Carbon dioxide toxicity and climate change: a serious unapprehended risk

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phil_Bierwirth/publication/311844520_Carbon_dioxide_toxicity_and_climate_change_a_serious_unapprehended_risk_for_human_health/links/5a7586c645851541ce56e37e/Carbon-dioxide-toxicity-and-climate-change-a-serious-unapprehended-risk-for-human-health.pdf?origin=publication_detail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221239 Points: 37 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LRZX6t via

Repo on GH to protest against MS takeover

Article URL: https://github.com/upend/IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17224840 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xCwQRx via

Demystifying CORS

Article URL: https://frontendian.co/cors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17224772 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Hjwcbd via

How I Turned Down $300K from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)

Article URL: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17224758 Points: 9 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/z3rJKD via

How Instagram’s algorithm works

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/01/how-instagram-feed-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223749 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LN5uv3 via

Do We Need Central Banks?

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Carbon dioxide toxicity and climate change: a serious unapprehended risk

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The Real Scandal of AI: Awful Stock Photos

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-real-scandal-of-ai-awful-stock-photos-456633b9b0fc?source=linkShare-ee08b1614a2d-1528090210 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17224920 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LTQoE6 via

VoiceOps is hiring in SF to build AI for B2B voice data

Article URL: https://voiceops.com/careers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17224420 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2oeKrFx via

A vacuum tube ROM?

Article URL: http://tubetime.us/index.php/2018/06/04/a-vacuum-tube-rom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17224329 Points: 48 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J7w4l8 via

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223926 Points: 203 # Comments: 58 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xE2L4l via

GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

Article URL: https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer?orgId=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223116 Points: 893 # Comments: 227 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J8vjbp via

Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/06/03/inside-firefoxs-doh-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222861 Points: 99 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2kIPNZu via

NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]

Article URL: http://www.governmentattic.org/28docs/NSAsecurityPosters_1950s-60s.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222827 Points: 149 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J6vsMj via

American tech giants are making life tough for startups

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/02/american-tech-giants-are-making-life-tough-for-startups Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221885 Points: 232 # Comments: 74 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Jj2AzT via

Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180531114611.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221794 Points: 102 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J2hY4c via

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Article URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527 Points: 2088 # Comments: 1141 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LS4qpL? via

50th Anniversary of May 1968, Paris: Memories of an Illusory Revolution

Article URL: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/05/29/may-1968-paris-memories-of-an-illusory-revolution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221498 Points: 30 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2IYtVnx via

Early printed book contains rare evidence of medieval spectacles (2012)

Article URL: http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2012/04/17/medieval-spectacles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221483 Points: 44 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Hhdwcj via

The Psychology of Money

Article URL: http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221379 Points: 205 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2HfmKpl via

Show HN: Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement

Article URL: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221221 Points: 93 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J7RCdM via

Ask HN: What companies are using probabilistic programming?

Probabilistic programming systems (PPS) define languages that discretize modeling and inference such that any generative model can be easily composed and run with a common inference engine. The main advantage over traditional ML systems in deterministic code (i.e. Python) being concise, modular modeling where the developer doesn't have to write custom inference algorithms for each model/problem. For more info see, for example, [1] and [2]. I'm curious though, what applications of PPS are realized in practice? Notably Uber [3] and Google [4] are developing/supporting their own (deep learning focused) PPS, but is it known if/how they're used within these companies? Are the frameworks (Pyro [5] and Edward [6], respectively) used by other companies? [1] Frank Wood (Microsoft) tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te7A5JEm5UI [2] MIT ProbComp lab's page of resources: https://ift.tt/2Jf5ceK [3] https://ift.tt/2iraFCZ [4] https://ift.tt/2qqHNzC [5] http://pyro.ai/ [6

SoC it to EM: EM side-channel attacks on a complex SoC [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.iacr.org/archive/ches2015/92930599/92930599.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220660 Points: 37 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xE6cb9 via

Tiny Pascal (2017)

Article URL: http://www.trs-80.org/tiny-pascal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220507 Points: 85 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2HgIW2m via

Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/02/611082566/why-children-arent-behaving-and-what-you-can-do-about-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220387 Points: 160 # Comments: 153 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J6RNp4 via

How Instagram’s algorithm works

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Repo on GH to protest against MS takeover

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CORS: A Nautical Primer

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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to Go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)

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Ask HN: Who is moving away from GitHub, recently acquired by Microsoft and why?

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New best story on Hacker News: GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

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New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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New best story on Hacker News: MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

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New best story on Hacker News: Google quits selling tablets

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PMU counters and profiling basics

Article URL: https://dendibakh.github.io/blog/2018/06/01/PMU-counters-and-profiling-basics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220382 Points: 29 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LUbaTY via

Rice grown using seawater in Dubai’s deserts

Article URL: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2148684/coming-plate-near-you-soon-rice-grown-chinese-scientists-using Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220356 Points: 135 # Comments: 58 hnrss is a labor of love, but if the project has made your job or hobby project easier and you want to show some gratitude, donations are very much appreciated . Thanks! from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xuGXI7 via

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

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Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

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A vacuum tube ROM?

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American tech giants are making life tough for startups

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NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]

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Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine

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The Psychology of Money

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Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker

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Ask HN: What companies are using probabilistic programming?

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Show HN: Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement

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Early printed book contains rare evidence of medieval spectacles (2012)

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Tiny Pascal (2017)

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Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT

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50th Anniversary of May 1968, Paris: Memories of an Illusory Revolution

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Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut

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Apple’s Secret Offshore Island Hop Revealed by Paradise Papers Leak

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Myrddin Programming Language

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PMU counters and profiling basics

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Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

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After 10 Years, Nathan Myhrvold's $3B of Private Equity Funds Show Big Losses

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SoC it to EM: EM side-channel attacks on a complex SoC [pdf]

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The Real Scandal of AI: Awful Stock Photos

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VoiceOps is hiring in SF to build AI for B2B voice data

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The Long View: Nobody Expects an Accountable Inquisition

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